![]() ![]() I did write it, directly, and mentally prepared to write whatever Jonah Hill was going to bark at me too, calling straight away. Now you can write about that” some fifteen years ago in Portugal. Look, you come to us with your hand out, we put you up in a hotel and you write off the event? That doesn’t seem right to me” and “See I’m wearing a funny hat. I don’t like the inaccuracies in what you write. ![]() I braced for a thorough tongue lashing not seen since Rip Curl’s Neil Ridgway excoriated me with “I don’t like what is happening here. He was a fixture, here, and though it was all in theoretically light-hearted and literarily valuable, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If not, all good.”īut you will certainly recall the wild good times we had with the Academy-nominated star as he discovered surfing. I would like the opportunity to chat with you human to human if you’re up for that. I somehow landed on it being Mark Price, though I don’t recall why, so you can imagine my surprise when a text popped through reading, “Hey Chas it’s Jonah Hill. The world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater must have it because I have his and Paul Speaker is no longer, apparently, involved in actively destroying professional surfing. So does World Surf League CEO Erik Logan. The most famous Goggansas from Shire Goggansas, Ashton, already has my number. I laughed while wondering who it could possibly be. You see, about six months ago I got a text from a dear surfer friend reading, “Someone you do not speak highly of reached out and asked for your number. and both Derek Rielly and I understood why. Redemption follows, this being the safest wave on earth, policed by the world’s best surf coach Tahitian Raimana Van Bastolaer, and Funk is soon barebacking the famous man-made wave, literally putting his life on the line for his YouTube video.Ī post shared by Kook of the Day comments were near universal in praising Hill, calling out Kook of the Day OG for daring insult an icon etc. It scared me so much to a point where I just never wanted to get in the water again, I never really wanted to try surfing until I came back here and I got swallowed up again and it really scared me.” Multiple waves came, back to back to back and kept me under the water. I got sucked over a wave when I was a kid and I wasn’t able to get out the wave. It brought some trauma back from when I was a kid. “My second time out,” he begins, tears forming, “I got swallowed by a wave (long pause) and it scared the crap out of me. Now, following a visit to Surf Ranch courtesy of his sponsor Red Bull who stumped up the seventy-gees to hire the joint and which confuses Funk who suggests, therefore, that each of his ten waves cost seven gees apiece, a wipeout sends the star into a nightmarish spiral back to when he nearly drowned as a kid. Plenty of social juice, an inspiration to god’s chillun etc. The gang have six-million plus subscribers with vids regularly hitting more than a million clicks. ![]() ![]() He is the storied twenty-six-year-old pro scooter rider ( “Watch me twirl, daddy!”) from Temecula in California who operates the YouTube channel Funk Bros with his brother Capron and cuz Tyler. I never wanted to try surfing until I came here and I got swallowed up and it really scared me."Ĭorey Funk needs little introduction, of course. "I never wanted to get in the water again. ![]()
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