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Re Laurie's concern for the inauthenticity of the surfing experience: Mate I think surfing has a way of forcing its own authenticity on all of us one way or another. I too find myself irritated occasionally by "kitsch" surf culture, but it's usually on land, and usually because somebody's engaged in...

In year 11 I took one day off school. It was early August and the school had thought up this cock headed idea known as Slave Day. To earn money for the year 12 farewell, we year 11s were sposed to rent ourselves out as Slaves to the year 7s and 8s. Now I was a good schoolboy but this was idiotic, so...

I think there's a distinction there between "use" and "abuse"; didn't really feel that David was offside with the "use", more the other. Hell man he can't hope to describe lineup intricacies to the readers of the Sun Herald. Don't reckon anyone in the water begrudges a fit, skilled surfer a bigger w...

Opinions are worth s**t on this subject. You need to do the science and you need to observe the proposed reef location for a long time, and you need to study a wide range of natural reefs and their environs in a wide range of conditions, in order to understand -- not guess or opine, but UNDERSTAND -...

PSM, I doubt there are any laws governing the behaviour of kitesurfers unless it can be proved that a kitesurfer was putting your physical wellbeing at risk. In my experience (oddly enough at the VERY SAME SPOT) it's fairly easy to engage such kitesurfers in a conversation and convince them of the d...

Seemed to me David was doing his best to put a bit of balance on to a subject only too easily exploited by the Idiot Media.

Animal Noise Thumper. You sit around with a glass of something f**kin appalling in the middle. Everyone chooses an animal noise (sheep? pig? whatever). Person A starts by making his noise followed by someone else's. That someone then has to make his own noise followed by someone ELSE's, and so forth...

Always thought it was kind of funny when shapers were secretive about their designs, after all the god damn things are right there in front of us! Kind of like trying to be secretive about whether it's a sunny day or not. Re the pro surfers and their equipment knowledge, what I've noticed is that so...

ahh give a dog a bone has spoken ... I can smell it in the inner west, hey I've got an older bro just like tom has and guess what he's natural as well and guess what I'm better at surfing than him and maybe thats a time in the water thing, but .... I think it's natural selection really, like it tri...

No it has not spotty and I think you've basically hit on it. The east coasts of the world have historically produced excellent goofyfooters. (God help 'em.) I think it's because the generally broken up nature of surf on windswell-affected east coasts -- plus their general tendency toward left-breaki...

Bloody hell! You blokes are into fins hey. Here's a few wacky points: - I think there is a general performance difference between glass-on fins and system fins and it's all in favour of the system. Dunno who bro had testing his gear but the first surf I had on a board with non-rovinged system fins, ...

Clif I think there's about 80 registered with Surfing Australia. An educated guess would have at least that many unregistered. A while ago I did a survey of surf school participants in Sydney and on the Goldie. It wasn't super scientific, but it indicated that of those who attend the schools, around...

You see - I like to ride as deep as possible within the barrel of a wave, not just hang my head under a little curl like footboarders do while calling it a barrel. And I bet you do it every ... single... day. No look, honestly, "footboarders", I think Mason takes the prize for most original modern ...

JD maybe in the wrong but barring him for ever from any beach???? think about it do you honestly think that would make you more mellow or more pissed! a few lessons in respect from people who have earned it and gained it is the way forward, get him in a room with some Nth Narra locals whom have gon...

I go with the back-of-the-wave method only because that is how I always have measured it. Dead set, I have NEVER understood the whole back of the wave measurement theory. Recently I spent a couple of weeks surfing a wave that was three times overhead from the front; if you'd measured it from the ba...

You had me until the last two paragraphs Nick, unless you can quantify what a “funboard” is, but it is probably easier to describe what it isn’t. As an older surfer approaching 50 I like to think I am still actually improving, and there is plenty of room let me tell you, and yes physically there ar...

I dunno Coll, physical performance limits do decrease, but technical skill can continue to develop well into middle age I reckon. Be that as it may, my writing mate Tim Baker once voiced a very interesting theory regarding the Retro board phenomenon. His theory was that most surfers are most at home...

I still think it's interesting that people can't articulate what's going on with boards. Nick alludes to a thruster's greater fin volume, but I am guessing he's really talking about area. But if area was the only factor at play here we'd all be riding ten-finners. Or still have those great big D-fi...