Where did you surf today ?

[offshore1]

[BA]

The other way of thinking, expressed by Derek Hynd in Litmus, that surfing as you get older is all about "joy in the water" seems to be more characteristic of a longer involvement.

Definitely.

[Hatchnam]

How good surfers get DRIVE out of light performance boards in weak waves is beyond me. That's a f&ckibg big skill right there. Doing decent turns is easy if you've got that thing driving. Otherwise start wiggling and pumping.

Only a small percentage can. The rest are fùcking kidding themselves. Old mate in the red shirt in that over 40’s comp footage included.

Busting the most radical turns in the waves most critical section sure beats the shit out of gliding or nose riding, takes a lot more skill, and is a hell of a lot more exciting. I think most would agree on that.

But if your link up between your rad turns is underpowered, jagged and tic tacky and looks like utter shit, then the ugly eye sore wins out.

[steve shearer]

reckon Godsave is a ticky tacky jagged flipper flapper Iggs?

[Hatchnam]

Without a fûcking doubt.

[steve shearer]

Just imagine it in booties, hood and gloves and water the colour of baby shitt.

yuck!

[Hatchnam]

Middle aged, 6 mil wettie, small sloppy waves on a sheltered
coastline, freezing cold water, defiantly “core”.

He’d be flapping harder than a seagull choking on a hot chip.

[Nick Carroll]

I bet he thinks the surfer having the most "fun" is the BEST surfer

[Nick Carroll]

Poor fellow is way off with the "no right and wrong" thing though

There's no moral point to be made re surfing style and technique, no right and wrong, but man there are very much things that work and things that don't. And most of the things that work, work across all kinds of surfboard and most kinds of wave.

Like I am watching a heat at Keramas right now, and Steph Gilmore is a thing that works, and Nikki Van Dijk is a thing that doesn't quite work.

[BA]

[BA]

You’re wasting your breath. He’s currently in bed having perfunctory intercourse.

[Beanpole]

Don't worry about the Mean Girls GST. They are just premenstral because the surfs flat.

So what would our brains trust qualify as an intermediate surfer?
Bottom end is easy but the distinction between the top end and advanced to me seems as much about rhythm as individual skills.

[Thud]

Steph looks great on singles, twins, HPS. Elegant thing, she is.

[Beanpole]

Killing it in this heat.

[BA]

10 all day, every day. What a wave.

[Cranked]

Recently?

I've been here for ten years and you've had it all that time.

Stepped up a notch over the last year. I mean really crap surf. I used to get frustrated but now I am more accepting. My philosophical approach has developed to the next level. Recent trip up the coast reminded me of the pay off for persevering.

I think gradually dialling my current ride in has kept me interested as well. Also because I can chuck it in the car easily and it duck dives way better than my other regular ride makes it handy.

I really mean my idea of why I'm paddling out has been affected, as we have been discussing, by all these adult learners. They are happy to just catch a wave. Why not?

From my perspective, surfing really good waves a lot of the time, my ambition is not so much to ride better per se, but to catch and make those 200-500m waves, then to do it on bigger and bigger waves. No one really gives a fcuk how you do it, just so long as you do. But its the Balinese who really impress, taking amazing lines and generating incredible speed.

[Hatchnam]

GSTQ arrives in Australia and can barely contain his excitement.

[godsavethequeen]

I hope you’re not suggesting I’m a goofyfoot