Interesting things too
udo wrote:
Interesting udo, cheers.
Southerly buster coming through Wellington Harbour just now, courtesy of a colleague. Gusts around 70 knots.
whoa, thats an awesome change!
That city will test you.
Gregory Webber having a funny moment on Instagram. Well, it's funny from my POV, no doubt infuriating for him.
"FREE SURFBOARDS! not now but if and when I get rich I am going to give away four or five Surfboards to the guys that I can find in my last hundred or so custom orders who got to their decision with the least back-and-forth between the two of us. Also two or three boards to the guys who picked up their boards, spent their good money and there was a flaw in the glassing or the spray or a crooked sticker (but of course never any errors in the shaping ha ha) and then never made a fuss. The screen grabs that follow my videos are from a thread that is 39 emails long and at the very end of it the guy ends up saying that he doesn’t have the money for the board anyway! I’m not pissed off it just highlights the dumbfounding range in thinking between human beings."
"Wavepools are boring" says Jack Robbo.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympic-silver-medallist-jack-robinson-want...
Jack Robbo for PM.
Webber got a wave pool up and running yet?
Some cynics on here a decade or so said it would never happen
Wavepools....Then June 2019 V Reefs were Coming...Hillsintas what you got Any News ?
Freeride - Did the Webber Freeride meet up ever Happen. . .?
A bit of shake, rattle and roll today.
4.8 quake at Denman NSW at lunch time today.
Certainly felt it on the Mid Coast.
Luckily I don't think there's been too much damage anywhere.
6:30 am, winter, and it's 22 degrees.
stunet wrote:6:30 am, winter, and it's 22 degrees.
Sounds like föhn.
Island Bay wrote:stunet wrote:6:30 am, winter, and it's 22 degrees.
Sounds like föhn.
Nah, warm air mass from northern/central Oz making its way east, so happening both sides of the Dividing Range - parts of western NSW were high-20s yesterday.
Island Bay wrote:stunet wrote:6:30 am, winter, and it's 22 degrees.
Sounds like föhn.
"And this is Island Bay, reporting for Föhn Correspondent. Back to you in the studio."
Pretty föhn down here overnight - pot plants being blown across the deck!
thermalben wrote:Island Bay wrote:stunet wrote:6:30 am, winter, and it's 22 degrees.
Sounds like föhn.
"And this is Island Bay, reporting for Föhn Correspondent. Back to you in the studio."
Exactly!
Always means bucketloads of rain for NZ.
velocityjohnno wrote:Pretty föhn down here overnight - pot plants being blown across the deck!
A night to remember for sure. I'm sure I heard all my roof truss tie downs screaming for help!!!
This would be good. I think it’s getting a run at cinemas.
https://www.likemybrother.com/
A little thought provoking article on speedskaters brains....
Got me thinking about a recent discussion i saw somewhere on here about surfing switchfoot. I wonder the fact that a surfer's stance is only set to one direction (goofy or natural) if that results in an asymmetrical cerebellum. If so, would surfing switch more often create symmetry in both hemispheres thus expanding the size of the cerebellum therefore making us fucken rip more!!?
I swear that whenever i muck around and only surf switch and then go back to my normal stance i feel like i'm surfing better than before. Did my brain grow? Or is it just an illusion based on comparisons to how hard switching stance was.
All jokes aside.... maybe over time though, the brain does grow if riding switch foot is done enough.
Thought provoking stuff.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120326112918.htm
southernraw wrote:A little thought provoking article on speedskaters brains....
Got me thinking about a recent discussion i saw somewhere on here about surfing switchfoot. I wonder the fact that a surfer's stance is only set to one direction (goofy or natural) if that results in an asymmetrical cerebellum. If so, would surfing switch more often create symmetry in both hemispheres thus expanding the size of the cerebellum therefore making us fucken rip more!!?
I swear that whenever i muck around and only surf switch and then go back to my normal stance i feel like i'm surfing better than before. Did my brain grow? Or is it just an illusion based on comparisons to how hard switching stance was.
All jokes aside.... maybe over time though, the brain does grow if riding switch foot is done enough.
Thought provoking stuff.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120326112918.htm
Brad Gerlach goes over this with his Waveki thing.
Interesting..
A good mate of mine is an insanely talented surfer that surfs equally as well switch as he does natural. In fact it's almost impossible to tell what his natural stance is (he is a regular though). Also, he has the most amazing tube sense, he can mine a barrel out of anything.
The thing is, he's severely dyslexic- doesn't know left from right, can barely count and is almost illiterate. Fark he can roll though. I'm wondering if his condition has made him the surfer he is?
