Search found 181 matches
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:49 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
- Replies: 618
- Views: 119112
Re: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
Steve there used to be one at Cook Is and one at those islands off Woolli. Solitary? That information is about 10 years out of date. They generally put them near Grey Nurse reserves. Those were a different study, the most recent were deployed post "the summer of the shark" when there were the attac...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:27 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
- Replies: 618
- Views: 119112
Re: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
Bombie, do you know where the nearest receiver buoy to Ballina is located? Nah they don't give away exact locations for fear of them being vandalized or stolen. But there are/were some up near you, as they've tracked both species up to the border. Remember one bull shark was recorded way way way up...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:52 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
- Replies: 618
- Views: 119112
Re: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
For the record, I'm not seriously suggesting that. But I'd like to see some kind of tagging program happening so they could at least see if big GWS are taking up residence in certain areas at certain times. Why for instance are we seeing so many here when a hundred K's up the coast on the Goldy the...
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:38 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
- Replies: 618
- Views: 119112
Re: Jeffreys Bay Pro 2015
Faaaark that was crazy. Yeah when lost sight of him for a second I thought he'd been taken down.
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:07 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Snowdonia Wavegarden
- Replies: 128
- Views: 30787
Re: Snowdonia Wavegarden
What about the potential of modifying existing reefs and shorelines in Indo: tweeking stretches where a small kink or a protrusion or a bunch of boulders stuff things up to create a rideable wave. Cut them out and you have a new wave at very little expense. Seems to be plenty of "almost" waves throu...
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:16 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
Thanks was just wondering cause a mate wants his boy to start out on a single fin "so he'll have a better style" later in life.
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:50 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
Nick can you see any of Julian Wilson's longboarding heritage in his current surfing, any lines on a wave or approach to turns? Or does the equipment, or other factors - what he actually wants to do on a wave now maybe - preclude such a thing?
- Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:42 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
Well a four metre white would have come across plenty of seals in its travels. Doubt they switch off targeting what may look like a seal just cause they happen to be on the north coast at the time. Opportunist hunters.steve shearer wrote:no seals in Ballina so throw that one out the window.
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:13 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
Marine biologist Ralph Collier is one of the world's most prominent shark attack experts. He says, don't wear bright-colored bathing suits or wetsuits, especially those that have contrasting colors. "Sharks are attracted to bright, contrasting color,” said Collier , President of the Shark Research ...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:32 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
Smiley? Hot kneelo and also first guy I saw in the 80s take an old original mal out to small DT point, way before the mal revival.tootr wrote:I remember as a grom there was a guy at DY who surfed on knees and feet with equal skill.
Had a Led Zep and a Midnight Oil spray on his boards.
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:27 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
ah yeah what I would say is that in fact Peter Crawford and other slab kneeboarders of the 1970s (Neil Luke, Steve Artis, and later Parkesy, Ken Horton and Novakov) were hugely influential on many of the young Australian surfers of the time and really opened many of our eyes to what was possible on...
- Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:31 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
maybe, but geez alot of modern outlines look awfully reminiscent of those kneeboards being ridden by Novakov, Farrer and Parkes. it's uncanny. Absolutely. But Novakov etc's kneeboards _ short wide and usually round or rounded pin tails ridden in any sized surf _ didn't lead directly to today's shor...
- Wed Jun 24, 2015 1:35 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1859402
Re: Ask Carroll
Then possibly the second great kneelo contribution to stand up surfing after Greenough was the Steve Lis fish _ inspiration for the modern twin, then, later, through Hynd, the starting gun of the next incantation of shorter and wider stand up boards. Interesting that in between these two events the ...
- Fri May 15, 2015 3:05 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Barrel rolls
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1624
Re: Barrel rolls
Novakov actually stills rips, after posting saw a vid where he does a barrel role at onshore Ulus. Slater's was some wild above the lip thing, not with the lip.
- Thu May 14, 2015 9:12 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Barrel rolls
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1624
Barrel rolls
Does any pro, underground charger, local legend do em?
Saw a Shawn Barney Barron tribute vid where he almost pulls one, at pipe I think!
Narra kneelo legend Mike Novakov used to do em regularly, may still do.
Saw a Shawn Barney Barron tribute vid where he almost pulls one, at pipe I think!
Narra kneelo legend Mike Novakov used to do em regularly, may still do.
- Sun May 10, 2015 11:50 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Chapelle Corby
- Replies: 78
- Views: 23252
Re: Chapelle Corby
They didn't re-edit the book to exclude the photos. Would have been simple to re-issue without the pics if that was just the only problem. Queensland cops put a crapload of effort into investigating the father _ found nothing to link him with any dope smuggling. Easy to defame a dead man.
- Sat May 09, 2015 5:36 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Chapelle Corby
- Replies: 78
- Views: 23252
Re: Chapelle Corby
Her old man was not into dealing at all. That book which claimed so has been pulled from the shelves and pulped it was so full of unsubstantiated BS.
- Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:30 am
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Indo...is it worth it
- Replies: 136
- Views: 36947
Re: Indo...is it worth it
Hard to see but this one's got a for sale sign on it. Ditch the garden gnome and get a garden ornament the neighbors will love.