MICK FANNING + the 3 hours that decided his next business venture

[@brodiwheeler7583]

I remember surfing HB back in the 90’s early morning before the contest that they used to have there… like 2-3ft sloppy Southside Huntington, nothing special, then Mick comes out there for a warm-up sesh… mind blowingly insane the amount of power and speed he was generating from those piddly waves! Flying down the line and detonating massive sprays off the lip, and the longest wrap-around-rebound bashes off the whitewater, boosting airs and just destroying the tiny little burgery pre-contest junk waves. He’s like an albino spider monkey on meth, even in small surf. Mental!

[@DylanGravesYT]

Mick is such a hammer, truly special to watch live I feel like video doesn’t do how fast he is justice

[@ajj4483]

You gotta be that good to be a World champ, just a level above the best. Saw him win his first CT in Bells in 2001, I couldn't fathom the speed, just had never seen anything like it before. Fast forward 11 years later, Supertubos Rip Curl Pro, saw him take a gnarly beating wiping out backwards over the falls solid 6ft Supertubos, just shook it off, then rode a barrel all the ways to the sand right in front of me Crazy stuff.

[@j.f.c]

​@@DylanGravesYTI surfed with him in France on a meager day and I specifically remember the sound his of his leash snapping against itself like the belt of discipline just from constantly going so fast.

[@Bryan-jd7os]

Surfing with top Pro's is a humbling and awesome experience! I was somewhere in Ventura at a random beachbreak and Dane Reynolds and a couple of his friends paddled out, absolutely unbelievable how much speed and power these gays have. Awesome.

[@Balisa-p6c]

Amazing to see a really good surfer right next to a 3x world champion.

[@Davidstinton]

I agree with mick, wave pool events can be boring and I like the idea of having an event with mystery waves. Keep up the good work Dylan, love you content.

[@DylanGravesYT]

That would be mental 💯 cheers thank u 🙏

[@surflifeimages]

Total borefest. Have a random selection of waves is a fantastic idea. Idk if they can do rights & lefts randomly. Great vid... Thanks.

[@samiscool6401]

Mick's style is awe inspiring

[@DylanGravesYT]

Beast 💯 he so tack sharp ⚡️

[@o2SURFTOWNMUC]

Was a pleasure having you guys visit and surf 🌊 many congrats for the launch of PV! 🚀

[@alvaroop6307]

Two of the nicest guys in the industry shredding a wavepool... can't go wrong!

[@DylanGravesYT]

🙏❤️

[@patjosefsson3885]

White lightning really hit the nail here with new visions. Yes, even a pool comp can get boring watching the same waves roll by. Your not a "just normal guy"! You are a messenger that shows that surfing is possible anywhere. Stay stoked Dylan 🤙

[@DylanGravesYT]

🙌🙌🙌 haha thank you ! Fun journey to be on 💯 appreciate the support 👊

[@MartinSeanFisher]

Brilliant just brilliant. Looking forward to our local pool opening in 2027. Yew!!

[@DylanGravesYT]

Thank u 🍻’s me too!

[@brandondugan1940]

I grew up watching Fanning the fire as a little kid. Mick has always been an idol.

[@DylanGravesYT]

That movies was so epic, grew up on that also 🤯

[@fabiomacielplotkowski4386]

This tech looks amazing! You guys seem to have so much fun!

[@graememichaelstephens4425]

Your not normal .mick is an inspiration and legend in Australia 🇦🇺 thanks for the vlog dylan!!!!

