Stab ran a pic of oli Adams surfing in Scotland, but other than that played it pretty much with a straight bat.

Beachgrit’s Charlie Smith, on the other hand, took the opportunity to have yet another pop at the English surfer.

“Have you always chuckled at the British surfer too? Asked Chas. ‘Do you picture him, with reddish hair and pale skin, floundering on an egg-shaped surfboard in the windswept Corn Wall? His face ruddy from the ice-cold water and bangers and mash? His wax and even shade of brown from the countryside’s loamy soil?
Do you you picture him like Dusty Payne without skill?
Well then you too are in for a big surprise. The world owes its peace, this morning, to a fine British surfer!

Sure the stuff about the egg, the wind, floundering, bangers and mash etc etc is fair game. But Dusty Payne? That’s taking it a bit far.

The ever-professional CarveMag added a bit of insight, and speculated on what that pre-world saving lunch might’ve been, saying:

“The only details you need for now is that he (hero @MalWare Tech) loves surfing, pizza (media making massive deal about this so I dare say he’s got a free table for life at Pizza Express? Huh?) and judging by his tweets he’s pretty funny.
For those surfers GCSEs etc it’s also interesting to note he is also self taught “I’m not a graduate,” he told one reporter. “I had planned to go to university but ended up getting offered a job in security a year prior, so I took it. I’m completely self-taught so in hindsight university would probably not have been worth the time or money.”

The Sun on the other hand, on something of a charm offensive having recently tried to take on Surf Europe and losing, just ran a pic and named him, 22-year old Marcus Hutchins.

He reportedly stopped the cyber evil with an £8.29 domain, which is pretty much the best value for money ever, since Surf Europe legendary 2005 Product Guide, which was essentially 132 pages of ads and pictures of stuff to buy (i.e. ads), for a mere £3.50.

Surfing is in a really good place right now.