Book description
Two surfing legends in one book!Occy is the magically talented child
star who crashed and burned, then miraculous crawled from the wreckage
to claim his destiny. Mick is the ferociously determined, disciplined
athlete, who overcame personal tragedy and devastating injury to pursue
his dreams. Australian surfing has produced many great champions, but
few have overcome so much, and inspired so many, as Mark Occhilupo and
Mick Fanning. Though dramatically contrasting characters, Occy and
Mick's life stories both serve as powerful primers in the power of
dreams, the importance of never giving up, and the courage required to
claw your way out of the deepest trough and climb all the way up to the
highest peak. Occy : the Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo and
Mick Fanning's Surf For Your Life, both written together with renowned
surf writer Tim Baker, have become modern Australian classics, within
the surfing community and beyond. They have inspired elite athletes from
all walks of life, launched innumerable grommets on their first forays
into the surf and spurred countless mature age surfers to get off the
couch and back into the waves. Now combined into an inspirational
omnibus, Occy and Surf For Your Life, are essential reading for anyone
wanting to overcome adversity, blast through their personal limits and
achieve their goals. Tim Baker is a freelance writer based in
Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. He is a former editor of Tracks and
Surfing Life magazines, and co-author of Bustin' Down The Door, the
biography of surfing champion Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew
(Harper Collins, 1996, now in its sixth print run). He has also edited
and contributed to an anthology of Australian surf writing, Waves -
Great Stories From The Surf, and last year Random House published an
account of his amazing surf road trip, Surfari. His work has appeared in
Rolling Stone, GQ, Inside Sport, the Sydney Morning Herald, the
Australian Financial Review, the Bulletin magazine, The Australian Way,
Playboy, as well as surfing magazines around the world. He has received
the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Media Award and been shortlisted for
the CUB Australian Sports Writing Awards.