[@DylanGravesYT]

😂 I feel like a mere mortal camotes to surf gods like Mick 🙌 was an honor to share that with him ❤️Thank for tuning in 🍻’s

[@deanarndell4609]

Yeeooww! Such a fun looking wave with variety to change it up! 🤙🏄🌅🏝️

[@Peace381]

Way to bring the energy. The joy you share on the waves, with the community, and for your audience is palpable. Thanks for taking me along for the ride. Be well, brother. 🙏🌊

[@DylanGravesYT]

I appreciate that! Truly my pleasure and really appreciate the support. Love getting to be a part of these diffeeent surf scenes and share how special our little world is :) 🍻’s

[@gregstarr2878]

As usual Dylan another great vlog/vid!! Mick is a special cat for sure, as is Blair!!. Keep'um coming buddy. YEW 🤙. GREG⭐☘️🤙

[@DylanGravesYT]

🍻’s thanks 🙏 appreciate the support ❤️

[@unSTEVOED]

Mick's still pumping it. Good on ya mate

[@xoxo98808]

what a cool wave! thanks for sharing!

[@Bryan-jd7os]

Its easy to see why Mick is a 3 time champion! He seems like a truly nice guy too! Blair is an absolute wizard on ANYTHING!

[@DylanGravesYT]

💯 top shelf dudes both of em. Blair surfs / skims so insane it’s mind blowing

[@inFAMOUSBeatsGFx]

4:00 was absolute fire 🔥6:58 too

[@DylanGravesYT]

🙌

[@lukerips1]

Blowing Up!

[@Jaxsurfclub]

SIck video Dylan your personality is PERFECT for youtube, your legend,, btw its Crego!

[@DylanGravesYT]

Yeah Crego ! Thanks brotha ❤️

[@masonceci7764]

Great vid

[@dahlstardiecast3314]

Woooo, sooo siiicckk. Cheers🍻.

[@elicassotta2704]

Bro that big spin reverse was insane. All low key at the end. Super rad bro!

[@DylanGravesYT]

Appreciate it!! Was so pumped to land that, especially w Mick in the water and everyone pushing it so hard. That one felt so good 😊

[@elicassotta2704]

@ 👊🏽

[@TomasCrowder]

Congrats D, always cool to hear from you compadre

[@DylanGravesYT]

Thank you kindly

[@srfpunk8207]

Dylan, you seem to get lots of last minute invites or happen to be in the right place right times. Keep doing what you do! 🤙🏽

[@DylanGravesYT]

The universe works in mysterious ways! Yeah had no idea Mick was gonna be there, was there for the opening day of the pool, flew in early to hopefully get a few sessions … this was one of those sessions 🤯 and Mick was so cool and invited a couple of us in to surf ❤️ legend. We all had breaky the next day and was chatting to him and Luke about maybe doing a video and they were open to it … and here that video finally is :)

[@ajj4483]

You surfed amazing here Dylan, and such a humble attitude, all the best to ya🤙

[@DylanGravesYT]

🍻’s thank u! 🙏 definitely some nerves even being in the water with mick 😂

[@fuzzbuzz2000]

Loved the video and the music!

[@DylanGravesYT]

🙌

[@theodorevreeland]

Thank you!

[@gnomeodoescrypto]

legends

[@royset3050]

Mick's Gold Coast surfing resort will be a huge draw card for locals and tourists....great waves and shark free surfing.Awesome.👌👍🇦🇺

[@DylanGravesYT]

Can't wait!

[@djizzah]

the air section is the best thing about it , i cant really do them but someone like me could perhaps learn

[@DylanGravesYT]

Yeah he’s seriously insane 🤯 such a great to watch … Agreed on the air section, definitely my favorite and easy to learn ! Have only landed a few of those and on this section I got it after 5 tries, so pumped

[@lesta_1983]

I live next to the golf course so it will be my new local. Lol Can't wait for it to open!

[@DylanGravesYT]

Score !

[@wisdomoverfear2685]

Great vid !

[@DylanGravesYT]

❤️

[@jaycee571]

Fanning is a national treasure He still rips better than most of the WSL Love the Fanning

[@DylanGravesYT]

💯 pure 🔨!!! Mick rules

[@dangacore]

That one air by Mick was huge. 43 and still surfing like a grom yewwww. Oh and that shovit air thing you did was off tap too brother.

[@DylanGravesYT]

Micks a Beast! Forever young

[@annielinkous7635]

Lucky You LegendMick🤙🤙🤙🔥🔥🔥

[@BitcoinBodyboarderPodcast]

They really nailed the bowl section into the ramp with that wave.

