Just saw a picture of Bob Mct lying under a 6'6"pin tail he had just shaped ,thought what was I riding then ? 6'7"Bob Davie diamond tail .Interested to see who remember back that far.
I was riding a little yellow zippy board in the little pool at bondi icebergs.I was 6 years old and just able to swim.
I was riding around with a few million other tadpoles in my old mans nutsack and was for around 6 years afterwards
I'm sure I'm not the only old fart on here.
Jeez mate
You're redifining the term old fart. Perhaps we should have divisions, like, old fart, crusty old curmudgeon, living ledgend, happy to be alive and taking one day at a time!
Cheers
Sparx
Mate I was ripping it up on a Surf O Plane , at only 6 I was a danger between the flags at Surfers Paradise , taking off on anything and running over unsuspecting tourists.
My parents would take me to the local servo to blow them and put in such air until it started to twist
Nothings changed then Rob think about it lol
I was riding a home made skateboard around the local shopping center,made from chipboard and a cut up roller skate.
Chipboard found under the house,rolla skate found in big sisters bedroom,paint canary yellow (brother owned a yellow cortina )black gt stripes ( dads tool box ) all was going well until the fat guy who owned the local Chinese takaway got sick of me and pushed my off and stood and snapped my board. age 7
Tragically I was 11 years old and was riding the pride of my life a 7'2" George Rice Pintail (I saved up for twelve months!!) after graduating from My Uncle's 8'6" Klemm Bell "Plastic Machine".
A rip off of the board that Nat Young won his world Championship on. The Board that I learned how to stand up on on in the summer of 1966 however was my uncle's 10'6" Barry Bennet. It took three of us to carry it to the water at Ocean Grove
. We even used to surf in winter (not often I'll grant you), wearing Footy jumpers. How I'm still alive is a miracle!!!
Oh yeah, and Wayne Lynch Rules!!!!!!!!!!
My folks bought our first beach shack at Phillip Is in 1961.
1969, I was 7 yrs old and like Sparxy, had a purple Wavetight. Loved it!
We also had a beautiful wooden paddleboard!! Hollow, varnished, big boxy rails made by.
We had a matching timber paddle and yes......we used to stand up on it and paddle it SUP style.
My old man also built this classic glass-bottomed board/dinghy that we spearfished from.
Ahhh, those were the days.
By the way Sparx you have no right to surf as well as you do!!. You'd think you'd know better by now. My family used to use the purple wave tight in the snow. Hey maybe my cousin and I invented snowboarding???LOL
O yeah, Col Smith's Back hand RADICAL reentrys were life changing.[}:)]
This is my first board. A foamy circa 1966.
This is my older brother on a board my dad made.
Which funnily is similar in shape and colour to the board I ride now, the Fanatic Fly Race.
Early seventies I moved up to a Wavetight.
I remember the day it flew off the roof of the car on the way to Inverloch.
Only had a few superficial scratches.
Lorne, summer 69/70 lots of MGB's and kombi's, music blaring on the beach via the surf club radio/soundsystem, Sharkie the local beach old bloke spraying coconut oil and renting out black rubber surfo's, us grommets chatting up chicks or offering 20 cents each for petrol to the older local surfers with drivers licences so we could get a lift down the coast for a surf, this is a photo of yours truly at Cathedral circa 69/70, a mate just sent it a few months ago, a blast from the past, not like these days where there would be lots of digital photos posted on facebook!.
your right RPS they were pretty cool days
Maaaaaate, great shot! What a legend sharkie was. Isn't Cathedral a secret anymore?? You weren't mates with Moose, Wicky and that crew by any chance?(idols of mine!)
moose, shorty, wicky, sticky, gavin,rocket and critty, they all had cars so we piled into the back of them and hurtled down the coast, no one went slow in those days, stop of at the Apollo bay bakery, only place open and only place there! grab a pint of milk and some fresh bread and that was it for the day, probably by then everyone would be stoned and we get great surf, often though the journey there was equal to the day's fun,
rps, lost the bleached hair, bummer
G'day Breezes
This was my dads board he scored it for $2.00 dollars in the early 60's it's a 1959 model shaped By Gordon Woods. I started riding it around 1969 when I was 8yo I could HANG TEN on this board in my teenage years when I was 10 stone dripping wet I can still remember this 2 foot right hand bank into the shark tower hanging ten at Red Head beach in Newcastle I will sell this board for 10 thousand dollars. Its 52 years old it would look good in a museum!
I ride this 1959 Model 9'6'' Gordon Woods I purchased in 1984 for $50 dollars I offered him $20 dollars (too funny) I make an effort to ride this board one day a year! (Reminisce) My favourite manoeuvrer is the SOUL ARCH as I enjoy hanging ten that much I always nose dive because I alway forget to run back in a hurry.
11 yrs old more into Tarzan at the time, trees, knives, hatchets, spears and the bush but was on a farm miles from nowhere. Lucky that i was only 3 miles from the sea and later to discover several left points . 1969 was when i saw a man on the moon and believed. TV before that was Huckleberry Hound, Magilla the Gorilla, Ricochet Rabbit but there are lucids of Waimea Wipeouts and my heros spiking up massive Thuyas and Pseudosugas (trees again) and cutting the tops out using big old saws, hand and machine. Have an arboriculture bent ?! Do remember using my skim board as a bodyboard and catching peeling waves but not happy with plywood wounds. Now love the energy efficiency of sup out this morn on t 9hokua cant go back to the hands except for small breaks of dejavu.
A malvern star dragster with full height sissy bar banana seat and dual front carrier headlights with a three speed centre shift derailer gears. Got my first home shaped 7"4 single in around 1974
Maaaaaate !
The Malvern Star Dragstar became redundant when they brought out the Chopper, which was, as I recall, about the same time Chrysler brought out the Valiant Charger and the West Gate Bridge fell into the Yarra!
Cheers
Sparx
I got a malvern star dragster in 1972 I was in orr I thought all my christmasses all came at once (I felt like the king of Redheads) my father made me wash this bike like a car had to use a tooth bush to wash the spokes _ _ _ c##T
I was thirteen going to Whitebridge high in the same class as Col Smith.
I was riding a Narm Surfoplane at Merewether Beach on the weekends after swimming club.The family car was a 1962 beetle in which our family of 5 went to
the Gold Coast for holidays every september.
