Check out the trailer…
The music gives me the chills. The surfing looks pretty standard in the death defying sense. What you need to know here is that these three brainiacs thought it would be smart to film their documentary in Ireland in the dead of Winter…
wait…
That’s the plot from Point Break. What I meant was…
What a completely, unavoidably clickable headline – kudos SbB.
The story goes that pro surfer Chris Ward got in a bar tussle in Mammoth, CA that devolved into him punching out three women and threatening another with a chunk of ice.
Ward maintains his innocence. The bar manager is calling it one of most disturbing displays he has ever seen. And the whole thing allegedly started because one of the women started wearing Ward’s jacket.
Hey brah, I believe it was Chris “I’d never hit a woman but…” Rock who said it best when he said, “If a woman wears your jacket in the club, she’ll probably su….” Well, I guess that’s irrelevant at this point.
Ward is going to be charged – probably assault, battery, drunk and disorderly, and attempting to enact a fatality on someone – yet, he’s still allowed to compete on the surf circuit (???!) I think the surf commish is taking innocent till proven guilty a little too literal in the case of Sub-Zero Ward here.
My respect has always gone out to surfers and their brand of aquatic athleticism. Hence, I watch Point Break every time it’s on Spike TV (if you’re like me, there is no surprise that Swayze has yet to succumb to cancer)
Um, Swayze played a bank robbing surf ninja in that film, and you’re going to give him weeks to live? Secondary to that, the royalties off starring in a film that’s played 1400 times a year on cable (a 50/50 split, approx. 700 airings each on Spike and TBS) must be pretty lucrative – good enough to pay for high-end cancer treatment, I’d imagine.
Swayze rules (given); but as much as I love Point Break for its intricate plot lines and its determination to portray Gary Busey’s character as the sane one, I’d rather watch Kate Bosworth and Michelle Rodriguez hit the surf in Blue Crush any day (it would be my second favorite surf movie, and Surf Ninjas is a distantly distant third). With that said, we turn our attention to the ASP World Tour and women’s pro surfing. The ladies are competing in Rio De Janeiro this week, and are already in to the quarterfinals of the Billabong Girls Pro Rio. The tournament runs until Sep. 18, with the winner taking home $85,000.
Go to ASPWorldTour.com to learn more, and check out photos from flickr of the Roxy Team:
How’s that for Friday reading?
Marisa Miller. HERRRREAHAARARAH (is that how you spell that sound?). She’s 29; strangely (obviously) I’m still into it.
Moderately Cerebral Bias plays paparazzi on the J. William Leitch esq. book tour. According to MC Bias, the goober riding shotgun in most of the photos is a Deadspin commenteur named Rascalnikov (sp.) or something like that.
Working on my six-word memoir (via Dan Shanoff)
100% Injury Rate, blogger in residence at FanIQ, gives you Horsesurfing. Absurb. Absurb. Absurb.
More aquatic equestrian shenanigans:
