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steve shearer wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:42 am

I like the fins and pulled tail.

They’re his ‘79 templates. The board shape, that is
Made a lot late 90s early 2000s with those fins.

Pointed my mate in the direction of this closet classic. Picked it up yesterday.
Been sitting in the new at the time padded board bag for 20 years.

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Always been a sook. I think the Brazzos read the socials and believe them. Like it's not always right but Italo, Felipe, Gabs are all now multiple time complainers when in reality sometimes the judging luck has favoured them and other times they've been on the wrong side of it. Brazilian mentality (...

Sammy pupo’s carbon JS xero grav looks pretty sick.

That bloke Gunther drowned there recently

Only the 2nd turn had the slide/drift and I thought that made for good variety.
The spray on turn three was

A foot bigger and I’d like to see what he could do.

I don't think you could surf bells much better than this at this size.
Not a single pump.

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Yeh but it’s fucked cos there’s also massive potholes on it too.

Thought you’d have steady hands peepee.

Straddy and the spit, pre-1984.

Snapper to greeny 1996 by Murray White.

Love the old photos mm.

The trick to corrugated dirt is 80+ km/hr
Hopefully it’s a straight track.

Good tweed valley bud floating around I imagine.

On it’s day now (rare) the barrels can be arguably better for the advanced surfers, but it will never have that perfect hug the coast point break style again where it broke at a speed that most waves were makeable. Unless they stop pumping sand for many years. It sort of got reasonably close a few y...

BA - 60 going on 14.

Will it help with my stink-eye when I see someone else paddle out?

Sometimes you see some good ones at Kirra with no one around and paddle out and realise quickly you have no chance of holding position and gotta hope you get one quickly.

Apparently the sweep wasn’t too bad that sesh though.