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There's more chance of martha fcuken Gardner turning up to your house and cooking a 5-course dinner, than there is the 16 day chart Braithy, Who is this Martha Gardner and why won't she come and cook? I wondered if it was actually Martha Stewart, by way of dance legend Martha Graham, but that would...

Did he get the fine? Sounds like a tale heard, whilst "blowing the foam off a few"... Yes xe, he got fined. It turned out that the sergeant's remark "you won't hear better than that" was not actually a compliment. And yes, the story was told over a few beers. It needed to, my mate was a bit embarra...

pirate_agenda. Here is a cautionary tale. A mate of mine was pulled over for speeding. There was the old sergeant and the young constable. The old sergeant asked my mate, 'Can you give any reason why you were speeding?' My mate just looked a little sheepish. 'Come on, you look like you might have so...

That was a good answer about board design Nick. Yep, the options keep growing, which is both great and bloody confusing, but ***Inspirational quote alert*** Alvin Toffler once wrote: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn,...

Nick
Is there one new thing you can say you have learnt about board design in the last 3 or 4 years?

July 2001, Mick Fanning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8l0VoXh2CY

'Light on Yoga' by B.K.S. Iyengar is probably the classic work on yoga. It is written for the beginner, but includes yoga programs up to the advanced level.
It has very clear explanations and lots of photos. It's a great book.

Big Wednesday. It is perhaps more a collection of great scenes than a great movie, still it is pretty good it you aren't a hard-hearted Sydneysider. he, he, he. Here, in this Surfline piece, Peter Townend talks about Big Wednesday. A good bit of surf history. It takes a few seconds to load up. http:...

Hang on! Unfair and wrong, wrong, wrong! The first quote, Bear actually said, "You’re always alone, anyway. That’s the test of a surfer. You shouldn’t have to depend on anybody." Which is probably something you tell your surf skills students. As for the second quote, Bear was supposed to be a bit nu...

Sorry, one more thing about Big Wednesday. For me, the fault with the film is that the music does lay it on far too thick at times. The music does have moments of high cheese. The vision and dialogue, much less so. I kind of filter down the music when it goes over the top.

well that's your opinion foamy, I reckon it's mega cheese.Not that there's anything wrong with that. Fair enough Nick. In matters of subjective taste, there can be no argument. I would say, some people who didn't like Big Wednesday when they first saw it, watch it again decades later and find its h...

Getting a bit outside the remit of Ask Carroll, but this is a very nice film of Jan-Michael Vincent and Denny Aaberg's trip to Mexico, getting away from it all after the initial rather negative response to their film, Big Wednesday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUlMc3B-4k With the years, there ha...

Just to clarify, when I suggested Big Wednesday, I wasn't joking. It has a couple of clunky moments, but I think it is an excellent movie about surfing. Not demographically accurate now, but still, it is a pretty exceptional dissection of the pleasures and glories of surfing and the small-time good ...

Beanpole wrote:It remains a definitive bit of surfing lore. If you had to pick three primary surfing reference point movies I would suggest it would be MOTE, Endless Summer and..........( ? )

.............Big Wednesday

Nick Carroll wrote:
they call average surfers "the public".

Nick, I thought you expressed that good and entirely fair point very concisely.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Hello Nick I read an interview from a few years ago with Peter Cole on hisurfadvisory.com He said he thought Waimea was changing. What do you reckon? -------------------------------------------------------------- HSA: Has Waimea changed? Has the contour of the bottom changed so that it doesn’t break...

All these companies are facing the same problem, my kids and yours dont want to be wearing the same daggy stuff/brand their Dad's ( ie us ) are still wearing. Billabong have never been able to build a youth look, they just keeping doing the generic one style suits all look, resulting in the obvious...

Re: Injuries, ill-health I think this is covered by the Failure to Compete rules. Rounds 1 and 2, the wildcard gets a go. From Round 3, the heat goes on, with perhaps a lone surfer, the assumption being that non-competing surfer may turn up. But, If the judges are convinced that the non-competing su...