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- Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:13 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Water temp on the goldy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2273
- Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:54 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Anyone been charged for boards on Qantas?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3867
- Tue May 31, 2005 3:18 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Anyone been charged for boards on Qantas?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3867
Anyone been charged for boards on Qantas?
I hope you all don't mind me asking for help in researching a story. Been following up on the ongoing dangers to surfers travelling with board bags in the wake of Ms Corby's troubles. In the process I've had a couple of reports that Qantas has suddenly begun cracking down on surfboard bags -- chargi...
- Tue May 31, 2005 12:34 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Getting used to a new board
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8834
Hi Booter, I'm sure it's different for everyone. Soooo many variables. Is the board dramatically different from your old one? Is it only subtly different (can make it even harder because you don't adjust for the change in your mind)? I've had boards I've known like brothers from the third wave and o...
- Tue May 31, 2005 6:50 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: bar bali?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14096
I reckon you're right wanto, that kind of clumsy crowdthink is f**king ugly sometimes ... you sense it's been responsible for some of the human race's worst moments. It's misdirected emotional energy. Reading and listening to people demanding their tsunami donations back, for instance -- it might be...
- Mon May 30, 2005 4:52 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: what do you think of
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8479
wanto I wonder if when people say they're thinking of "nothing" what they really mean is: they're thinking of nothing other than riding the wave. That's true for me anyway, I just think about the wave and my board and what it's all feeling like... good? positive? kooked out? wrong? fast? slow? balan...
- Fri May 27, 2005 2:34 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: 20 Years.. is anyone really surprised?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 12620
And how many of us will watch Today Tonight this evening? And buy the Daily Telegraph tomorrow? The Schapelle media bombing is at least partly an unspoken conspiracy between those lower-than-dog media pack members and millions of helplessly prurient Australians, ensnared by their prejudices, their m...
- Fri May 27, 2005 2:05 pm
- Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
- Topic: This upcomming weekend:
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10210
Re the Big Southern Hemi storms... Often old Indo-traveling bastards will muse to themselves why the hell all the best swells seem to come early in the season. One contributing factor is the size of the Antarctic ice-cap. As the seasons flex, the ice-cap grows and recedes its rim, sometimes by sever...
- Tue May 24, 2005 7:26 pm
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: what kind of wax do you use?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9528
- Tue May 24, 2005 3:34 pm
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: WCT 2005
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4028
too early to tell I'd reckon. Several surfers will have peak moments in the next few events. After J-Bay the chances of a winner coming from outside the top six or seven will tighten very quickly. Nobody's really kicking everyone's arse. Kelly's had his peak with that 20/20 at Teahupoo. Trent's had ...
- Fri May 20, 2005 5:51 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: This Week
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2920
- Fri May 20, 2005 3:48 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: This Week
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2920
- Thu May 19, 2005 5:48 pm
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: whats your most challenging break on the northern beaches?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6163
- Thu May 19, 2005 11:14 am
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: whats your most challenging break on the northern beaches?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6163
Outside Newport Reef, aka the Outside Path, right NOW, TODAY, this MORNING, 10-12 feet, reflecting off the rim of the reef tip and almost impossible to catch. Right NOW. All those silly people bitching about surf spot exposure on the northern beaches, it's the best day of the decade at one of the sp...
- Tue May 17, 2005 5:20 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: wankers ...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6740
Well I didn't necessarily mean "others". What's the classic Aussie definition of "wanker"? It's bunging on a bit of a self-regarding act, as if to say "i'm the cream! Check me out!" It's occasion for a bit of light hearted fun, especially when the Wanker's act comes unstuck, as it so often does. Gua...
- Tue May 17, 2005 5:06 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: WANKER = LAz
- Replies: 75
- Views: 28439
I'm with country bumpkin. "Crosswaves", yeah, right! Come on out the Path! Come out the tip in the next 10 foot east swell! Sure you will! See ya there! And Rockpools, like nobody's ever surfed there until recently. That would come as amusing news to the Simpson brothers. Who are they? Don't know? I...
- Fri May 13, 2005 2:05 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Has Surfing Become Too Commercialised
- Replies: 83
- Views: 23387
Now I can see why you wanna give up surfing, BB. All I could say to you is that it doesn't have to be that way. Surfing is either irrevocably damaged for us all, or it's endlessly renewable for us all. Either way you've got to give something up -- on the one hand, surfing, on the other hand, being "...
- Fri May 13, 2005 11:19 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Has Surfing Become Too Commercialised
- Replies: 83
- Views: 23387
Hi BB, I'm not washing my hands of a thing. I'm a believer in personal accountability, I sign all my articles and take the heat when they suck, I wish I was better at what I do for gods sake, or more able to influence the big surf companies to spend some of that marketing money in ways that reflect ...