R.I.P Andy

your candles burned out long before your legend ever will. - Bernie Taupin

Kankse ASP borde gora lite mer drogtester. Trist men inte ovantat iochmed att de holl tillbaka rapporten

medfött hjärt fel!!!

Medfott hjartfel och kokain ar inget doktorn rekommenderar.

Eller vad sager Erik G?!

Gogglat lite:

"Chronic cocaine use leads to accelerated atherosclerosis"

Ärftligt fel i kolesterolsyntesen. Är inget medfött hjärtfel utan är nåt som slaggar igen kärlen.

Kokain vet jag inget om, fråga Sverre haha.

Doc. Rekomenderar inte drink n driving heller! Men det är svin ball!

Droger eller inte, det var inget han självmant snackade om iaf.... Hela repet: www.surfline.com/surf-news/andy-irons-discusses-his-break-from-competition-breathing-room_19349/

"I know people have written a ton of shit about me over the past year. Blair Marlin [Andy's Manager] has told me bits and pieces of what the word on the streets is, but the other day I picked up his computer and it was on the Fantasy Surfer website. So I got into it for my first time by myself. It's f**kin radical how mean people are, and how they think they have all the answers. I read a couple things from supporters, but most of 'em just talked about how I was spoiled, or unappreciative, or just some drugged out loser. I tried not to get mad when I read that stuff, but yeah, it fired me up pretty good. How wouldn't it? Talking about my wife and shit? What the f**k?

I am a professional athlete, which means it's part of the deal for people to watch me and watch what I do in and out of the water, but I am not some bubbly f**king angel who is going to go out and try to be your best friend. I have my friends, and I surf because it's what I have always loved doing. No one really said shit when I was winning about how I acted. Now that I have a bad year, everyone is asking me to change, so let me tell you guys this: I have been on tour for the past 12 years. I have won 3 titles, and come runner-up who f**kin cares how many times. Do any of you people ever think about how draining it is to travel all year long, going to the exact same places, when the waves seem to almost always be shitty, trying to keep a winning attitude? You don't see anyone giving Bruce shit about going off tour or losing in France with a 2, but that's 'cause he never acted like he cared. Figure that shit out... You are on tour to win, and anyone who is on tour that says they don't want to win is just saying that to make themselves feel better about losing. Dane might be an exception, 'cause he's a little weird like that, but aside from him everyone cares. Saying they don't is just a disclaimer.

I don't want to be one of those guys who says they don't care, just staying somewhere in the top ten for a few more years. I want to win everything, or I don't even want to be there. Right now. I am at a point where it doesn't even matter what the waves are like. I just don't want to be there, and I don't want to put a jersey on. "

it's so sad that someone with so much talent and someone so young had to die! I guess now it doesn't matter what 'caused' his death..the sad part is that he died! I have had 2 people very close to me (one 25 and the other 27 years old) die in the last 6 weeks of different but totally tragic circumstances!!
After you meet the maker it doesn't really matter how you went but whether you went too early or not! I'll be 50 this year and i still can't work out how i made it this far, thinkin of all the stuff i've done in my past hehehehehehehe..RIP AI....PEACE AND LIVE LONG...LOVE DA RAT!

Ja. Men precis som AI snackar om i "I surf because..." hade han sina demoner och hade fått diagnos som bipolär. Trist att familjen försöker släta över hans ev. drogproblem. Men men...

Andiss skrev:
www.theinertia.com/business-media/demystifying-the-life-and-death-of-andy-irons/

Jkla bra reportage!

Det ar nagra grymma qoutes, jag ar inte forvanad, det ar ratt vanligt overallt.

“What surprises me, is that it isn’t just the surfers doing drugs, it’s the reps, the filmers, the team managers…you name it,” an industry insider told told me at the Rip Curl Pro Search in Puerto Rico . “A lot of times they are the ones scoring it for the surfers. I was at an event in California and every other person was coming up to me asking if I wanted to do a line in the bathroom.”