Unreal @andymac. Been meaning to check more of Gerrs stuff out. Thanks!
Wow @Zen. Get your mate in a lab!! haha. Yeah i bet it's got something to do with it. Probably got all his eggs in the right basket as far as brain regions go. Who needs to count when you can rip both stances!!
Ahhh, Wave Ki.
If do right, no dig rail.
haha. Tubeshootersan. Must learn focus!!
As good as voiceover parodies get. Hilarious!
Gotta love Mr Myagi.
haha, indeed.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
hahaha. Breathe in....breathe out. Focus.
Just on Gerr....as a grom he was the first pro i had posters on my wall of.
Absolutely ripped with style.
As for the Daniel San....the karate kid dont SUP!
Southern, I forgot to mention- he was a crazy good juggler too. Glasses, sticks, kittens, you name it.
Tell him to take the second street on the right though and you'd be met with a blank stare.
zenagain wrote:Southern, I forgot to mention- he was a crazy good juggler too. Glasses, sticks, kittens, you name it.
Tell him to take the second street on the right though and you'd be met with a blank stare.
Sounds like one almighty Cerebellum @zenagain!
Here's a little more info on that mighty brain area...
"People who are accurate at one kind of timed movement,
such as tapping a rhythm with a finger, tend also to be good
at other timed movements, such as tapping a rhythm with a
foot, and at judging which visual stimulus moved faster and
which delay between tones was longer. People with cerebellar
damage are impaired at all of these tasks (Ivry & Diener, 1991;
Keele & Ivry, 1990)"
Just on juggling. I learnt to juggle years ago, but when i learnt, i decided i could learn either the easy way, and the slow way, or i could acclerate my learning the hard way. I chose option B and decided to learn to juggle using only steak knives. hahaha. Well, while it did take many jabs to the forearm and a bit of blood, it was an extremely easy jump to tennis balls after that. I guess it's a bit like surfing switch. ;-)
Can juggle like a semi pro now. Wouldn't be keen on a cat though!
this is my cousin, brett, he's a twirlin gunn, loves fire and handless skills
and hanging out at turtle sex juggle gypsy pirate retreat island
hectic, people that hone those skills, not dissimilar to skateboarding..
think i mentioned it recently, but my left-handed son, that recently has decided to do everything right-handed as much as is a-bit-o-fun, has met me in EXACTLY at my table-tennis ability when I play dominant-handed. Poifect!
Cousin Brett does it a bit different doesn’t he?
I like his work doing two at a time.
Southern, I’m a singular type of man but I’ve heard juggling pussy….cats is fraught with danger.
yeh, he's also a neuroscientist, or something beyond my ken, but like us with surfing, has never lost his passion for his passion. always to be found on a street corner with his partner and a coupla mates during adelaide's mad march.
seeds wrote:Cousin Brett does it a bit different doesn’t he?
I like his work doing two at a time.
Southern, I’m a singular type of man but I’ve heard juggling pussy….cats is fraught with danger.
hahahaha. NO COMMENT @seeds!!
Mad March. Is that when Womadelaide is on?
fringe, womad, car races, adelaide festival, gay cabaret, foody shit, the whole she-bang.. they separated them all for a couple years, but found that ticket sales were down overall. people do outa-the-box stuff in adelaide in march, or not at all! sure makes for a heady month.
I have hazy but fond memories of Adelaide from when about 8 years of age.
Father’s workmate’s daughter was marrying an Italian descent fella.
We camped at a caravan park. Maybe Glenelg?
Beach seemed beautiful compared to Vicco.
Italian wedding. Oh my the food was amazing.
Edit. We saw E.T. at the cinema in the city so it was summer of 82/83. 10 years old.
If you are coming to Adelaide best to check first to make sure it's open.
@ seeds, you probably stayed at the West beach CP. My old man used to dump the Viscount caravan there for the summer school holidays in the mid 60's and go to work, leaving us kids to run amok all day. I was about 8 and the proud owner of a 9'6" log.
I remember one day it was 2' and offshore and spent all day honing my skills, came in at about 9pm.
Used to spend a lot of time across the road at the golf course collecting balls and selling them back to the players, sometimes before they stopped rolling.
These days if it weren't for the sand carting there would be no beach left
By the late 60's I'd talked dad into moving to Moana instead.
Haha 8 years old dragging a 9’6 across the sand.
I did a bit of secondhand golf ball business in Darwin in the 80’s
I’ll have to ask my oldies about which caravan park it was.
We had a ball raiding everyone’s cashable bottles they left under their vans at night and heading to the milk bar the next day.
