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by oldman
Thu May 15, 2014 10:30 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: Hypto Krypto voted "board of the year"
Replies: 142
Views: 95997

Re: Hypto Krypto voted "board of the year"

Damn. I just don't know which bandwagon to jump on, the hipster hypto krypto is the best board i have ever ridden or the this is the biggest marketing ploy in surfboards since adam was a boy. Decisions, decisions. Sorry, just can't decide. FWIW, I have ridden a HK and it was farking sensational in t...
by oldman
Mon May 05, 2014 10:35 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: Autumn fourteen
Replies: 170
Views: 62783

Re: Autumn fourteen

Donweather wrote:Why the feck would you want to believe in that Steve? That's bank buster material for sure!!!
The banks everywhere within 100kms of my place needs some serious bank busting.
by oldman
Mon May 05, 2014 9:59 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Realsurfing
Replies: 21
Views: 9489

Re: Realsurfing

And I'm with Larry. Haven't met Larry yet but have conversed from the intertubes from long ago. Would love to meet up with the good sir. Hatchnam, keep in touch with the surfing prospects. I'm actually in good form at the moment, relatively fit, and better than I have been for some time now. PM me i...
by oldman
Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:45 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: post your modern day sickness
Replies: 1039
Views: 1151830

Re: post your modern day sickness

http://i1033.photobucket.com/albums/a416/mazbrett/bfd0c182-4893-4070-943f-5060bb88d53a_zpsb558bab9.jpg Wife's new sled. Jealous. I have one of these, and I recently bought a Simon Mollusc. Yep, plenty of foam in them, plenty of speed and paddle power too. I need the foam, not that I'm big, just tha...
by oldman
Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:23 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: the most annoying surfer
Replies: 122
Views: 34255

Re: the most annoying surfer

U still get out there olds? Haven't seen u in a while ? Well my friend, last time I saw you we said goodbye to each other and you were on your way up to somewhere, was it Gladstone. Yeah I get out there occasionally, but mostly I reserve my surfing for anywhere I can get out of Sydney. Surfed Sunda...
by oldman
Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:56 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: the most annoying surfer
Replies: 122
Views: 34255

Re: the most annoying surfer

Beanpole wrote:Oldman. Everyone's mate in the surf. 3-)
No, I'm a good boy out there, generally, but truth is that I have just about given up on surfing on crowds. It just takes the joy out of what should be fun.
by oldman
Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:50 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: the most annoying surfer
Replies: 122
Views: 34255

Re: the most annoying surfer

.. the guy who's standing by his car drying off, been out since dark at YOUR local spot and you've just shown up in one farken dreadful hurry because it's about 7.30 am and out there is 6', offshore, breaking way out. - with about 30 on it - and this most annoying guy says, as you piss on by with n...
by oldman
Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:37 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: the most annoying surfer
Replies: 122
Views: 34255

Re: the most annoying surfer

i don't snake anyone. my etiquite's pretty sound actually. i'm just proactive and efficient at catching a good number of waves. Oldman.... now THERE'S a snake you wouldn't expect. He's the drop in king! Hey, I resemble that remark!! FWIW, I only drop in on mates, and as far as I can recall it was a...
by oldman
Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:01 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: Autumn fourteen
Replies: 170
Views: 62783

Re: Autumn fourteen

Fark Steve, did it work out the way you said, or have you been wrong on pretty much every prognostication on this forum so far.

Just keep calling it as not happening, or blown out or whatever, it's working for us cube monkeys. :lol:
by oldman
Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:16 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Spirit of Akasha - Tribute to 40 years of MOTE
Replies: 45
Views: 16405

Re: Spirit of Akasha - Tribute to 40 years of MOTE

If you show up to surf in Byron and you haven't got a single fin you're an item of abject pity and scorn. You might as well be a paedophile wearing birkenstocks and socks. A hipsters paradise, in other words. It's hard to reconcile SS mocking cube monkeys from Sydney when he lives in the middle of ...
by oldman
Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:02 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: floatation aid
Replies: 31
Views: 14254

Re: floatation aid

I wish you the best of luck Bomboraa in getting back into the water, and by the way, it's farking "flotation"! No additonal 'a'.
by oldman
Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:25 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Your Top 5 Favourite Surfers of All Time!
Replies: 81
Views: 24667

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Surfers of All Time!

And on topic! No particular order. Mark Richards, because. If I need to explain it you are dead to me. Slater. Curren, a bloody artist, taught the world new lines, poetry in motion. Andy Irons - took it up to Slater, and changed Slater in the process. I'm not sure that applies the other way around. ...
by oldman
Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:20 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Your Top 5 Favourite Surfers of All Time!
Replies: 81
Views: 24667

Re: Your Top 5 Favourite Surfers of All Time!

ha ha surfing's blatantly a sport. . Someone contradicts you and it ain't me. Dane Reynolds: "It’s cheesy to say, but surfing is art. Once you get to a certain level of surfing, it’s your art". Yeah well I thought it was an art once too till I woke up to myself. How disappointing. Drawing lines isn...
by oldman
Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:58 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Ask Carroll
Replies: 6904
Views: 1840126

Re: Ask Carroll

From a non surfing point of view how likely is it that the lunkhead who punched and now killed that you guy would happen to have christie, the guys name, tattooed on his arm and now have to look at it for the rest of his life? yeah well I guess we will never know if he is willing or able to make th...
by oldman
Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:27 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: why go so short?
Replies: 64
Views: 37379

Re: why go so short?

Oldman is right: if you're a middle aged pen pusher who only surfs weekends and holidays then it doesn't really matter what you surf. As long as there is enough volume to catch waves it'll be fine. And the more waves you catch the more fun you have, hence the SUP phenomena. Fark it's hard not to re...
by oldman
Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:39 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: Summer 2013-'14
Replies: 309
Views: 87914

Re: Summer 2013-'14

Welcome back olds. Where you been? Can't really post from work any more. On hols now, but still busy. If I'm not surfing I'm working around the holiday house or entertaining (hmmmm!) the kids and missus. Had a very hectic September to December, now on a month's hols, and was very pleased to luck in...
by oldman
Thu Jan 02, 2014 5:45 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: why go so short?
Replies: 64
Views: 37379

Re: why go so short?

Hatchnam, I just put it down to a sign of the times. I suspect it is more about fashion than performance. To move 'product', you have to keep changing things, keep people thinking that there is something better out there. Then when they buy it, they have just invested nearly a grand in confirmation ...
by oldman
Thu Jan 02, 2014 5:33 pm
Forum: Weather & surf forecasting
Topic: Summer 2013-'14
Replies: 309
Views: 87914

Re: Summer 2013-'14

While the charts generally haven't shown much, and I understand that there wasn't much swell in a lot of NSW, a particular part of the Central Coast has just had a 3 day run of solid 3-4', 3-5' and 3-4' swell, with beautiful conditions to boot. Thankfully nothing today, I've got surf soreness all ov...