Mar 15, 2021
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Everyboard rider and explorer Harrison Roach has just signed with Creatures of Leisure. The move is a perfect fit considering the demanding nature of Roach’s surf trips and the reliable durability of Creatures’ equipment. According to Roach, his inclusion to the team won’t even really change how he packs for his adventures.
“I’ve already been using Creatures gear for years,” says Harrison. “It stands up to just about anything, fits all sorts of different dimension boards, and has that understated quality I really like in my other stuff as well.”
The official relationship started with a recent boardcover collaboration Creatures did with Roark – Harrison’s key sponsor that he also heads up in Australia. Keen to get some feedback on how the covers went on a recent trip, Creatures’ head of product and brand Beau Campi got in touch.
There’s much to admire in the Harrison Roach
oeuvre. A logger of global repute, but much more than just that, he’s also outstanding as a roaring tubesmith, an all around performer on shorties, mids, or fibreglass of any denomination.
His refined touch and waterpersonship is matched by a trim and tidy aesthetic. Bright-eyed and sharp, his diction is relatively rapid for an Antipode. His coiffe, cheekbones and stature somehow recall a cross between a dashing WW2 fighter pilot and his elfin schoolboy son, the grey flannel-shorted youngster running joyously out into the playground to cheer skyward at Rolls Royce Merlin engines roaring through pillows of fluffy cumulus overhead.
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The Weirdest WSL Week Ever, Pumping Kirra, and Nate Florence s Backdoor Gem
Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 18 2020
Photo: WSL / Bielmann
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1. Pipe Masters got the Rona
Was this the most bizarre week in the WSL’s time as an organisation? It has to be a contender, right? To recap: on Sunday, Aus time, the WSL announced that they were halting the Pipe Masters “as a result of positive COVID-19 tests within the WSL staff, including WSL CEO Erik Logan”.
Who could have foreseen that coming? The running of an international sporting event in a public and natural environment, in a country easily hitting over 2000 COVID-related deaths a day? But what came next was even more bizarre. Following the suspension of their competition, the WSL went completely silent. They didn’t post on Instagram or Facebook for a full five days. Not once. To put that in context, they normally hit around eight posts a day on each of those platf
Watch: Kirra and Noosa Fire Up As Chaotic Tropical Swell Arrives
So how did the points fare? Here s how
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Well it certainly wasn’t easygoing when the first big push of the east coast tropical swell window hit Southern Queensland on Sunday and Monday, December 13-14. There was a lot of weather – rain, wind, huge tides and an aggressive swell –combining to make things pretty difficult. Aussie WSL commentator Ronnie Blakey copped a lip to the leg on Sunday and suffered tibial plateau fracture – helped from the water, ambulance, the whole deal (get well soon Ronnie!) – “A lot of rainwater making those lips collapse without notice…” explained Kirra icon and 1978 World Champ Rabbit Bartholomew, on Ronnie’s Instagram. But amongst the chaos were some frothy chocolate barrels at Kirra and Noosa.