RealSurf Surfers' Forum

Back on topic. Surfer magazine issue 2 1961 I think. There was a wetsuit add on the back cover with a well endowed girl modelling the latest gear. Dunno whether it was the wettie (we were all wearing footie jumpers out in the break back then) or the nice bulges underneath the neoprene, but it's just...

There you go. what goes around comes around. What did we call the first "short" surfboards to hit our shores in 1956? "Hot doggers". Cos that's what you could do on them. For the historical purists, the hot dog was a board that had a square pod tail, had its widest point forward of centre and had a ...

Bloody Derida gets a mention in a realsurf forum?!!! :shock: Most of the text that goes down here would deconstruct that French prick well and truly. Talk about hors du fken texte. yav gotta know whether a poster is a lidder or shortboarder or a malingerer before you can start making sense of it. BT...

Go the tuflight Mickey Munoz super glide model. 11 foot of easy riding. Bugger yez all I like to get onto a few wave on the rare occasions I get into the water. I can't surf worth a shit these days anyway so high performance is wasted on me. Besides it's got that logo taken from a photo of Mickey at...

Or just lash six boards togerther and tie them on top of a '36 Chevy. On the way back from Lancelin you hand the poor old overstearing hearse to Kieth Campbell when you get onto the bitumen and the Chevy starts to do the suicide walz on the dead straight road. Narrow wheelbase and high C of G take o...

What a bunch of overcautious woossies! How about dropping the tailgate on the ute, chuck in six planks with a bit of clubbie red fleck rope tied around the fins to stop them sliding backwards. Three guys can ride in the cab and the other three get in their sleeping bags and lie on top of the boards ...

Isn't that what that fat teenage girl character in 'Little Brittain" says?
"Yeahba, noba, yeahba, noba...wasn't me it was that slut Muriel...."

Don't knock the tuggin' guys. It keeps yer prostate active 'n healthy.
When your Mum wants to know what all that noise you're making in your bedroom, you can tell her you're just doing your essential prostate exercises.

Did it 44 years ago, wrong move, you just don't make up that time. Yer brain is programmed to LEARN when you are an adolesent. So if education means any more to you than state funded child minding, just try to take some advantage of it. I just finished my first year of Uni. I'm 60. how pathetic is t...

OK site if you can wait sooooo long for the intro to load up. Big mistake. Most punters would just click off and go somewhere else.

I ordered a custom 9' 6" from them a couple of years ago. I sent them a fairly detailed drawing of what I wanted. (Plan shape, thickness, rocker, rails, chines) I had a yarn on the phone with the shaper and he said no worries. Just as the conversation was ending he said that the rail transition (egg...

I sometimes think my whole life has been an example of goofy progression. It's the only way I know.

Don't get me wrong. It goes without saying (I'll say it anyway) that different materials lend themselves to different qualities. The point Iam trying to make goes like this: If you found a skilled woodbutcher who could make a hollow wooden board that was identical in all respects to a glassed poly b...

Since 1958 I've been hearing how one style of construction / material makes for a board that surfs better. use your noodles guys, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. In those days it was hollow plywood vs balsa vs styrofoam vs poly. These days it's custom poly vs popout epoxy. But think about...

"Some Like it Smooth" Skip Frye and mates riding looong boards.
Heard about it from guys at the beach. seen it mentioned on USA websites but haven't seen it in any shops.
Stock it and I'll buy a copy

Used to happen a lot in the early sixties when we used plywood for fins. One coolite board I remember riding at City Beach in WA really sung. If you cranked a hard turn it howled. A sharp or damaged leading edge is the usual culprit. Judicious application of #120 wet and dry usually fixes it. I woul...

Yep, it would seem that drought, El nino and flat spells are somehow connected. Climate change could be making all of those more extreme whether or not it is part of a natural cycle or a reslt of our (that's ALL of us) profligate use of fossil fuels. Time will tell. It always does. The Duke said it ...

The life partner an my son heard about it on the radio and arranged it for me as an early significant birthday prezzy ( I'm one year out from the big six-oh) I think they were feeling sorry for me not getting any waves for so long. One fantasizes about making an important discovery but I'll probably...