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channels wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 25, 2022 2:13 pm

Is he an anti-vaxxer like Slater?

Nup, apparently not. He got the jabs, was all set to go, Ripcurl even had his name on the door of the room they had for him.
Sounds like it could be one of those high pressure break down situations that are becoming more common.

“The past few months have been a difficult time for me personally and it has taken a toll,” said Medina. “As such, I’ve decided to withdraw from the start of the 2022 WSL Championship Tour. I had every intention of competing for the full season, had made all the preparations medically (I took my COVID vaccination during my holidays) and mentally and physically, but I’m not in a place where I believe I can perform against the world’s best surfers right now and I need to focus on my well-being. I don’t know how long it will take, but I aim to return to the Championship Tour as soon as I am ready. I very much appreciate everyone’s ongoing love and support. I’ll be back when I am able. Love.”

Medina was self professed to be vaccination hesitant, but was garnering a fair share of unwanted negative from his stance during and after the Olympic Games. At this point, he kind of changed his tune, saying that he'd get vaccinated. Something that he now claims to have done. It'll be interesting to see how this "taking time away from the tour" transpires.

Yuke Hunt wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:05 pm

It'll be interesting to see how this "taking time away from the tour" transpires.

He’ll surf a lot of really good waves and root a lot of really hot Brazilian women?

BA wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:10 pm

Yuke Hunt wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:05 pm

It'll be interesting to see how this "taking time away from the tour" transpires.

He’ll surf a lot of really good waves and root a lot of really hot Brazilian women?

Just the one woman, or she'd probably cut his nuts off.

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Valé Craig McGregor

A keen boardrider, Craig wrote This Surfing Life with Midget Farrelly in 1967, and later, History of Surfing, with Nat Young (1983). Craig’s love of surfing brought him to Byron Bay in the early ’60s, where a literary grant enabled the family to live at Wategos for six months.

Craig and Jane’s and the family’s connection with the north coast spans many decades, including living at Wategos (where Craig planted the pandanus and casuarina trees along the front that people now enjoy), Repentance Creek, Tyagarah, and Sunrise. Craig and Jane have lived permanently in Byron Bay since 2000, forging many deep friendships and connections within the community

Craig McGregor wrote very well on a wide range of serious topics. He was an important Australian writer in the 1960s to the 1980s. The oddity was he also put out a couple of excellent books on surfing topics.
His brother Adrian was also an excellent political writer. To pay the bills, Adrian also wrote the first biographies of Cathy Freeman and Wally Lewis.

Quite a popular writer. I used to scour those early surfing titles.

I've still got his Midget book and the Nat Young one.

Trev wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:00 pm

I've still got his Midget book and the Nat Young one.

Have you finished colouring them in ?

Midget one was in the school library.

He wrote some nice things for the local rags too.

Shearer, what’s your take on kneeboarders? Few around your parts?

There’s a couple here. One guy who in particular is very good at it.

Where do they sit in your pecking order of boardriders?

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Legion wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:36 am

About where Womble sits in the realsurf pecking order

Nobody knows where he "stands" ...

I've recently compiled some data on the age demographic of kneeboarders.

43% of kneelos are aged between 55-64.

31% ages between 45-54.

19% over 65.

7% under 44.

Its an ageing art form, but there's some really interesting characters and history orbiting the kneeling universe.

Steve Lis and Greenough are two of the most influential surfer in history. Skip Fry, while older and more established as a shaper, went to see a young Steve Lis to learn about the intricacies of the fish. Flat, bottom, hard rails and a double pintail with keel fins ... a design that was so far out of the box from what was then the norm. A design based on improving the existing el paipo belly boards of the day.

Interviews with Steve Lis, from the fish documentary ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kya664tVF5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xaK39woeEo

Guess the knees give out after 65. I know a couple. I suppose the development of the esky lid marked the demise.