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arse out, arms down.

Seeing yourself on video can be a very sobering experience...

I've been labled a "front foot" surfer, but to be in the company of blokes like Mick Fanning in this regard, I'm not too cut about it. :lol: I tend to notice heavier guys get their drive off the tail, whereas lighter guys like me get it from the planing area. There are inexplicable exceptions to thi...

This debate is probably always gonna be a crown of thorns... Picture a scrawny white bogan drawing tattoos all over his face in black texta, turning up at a Hangi ( traditional Maori feast ), cracking a VB and adopting the Hakka stance while shouting "kum ate, kum ate". See how people with no idea w...

never the punch throwing guy though...

Longboarder wrote:DUg any chance your that mellow shortboarder...?

heh heh.

To be honest, I have been several of the actors in that script at different times. Depends on the day, depends on the crew, depends on how many waves I've had in the previous week...

i think you'll find that northcliffe email address is actually Coastalwatch. I get Coastalwatch's reports daily and they always come from that northcliffe address... Their reports for SA are usually ok because I think they're done by the same guy who does SurfSouthOz.com reports here, which are usu...

Hmmm toss up. Maybe Pondalowie Bay, friday before the long October weekend in 1989. It was the first barrel I ever got at Yorkes. Just me and two guys out for an hour and a half, all hooting each other and pulling in wave after glassy 4' wave. The other was Seaford Reef, Jun 17 1999. Me, Mark Bourgo...

marcus wrote:whats a dirty sanchez?

Here Britney gets hers...
Anyone easily offended, please DO NOT click here!

http://www.evildave.com/britney/sanchez/britney/

I have a theory on this some people may call a tad esoteric. I believe a surfboard, or any hydrofoil, or airfoil for that matter, is comprised of a set of "perfect curves". I believe it's something a good shaper knows instictively ( therefore I don't! ), and is largely responsible for the asthetic a...

Hmmm... dunno about online... I owe a debt of grattitude to a special issue of Surfer magazine that came out in the early 90's. It was a full cover to cover special on "how your surfboard works", it is my bible on shaping. Some of the top shapers in the world described all aspects of surfboard desig...

and it looked as though them isobars were directed wind/swell our way I thought it might be worth mentioning "Great Circles" here, in that it's a mistake people often make when interpreting swell direction from Isobars on MSLP charts. Remember the projection of the chart is an issue! If the chart i...

me: 64kg, 5'6" 37 yrs. 5'10" x 19 1/2 x 2 1/8 Epoxy. Razor sharp, hard rails, single channel into reverse v with swallow tail / fishy shape. Unreal speed in small waves. Everyone that surfs it can't figure out why it goes!!! also 6'1" x 18 1/4 x 2 1/4. Hard rails ( I love 'em ), flat mid section int...

I probably should decalare an interest, in that I know Ben quite well... now that that's outta the way... I won't suggest he's 100% all the time , but anyone expecting that is seriously deluded. Most people have forgotten that even the tides are a prediction... there is absolutely no gurantee that i...

Never ridden one but it's given me some ideas!!!! The weak spots on Styro boards are always the fins and leash plug ( and the nose before you glass them... sooooo easy to snap it off )... but this Polyurethane insert the Tuff Lites use should lick those problems. I'm wondering if they are applying t...

he he, I see the flames are spreading from one forum to another. Soon the whole BB will be ablaze!!! Just to go back to the topic of "small wave fun" for a sec ( geez, what am I thinking!! ), I'd have to say that in all honesty I'm shithouse on a Mal. That being said, I had a ball one day out at Thr...

360 floater. It was an accident... kicked the tail out too far mid float and landed tail first at the bottom of the wave. The tail dug in and the foam hit the nose and pushed it around toward the beach. I was falling sideways ( one foot left on the board ) expecting to hit the water but the board wa...

tkk... so true. I can't imagine travelling with glassed in fins now. It's just too heartbreaking when you pull your prized stick out of it's bag in some far flung hotel room and find the luggage handlers have enjoyed a bit of "tarmac surfing" and snapped two fins off at the base. :roll: I've been lo...

Here's the "explosive surf rage forumla" as I see it . There are three learners or kids on boogie boards on the inside. There are two intermediate mini mal riders who repeatedly paddle out right through the path of the wave... verrrry slooowwly. There are three or four shortboarders on the main peak...