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Back in '89 when I was a snotty grom I had a Pipedream Jet bottom. Looked real flash, and I convinced myself it went faster than other boards, but in reality it was a dog and was real hard to turn. A mate had a PD dimple bottom. Dimples started about half way down the board and stopped between the ...

One of the most creative clothng brands in world during their cultural peak in the late 80's early 90's. Mambo's willingness to let artists create product without being concerned with it's commercial success ( to a degree ) was a forerunner to a lot of the surf and fashion companies on how they prom...

I had the good fortune to be able to pick up a couple of Channel Island boards from their new factory in Santa Barbara, recently constructed with Burton dollars. It is an overwhelming sensation to walk up and down the factory corridors surrounded by 1,850 well designed surfboard. To go over to the c...

I am not trying to claim ( most people in Oz probably think Daft Punk are gay ) but i took Thomas Banghalter for a few beginner surfs at Huntington Beach a few years ago. I used to spend a bit of time with this bloke named DJ Hyperactive, real name Joe a big fat samoan from Chicago. He was mates wit...

Knackers was working in San Clemente for a few years,and had a little shaping shop behind Timmy Pattersons.

Last I heard he was spending time down in Costa Rica

he is a true character

boiling pot at noosa heads all the way through johnsons to the middle close out section at first point.
it was during the big floods in 1974

The Go Betweens made great music, Grant and Robert Foster wrote some perfect pop songs, and painted vivid personal pictures of life through their lyrics. Cattle and Cane sounds and feels like Australia. I saw them play in Noosa back in the day and there were less than a dozen punters in the place, a...

Col Smith from Redhead was an earlier experimeter of the six channels running thru the middle, shaped by Jim Pollard, and later on riding Phil Myers channel bottoms. He had a couple of good seasons in Hawaii, got some good ones at pipe and I think he got a good contest result backside at Sunset. He ...

A.B. and Hamish Graham

carnivale worker, and juggler

KANVAS BY KATIN seal beach

he did some boards at Kevin Platts factory at Sunshine Beach in the mid
seventies.

simon wasn't the first to put 3 fins on a board, but he was the first to use the thruster configuration. Dick Brewer was using one large center fin and two small side fins around 1974, and the campbell brothers were doing the bonzer thing in the mid seventies, both of those design approaches were to...

the drummer from the foo fighters can surf, he used to work behind the counter at a surf shop in Laguna Beach.

He is the guest editor of the next issue of Surfer, their are a couple of solid shots of him and his family

[quote="dUg"]I know Chris Issak has hooked up with Billy February a few times when he's visited SA, but from what Nick says he's not ripper material.



Did Bill February used to be Bill Sedunary ?

the waves were shit. julia christians caught the first and last wave in the only set that was rideable in the womens's final.

andy irons ripped whatever came thru , getting a lot of speed out of nothing

bali belly or montezuma's revenge, more pyscholigical than physical
hit the street vendors, it's good tucker. if you get struck down with the belly, your off for a day or so then good as gold for the rest of the trip.