[@DylanGravesYT]

💯 one of the best I’ve tried

[@BitcoinBodyboarderPodcast]

@@DylanGravesYT Really exciting time to be alive.

[@ryanderobillard214]

Mick… Core as they come

[@DylanGravesYT]

Core lord 1000

[@kookvision9295]

At the start I thought it looked like another samey wave pool... But that weird kink looks like a lot of fun, especially if it differs from wave to wave

[@local3433]

Yewww 🤙

[@willloman812]

The way the wave refracts the light is beautiful. And Dylan, I grew up surfing Folly Beach, SC and remember being in my teens just lusting over Puerto Rico. It was so close, yet so far. Anyway, your name stuck in my brain from the one PR surf vid I owned. Skip-ahead 10 years or so, I see this KZbin video "DYLAN GRAVES: EXPLOSION SALAD" thinking, "Awesome, good for him," so, I click. Then Honey Bucket drops to raw, free, and gnarly surfing and I've been a fan since. Mick's a legend, sure. Sure he's an Adonis-looking freak athlete and sure Mick definitely went toe-to-toe with a Great White shark and walked away the victor, sure. But, is Taj Burrow faster and maybe have a fuller more arching roundhouse? I don't know, dude, I don't know. Those questions are best left for the suits in Washington. I think what I was saying is you're a legend too or something. p.s. I joined the Coast Guard circa 2010 and got stationed in Key West out of boot, and every PR port call I jumped in a rental and made a b-line toward Rincon. It exceeded the hopes from my youth. That was 2013 and I was 27. Anyway, appreciate your spirit, musical telent too, thanks dude.

[@DylanGravesYT]

Hell yeah cheers buddy ! Jajaja yes explosión salad 🙌 that was a special one :) thanks for the support and kind words party on 🍻

[@sci-fi767]

Looks great. Why can’t they make it twice as long and twice the size? To expensive?

[@DylanGravesYT]

Well I think the project they’re working on will be bigger, not sure double but it sounds impressive

[@chrisgundersen1117]

Wet leg!! Those who will get it, we’ll get it :-)

[@k1ng5urfer]

Man alot of salty surfers in the comments on this one haha. Sick wave, sick surfing, sick vid. Thanks Dylan!

[@meangreycat]

Pfff so good , the skimboarder fuckn smooth as fck. Mick Fanning Lord Jedi turns and throwing airs 🔥🔥 and Dylan is surf legacy guisado to perfection ❤❤❤

[@DylanGravesYT]

Guisado to perfection 😂😂😂q cabron!! Espero q todo está bn contigo y tu familia, voy a estar en PR por las navidades vamos a jangear bro

[@meangreycat]

@@DylanGravesYT JAJA! dale mi cangri ! te veo aca!

[@meninoglipster]

Crazy how this wave looks like a real wave. Can’t say why, but this one looks different from the others wave pool, more realistic

[@DylanGravesYT]

Thing is a blast 💥

[@kennypowers9609]

Epic everything, Hard Ripping, Mick surfing with a Mouthguard Dylan?

[@DylanGravesYT]

Yea I think he does … didn’t even notice that’s what he was taking out

[@hman7236]

Shot out to D in the place. 🤙 Pools are awesome but for the rich😢

[@lutzchoco1]

What is the best tide ?

[@Jaxsurfclub]

is this the same one that is coming to Jacksonville with Ace buchan?

[@DylanGravesYT]

Hadn’t heard of that one … the tech is called endless surf, have they made an announcement on the tech yet ?

[@UncleBoobieCosmicOverlord]

Oi mick come down Brizzol wave pool in ya board shorts!! 😂

[@jjbitz]

Groovy tunes Dylan. Are you a Grateful Dead fan?

[@DylanGravesYT]

Thank u and yes

[@jjbitz]

@@DylanGravesYT Surfing and Dead go so well together. Listening to I Know You Rider 6/26/74 today

[@PHILLIPJOLLY-k9k]

Sj boys

[@surfslab]

Send him back to the WSL Championship Tour!

