Andy Irons is Surfing Waves in the Sky

The sport of surfing has been in a state of mourning since last Tuesday.  Three-time ASP world champion Andy Irons tragically passed away in his Dallas hotel room. He was 32.
Sources close to the Hawaiian native report the cause of death to be Dengue Fever.

The Wet Dream would like to take this time to honor Andy, not only for his great surfing accomplishments, which included his 20 elite tour victories, four Triple Crown of Surfing Titles, and the aforementioned three consecutive ASP World Titles, but also for his role as an ambassador to the surfing community.

Countless interviews and surf movie segments demonstrate his truly remarkable character.  A man that was not afraid to go through life. A man whom lived every day to promote the sport of surfing and to live a lifestyle that reflected his caring personality and love for others. 

Andy Irons will forever be immortalized as a role Model to surfing’s youth.  His uncanny style and near perfect surfing abilities are exactly what every grom in the water is trying to emulate. 
What has always struck a personal chord, at least for me, were Andy’s sense of calmness and the way in which he carried himself.

I don’t know if it’s cliché to refer to a surfer as being chill and laid back, but the sole time that I had the honor and privilege of meeting with him, (at the former Boost Mobile Pro, Trestles, 2003) he took the time to engage me. I was just some random fan in the parking lot, but to him, I was one of those thousands of surf rats that looked up to him.  I remember him as being soft spoken but speaking with great purpose.  The entire time my eyes held his focus.  That kind of a man.  Pretty impressive for a then 20something year old with “pro surfing” as a career and probably close to several million dollars in the bank.

As the entire surfing world is reeling from the death of one of its biggest icons, us NYC surfers are still longing for that big swell, because with that swell comes that idea of stoke,  the very same stoke that Andy Irons epitomized.

90th street is 1-2 on Surfline, looks like we’ll have to keep waiting, not to mention bust out the 4mm.'s with hoods and maybe booties, its gotten cold.

A.I. paddle out