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I always had the impression from his ads that B McT designed fireballs specifically for beachbreak surfing. That partly explains why they have been so ridiculously popular. How many do you reckon he must have sold by now :roll: ? Raymond Gleave used to have his own model with McTavish but I always w...

One good one I had the misfortune to witness years ago was at Bondi of all places :shock: . A notorious local psycho ended up having a major blue with someone he knew on the beach on a crowded summers day. They ended up rolling around on the sand grappling each other while some woman ran around yell...

I guess he must be a pseudo surfing psycho then.

Always good to post a sensationalist topic I reckon :D MP is an obvious example but then how about Keith Paul? That guy could surf 8) Locals who think its okay to rip off everyone because they surf their waves? I hate to mention Martin Bryant but the guy used to surf too :twisted: Nicks right on the...

Surfing has always attracted more than its fair share of psychos. Some have been great surfers others have just been apprentice or fully fledges psychos. Usually the guy who turns up in the big car with the new board and can't surf isn't a psycho. He may be a dork but he is only unintentionally dang...

The number one problem with bodysurfers in the line up is that they usually haven't worked out everyone is going across the wave face rather than straight in or straight to the bottom like they are :D :P Forget about educating them about dropping in. They don't understand whats going on around them ...

They are pretty close to banning tobacco smoking. Good luck if you think decriminalisation is around the corner

Do you think the addictive craving part of bonging on is more to do with nicotine withdrawl than the actual dope in the mix

From memory one good thing about potheads is they don't usually start blues in pubs .

I still kind of miss my old 89 Magna Wagon. It was such a tank but you could chuck all your junk in it and not give a stuff about salt water damage, sand or bashing into things. Plus it was as cheap as chips. Your right though, Johnno about those 4x4 Vans. You still see them kicking around unlike ol...

Have you considered absailling

I guess that other thread about Alpha male surfers was a promo for the mag

The other thing about the old alpha male personality issue is whether this just happens because one surfer is dominant because of ability or that some personalities just want to dominate anything regardless of ability. Your classic alpha is a goal oriented control freak who will try to control any s...

Ric, great looking board. Double ender meets fangtail
Shaping your own and developing something original

I'm really talking about extreme wide tailed keel fin fish here like Dick Van Stralen appears to be making. I think the general move towards wider fish style boards is a good development. I am just a bit surpised how quickly some people jump from one extreme to the other. Why a very average surfer t...

I was looking at the latest popular extreme design : seventies style twin fin fish. It makes me wonder how many average surfers get much value out of something like that in an average Sydney surf. Sure if it suits your style and the style of waves you ride; a fast small point or if you hate cutbacks...

Snaking and dropping in :shock: You mean like the rest of the surfing population given half a chance. You should read some of the comments in the other forums :? . If its breaking hard and hollow no mercy for anyone. If its breaking easy and full: oh those horrible mal riders are catching all my wav...

I was talking to a guy at work who has just bought a mal. He asked me if I waxed the nose up on mine
When I told him I did he said the guy in the surf shop had told him not to
We discussed it and decided the guy had given him a bum steer.
They're very helpful in some surfshops

Don't expect much respect if you don't give any. Here is another situation I have seen in the water. Old mal rider makes a point of paddling as far away from the pack as he possibly can. I am not talking here about just sitting a bit outside of everyone. I am talking about a long way further out in ...