Three world championship surfer Andy Irons was found dead in a hotel room in 2010. It's a long talk about a sportsman who can not protect a sportsman like irons live ...
Surveyor Andy Irons' wife Lyndie, who has won the world championship in her last three seasons, remembers her appalling experience with a painful expression on her face. "I found him struggling in bed. I should go to Foodland as if everything went well, but I had a husband who was about to die from overdose at home. "
These and other heart-breaking cinsten stages are available in the documentary Andy Irons: Kissed By God, recently unveiled in Australia and revealing the life of Irons pushing the limits. Fighting against drug addiction and bipolar disorder, Kauaili was found dead in a hotel room in Texas in 2010 when she was 32 years old.
In the film promotion process, Kelly promised to tell the real and unknown story of his generation's best surfer, who ripped three cups over from Slater while struggling with the brusque style. From time to time, this expectant is welcome. Detailed interviews with friends, family, and sponsors who avoided talking about their lips sealed earlier reveal a big picture of Irons' drug addiction and battle with bipovers.
However, some of Irons' story has already been revealed in an article published in Outside magazine a few weeks after his death. Brad Melekian was skeptical in his statement titled Last Drop, describing Billabong (aka "Australian based clothing brand") and a family of Irons who died because of a voyage of a sportsman's dang hummus.
Some of the resources spoken for the article were explained, but some demanded anonymity. Melekian says this is a rule in the surfing industry. According to him, Iron's problems have been known since 2007, but no one has spoken about .
Another American surfing writer, Chas Smith, was quick to reply. She found Melekian's writing morally, vulgar and insidious. This attitude reflected the reaction of the majority of the surf world in those days. But Smith accepted his foolishness in the new book, Cocaine and Surf, and used the phrase 'one of the best texts written in the surfing press' for Melekian writings.
Smith descends into the details of the smuggling experiments of names such as the Hawaiian Jeff Hakman (one of the founders of the American industrial giant Quiksilver) in the 1970s, when his book was about the love of cocaine from unscathed wounds. He also examines the story of American Mike Boyum, who was imprisoned in New Caledonia in the 1980s, and Peter McCabe of Newcastle.
Besides these, competitive surfing is exploring the history of drug trafficking. Two Australian world champions Mark Occhilupo and Tom Carroll, who spoke openly about their addiction, are some of the names they have studied.
Why is it so insistent to keep Irons' problems secret in the interesting surfing community in the past with these stories. Some star names are not sure that Andy can change everything in life when these problems are revealed. Kelly Slatter, Courier Mail in a statement in 2013, said: "Life could have been more upside-down if we were exposed to more intense pressure from the outside for its change."
Anyway, a year after Irons' death, the Professional Surfer's Association announced that they would apply a new drug test during the world tour. Five high-profile surfers, including Australian Mick Fanning, who had three world championships in the Inertia at the beginning of this year, were seriously questioned. Fanning has admitted today that the methods of the drug testing that the WorldSwing League (WSL) has applied have made it very difficult for them.
Brazilian star Caio Ibelli said he was tested at least six times in 2017. Another surfer also explained that WSL added blood tests to the procedures in this way. Tatiana Weston-Webb, number three in the world in women, praised the opportunity of full-time access to psychiatrists presented to surfers. Perhaps this opportunity is also one of the heritage that Irons left.
There are times when the world of surfing is on the agenda to reach a more general audience and increase its popularity. Next month, WSL will organize a competition for the first time in a wave pool. This gives them the opportunity to prepare their programs according to primetime. With the help of technology, they will have the chance to introduce their sport to millions of potential young surfers who are growing away from the sea.
According to the WSL, the league now has a total of 13 billion dollars, where top athletes earn one to three million dollars. They are participating in the Olympics in 2020. The surf has made progress. But Nick Carroll, a veteran surfing writer who also received a large-scale biography of his former metamethamine-dependent brother Tom, who had two world championships, caught the attention of Smith's book on the reasons leading to Irons' death.
"Al's parents were tolerant of drug use in the generation, even people were encouraged. In addition, the drug habits of good surfers were dictated by a romantic dictation. Think of a developing industry and add millions of dollars to it. Yes, bum! Al, these opportunities to improve his dependence fell into his mouth and he was not the only one. "
"The use of drugs among elite surfers is somewhat less acceptable in the post-AI period, but the world still exists where it is easy to get acquainted with the bad attitudes and bad habits that are not very welcome to say. It may be weaker but it still exists.
Likewise, Smith claimed that he had a similar accident three years ago. The actor was again a famous surfer and the community preferred to remain silent again. "Thankfully this was the end of the surfer's death. But this also means that autopsy and toxicology will not be done, which means we will never learn the truth. "
Even though the transformation of the surf is open to debate whether another sportsman can protect and protect it from a tragedy like Irons has experienced, there is a controversial truth after seeing recent articles and articles disclosing drug issues that Kauail's deeply shaken world of surfing, how miraculous it is.
Fortunately, aside from the sad events that lie, the determined and determined attitude of the gigantic Tahitian waves will set Irons in an eternal memory of people's memory.
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