I was reminded of this yesterday arvo.
Had a great weekend down here, starting as early as Thursday arvo, good LB waves in a few places, heaps of fun with the old fart crew.
Even Sunday morning was good, I got to my local about 45mins before daybreak and thought, “oh well, it had to end sometime”. Just for the heck of it, I paddled out before sunrise and still had a top surf. The rest of the crew saw me getting a few, changed their minds and came out anyway, everyone got a wave.
Went to Nth Styne at noon yesterday to buy a pair of softracks and it was still pump'n out good ones, they actually closed the beach to swimmers. So naturally I though it would hold up for the rest of the day, no luck, by 2pm my local had turned into a lumpy mess.
So I went down to my desperation location, Manly at the southern end, it was still very bad but just surfable.
I know I've mentioned before the once in a life time surfers down there, you known? Back packers & tourists from all over the world, they buy some piece of crap with zero volume and think, “well if it's good enough for Kelly Slaters, then it will do me just fine” . The smart ones get a soft top to hone their skills on, but they're few and far between.
Now on a good day, they're no problem because you can see them easily and the wave zone is clearly defined, as a bonus, the young ladies are usually smoking hot and always keep their knees well apart when they paddle.
But yesterday, the surf was all over the place like a mad woman's poop, and so were they, I've never see so many hits and near misses. To make matters worse, I almost copped it twice. And both for the same reason, they just love to bail and let the leggy do all the work.
That's when you realise just how far those mothers can really stretch.
Hey obct...
Mrs was out, and I stumbled upon Endless Summer II on the media player... anyways, the LBér 'Wingnut' came out of a session with his leggie stretched (permanently) 10ft longer than his 9ft board 
I hear ya loud and clear obct....its a dangerous place at the best of times let alone on a Sunday morning. Joel from Saltmotion took this snap of it and its looking pretty busy. Hot sunny day and on a Sunday after all the crap weather this summer one would expect a very busy day down the beach. Not good if you are a surfer 
I hear you OBCT, Manly, especially south of the pipe can be really quite something during the summer. On the occasions I go there for a session, it's more to get some paddling exercise and some eyball muscle toning.....
The local seemed to hold up well until well into Saturday, but once the easterly came in it soon deteriorated...
Michael
I opened a small surf shop at maroubra beach a long long time ago..and layed on a few cartons for the mates that helped me fit it out(and a few ring ins
)...we were all pretty well primed when a guy aproached me with what he called an unbreakable leg rope that he was just releasing...two mates (both over 100 kgs)said unbreakable eh?....took the sample and tied the rail saver around a sign post out front of the shop...they then proceeded to strech the leggy down the street...this thing was as taught as a guitar string...no one was game enough to go anywhere near it...I swear they were what seemed like 50mtrs down the street when it tore away from the post...it recoiled past the crew with the sound and speed of a low flying fighter jet....it then belted the mate that was closest right in the side of the stomach....knocking him over him like a ten pin...to his credit he got up and walked away mumbling unbreakeable eh?...we didnt see him for days after...your right obct they strech a long way.
I remember one of the first urethane leg ropes called hot spaghetti ( i think from Balin )man would they stretch, the board would come back like a bullet
As they say, 8 foot of board, plus 8 foot of mini mal, gives about a 16 foot kill radius !!
I bail my boards quite a bit on the bigger days. But I always have a look first, and worst case push it sideways and swim sideways, to give a little buffer for the poor bloke behind... I recall two recent "thank-you" moments... Keep in mind that you need nice etiquette at Bells & Winki, especially with the gentlemen in the 9ish-12ish shift... I let the industry froffers go first, 7-8:30.
Has anyone had that situation where the rope gets looped around your fingers or pinky toe as the board is being dragged back behind you with the force of 10 locomotives?
Hell that hurts 
when its big i NEVER follow anybody out the back, i have seen guys picked up by a wave taken 25m then lose there board to have it stretch out another 10. why would you follow them.
( while still on the wave ).
, only to watch them try and pick a good line, but end up looking like they are in training for the down hill slalem at the next winter olympics.
untill one of them falls off and beheads about 20 guys in the line up..........
Stop showing off Locky its not fair. I only got to surf with 3 others on Sat and Sun at my favourite right hand reef break just down the road from home. It sucked
And those Noosa locals give nothing to the blow ins I can tell you.
Noosa is a beautiful place but lacks waves otherwise I would have been living there years ago.
Some say snapper is hard to get a wave but I find it harder to get one up there.
