Friday, October 15, 2010 5:30pm PDT

Tip 2 Tip: the return of Curren

By: Janos Palko


Rip Curl's Tip 2 Tip series tracks the course of a single Indo boat trip that lasted an entire season and spanned the length of the Indonesian Archipelago. Watch the first chapters here, here, and here. For this chapter the legend himself, Tom Curren, hops aboard for a few waves. He still rips, and he can play a mean 6-string as well. Tom's 2 young sons, as well as South African legend Frankie Oberholzer join the crew as they stumble upon the most incredibly idyllic sand bar setup i've ever seen. As Frankie put it,

"Yesterday we surfed the best beachbreak in the world, i reckon. Never seen a wave break like that on sand. Rights and lefts all day.."

Big statement for a guy who was on 'the Search' for over a decade...Check it!





Channels: Surf

Tags: Rip CurlTom Curren

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