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Posted on Monday December 7th 2009 at 10:33 a.m.
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WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR MAIN FOCUS OVER THE LAST ELEVEN MONTHS?
Since I told myself that I wasn't going to do the tour next year and they gave me the wildcard, I just got back into surfing for the reasons that I started to do it which was 'cause I loved it. And, you know, it took a little while. I was getting so over the contest surfing that I didn't like surfing period, and that was scary. I didn't know what was going to happen and it was a strange time and I didn't know what the next chapter was going to be. This last year has been really cool just to going on a bunch of trips. And I got to realize how good doing the Tour is.IS IT
OFFICIAL, DO YOU PLAN TO HOP BACK ON TOUR NEXT YEAR?
Yeah, I'm doing it! I'm not gonna be like, 'maybe' guy. I got to take a year off, now I'm gonna go back to do it again.
DID YOU MISS IT?
I missed it. For sure, I missed it. For the first couple events, I'd follow it on the internet and check it out. A couple of my friends did good. I was definitely following [Dustin] Barca and I like watching Parko's heats. I check out everyone, see what everyone's up to. It's kind of like your old friends, when you don't see them for a while. I was keeping in touch with Freddy P. And now that it's coming to the last event... it went really fast, just like it does on the Tour. I think it went faster off the Tour.
WAS MAKING 'STILL FILTHY' A BIG PART OF YOUR YEAR OFF?
Definitely. The first half I didn't do many trips, then the back half I did probably about 12 trips. So, yeah, that's a lot. I was averaging two trips a month for about four or five months.
Read the full interview at Surfline...
Watch Andy do battle in the upcoming Billabong Pipeline Masters kicking off this week.
It will be good to see the Irons brothers back on tour but have they already signed up to the Rebel Tour / Champions Surf Tour?