Famous and not so famous drop ins

Snaked! or Dropped in on?
Sounds like in surfie terme it's called dropped in on;)

@coastalwatch on Instagram today's footage is of M Fanning at Snapper burning a punter to get the "wave of the week". Call it what you want but it isn't pretty and its further proof you don't have to be too smart to be good at surfing.

Floyd scroll down the page , snapper on sunday vid.....swellnet have it ...clearer footage too.

Great Munga story! I remember he'd come to the island back in the day and hit up the girls with his "don't you know who I am?" schtick. What a scrotum.

Hope you learned him good Taco!

Actually had KS pull back for me on a beautiful greenmount section that I subsequently fucked up... really nice of him but couldn't shake the feeling that I let him down.

Just the usual amount of drop ins received at my end (I'm not a drop-inerer, which explains my incredibly low wave count whilst living on the Gold Coast). 

However I did find many years ago - before they became fashionable - that a thick beard (plus a shaven head) often defaulted priority my way, during those spur-of-the-moment swing-arounds. 

I might start growing it back again. The beard, that is - it sure as shit isn't coming back to the top of my head.

thermalben wrote:

Just the usual amount of drop ins received at my end (I'm not a drop-inerer, which explains my incredibly low wave count whilst living on the Gold Coast). 

However I did find many years ago - before they became fashionable - that a thick beard (plus a shaven head) often defaulted priority my way, during those spur-of-the-moment swing-arounds. 

I might start growing it back again. The beard, that is - it sure as shit isn't coming back to the top of my head.

too modest ben

anyone NOT been dropped in on by TC?

I really don't know, not so many drop ins as such but on the Goldie when i lived there you do get intimated to a point where even when you have the inside position you don't go because you know even if you do they will burn you, not just the big name guys like Mick, Occy etc but the guys who think they are the true locals because they have lived there all their life and are in the local board riders club.

Problem is when you don't go, others treat you like shit and you can often only stay in position for so long with those sweeps on the points, so then you you loose your spot and just become another one of the 100 gumbys halfway down the wave.

Taco that writes this thread- that the taco warr ? Humble as ever if so

A minor claim to fame for me was in g.land "96 at the quiky pro comp there . KS drops in & fades me & I hear a lot of noise from hoots & cameramen swimming , he gets an amazing barrell & he comes back out & tells me that it was the best barrell of his life ! Pictures end up on many magazine cover shots at the time . Ks riding a yellowish board in a perfect 6ft green speedys barrell . At the time I figured well if that's the best barrell of your life I think ive had better & was quite content in my belief a month later when speedies was 12ft . Within a few years teahupoo would steal all of glands thunder though & the bar was raised to another level & my level stayed the same

indo-dreaming wrote:

I really don't know, not so many drop ins as such but on the Goldie when i lived there you do get intimated to a point where even when you have the inside position you don't go because you know even if you do they will burn you, not just the big name guys like Mick, Occy etc but the guys who think they are the true locals because they have lived there all their life and are in the local board riders club.

Problem is when you don't go, others treat you like shit and you can often only stay in position for so long with those sweeps on the points, so then you you loose your spot and just become another one of the 100 gumbys halfway down the wave.

You got it I.D., it can be a confidence game and when you start to doubt yourself it's all over.

Ian Cairns at indji car park I tried to fade him and went over the falls, I deserved it.

I was a teenager surfing the local when the pros rolled into town for a contest was not crowded 3 other non pros
Tom Carroll on a 1 foot wave same (he tore it to shit)
3 female pros one after the other super aggressive in non crowded small conditions
Nick wood same year 6 ft barreling wave

matt hoy luke egan occy Lennox
mick fanning and other pros ballina again uncrowded again small (Admittedly Mick called your wave later)
Jeff Hackman Kuta reef ( only knew it was Jeff hackman as he told me and everyone else out there)

dropped in on at Burleigh by someone, before sunrise its dark there was max 10 guys out.

I could go on forever Numerous seppos in Fiji numerous (self described) legends of indo ,

Dunno if I've ever been dropped in on by someone famous. Trying to think. I had Barton Lynch spin around real quickly at Sunset one time and clean ran me over. I fucked up his wave but he put a three foot fin chop in my board.

I dropped in on a good mate of mine at a heavy wave in the desert (Uplift's wave). Was a big day and a horrible burn yet totally accidental; we both paddled for the wave with him further out and inside, then a local told me to go so I assumed Barn had missd the wave. Got to the bottom and there he was just off my rail. He got flogged, showed me the hairy side of his middle finger, then gave me a right serve when he made the channel.

