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hey team, been away for a few weeks in Hawaii and CA, missed home, hope everyone's well. I was wondering: is there anyone who can explain to me the graffiti on the road at Bungan. I heard a rumour that someone was beaten up after trying to surf in a contest area, and is now looking for revenge? Hope...

Well having surfed with Andy off and on for years and gone on a couple of wacky boat trips with him, I reckon he's an incredibly Australian sort of bloke. He's super competitive, loves a few beers, wears his heart on his sleeve, is a sucker for the womenfolk, has had some real ups and downs in his s...

altho as wittgenstein wrote - "there are no atheists on a battelfield". How did he know? I bet Wittgenstein didn't spend much time on a battlefield. For those battling with the Fluke Theory of human existence, here's something to consider: perhaps you're looking at it from a very restricted angle. ...

God's a bit of a misused Divinity, I reckon.

For a Being who's remained utterly and enigmatically silent throughout the course of human history, there certainly seems to be a s**tload of people who know what God would like us all to be doing.

Bring on the second Enlightenment.

NC me old man remembers one day out Newport Pool years ago it was just him and ur brother and on what me old man reckons was set of the day, Tom put his blinkers on and just dropped in. Reckons it was one of the best waves he ever saw out there and all he could do was sit in the foam and watch ur b...

I reckon tobacco's nicotine component is really bloody hard to shake and ciggies are waaay harder to kick than mull. For me the dope felt like a purely psychological addiction. It was piss-easy to kick because kicking it was (at the time) secondary to generally getting a semi grown-up act. Waking up...

OK, just to clear the heads of our brave terrorist-killers: try this one: you live close to the beach ... you're watching TV in the middle of the day between surfs ... suddenly the screen switches and there's Sandra Sully ... "A giant earthquake off NZ has created a huge tsunami! Likely to hit the e...

I remember reading Tom Carroll's book relating how a very large hawaiian took a disliking to him on one of his first trips over there, when still just a young lad. Seems Tom still hadn't worked out all those years later what he did to provoke him. I've got no love for hawaiian aloha violence. Maybe...

Humm................... sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Yes, but ... as Wanto will discover if he drops in on me and my godforsaken clubby board, my feelings are EASILY HURT. btw, nothing, repeat nothing compares with the pure crazy idiocy of Pipeline in December...

They can't help 'emselves, Clif (the commentators that is). Put a microphone in front of a bloke and it works just like climbing onto a jetski ... you instantly become a dickhead. A bit of contest info: Phil Macca gets a free ticket thanks to Neco's witless steroidal indiscretion. (Neco, if you beli...

An old man was really mean to me when I was a little boy out surfing at Newport. Woulda been about 14 at the time and not very big for my age at all. He was about 40 or a bit older, short hair, not real big but very Adult which was extremely rare back then. He dropped in on me and I said "Oi!" as yo...

Yeah I'm sure there's advantages in any body shape/height/etc.

At that elite level they seem to go through phases, shorter for a while, then taller and narrower (like MR and Shaun T), then short and stumpy (like Tom and Pottz), then taller again.

Am sure your Kellylike dimensions do just fine.

Guaranteed many surfers invest things in their relationship with the waves that they can't or won't find a home for anywhere else. It's no coincidence, for example, that all but two of the world pro champions (men and women) since 1976, and a sizeable majority of the high pedigree performance surfer...

My inside dope is that K. Slater is extremely confident of a win and has a couple of killer new boards with which to do the job. You can tell by the performances so far that the top echelon take this event very seriously as a guide to form later in the year and as a feather-in-the-cap type confidenc...

just got back from burls. banks were ok. superbank was filth but a zoo. but a quiet bank a few minutes boat ride off the coast had some bs barrels running its length, albeit only for a short time b4 wind destroyed. ps. glad the carrolls don't know it or there'd be drop-ins galore, harumph Poor Clif...

Shoulda pretended to be girls, boys, you mighta got somewhere

Yeah, right, Don's got me on retainer.

'Tis very similar, with similar, even more immediate results -- rear away from the drop and you'll eat it horribly. Gravity wants you to take the drop! No point avoiding it, even though our initial instincts usually tell us to. You know that feeling when you're at the edge of a cliff and your self p...