Occy. The Rise And Fall Of Mark Occhilupo

Occhilupo Mark, Baker Tim

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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Ebury/Random House Australia
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 309 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Child Star At Sixteen, Ranked Third In The World At Seventeen, Winner Of The Pipeline Masters At Nineteen , Mark 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 Competitive Flame When He Quit The Pro Tour At Just Twenty Two.

Publishers Description: 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 his passion was put into his surfing.' Kelly Slater, eight-time world champion 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 prematurely 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 immobile and overweight on the couch, in his so-called 'Elvis period', Occy eventually emerged from his cocoon, reborn and ready to tackle a whole new generation of surf stars. His celebrated comeback to win the world title in 1999, 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, remarkable story of his spectacular rise, terrifying fall and miraculous

ISBN: 9781741666434

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