Bombora - History of Australian Surfing

[Lucky Al]

why'd it have to end in the '80s, nick! i was so looking forward to a section on the kookocracy of the '00s!

[2nd Reef]

The film reviewer for the Sunday Examiner was in raptures...

“You’ll be hanging 10 on the couch in no time.”
Sunday Examiner

[Nick Carroll]

why'd it have to end in the '80s, nick! i was so looking forward to a section on the kookocracy of the '00s!

Well that was what Lynchy was complaining about at the end!!

I swore I wouldn't contribute to this thread. Damn.

[Lucky Al]

hmmm, don't know about hanging 10 but spilled my beer on our couch once or twice for sure. i loved the extras, the longer interviews and the old doco - that was great. occy and barton and tom came across as quite nutty there, i thought.

which language is 'bombora' from again?

[Lucky Al]

haha, definitive nick has reared his head at last!

[Clif]

oh tell me you got a dyson. those things look sick.

[marcus]

NC
There is a thing i am supposed to go to (girlfriends parents place) and i dont want to go so i can see bombora.
Ill try to tape it to vcr or something.
Is there another way to see bombora?

[steve shearer]

I actually live in Bombora Place...no shit....no doubt Dino's got a photo of me jerking off in the backyard off the net......haven't got a TV so the bloke downstairs and I are gunna go round the corner to watch it.......better be fcuking good if I'm gunna miss my hot milk and bedtime.
The trailer was cringeworthy.
RN rules, commercial radio is like having bamboo shoots inserted in your japseye.
Agreed, Macca is a cretin.

[Nick Carroll]

NC
There is a thing i am supposed to go to (girlfriends parents place) and i dont want to go so i can see bombora.
Ill try to tape it to vcr or something.
Is there another way to see bombora?

You'll be able to buy the dvd from an ABC shop or however the hell they sell it pretty soon.

Plus we get to screen a "director's cut" on ABC1 at the beginning of next summer (that's the one where Midget demonstrates live a "spit-the-winkle". well no not really)

[Buff_Brad]

Then again i did get very excited about buying a new vacum cleaner today.

Is that how you get off these days? Oh well each to their own.......

Yeah must say I'm very much looking forward to the show tonight............hope there's some footage of the Coke final (1977?) between Blair and Lynch at North Steyne.

[ric_vidal]

Plus we get to screen a "director's cut" on ABC1 at the beginning of next summer (that's the one where Midget demonstrates live a "spit-the-winkle". well no not really)

Any gratuitous nudity? No not from your noggin?

And kNicknaCk, putting the cart before the horse hear but are we likely to see further episodes down the track that pick up where this ends?

I mean we can’t have you lolligagging about just doing the social circuit.

[Damage]

Gee that macca creature's ****. I wish he picked up that daddo in his ute and headed over to triple j, or some other part of the ABC i don't listen to.

Daddo is not as good as James but he's still warming to the shift and like it or not Macca is a cultural institution for a significant proportion of regional Oz, who unlike most people around these parts know that there is alot more to this country than just the strip 200m back from the waters edge.

He is a bit naff sure, but calling him a cnut is un-Orstrayan for mine.

So take that Dido.

[Beanpole]

Faux Dinkum.

[Beanpole]

Plus we get to screen a "director's cut" on ABC1 at the beginning of next summer (that's the one where Midget demonstrates live a "spit-the-winkle". well no not really)

Any gratuitous nudity? No not from your noggin?

And kNicknaCk, putting the cart before the horse hear but are we likely to see further episodes down the track that pick up where this ends?

I mean we can’t have you lolligagging about just doing the social circuit.

I heard theres a cameo appearance by Mathew Newton as MP.

[oldman]

Well the opening credits won me over. It opened with the Cruel Sea's '4', surely the greatest surf guitar music song ever, without question.

One of the great instrumentals.

[Larry]

I was there, and it wasn't a lot of fun out of the water - and how lovely that all of you horrible young bastards are suddenly so in love with The History,


One day someone will do the job beach by beach ..


imagine

[Surfin Turf]

...suddenly so in love with The History,

nah ! ... too many mals for my liking ...


great doco though ... some classic fortage ... those shots of 27 guys per wave at manly look starngely familiar except for the board length ...

[PB]

As someone with a short attention span, I'm impressed that it had me interested from go to whoah

Thanks Nick

I was particularly intrigued by the focus on Bob Pike, an often overlooked character in 1960s Oz Surfing - and Scott Dillon & Gordon Woods also

Most docos covering this era just deal with Midget & Nat and leave it at that