Gallery: A Swoon-Worthy Mick Fanning Offers Life Advice To GQ

And don’t you just love the proper treatment surfers get from magazines like GQ? 

Dressed like a fuckin’ grown adult man, the low-tide stink scrubbed cleanly away, and in its stead a well-healed and cleanly pressed gentleman mugging and brooding for the camera’s lens. 

While surfers like Mick and Kelly will cherish photos of their competitive triumphs, their once-in-a-lifetime sessions, their third-reef Pipe bombs, these are the portraits that will lok out over their thoroughly attended funerals. 

This week, GQ ran a gorg story and photo feature, “Mick Fanning’s 10 Life Commandments,” which finds the three-time World Champ and one-time shark puncher looking most dapper indeed, and with nuggets of wisdom on offer. 

You can read the whole story, here, and scroll south for a look at the images, shot by GQs Buzz White, and Mick’s 10 rules to live well by. 

8. Keep it clean in the bedroom

“Sand is great for building castles, but horrible in bed!”

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