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Bruce Irons Flare Shot

Posted on July 20th, 2011 by JZ

On a recent Red Bull boat trip to the Mentawai Islands, someone had the crazy idea to attach a flare to the back of Bruce Irons board and send him into the lineup. The results are actually pretty rad. Along with the flares, at the end of the video, Bruce opens up and talks a little bit about the tragedy of losing his brother.

You can read more of the interview with Bruce over at stabmag.com.

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Groovy Flares Man | LOOKING SIDEWAYS August 4th, 2011 at 5:27 am

[...] Groovy Flares Man Someone asked if I’d seen the ‘surf flare thing’ yesterday, and I thought they were talking about some 70s throwback with hippy chics, campervans, and backlit waves. Turns out I’m an idiot, because surfing flares aren’t the latest collaboration between a wannabe surf brand and Led Zeppelin, but are actually flares (like, you know – distress signals) – strapped to the back of a surfboard. You’d imagine something like this would be a one off, but everyone’s at it: here’s Bruce Irons in Indo as seen on Stab Mag’s site [...]