Tommy Ihnken walked away with a 1st place victory and $1500 at the Smith Optics Grom Grudge Match. Here is the story by Coach Buck and some photos from ESM. To read the full ESM story CLICK HERE.
In case you haven’t received the memo, surf coaches are the hottest thing to hit surfing since the thruster, leaving contest frothers everywhere thrusting and lusting from shoreline to shoreline in pursuit of the perfect clipboard. Tommy Ihnken knows this as well as anyone, and he may very well have found that sought after perfect clipboard in the hands of none other than Coach Buck.
Tommy began training with Coach Buck at the onset of summer, and sure enough, just took down the 2010 Grom Grudge Match Jr Pro. Coach Buck has had Tommy on a strict, although semi-classified, training regimen since June. In an official press conference with the associated press, Coach Buck concluded that the routine consists of, but is certainly not limited to: nudity, natural ice, trying stupid airs, being lanky, cougars, and falling.
The lanky man lankily assaulted the not so lanky waves with a form of surfing that saw surf pundits describing as: lanky. Backhand vert this, frontside cut that, Tommy could be found wooing the women on the beach with his German (and lanky) good looks in between heated bouts with other rash-guard clad heathens. To some, it may have appeared that he was actually….having fun.
Expert analysts, with the help of anonymous insiders, speculate that “having fun” may have been a defining aspect of Coach Buck’s now famous regimen. Meanwhile, the coaching staff at Red Bull laughed at this, denouncing the notion of fun and replacing it with science and Mick Fanning’s cutback. Cementing these”fun having” allegations is the fact that Tommy was quoted saying that he intends to go to Bali with earnings, a place that he has described as “enjoyable.”
As of press time, surf coaches everywhere are admittedly left dumbfounded, unsure as to whether or not they should incorporate this brave new world of fun into their practices. It is assumed that Tommy is currently out Germanly wooing women somewhere along New Jersey’s 130 miles of coastline, and possibly smiling.
See you at Belmar Pro bitches!
-Coach Buck Out
8 September 2010
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