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Ha! typical Aussies, always making generalisations about other nationalities

I'm not so sure Mikkyjay06/cotrell123/surfer876 is a Quik marketing guy - I mean look at his posts - he's barely literate - don't marketing people have to be able to write?.

Well if quik want to play their little games and feature "adam'' on a billabong podium may I take this opportunity of congratulating the latter company on definitely the best wetsuit I've ever owned. I'm pretty much an O'Neill fan but when the Psycho I received as a gift proved out of my league (yo...

Yep I noticed the same thing, saw a batch of new boards come into a shop - TL2's, Firewires, PU Al Merricks all bright white. Went back two months later the TL2's were going yellow. This of course doesn't tell us how they go, just that they go brown.

hey Paul, looks it was maccing in the bay today - did you get any?

Rip curl have made a rod for their own backs with this Search thing. The name conjures up visions of new unsurfed waves. But any new waves are going to be so far away from anything, that a contest will be massively expensive to run. So they have to compromise and find somewhere a bit less costly, wh...

I think that is a pretty accurate depiction of a six foot wave at most breaks - one guy on the inside with three others dropping in.

Most comfortable and best wettie ive worn is the oneil psycho suits. Im a small build, but a mate is pretty big and rates them too my dad loves the oneill and hes not slim, not fat. he hates rippy, too narrow for him. hes like short and muscular, and he likes oneills and excels. he is in excels. Ye...

If I'm not mistaken, when Cortez laid siege to Mexico city in the 16th century, he had a lot of trouble with the moats: couldn't get his troops across the causeways easily. Part of the solution was to fill in strategic parts of the moats. Well, perhaps this can be reenacted: we want a few reefs fil...

When I checked this thread a couple of days ago NC was asking how surfwear corporations could engage the grassroots - now I see the best you guys have come up with is surf co's sponsering re-enactments of peloponnesian sea battles. :cry: Overcrowding is the most annoying outcome of surf co's marketi...

Anyone surfed the Tauranga area before? Yes. Most years, Tauranga in May/June is a bit dodgy for swell - however this being a La nina year - things may be different. If it does go flat - Raglan isn't that far away. You could almost get away with a 3/2 in the Bay of Plenty - but I'd take a 4/3 if yo...

I tried it with the black sikaflex on the inside only and it worked but after six months cracked in sections. Another thing I tried was spraying the suit with silicon waterproofing - this actually worked really well - the suit was light and very resistant to windchill however after a couple of sessi...

Surfers may be a bit of a menace to swimmers at times, but there's another side to the beach safety argument that isn't often expressed. On Sunday, at an unpatrolled beach were I was surfing, two swimmers got caught in a rip and were bought to shore by two guys surfing the peak I was on. These guys ...

I can't even get on to experience this crap camera work and commentry. Keeping getting timed out - may be they've underestimated demand and the servers aren't coping

firewires are def not indestructable!!! I donno weather im just one unlucky bloke but ive managed to snap two cleanly in the past 4 months in under 3ft surf.. the 2nd one replaced free of charge and snapped it the other day pullin under the wash at the end of the wave.. SOOOOO DEVO :cry: first and ...

Just looked on the sunova website, its interesting to see they have a bolsa bottom as well, wonder how that alters the performance of the board? I've got a couple of boards with similar construction. All High Density (HD) foam ie core-cell top and bottom like Firewire is ok, all basla I found a bit...

What about Barrow island? (Montebellos) Plenty of swell at that time and lots of other options nearby. No pissed off locals apart from the sharks

http://www.worldsurfaris.com/checksurf_1.asp?pkgid=42

Obviously a bit costly getting everyone out there but it would be what you'd expect a "search" to be

hmmm...yeah, but no, but yeah.... it'd be truly a breakthrough if something like the equivalent of parabolic skis making average punters ski UNDENIABLY VISIBLY BETTER had emerged from all this new board tech. Parabolic skis, man that was a revelation. After my first run on those things, I was think...