[@DylanGravesYT]

💯

[@jjbitz]

No sharks in the wave pool

[@per48]

how much to build one of those?

[@DylanGravesYT]

Three easy payments of 29.95

[@raindogred]

Mick's footage looks like its been sped up in parts...

[@DylanGravesYT]

That’s just white lightning for ya ⚡️hence the 3 world titles 🔥 guys is a hammer 🔨

[@theromanobaker]

It's a super fun air training pool for sure...but considering it will be pretty expensive...what the sense to build up a pool in a place where you can literally surf good quality weves any single day in the ocean? I mean...in Monaco you don't have choice. Pool or pub.

[@stevenhusmann3816]

why does goldcoast need a pool. got amazing waves already i dont know

[@DylanGravesYT]

There are some slow months here on the gc 😬 and a lot of clientele 🤷‍♂️

[@drenyama5090]

Mouthpiece for Mick? @5:40

[@DylanGravesYT]

Yeah I believe so

[@Marty647]

Gutting the soul of surfing and the heart of nature one dollar at a time. Spectacular lines in the sky, ending in the proto'ypical gloom. Don't look up!

[@doublestrokeroll]

yawn. Always gotta be someone like you posting. Nobody's making you watch or go. It's like whining about swimming pools or skate parks.

[@Marty647]

@@doublestrokeroll Don't hold your breath. Say bye bye to nature's free ride.

[@tuskedbeast]

Agree. Like listening to a pimp trying to sell sex with a badly-rendered plastic doll.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@Marty647 yeah...because the ocean's going to disappear because there are wave pools. What a stupid comment.

[@Marty647]

@@doublestrokeroll I didn´t say that. You did. And yes, it's stupid.

[@acornblom]

Hope theres no sharks in the pool!

[@erikleypoldt8275]

Expert with no barrel?

[@esorse]

My Grandmother, housewife maiden Anne Starkey and retired also defend the country with a broomstick handle English Army joiner husband William Bate, left stamp rationed Manchester with their family for Australia on the Aberdeen in nineteen fifty one and Mum said when the passage got rough, all the kids had a great time sliding from one side of the ship to the other and when they got to their Australian Railway supplied house, there were boxes of food on the table in the kitchen, while also quoting him saying that Mum would've ended up in one of those camps if in Germany.

[@dodge5629]

what ever happend with surf lakes......had so much potential but poor management seems to nose dive it.

[@DylanGravesYT]

I need to do a follow up vid with them

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

Munich...?? lol there are people surfing in Germany..wtf ?? I am continually shocked by how far surfing has come since me a few pot heads in the 80's were surfing the mid north coast of oz on our poxy single fins..wave pools can bring the surf to so many people, we could potentially find world champs from countries that are land locked, wouldn't that be something.

[@DylanGravesYT]

Hell yeah! Love this ! 💯 skies the limit w this stuff

[@Dunserful]

Yeah.... some germans do actually surf! Check out Sebastian Steudner 😊

[@bradg7701]

Surfing started way before the 80s.

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

@@bradg7701 no kidding, I never knew that..

[@wisdomoverfear2685]

.......that time Blair surfed better on a skimboard better than 70% of the pros surf on surfboads in 2024 !

[@DylanGravesYT]

He’s legit my favorite surfer only he’s riding a Skimboard 😂🤯

[@wisdomoverfear2685]

@DylanGravesYT I'm an old disabled surfer been around a minute...Blair can read a wave better than anyone I've ever seen. His timing and positioning while riding any type of "board" has set the bar....and that bar has been set pretty high !

[@aidencrooks]

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[@gregorprice9040]

Don’t speed up your videos.

[@DylanGravesYT]

I don’t, it’s shot in 24fps … everything I do is and that’s real time

[@wecanwatersports4151]

Who is going to make Giant Shore Break Wave Pool like Waimea & Wedge? 🫵😊

[@DylanGravesYT]

Don’t know but would love to see that