Each month our pitiful lives here at base camp are validated with the birth of a new issue of the surfer’s bible – Tracks magazine. While the office is the engine room, it just wouldn’t come together without the tireless scores of writers and photographers from around the world. That lot and of course and the surfers they cover.
This month’s issue (see. Tracks June) sees the welcome return of one Taj Burrow to page one… What else is happening? I don’t know? That’s why I asked editor Luke ‘hair bear’ Kennedy.
“Making this issue involved everything from stretchering wounded staff members off beaches, convincing pros to ride channel bottoms to climbing into spas with leggy blondes. It was a wild ride to say the least. Despite the dramas and the distracting dames we’ve pulled together what we think is a pretty good mag. We managed to make Taj squirm like you’ve never seen before with our multiple choice grilling. Meanwhile Jamie Brisick’s profile on Bruce Raymond provides an intriguing insight into a man who went from being the youngest fireman in Australia to a stunt double in the movie Big Wednesday all before carving his name in surf industry history. Twenty kilos of cheese, seven cows and several dozen crayfish pies were consumed during our wetsuit test on King Island. The testing procedure was highly stringent as per usual and not a single wettie warmer was used to give any of the suits an unfair advantage. Elsewhere Brett Burcher spends a fair slab of the $10000 he won for a contest on beers and barrels in Ireland. Plus we back-track to the year Richie Collins won Bells on his back and take a cheeky peek at the new wooden board Religion sweeping our beaches.”
TRACKS: The next best thing to fireballs.
Correction: On page 114 we accidentally (alcohol was involved) suggested that the 1989 world champion Martin Potter had never won an illustrious Bells Beach title. This is incorrect and we apologize to Pottz profusely. Pottz won the title in 1989 along with many others to claim the world title. Legend.
