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Well crabby I quit my day job to take up a coastal job that means I'm at the coast 2 days a week, and I find myself unreasonably excited about surfing poorly in crowded springtime Gold Coast slop. In general though, I have to say I'm liking the mountain biking scene a lot more than surfing. You know...

I'd like to see that, but also let a bunch of pro snowboarders and skaters train for a few weeks and throw them in to keep the pros honest, like they did with the flowrider events back in the day.
I think a couple of little Japanese or Norwegian halfpipe specialists would go alright.

I only saw 3 waves, they seemed better, like the water level was lower. Could've been better camera angles, the ski angle is not flattering at all. The lip line is more oblique, giving a steeper transition in the turn sections, but the trade-off is a greater need to maintain speed down the line, ie ...

I just watched one wave of Kolohe's waves. God it was safe. And I can't understand why if they know EXACTLY what the wave is going to be they are still running boards that require the double wiggle bottom turn to get the water through the find? The girl's boards seem to suit the pool better, and Gab...

The rise in grey nurse captures could be because of the change in gear and bait. My understanding is they use mullet and circle hooks for the smart buoys, whereas some other operators use regular shark hooks and sometimes bait with shark. But I agree there's probably been an increase in the grey nur...

One's measured on the deck, one on the base.

As I understand it, in the Hawaiian scale the conversion factor slides with size. So, a 6 foot wave may be 10 to 12 feet imperial, but a 20 - 25 feet wave is probably around 25 - 35 imperial. Of course I don't really care foamy, I never ever just say feet, I always suffix it "faces" or use knee, wa...

It's not a particularly difficult thing to build an artificial reef. Paying for it and getting it approved without modification is another matter. This one was 18+ million, and that's leaving a lot off the balance sheet. It was nearly abandoned in favour of groynes a few times. If the council rates ...

You're essentially wearing salt-encrusted used condoms and you're surprised they don't smell great?

McCoy guns and semiguns are the business.

Conditioning, ala Pavlov

Steve could do eleven tricks I reckon 1) pop up 2) trim 3) floater 4) cutback (standard not full cranked roundhouse) 5) slash 6) snap 7) barrel 8.) 360 (once in 1989) 9) bottom turn 10) check turns 11) re-entry Don't forget this winning move. Guaranteed 10. https://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb195...

Tell us about the time Alberto Tomba said you had great style

The person who gave them the most shit about calling it off was Mark Healey. He kept calling BS on the claim they didn't run it because they didn't have the boards, he kept saying that the big wave guys said they could use theirs. I'm actually glad they called it off, the wsl would've wasted most of...

You're one charming mothafcuckin pig. I mean you'd have to be ten times more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm saying?

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Mon Aug 12, 2019 8:57 am

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Mon Aug 12, 2019 7:47 am

maybe one pump, then eject.

Story of Boo's life.

According to his missus anyway.

I already said it was like being 15 again.

There were some mechanical shutdown barrels in Yamba yesterday in the devil wind. I mindsurfed them for a half hour, knowing full well they were too fast, then suited up and headed out (first time in a steamer in about 2 years*). Threw myself over the ledge on about 25. It was a late drop, bottom tu...

The imagery of stuffing stingray flaps into stockings is .. vivid..to say the least