Just Aussie tings…
Australia is home to many bizarre-ities. From blue ringed octopi to lizard-like creatures sunning themselves at Bondi (after slathering themselves in oil), there are all sorts of things that leave the rest of the world shocked.
Speaking of which: a 62 year old, who some Internet commenters have called an “average Australian Grandpa” just got a better barrell than most surfers will ever get in their life.
At a NSW slab, the surfer, Pete Taplin, paddles into a bomb, filmed by his son Timmy.
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“No-one, fuck, too big, didn’t even feel the reef” Timmy says, filming the first wave of the set.
The the second one comes.
“Oh my god look at the point. Who’s going? Pete? Yes Pete. Oh my god,” the filmer can be heard saying as Pete paddles into what looks like a closeout.
Pete pops up and looks to be stuck in the lip.
He then falls down, arms above his head, toes just touching the board. He leans forward and throws both arms thrown ahead of him, as if bowing to the wave.
“Ohhh. What,” the filmer says.
He is then consumed by the wave. Gone. Forgotten. Done.
“Come out” the filmer pleads.
“Ahhhhhhhhhahahahaha. What.”
He makes it.
Commenters lost their minds over the feat, with sentences like “Can’t imagine my dad doing that” unfurling in the IG wind.
More included:
“When I was a very young child I’d watch my uncle surf this and the other one every winter when we went on holidays to this place close by to the south with these really old fibro cabins on a small headland with the family. It was a annual family gathering for countless years. Then as a young teen he’d take me diving for abalone and urchins and show me how to cook them. He’d take me to these points and a few beachies to paddle out with him and pick a few small ones. After a few more years I’d start getting a few good ones each year. I can remember getting to surf both breaks mid week for hours on end with just my uncle and I and maybe one or two locals. Some of the best memories. One morning we pulled up and the first wave we saw, the light from the rising Sun was shining through the wave making it glow this translucent golden green colour like stained glass. A surfer came off the bottom and was silhouetted across that glowing translucent wave and then he pulled into a tube and out again. That image, that memory, it’s etched into my brain like a moment of how perfect life can be. We are truly lucky to b alive and living in this wonderful country with such beauty round us.”
“That’s a 10 from anyone one earth.”
“Bet he felt like a grom after that one!”
“60s is the new 40s”
“Proof that age is in your head”
Shane Beschen called it rad and Kelly Slater wrote: “Legend(s)”.
Noah Deane said: “That was epic”
“#tapped” said another.
Tapped indeed.
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