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Beanpole wrote:Actually looked up stiff necks from surfing and found a surf fitness site. They had a pretty simple exercise where you get one of those stretchy rubber thingos, stand on it and pull up with your hands by your side and bend your neck to the side. Quite a few cracks and really relieved the constriction better than just about anything else I've tried.

Lucky the female members of the household had one of those stretchy things.

Cut up, those stretchy things make great sling shot rubbers.

Hatchnam wrote:There's been a lot of water moving about with the recent run of swell. Even today at only a mushy two foot plus there was water and current moving all over.

There was definitely a strong current south of the blue pavillion on the low later in the day. Never seen such conditions there before.

Trev wrote:

Beanpole wrote:Actually looked up stiff necks from surfing and found a surf fitness site. They had a pretty simple exercise where you get one of those stretchy rubber thingos, stand on it and pull up with your hands by your side and bend your neck to the side. Quite a few cracks and really relieved the constriction better than just about anything else I've tried.

Lucky the female members of the household had one of those stretchy things.

Cut up, those stretchy things make great sling shot rubbers.

Therabands. But old bicycle inner tubes will do.

Small stuff today, good for a mal. Crowds down and plenty of waves for anyone who bothered.

Head high plus southerly windswell, blown to ribbons. Still kinda fun

Late one on lower northern Sydney beach. Strong southerly, small swell but one wave made the effort totally worthwhile.

Head high and bigger point/reef on the old pintail single fin. Fun as fk. Early entry, drive down the line, cutback and fade back deep into the bowl, reform and wall up all over again. Blue bottles scattered all over the beach so nobody else out at the start. Starting to pack out a bit now though

Had a few at the local...good fun. This Irish guy was the full blue bottle magnet. Right next to me and he must have got stung six or seven times.

Good

Just got back from a run and there were hundreds of thousands of bluebottles all over the shoreline. Unbelievable. Never seen so many.

saltman wrote:Tiny glassy high tide runners early before the SE er kicked in
My first surf on a mal (is 8-8 a mal, mini mal or a mid length???)
anyway had a ball just gliding along knee high waves caugt a stack of waves

I might get one

Mal. Minis are generally <8'.

mini-mals are easy to spot because they're almost always covered in frangipani flower graphics

Lol mine has a hibiscus

Two beautiful flowers. I am sure if Quicksilver re released the floral panel boardies hipsters would be all over them and wearing them ironically (think KT-26rs) God they were so tight they gave blokes premature vasectomies and bulbous camel toe

Saw a dude at the local last year with leashless single fin longboard, very short floral boardies, white shirt, beard and douche hair cut. Nearly vomited

..and so it begins

Lancelin back beach. Deflate tyres, drive on beach. Looked O.K. about 2 foot and clean, howling offshore, sand blasted from wind coming off dunes while getting ready.
I don't normally take the dogs there if I'm on my own, but today I did.
I could see them from the water and they kept following anybody that would talk to them. People walking the water's edge stop and fawn over them coz they look so cute, then the little cnuts follow them. I had to come in and get them back from way up the beach several times. Too hot to put them in car, got sick of that and packed it in. Was going to bury them up to their necks in sand but thought better of it.Lesson learnt.

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