Was a quiet drive back to the campsite.

AndyM wrote:

Great Munga story! I remember he'd come to the island back in the day and hit up the girls with his "don't you know who I am?" schtick. What a scrotum.

Hope you learned him good Taco!

Yeah Munga tried the don't you know who I am on my sister in law at the Pt Lookout pub

She said So what!

Nat Young at Whale beach (only 3 or 4 out early on morn) sitting right next to me and refused to look left
I managed to get under him on take off and pushed on his rail sending him off the back of the wave

Classic Saltman! I'd ask who she is but that might not be the done thing on a public forum.
Bloody good times on the Island!

Saltman, I've had Nat drop in on me too.

Just Nat , his daughter and myself out 3ft Angourie, chatting away in the sunshine with his daughter then he properly faded me on his Malibu.

He constantly whinged about the crowds at Yamba/ Angourie - like he wasn't partly responsible for the joint getting on the map - even though we had a joy session to ourselves.

He whinged about a lot of things really.

Didn't fucking stop.

Bitter man for the brief - but torturous - time I made his aquaintence.

Hope you're feeling better Nat.

It was years ago though, so he'd really want to be better by now.

You'd hope so, anyway.

Around late 70s maybe early 80s all the pros in town for the Beurepares contest.
Stormy but good 6-8ft maybe a few bigger bombs at Cronulla point only myself and rabbit out.
Got a bomb from way inside saw rabbit drop in I swear its the only reason I made the section was
because a world champion burned me. I guess he thought I didnt make it and went for his trade mark
round house cutback only to see me high and speeding down the line he got all clumsy and sort of pulled
off falling off, I was wrapped that he noticed me. Paddled back out he even apologised I said all
good no worries. Long story short I ran into him at local pub years later and all he said was he new me new all about me and pretty much hated the sight of me and was going to king hit me. But Bruce Lee
stepped in apologised and brought me a beer. I was a very disappointed in drunken rabbit and very
surprised what a decent guy Bruce was.
Another year for the same contest Michael Ho dropped in as I was pulling into a sizeable 2nd reef pit.
I wasn't so pleasant and let him know it. A year latter I sat beside him at a stubbies dinner function.
That was pretty funny.

Christ I'd like to know the full no-holds-barred story behind some of these yarns.

Is Rabbit a dick?
Was he just drunk and mistaken?
Did Evo boink Rabbit's missus?

So many unanswered questions...

He was really drunk. A friend of mine tried to introduce me to him and he just lost it.

Umm, that would've been quite unexpected and probably a little awkward.

Yes I was pretty disappointed when someone you sort of idolise turns out to be a drunken imbecile
its a bit of a let down. Anyway to be honest I always thought he was over rated and I didnt like his style.
Now he got a reason to hit me. Good luck with that.

"Drunken imbecile" haha! Tell us what you really think!

I thought his style was too stiff and upright, not a patch on say, Wayne Lynch who looked so much more fluid.

Wayne Lynch late 90's , semi secret beach ( was then ) .....only Two of us out . Wasn't heavy thankfully , and I just figured I deserved it for daring to surf " his spot " ...... When I say two of us , I mean only two of us in the water I mean there would have been no other human within k's of where we were . He didn't talk the entire time we were out there 2-3 hrs sitting on the same peak . Kind of suited me ....
Paul Donda ( sparticus ) - NW reef . Heavy barrel , I pretty much tried to dive on the back of his board in the pit .... A few quiet words , I went in ...... ( was a pretty skinny kid at the time ) .
Some Brazillion ( who really knows their pro's ) , on what would have been the wave of my life at Deserts .... Nearly ended my life by the time I got washed to the cliff ...... macking swell ( same as damon's famous cow bombie swell )

G.land quite good 8ft speedys, tom carroll jumps off jetski as set comes in , cant be fucked waiting in the water he just hangs on jetski ,he knows I have it in my sights but says "wattya reckon camel ! & goes it . Im a bit intimidated & dont take up the offer to share tandem style with him . All of the quicksilver gang there & cameras out , he did this at least 3 times . It maybe one of the biggest regrets ever that I didn't go with him . Mc cabe & lopes were absolute heroes to me idolising their shared rides at g.land ..... a few yrs later I got another chance at ulus with pete mc cabe & we shared a crisscross ride but the wave was only 4ft . Far from the opportunity missed with tc , but I live in hope . I really like sharing & crossovers when its ok

You always remember the one you dont go..jmo..

