A Surfing Legend!!!! Meet Tom Carroll, Tuesday 5th Nov, Elanora Library. Come and meet Tom Carroll. He began riding a surfboard at the age of nine and went on to dominate the sport worldwide in the 1980s, winning two world professional crowns and three Pipeline Masters titles. TC is his long-awaited autobiography. On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, cheeky grommet, brilliant surfer, Australian sporting hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, big wave charger. Inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction, part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture hed done so much to legitimise. Toms family and friends struggled with him, kept his secrets, and looked on in anger and fear as the wheel began to grind him down. Then a window opened – but getting through it made charging Pipeline look like a piece of cake ... This is the story of an unlikely moral education: of humility, family, damage, brotherhood, youth, stupidity, glory, single-mindedness and surrender, and about the feeling of water moving under a surfboard, how it can bind past to present and make sense of lives. Tom will talking about his life at Elanora Library at 6 pm on Tuesday November 5th. This is a free event but please book your place on 55 811 671.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 04:27:17 +0000
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