A FILM BY ETIENNE AURELIUS
Bernard “Midget” Farrelly, the first world surfing champion, passed away aged 71 after battling cancer for several years.
Farrelly was born in Sydney, in 1944, and began surfing when he was only six years old. In the 1960s, “Midget” dominated the competitive scene. He won the 1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships.
At 5’8” and 145 pounds, Bernard was the elegant surfer the world needed … More
Benji Brand prefers the shade… So much so in fact that he dedicates most of his young career to following purple and orange blobs on weather maps in search of shade via barrel. Whether at home on the North Shore or in chase of minute long tubes in his mother country of Africa, Benji always seems to find it. As the South Pacific and Indian Oceans have begun to awaken, Benji has set his sites on a little place called Fiji. We hope you enjoy his trip there as much as he did. Vanaka