Ok thanks taco for clearing that up about which taco

Good one Stu, nothing like smashing a mate! My list goes something like Terry Fitz, no grudges there! Midget Farrelly, well it was his home break and I had had a few more waves than he had so yeh, all good. Michael Petersen, well he was warming up for a Bells heat, so no drama, plus he actually apologised and explained himself. Shaun Tomson, inexcusable, pathetic attempt at an explanation, bastard better watch out if he ever shares a line up with me again. PC, we did it to each other all the time to practise go behinds. Probably others but lost in the mists of time.

as long as the outside person doesn't cutback and the waves have room to move, lets go!

'I dropped in on a good mate of mine at a heavy wave in the desert'

Ha that place don't even get heavy!!! Its nuthin!!! Plus brokey soufle stitched it up without getting wet! Well he was a bit young and intimidated in one version... hey hang on, but that wuz the era when he was sitting out on his own, with just Lynchy, at a super heavy sharky isolated spot... thats the web, the net!!!

Wasn't done to me, but I've watched Jamie Obrian burn guys switch foot at 6-8ft speedies. While they've been in the tube of their lives possibly. Amasing surfer and great to watch but there's no excuse for that

I accidentally dropped in on Pat Rafter at Granite a few years ago, not for long, I kicked off when I saw him make the section. He's a reasonable surfer and all of his mates were there. I felt real small, I told my mum and she was real cross as she thinks Pats a legend, so I got a double serve.....

I watched my brother burn Pauline Menczer at Bell's once.

I think I,ve mentioned this before but I,ve ridden waves behind Jake Paterson from cottesloe beach to sunset beach and several times around the south west over a 35 year period , such a self centred wanker, I have never bought a single quiksilver product as a result, the "dingo" of WA for sure. Love to see him flying the "Margs Local" flag when the tour or other promotion machine comes to town considering the only time he surfs around here is in a heat -ever (Taj kind of lays the same claim too) yallingup is 50kms away ladies. Would someone from the gold coast be considered a "local son" at Byron Bay or Lennox?

weak man wrote:

I accidentally dropped in on Pat Rafter at Granite a few years ago, not for long, I kicked off when I saw him make the section. He's a reasonable surfer and all of his mates were there. I felt real small, I told my mum and she was real cross as she thinks Pats a legend, so I got a double serve.....

Don't feel bad weakman, I legitimately took a wave that he fancied a few years ago and he actually started to threaten me along the lines of " if you do that again......" . He was a pretty rank kook at that stage so I gave him three varieties of curry for the rest of the session.

Well BB, Pat may not have been an Aussie then. You would have served curry to a Bermudan. You minimised his wave choice while he minimised his tax.

My brother blatantly burned John Riddell at 'macking' Middleton once. Mr Riddell subsequently wanted to kill him. Funny stuff hearing him lose his shit in those dulcet tones.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/sa/a/8699626/john-riddell/

Pauline Menczer dropped in on me (and several others) at Crescent the year she won the Bells comp, bless her little cotton socks.

Snake Patterson yep I agree used to surf around cott and swanny when he was a grom, his brother ant man was way better than him. Don't understand the down south local bit either he grew up in Perth like the rest of us.

I don't know if this technically qualifies but a mate of ours went out at micro Bells on an old log sans legrope, subsequently lost his board on a tiddler, and it cleaned up Damien Oliver, the jockey, in the shorey big-time. I think he may have been knocked out and taken to hospital.

This same mate also scored the cover of the 'surfer's bible' once. A shot of him burning a dude at North Point. They even had a little comp of sorts in the mag to determine who he was.

Both times he copped it from all & sundry...especially us!

A mate of mine burned Lynette MacKenzie once. Carpet burned.

I've been fortunate enough to be burnt by 4 World champions, two of which used the old "do you know who I am " when challenged about it.
Nat Young at Lennox point and Barton Lynch at The Pass, both were quick to ask if I knew who they were and to both I replied that I didn't and should it make any difference if I did. No comeback from either!
TC, at Lennox Point also, but he did apologise and laugh when I asked him if he thought he was Tom Carroll or something .
Last but not least was Wendy Botha a long time ago at Lennox beach.
So 4 world champs is kinda refreshing in that, at least they must have been ok waves I was on, for all 4 of them to wanna burn me!

Yeah Nats name keeps getting a mention and heres another.Was surfing Spookies on my own years ago and i could see nat and a couple of others coming out so i had had enough and i know what a prick he is in the water so decided to go in only for him to turn around and blatantly fade me on my wave in,couldnt help himself,sorry didnt see ya...hahahhahhh karma caught up with old mate Nat not long after.