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The shitty thing is like QLD, all farking rights.

Like that GWS at J-Bay, we all fancy an order of mick and chips.

I, too, am pulling for Mick. I'm also rooting for him and plugging for him. My hard support is for Mick, and I'm hoping he rises for the occasion. I hope he comes first. I'm sure he will. Cream always rises to the top. He's ahead of the competition, and a win will top a big year for him. Another wor...

Yep. Pipeline. But it was 8 feet and doing its December thing. Biggest kook fest I've ever seen, except for the stand up surfers actually catching the waves. 85 percent of the kooks (probably damn good surfers) didn't catch a single wave. Half of the waves were riden by lidders. I was shocked. I tho...

Name this biggest kook break in the world: 85% of surfers at this break get zero waves, boogie boarders get at least half of the waves, tourists all over the place on the beach and in the water, drop ins, chaos, and idiots-a-plenty.

Broken neck! Can't see anyone still here to post top that. At least it didn't happen at Collaroy like that the other poster's injury. Once at Collaroy a guy in his 20s took off on my inside after I was already up and riding. He was a tiny guy riding a paddle pop stick, doing these sad little turns w...

Beat downs from angry surf bullies are a rarety. If we got everyone here to list their injuries from surfing, bully beat downs wouldn't rate even 1%. Ruptured eardrum (twice) and now mostly deaf in one ear: wipeouts Severely brused calf (couldn't walk for two days and limped for a week): hit by own ...

A mean glance never hurt anyone.

I hear you on the direction switch. What about guys who call "going right" when left is a better option? This is the bane of the goofy, of which I am one.

p.s. Only inexperienced kooks fear locals. Experienced kooks, who know surf etiquette, only fear rocks, close outs, and shallow water. I've never been harmed by a local, but those other three, yep!

I feared locals when I was a grom kook, but that was early 80s NN.

I stayed in Honolulu because we had a package and cause that's what Kooks do.

Waikiki is even too tame for me. However, I have surfed in front of the Outrigger Canoe Club close by. It's a really long paddle out. From shore, you can barely see surfers way out.

Ah. Good question. Shrimp scampi from Giovanni's Shrimp Truck, a famous food truck located on the North Shore. Twelve of the tastiest, garlic laden prawns you will ever eat served with rice. I even tried replicating it at home with marginal success.

Since we exhausted Nick about his life of spliting the peak with the best and spliting the winky with the notorious, you can now hear about surfing from the opposite perspective, the kook! Over the years Nick has given us stories about the world's best in the best waves on the planet, often set on H...

Thanks for the insight into the world of hot surfers and answering everyone's questions, very enlightening and entertaining. Hopefully, you'll miss us kooks and return soon.

Who here had an Oil's hand logo on their board in the 80s? Is there a more iconic NN board than an Energy Thruster with an Oil's hand logo on the nose?

Since others are confessing their sins, im a goofy too. Could this explain my kookness?

Once, I stayed out at Tea Trees after everyone had gone in as night fell. I stayed out about 30 minutes longer after the last two others went in. I thought about sharks, but being from Sydney, I had no clue what kind of sharks inhabited the area. When I made my way back to my car on the long toe-stu...

Join the local surf club and use thier racing skis for free. If you really like it, buy one that doesn't leak (club skis always seem to leak). Maybe it's all the flipping I do.

I can vouch for Nick's advice on going straight to a racing ski. I'm a super kook at everything. However, I was able to paddle from Newport to Bungan and back on my first go on a racing ski (flat day). They are very tippy, and you'll fall off a few times. My the third time, I didn't tip it at all (f...

Denim jeans paired with a denim jacket, commonly known as a Canadian tuxedo, is good option if you are a cowboy or dressed as one while performing in a 70s disco band.

What pairing of clothing shall we dub the "surfer tuxedo?"