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I caught the train out to Olympic Park to watch Souths play with Dino/Reg. Pretty fun night. Just dropped by the tub after my kids finished up their thing at Homebush. Firstly, thinking it’s in the Olympic Park precinct is a mistake, it technically is I guess. From the main stadium, probably 5 minu...

No one cares anymore about surfing wavepools- it's not editorial. And no way Ubrnsurf would cover my trip as advertorial. When are you going Iggs? the advanced turns setting looks fun. the pitching barrel setting also if forehand. but for 2-foot fake surf in a concrete tub, I'm in no hurry. there a...

The aftermath Cranked. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7DBRUgvROh/?igsh=MjJvcDZlazRpcjQy Its huge! I just got back from a surf there, the collapse maybe 40m x 20m x 10m. No-one on site. Near shore I was walking on sand instead of reef (very pleasant) so it seems to have added a lot of sand to about...

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Sun May 19, 2024 12:25 pm

Western Sydney surfers saving money on expensive mortgages by living away from the coast?

Assume they go 1 day/week. Where the demand for the other 6 days coming from?

And I just don't think there's that many of them.

Gunna be interesting to see how it goes. They need repeat custom. $160/hr for barrels, $130/hr for advanced turns. How many people will regularly drop $290 for 2 hrs of surfing? That seems absolutely nutty to me. Melbourne is the perfect location, close to an airport plus a surfing population witho...

BA wrote: ↑

Sun May 19, 2024 10:42 am

If you lived in the blue mountains or penrith etc. you’d probably be pretty stoked with it. But you ain’t traveling from the northern beaches to surf that.

Exactly.

I’ll go have a look this arvo as I’m out at Homebush for something else but don’t have a lot of desire to have a crack.

It's windy and cold. Some occasional good ones when the wind swung the right direction but it kept switch between offshoot and onshore. Queensie bombie starting to break.

The aftermath Cranked.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7DBRUgv ... ZlazRpcjQy

buddy wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2024 8:21 pm

Quietest day at work in 5 years. Got two 90 minute surfs in at Dbah in the glorious sunshine at least.
My timing is way off.

Welcome to fatherhood.

This rain can fuck off now.

I’ve been wearing this through autumn, almost too warm but really flexible.

https://www.xcelwetsuits.com.au/collect ... suit-black

Beanpole wrote: ↑

Thu May 09, 2024 10:05 am

Man, Narrabeen looks ordinary. Lots of close outs and rail bogs.

The higher tide.

Looked good for the early
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6ugiHiv ... h0ZzM0bWtk

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 1:06 pm

No, but I told him he was a woman bashing cnut and to fcuk off.

Nice work.

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 11:35 am

Pumping this morning.

Had an interesting altercation with Carcass.

You mess him up Steve? Throw hands?

buddy wrote: ↑

Sat May 04, 2024 6:01 pm

Skipper wrote: ↑

Sat May 04, 2024 5:40 pm

Caught 24 good, albeit shorter than expected waves today.
12 more to go under lights and a red sky dusk.
Geez it’s fuqing cold tho’.

Nice, skip.
What do they reckon the pool temp is?

I think rule of thumb is 4-5 degrees colder than the ocean.

Which makes winter fucken ridiculous.

Swell muscled up this arvo. Some solid ones about on the high tide.

I don't think the Sydney one will have anywhere near the success of the Melbourne one in terms of customer numbers. It just doesn't have the customer base like Melbourne that doesn't have easy access to the ocean, or an airport close by for supporting those who are travelling to/from Melbourne. Add ...

The other thing that annoyed me in the Melbourne tub was the amount of people that could barely surf that were let into immediate or above. A wipeout doesn't push you out of the impact zone so any kook that blew the takeoff was literally in your take off line.