Smorgasboarder_16_March-2013
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latest: INTERVIEW<br />
“My first<br />
day, i filMed<br />
Cheyne<br />
horan at<br />
Bondi.”<br />
“I got to know a guy called Peter Victorson. He<br />
had a surf shop called Top of Taps at Tapley’s<br />
Hill. Peter gave me a bit of coin to film the<br />
Coca-Cola Surfabout with the view we would<br />
show it at the local pub. I then asked if I could<br />
film that Bells contest and he gave me a couple<br />
of hundred more. That was 1981. I had never<br />
been to Bells in my life.<br />
“That was the iconic year for professional<br />
surfing. It was when modern day surfing more<br />
or less was born with the introduction of the<br />
Simon Anderson thruster. Since then I have<br />
only missed a handful of Bells contests but<br />
that was the biggest and the best. Simon just<br />
stamped his way of doing things and showed<br />
the world the future on twenty-five foot faces.”<br />
mar/apr <strong>2013</strong> | sMorGasBoarder 55
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