…You've also got a bunch of surf magazine editorial features coming up about your art and surfing?īW: Yeah I'm doing editorial features at the moment and some film projects also, I'm working with a few different photographers for land and water shots and I'm going to be doing some board mounted camera photos which I'm looking forward to. It's great that I don't have the pressure to compete and I get exposure from my art so its pretty cruisy. I love the fact that these are such art driven companies and I can have an involvement in that also.
I'm riding for Warner Surfboards, RVCA Clothing, Sabre Vision, West Wetsuits and Astrodeck. I understand that you are still a sponsored surfer, competing in the odd competition, and have recently signed a deal with Gravis, who else is supporting you?īW: Yeah recently got a deal off Gravis, thanks to Alikat for hooking that up. So I had a lot of time to spend doing art after the surgery and that's how it all got started. I've pretty much given away snowboarding, skating and motocross, I still ride a moto but no racing or jumping anymore. That's what got me more into riding fishes nowadays and messing around with singlefins and stuff.
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I have to do deep tissue trigger point therapy and remedial massage plus stretching and boring kickboard laps in the pool and just choose surf conditions carefully and don't surf when it's really heavy. My back still gives me grief and now and then, the pain comes and goes, some day's I can't surf because of the pain and relapse of muscle spasm but other day's its ok. How has this experience changed your approach to your life, your career, and your art…?īW: A very heavy thing to go through and the rehab was sooo long, it taught me not to take things for granted that's for sure, I had nearly a year where I was just allowed to go walking and I would just walk laps of the beach here and see good waves breaking wondering if I would be able to surf them again.
You can see the short film at Back to top Im very sorry to hear about your spine injury, but equally impressed that you've gone onto accomplishing so much in its wake. It came out really good and it works well too. The thing was so beat and I was keen to try shaping so I shaped a new version of that board and painted it and glassed it.
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Didn't you just shape your first board? A singlefin?īW: The Warlock! I rode an old 60s singlefin in this short film a friend made 'the warlock from age' its the full s-deck egg tripped out shape. I like the singlefin contests that are happening now, they are pretty fun. I did like doing the Quiksilver Airshow events, all you have to think about is going down the line as fast as you can and boosting. For me competing in surfing took the fun out of it and made it stressful so I don't miss it. I was into handrails so the park events were what I was into. The cross over events were much more fun when the snow events were slopestyle in a park, I had a lot if injuries from racing boardercross.
Talk to us about your time competing in surfing and snowboarding…īW: First thing that comes to mind is all the travelling and excess baggage, I got to visit some great places and have a lot of good friends from doing the contest thing. I still regularly surf with my dad and borrow the odd singlefin or logger. My dad is a surfer so my parents started taking me to the ocean when I was baby. What were your first experiences of surfing and the ocean?īW: My earliest memory of standing on a surfboard was when I was really young and paddling one of my fathers long pintail single fins inside a beach river-mouth and standing up on its momentum. After travelling I now live at Stanwell Park beach on the edge of the Royal National Park NSW.
Tell us about your background, where are you from, where are you now?īW: I grew up around the coastal areas of the mid north coast and south coast of New South Wales. Bret, thanks for doing this interview, and thanks also for featuring on COTW…īW: Thanks for having me, its nice to be in the club.
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