I had an older sister who would help me carry it across the sandhills to Southport beach. My dad paid 12 pounds for it at Burfords which was a tin shed in a backyard. A few years later he took me to Bells to watch the Easter comps and got me a 6'8" light blue Fred Pyke pintail, I took it out at Torquay and thought I was ripping. Then some prick stole my new sharkskin long John off the front of the van and ruined my holiday.
yeh, west beach caravan park. It's the only place to stay these days according to west viccos when they drive to adelaide. activities for the kids, harbourtown factory outlets down the road for mum, glenelg down the road for bored teens. the on-site kiosk even sells slabs and snags if dad just can't be fucked.
(^ just had grom flashbacks of countless walks from the noarlunga train station to southport, carrying boards in the wind.. walking back again in a damp wetty was even shitter)
I surfed West Beach....once!! haha.
Classic stories @olddog/@basesix
southernraw wrote:I surfed West Beach....once!! haha.
Classic stories @olddog/@basesix
Ahh, guys, great thread started. Oh, those were the days.
I remember the parents in Geelong packing us into the duck-egg blue, white roofed Falcon EP wagon, caravan on the back and off to Adelaide for Summer ( because they got a real, most likely hot Summer), we left behind the usual SE wind affected Victorian summer.
Circa 1975. Three boys 10, 7 and 6 years of age, blued the whole way , father’s arm occasionally swung around to give us a clip, had to duck at the right time.
I want an ice cream was the usual wail, father’s response was I’ll give you a knuckle sandwich.
Arrived in Adelaide, stinking hot, pulled into Fort Glanville Caravan Park, right on the beach, we thought we were on the riviera, Australian style.
Kids everywhere, we’d fuck off all day at the beach, only back when we were hungry. Hot sand in the park and on the beach I recall.Stayed two weeks, surfed West Beach, like everyone else did by the sounds of it.
Funny story, it was the era of Leif Garret, skateboarding, yo-yo’s and any other US influenced products.
We’d all been promised a gift before we departed for Victoria, necklaces were all the go because cool dudes on TV and other sports type wore them.
So, we head down to a local shit jewellery store not far from the caravan park.
Packed full of holiday makers, air con blasting, all three of us are informed by our parents we could have some kind of cool necklace with something different on each.
My youngest brother gets a gold basketball on a chain necklace, my second oldest a skateboard on his, I was undecided, parents hurried me up to make a decision, got told to quickly make a decision, so I’m perusing the glass cabinet and I see a bulls horn on a chain, and apparently with a packed shop, I’ve yelled out at the top of my voice with excitement. “ I’m getting a horn, I’m getting horn, turned to my brother still excited “I’m getting a horn’.
Apparently the whole shop broke out in laughter.
It wasn’t until some years later my mother provided me with a humorous explanation.
Gotta love unbridled youth. AW
;) those damn horns. A blessing and a curse!
Car trip sounds like every holiday we ever had.
Don’t regret any of them.
haha, AW. I've been crossing over to the darkside (from the glenelg regional recruitment area, to collingwood regional recruitment area) to that town @indo thought about buying in a few years back, has been the place to be on my stretch of coast, with these swells and westerly winds. A mate there told me a story:
he was at an awkward rellie reunion at frankston, and the conversation degraded to the point of discussing telly. his 10-year old daughter bravely chimed in for her first attempt at talking within the old people gathering: 'Dad and I really like watching Hardcore Pawn'.
Gotta love the innocence of youth.
seeds wrote:;) those damn horns. A blessing and a curse!
Car trip sounds like every holiday we ever had.
Don’t regret any of them.
Seeds Hi pal.
The best mate, the best.
In fact I’m still a child at heart, I’m off with two mates who I’ve been surfing with for 50 years, coming New Years Day, for three weeks in the Bight, can’t wait. Still unbridled youth, may it never die. AW
basesix wrote:haha, AW. I've been crossing over to the darkside (from the glenelg regional recruitment area, to collingwood regional recruitment area) to that town @indo thought about buying in a few years back, has been the place to be, with these swells and westerly winds. A mate there told me a story:
he was at an awkward rellie reunion at frankston, and the conversation degraded to the point of discussing telly. his 10-year old daughter bravely chimed in for her first attempt at talking within the old people gathering: 'Dad and I really like watching Hardcore Pawn'.
Gotta love the innocence of youth.
Basesix. Hi mate. So, so good.
Don’t you love the innocence and guilty less vernacular of youth.
It’s somewhat refreshing because it’s true and not a lie. Look at adults today, especially in power, can’t speak a truthful word if their life depended upon it.
They’re always laying crooked in bed, AW
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