The Top 5 Aerialists Of All Time, According To Chippa Wilson | StabMic Episode 07
“The sections he hits are beyond gnarly.”
You can’t help but love Chippa Wilson.
Old school hog enthusiast. Loves bikes. Big ones. Barely a speck of skin left without ink. Looks like he could ruin your afternoon. Doesn’t. Soft-spoken, thoughtful, and disarmingly decent. One of the nicer humans drifting around surfing.
Left small-town Cabarita behind for even less populated Tasmania, lived there peacefully, calm of mind, or close enough to it, before meeting his now fiancée, marine biologist and surfer Brinkley Davies and shifting, once again, further out, to northwest Australia. More of a cockeyed coastline, more serious waves, more serious fish.
Doesn’t bother Chip, though. Heaps of food for them to eat, he reckons.
Chippa’s a Little Weeds winner from way back. The second-ever Stab High champ. One of the most progressive aerialists to ever walk the earth, now preferring, in his words, to piece a wave together — six, seven turns, more like a skate line. That’s what the waves up north hand him, so he obliges.
In this episode of Stab Mic, Chip joins Dooma and Josiah in the studio, runs through all of the above, and talks about his new sponsor, Forecast, building high-tech, unsnappable boards in Sardinia, Italy.
He also names his top five aerialists of all time, remembers passing out and waking to a pitbull licking his face, getting fired from JS, and walks us through the video parts that messed with his head and left him surfing the way he does now.
Enjoy the episode.
