Interesting threads

Pup I started a threat in the 666 room about that blue rasie guy who throws his paddle at rainbow.

You dont want me to start another about the 666 guy at Kirra on a red and white board now do you

It's Mexico JB there will be a way round it Anyway there are some pretty good beachies not far from there that fire in similar conditions. All will be fine

Today

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Steve78 said..

Macaha said..
Today

That's outstanding

There's no such place as Tea Tree Beach. WTF.

ET.

So after $30 million dollars spent on the Shark issue in WA. Very little to show for their investment people/autortites are finally starting to tackle "Illegal" shark fishing at local beaches... My god lets do things backwards shall we

www.communitynews.com.au/western-suburbs-weekly/news/town-of-cottesloe-to-combat-illegal-fishing-for-sharks-on-beaches/

Im glad someone else picked up on that. I also have it on file from Dave Kelly it will be for any scientifically tested product. SO the Shark shield unit "New" Surf model has not been tested. They are relying on the testing of the dive version freedom 7, utilising a stainless electrode, not a MM thick sticker..

Happy Days for Dave

Shark shields on jet ski's at the Margys pro is nothing more than product placement. Just like the leg rope magnets from last year..

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SP said..
It was more the $200 dollar discount that caught my attention but still interesting to see If it goes anywhere.

Originally the offer/announcement was a $200 Rebate on purchasing a device, up 1000 units.

Just bash the farkers , you know , sort out the chaff from the champion none of them can surf pfffffffttttt

Fark there is some good people out there..


Seabin founder Pete Ceglinski battles hard to make ocean-cleaning dream a reality


ut the story of the Seabin Project and the man who now leads the team is a much longer story.Pete is a man who demands a lot of himself.And of others.He and his friend Andrew Turton are the co-founders of the Seabin Project.They wanted to develop a product that collected floating rubbish in marinas and ports, but also use it to educate people about the damage being done every day to the oceans.The Seabin sucks in water and rubbish, which gets caught in a catch bag filter.




iview.abc.net.au/show/foreign-correspondent/series/26/video/NC1702H006S00


www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-18/seabin-founder-pete-ceglinski-battles-hard-ocean-cleaning-dream/8445104

That was unreal SP great find.

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SP said..
Good clip on Mark Rabbidge

I got one of his old team longboards and its an amazing board. It has these extra stringers on the underside only about an inch from the rail edge. Beautiful board and so easy to ride.

Link at the bottom to clips etc.. .



WEST COAST


Best Videographers Under 30 in California

Highlighting the Golden State's finest shooters


WORDS BY MARCUS SANDERS



Presented by







The surf movie started in California.


IN THE '50S AND '60S, IN DARKENED HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUMS ACROSS THE SOUTHLAND, STOKED SURFERS GATHERED TO WATCH FOOTAGE (SHOT MOSTLY THE PREVIOUS YEAR), DRINK BEER AND YELL AT THE SCREEN. IT WAS THE ONLY CHANCE TO FIND OUT WHAT THE HELL WAS HAPPENING IN THE SURF WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR HOMEBREAK, AND GAVE LOCALS A CHANCE TO TALK STORY WITHOUT COMPETING FOR WAVES. This continued for decades. Films got better and more highly-produced each year - until the advent of the home VCR and camcorders in the '90s, which democratized the whole process, and shrunk the screen size. Guys like Taylor Steele realized that you could film your buddies ripping down the street all day, and then watch the same footage that night and heckle each other. Many raw, under-produced, hour-long punk edits ensued. Then came web edits for computer screens in the 2000s. The length of film slowly shrank to five minutes or less - and the turnaround time shrank to near-realtime. And while some bemoan the disposable nature of web clips (now consumed on even smaller screens) the one ironic thing is that as screens have shrunk from big to medium to small to your phone, equipment has gotten better and more accessible and the actual quality of the edits is off the charts. Which brings us to the 13 guys profiled here. All these guys grew up alongside the internet. They never had to wait a year to sit in a dusty auditorium to see the latest in hot-surfing action. Since high school, anything they've ever wanted to know has never been farther away than a couple swipes. But before they were legally allowed to drink, they'd probably seen hundreds of hours of surf video - all of which helped inform their varied aesthetics. Which, as you'll see from their reels, are as varied and beautiful as the state itself.




californiavid.surfline.com/

Great story on the board and IMO about some of the best surfing of all time...
( link is under the intro)

Mark Rabbidge remembers the phone call like it was yesterday. The year was 1993 and Derek Hynd, the one-eyed former-pro surfer turned leading finless exponent, was steering the ship at Rip Curl. He had a vision of his charger Tom Curren doing his thing at J-Bay and needed a board, the perfect board. He picked up the phone and called Rabbidge.

stabmag.com/style/meet-the-man-who-shaped-tom-currens-j-bay-masterpiece/

The Old bloke always told me Phil had the best style of the late 50s early 60s? Thoughts.

He does have a great style and effortless way to ride a wave.



http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/2017/03/09/phil-edwards-ode-to-balsa-good-on-wood-spastic-on-plastic/

by Matt Warshaw
3/09/17


Phil Edwards, patron saint of power surfing, was the last of the greats to switch from balsa to poly. He didn't like the smell of foam, didn't like industrial blank-blowing process, and especially didn't like the way the new boards felt underfoot. "Good on wood, spastic on plastic," as Edwards liked to say. In 1957 or '58, just as foam was taking over as the boardmaker's core material of choice, Edwards made himself a new balsa, and loved it enough to name it "Baby." He kept that board year after year, even as he slowly, reluctantly, made the change to foam. Fixed the dings, brought it to Hawaii and Australia. In Bruce Brown's 1962 movie Surfing Hollow Days, Bruce introduces Edwards, who squats down in his backyard next to a trio of shiny new multi-stringer foam boards of his own design. "He makes beautiful boards, but the board he still likes to ride best of all"-here Brown cuts to a shot of Edwards almost sheepishly holding his battered favorite- "is an old balsa wood he calls Baby."

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/Ban-all-SUP-foils--and-SUPs-?page=1#lastpost

Go Mac, don't let him off