Where did you surf today ?

[buddy]

Yeh, how annoying is hanging out with English peeps?

[marauding mullet]

Jesus fuck bro, both my kids have done it, my son is way more ocean experienced for his age then the nippers and my daughter hated it. Tried to get her into it again this year but no go.

Calm the fuck down dad

[channels]

Good effort Groots.

Loof could be a leader of all the expats in the lifesaving club. Imagine how they'd dawn over his tales of surfing with Laird and reeling in giant fish.

And talk endlessly about Premier League football results in the UK

Oh man, got introduced to someone when I first moved up here because they english which is always a punish and yep, got invited to watch the 2am premier league matches at the rsl with all the other english dads... erm, thanks, see how we go....

I’m surprised there are enough interested to do that at 2am. Heaps of expat Poms up there?

[Drailed]

Good effort Groots.

Loof could be a leader of all the expats in the lifesaving club. Imagine how they'd dawn over his tales of surfing with Laird and reeling in giant fish.

And talk endlessly about Premier League football results in the UK

Oh man, got introduced to someone when I first moved up here because they english which is always a punish and yep, got invited to watch the 2am premier league matches at the rsl with all the other english dads... erm, thanks, see how we go....

I’m surprised there are enough interested to do that at 2am. Heaps of expat Poms up there?

Not really, couple here and there but more just him and his mates

[Drailed]

Jesus fuck bro, both my kids have done it, my son is way more ocean experienced for his age then the nippers and my daughter hated it. Tried to get her into it again this year but no go.

Calm the fuck down dad

I am bro, you’re just mythering on about making my kids do nippers

[Drailed]

Yeh, how annoying is hanging out with English peeps?

Can be, clubby poms are the absolute worst.

[marauding mullet]

Jesus fuck bro, both my kids have done it, my son is way more ocean experienced for his age then the nippers and my daughter hated it. Tried to get her into it again this year but no go.

Calm the fuck down dad

I am bro, you’re just mythering on about making my kids do nippers

I wouldn’t be if you’d just told me they already tried it, instead of dismissing it as “the gheyest thing ever”

[Beanpole]

Fingal had the youngest club membership in Australia.
Cudgen Headland where I was a member had a pile of 8ft V Bottom Tracker style boards.
A lot of the earlier generation of Clubbies had surfed but all gave up when the boards dropped below 6’.
A few young guys used to borrow them including Ray Gleave.

[Trev]

Been out of the water for two weeks.
13 stitches in my back.
Low grade melanoma.
Came out yesterday so 2½ hours from first light today. Fuck I missed it.
Think I'm addicted to surfing.

Also, probably belongs in the Growing Old thread, some inflammation in my knee apparently due to osteoarthritis.
Oddly only hurts when walking not surfing even though it's my right leg which does all the work.

[PeepeelaPew]

Well surfing often hides the pain. I've had numerous things that hurt later but not during, because of the single-minded focus required.

Glad you're ok, hopefully.

[offshore1]

Glad you're getting back in the water Trev, and back in here.

[Grooter]

Glad you're getting back in the water Trev, and back in here.

Plus one Trev, good to see you.

[steve shearer]

I put all my kids in nippers. They all fucking hated it and quit after the first year

Couldn't get mine past the sign on.

[foamy]

This is where compulsory national service is needed to instil the values of discipline, responsibility, humility, teamwork and service in the young people of today. Values they are not getting from home or from their devices.

[steve shearer]

Wouldn't hurt.

[Beanpole]

Yes, we need to install a bit of militarism into our youth. Seems to work well everywhere else. Just look at Israel.

[tootr]

How about the Swiss example?

[Beanpole]

You could argue that most European Countries have more of an existential need to have a well trained population. Rather than the tired old.....it would teach them some discipline argument. I can remember thinking about conscription when I was in High School. They only canned it about a year before I would have been called up. Fcuk that. If you want to join the army...great.