"SON you'll have to take the boat alone, dad's broken his arm skating."Taj had the boat booked for the family trip of a lifetime until Papa Burrow incurred the unfortunate injury, forcing a substitution of family for friends and cruising for Cloudbreak.
"A couple of days into the New Year dad bought this skateboard over the Internet, an old wooden carve board. It turned up in a box and he ran to the door like a little kid, put it together and just started bombing hills around our house. He had just turned 61 and my mum and I were, like, what is he thinking? He said he just wanted to do some carves. His third day of bombing hills he went to the biggest slope around, starts hacking away down this massive hill and the inevitable happens." Said Taj
A few days of matey perfection turned competitive when the helicopter they sorted out for the peak of the swell coincided with Kelly Slater rocking-up.
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