Expect the unexpected | Noosa Today

By Phil Jarratt

Over the many years we’ve come to expect the unexpected from Tom Curren, everyone’s favourite loony world champion surfer, but his latest Rip Curl-funded video, Free Scrubber, adds a whole new dimension to weird.

Okay, we know that 2020 was a pretty whacko kind of year for most people, and we know that three-times world champ Curren, now 56, is a pretty whacko dude, but none of that quite prepares you for Free Scrubber, 15 minutes of totally unscripted raw brilliance, all shot with a handheld and a drone by Aussie Andy Potts over three months in Covid-locked-down, deserted Salina Cruz, Mexico, land of the long right barrels.

“Free Scrubber fell somewhere between Searching For Tom Curren and…