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Ain’t That Swell: Quik Pro Wrap/Bells Preview with Jed Smith and Vaughan Blakey

Wilko not pretty enough? The right to drop-in and a call to save Straddie.

style // Mar 31, 2016
Words by stab
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The ‘Surfing Yobbo’ aka Matt Wilkinson takes out the Quiksilver Pro on the Gold Coast. But is Matt Wilkinson really ‘not pretty’ enough, as nation-wide Australian Newspaper, put it? Jed and Vaughan don masks and enter the media shitstorm. 

Still on the Quik Pro, we talk Stu Kennedy, Slater Designs and the ‘Sci-Phi,’ Tyler Wright’s emotional victory and much more. 

After Mick Fanning and Mikey Wright were snapped dropping in on the Supbarbank, we answer the question: when do you have the right to drop in (spoiler: being a 13 year old French pro junior twerp does not give you that right). 

We put our weight behind the Save South Straddie campaign, Jed Get’s Angry, a special interview with the man known only as, The Nightrider, the Bells Beach Rip Curl Preview, and much, much more. 

 

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