Dogman did a Sydney run this week with his family and managed to squeeze a surf in this morning. We paddled out in the near darkness to be greeted with some nice 4 -5 foot clean lines reeling off across the boulder strewn reef and one guy out! (It packed out pretty quick though!)
The tide was dropping from about a mid for the 2 hours we were out and because of the distance of the vid you can't really see the rocks pocking their heads out which made some of the top turns a little interesting
A big thanks to Jedi (Simon) for freezing his @rse off and videoing the session.
looks like you guys had a ball good stuff and thumbs up to simon for sitting there all morning filming well done.
Good vid and nice surfing boys.
That first wave was in pitch black darkness! What is that I dont even
Looks like fun boys! Love the cover ups!!
Interesting how it breaks in an east swell - doesn't seem to wrap that well into racecourse.
Two's a company, three's a crowd when the Bower is on! 
Great stuff. Blinding speed through those sections- you musta been surfing on reflexes. How'd the rest of the crew respond to you threading your way through em?
Great stuff
Love the way you guys were taking off way before surge and tearing it up at a place where you can get badly dusted even on a clean small day
a pleasure to watch
Bill
As AA said - surprised it wasn't making it around the bend..
Looked like there was a bit of dodge the short boarders and the shallow spots. My partner cleaned up the foot of a surfer that ended up on the boulders while she was on patrol this am.
thanx heaps for the guided tour goatie
and thanx
for not telling me where all the rocks pop out at ya before you started racking up your massive wave count.......lol......
my first wave in the darkness was a howler, pitty that it will take a few heavy duty machine washes to cleanup the mess in my ye old boardies
yer casso
goatie nailed some nice ones but left most of the sets for the crew that havent learnt to stand up properly and do this strange sort of paddling into waves on their stomachs then stand up.....lol......friggin weirdos
i just tried to cleanup the scraps and didnt get any of the nice ones
ill be back in 2 weeks for round 2
i also got to check out sam's from windsurfnsnows new dugout canoe starboard proto race thingy majiggey that was in the racks at his shop wooooohoooooo!!!!!!! i want one of those suckers
Did anyone else get any waves boys, looks like you guys go the best ones.... making me homesick...
Ripping it up, even a couple of barrels Goaty. !!
Gee, it must look like we got all the waves but basically we sat deep but about 5-10 meters closer to the shore than the outer pack of about 10-12 guys. You couldn't do that on anything other than a small curvy SUP as it means taking off late and deep and sprinting wide when the sets came.
What the vid doesn't show is that there is a rock that comes out of the water about 20 -30 meters after take off so a lot of the crew will sit wider - this place attracts a lot of intermediate surfers. That was an East swell (the best direction for this place) but it was a very short 8 sec period which is why it wasn't wrapping at the end. It is a very mellow wave on a more south direction and ideal for a SUP - not so on an East swell.
After 30+ years surfing the joint regularly I wouldn't be keen to make a nuisance of myself out there as I know all the regular crew. The vibe was really good, everyone chatting, getting waves - Dogman is the friendliest guy in the surf - he could surf anywhere I reckon. Two SUPs was plenty though.
The longboarders can be a real issue out there as they WILL sit out the back and dominate - but once it gets shallow on an east swell or real big they are no where to be seen.
I just thought I would clear that up as I don't want to promote wave hoggery on SUP, especially at known breaks like these! And I have heard that there have been issues with SUPs out there in the past.
cheers for the sunday morning vid to watch, good stuff.
Rob, Deniz and co in the background was good too.
Interesting to watch the diff in straight line speed of Goaties sup compared to the 9-3 naish, i loved Goaties little top of the wave snap cutbacks under the lip,lol,you could really see the local knowledge come into it's own for wave selection,great vid,thanks for sharing.
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That was a good morning indeed. We'd actually been guessing the surf was going to be a bit larger than it turned out to be, hence my decision to sit it out and film. Once I saw it I was actually wishing I'd brought my board with me, but with the swell hitting the way it was, as Goatman said you had to sit and take off pretty deep, so in retrospect I was happy to film instead.
The boys were ripping! Goaty got some real deep and late take offs that didn't make it onto the footage due to a slight delay in the camera between button pressing and actually filming, and Dogman was doing some nice big reos as the lip shut down before the rocks.
Surge really was making it's presence known that day!
For the record, when they first paddled out there was only about 3 other people in the line up. The boys were out there over an hour before the crowd arrived, and yet the whole time they still didn't hog waves and let everyone get their share. And to be honest, it was the same 3 or 4 short boarders that were getting the pick of the set waves anyway, not the 2 guys on SUPs!
