Occy: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo
by Occhilupo, Mark
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- 1741666430
- ISBN 13
- 9781741666434
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US: Random House Australia, 2008. Good. 'Occy was always a missile going hyperspeed, about to blow up at any moment . - it's true of so many highly intelligent or gifted people . . . All of h is passion was put into his surfing.' Kelly Slater, eight-time world champi on Child star at sixteen, ranked third in the world at seventeen, winner of the Pipeline Masters at nineteen - Mark Occhilupo looked set to sweep all before him with a radical, spontaneous, irresistible brand of surfing. Yet a spiralling descent into drug abuse and depression snuffed his flame out p rematurely when he quit the pro tour at just twenty-two. Faltered comebacks , spectacular bursts of free-surfing and manic breakdowns followed, as the surfing world watched a freakish talent self-combust. After years spent imm obile and overweight on the couch, in his so-called 'Elvis period', Occy ev entually emerged from his cocoon, reborn and ready to tackle a whole new ge neration of surf stars. His celebrated comeback to win the world title in 1 999, sixteen years after his career began, is a sporting fairytale without equal. Now for the first time, in his own words, Occy tells the complete, r emarkable story of his spectacular rise, terrifying fall and miraculous reb irth. 'By going down so hard, by fully falling apart, he was able to give h imself longevity. It's like the Buddhist teachings about birth and death - something has to die for new birth to happen, and that happens inside us to o. Occy was the ultimate example of that.' Tom Carroll. 'I think it's one o f the great sports stories of all time.' Kelly Slater.
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- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
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- RWARE0000029297
- Title
- Occy: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo
- Author
- Occhilupo, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1741666430
- ISBN 13
- 9781741666434
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2008
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