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Catching up with first French WCT Qualifier Eric Rebière
Either way, I won’t bring you any Brazilian hotties back; they’re already all married
The Laurent Pujol Interview
Having freshly penned a deal with Analog to charge and get barrelled, Europe’s most experienced and best connected North Shore devotee Pepe le Pew*, at 34, is fit, focused and fired up. We caught up with him in Hawaii late season to find out about the view from the other pro surf circuit, the tube tour.
Maurice Cole Born Again
A rejuvenated Maurice Cole welcomes us into his shaping bay at Surf Odyssey in the industrial zone of Capbreton. There’s a twinkle in his eye, constant smile on his lips, you can nearly hear him chuckling to himself in his shaping room. What could be behind this newfound youth? Sure enough, Maurice hasn’t returned to his country of adoption empty handed. For the last 18 months, he’s been working in utmost secrecy with long-time friend Ross Clark Jones deep in the backwaters of Victoria, far from curious onlookers.
Exiled in Paradise: Alain Riou Interview
Twenty-three years old, pro surfer. Lives alongside the lagoon in Tahiti, on his doorstep are some of the best and most beautiful line-ups on the planet. Twice European Pro Junior Champion, winner of the Teahupoo WCT trials at 21, invited on Young Guns 2 with Slater, Reynolds, Craike, Flores et al, Alain Riou’s biog reads a bit like every young surfer’s fantasy. Born and raised in the French colonies of Reunion and then Tahiti by a family originally from Brittany, Alain now plies the smooth trade he learned on perfect tropical reefs at the temperate beachbreaks of the WQS, where, after a difficult 2006 he’s now looking to step up. And while maybe not exactly make-or-break time, in terms of making the jump into the Dream Tour big leagues to join Quik stable mate Jeremy Flores, there’s no time like the present.
Jeremy’s Spoken
A word in your ear with 2007 WCT Rookie sensation Jeremy Flores
Let’s Talk About Jetskis
The jetski or PWC (personal water craft) has brought about some major changes in surfing in recent years from wave size ridden, photographic angle and rescue capabilities. But if one of surfing’s fundamental pleasures is being immersed in nature, isn’t that kinda hard with the roar of an engine and the nostril-stinging aroma of gasoline?
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