Gold Coast’s Mick Fanning surfs man-made river wave, the Eisbach, in Munich, Germany
MOST Aussies visiting Munich in October only have their mind set on a beer or seven to celebrate Oktoberfest. Mick Fanning came with something else in mind and it was epic.
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MOST Aussies visiting Munich in October only have their mind set on a beer or seven to celebrate Oktoberfest.
But shark-punching three-time world surfing champion Mick Fanning is cut from another cloth.
The Gold Coaster was frothing for another type of foam — he went for a surf in Munich’s man-made Eisbach River, which boasts a stationary one metre wave.
Fanning said the ride was different to that of an ocean wave — more like snow-
boarding.
“It’s good fun,” he said.
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