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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 ...

Lunatic soup

You're a lucky,lucky,lucky boy to have a wegener

Timothy Leary, William Burroughs What about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters?
These guys didn't surf. I guess they were looking for something as good as surfing is.

That clears that up for me. I have never seen a D fin for a fin box. How much pressure would that put on the box? I've got an old reverse D fin I ripped off an old pig board I used to ride ten years ago. Never got around to putting it back in since the board is something of a write off with lifting ...

I guess I'm dumb but my idea of a big D fin doesn't quite add up with the description here :?

A favorite bit of Hot Generation has B McT & Russell Hughes (I think) surfing.
The very ABC/BBC Narrator says above the psychedelic sound track:
"Bob and Russell are turning on"

A green cathedral and I am there. Talking to God on the plastic telephone.
Hello? Its for you Bob. Its the Jehovas Witnesses trying to sell a few watchtowers

On the way up, no worries
On the way back, I have to think about it

I've been reading all the stuff the lid riders have been saying about how advanced they are and have concluded that everyone should start proning out :D Just imagine how deep you could get if you were lying down on your board 8) . Surely normal surfboards would perform better as bodyboards than body...

This all paints a pretty bad picture for the east coast. When you add these developments together its going to be one overdeveloped mess after another. We are all responsible if we don't try to do something about it. I don't even like going up to the Tweed Coast anymore. What a scam those very old l...

Its funny about the central coast. You can overlook the most obvious spots and hunt for waves without getting much for your search. As far as "secret" rights go up there; I have found saturday morning is very crowded and grumbly. When the pub has been open a few hours it mellows out a bit :D . I may...