Aww, God bless a good sausage sizzle, wonder if Layne will show up.

She's an Ours regular isn't she.

Sausages? Layne Beachley? There's a joke in there somewhere but it's below me to say it

Hmmm.. Misleading heading, it doesn't say anywhere in there that they funded anything.

He also says that park fees by people entering to watch surfers/whales do not go directly to the park.

Who allowed someone to write 'Ours' on a picnic shed? Ridiculous name, encouraging wankers to behave like wankers.

Call Media Watch Beavis. Swellnet shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.

ha i just might. But why glorify idiots, particularly when it isn't due.

Ours ? Pigs arse,i was in that place long before Maroubra,I dont write mine there,Good call beavis,cronulla boys at least have some decorum & you dont see us coming from miles away! Unlike some !!!!

I think the subtleties of wit are lost across the 'net.

Or maybe that's just Beavis?

I knew he was having a dig, simply playing along victa... And there is a difference between sarcasm and wit.

Do you have any thoughts on the Bra Boys?

You beauty Roger!

Thoughts on the Bra Boys Alex?.... They can have OURS but I wish they would stay the fuck out of South Australia! Its certainly not THEIRS and some lunatic might blow one of their heads off one of these days!There is still quite a few loose cannons in the desert despite what the surf mags have been saying lately!

Well spotted, victa-lazlo :)

hmmmmmm. i think i know why it was built. if you look very close, you can see george michael behind it, near the bushes....... :D

To the unknowing eye it's a picnic table...but to the bra boys it's a luxury apartment...the first step into commercial property for the hard trading team at the Bra Boys...next thing they'l install a bench with Koby's name on it

Ours, Solander, Capefear... as long as they stay home every memorable swell the South Coast rejoices.

I agree Yorkesurfer. While pikers hole is fucken hardcore they can stay out of SA. Why do they have to try to take ownership of everything anyway? Are they that insecure about themselves. Koby doesn't deserve any respect over here. He and his mates have created a hatred of themselves over west. Would love to here his response to that. I expect all he would say is he doesn't give a fuck...blahblahblah..anyway national parks suck ...rangers are wankers and all their permapine for protecting the environment gets destroyed by the environment..evolution rules!

youre trawling for response with that headline. best doco on the bra boys is the one on angry boys at the moment. telling it like it is. bra boys, cops, bikies, they all strive for comfort, protection, identity and anonymity within the mob rules. i'd rather go it alone myself.

just the usual chest thumping and chook scratching from a mob that really only has a few world class surfers among them. out of those knuckleheads one doubts that even 0.5% of said knuckleheads would be able to surf solander , just being in a "gang" dosent give you the right to claim a spot that was surfed long before most if not all of the "boys" were even a twinkle in your unknown fathers druken eye

Ha ha, that's quite cheeky Nuncle. Fathers day in the 'Bra boys camp? Confused looks and crickets chirping? You should cut those loveable larrikins some slack. A good 'ol pub glassing never hurt anybody.

PS Readers, is that a noah in todays WOTD shot? Just hanging under the lip on the left.

Yorkessurfer is right......The SA crew are fckn crazy. I just read in the surf mags how it was all peace and love on SA's coasts but that is a cruel joke.

I have just completed a trip on the west coast of SA and surfed a few of the remote waves recently pictured and it was like being in a scene from Wolf Creek. The locals were downright hostile, my mate got smacked in the mouth in the line up shattering his jaw. Then I had to get him to the car and when we got back to the car our tyres were slashed, my driver window smashed in and some one had pissed all over the dash.

We had about 5 km to get back to the highway and it felt like someone was going to pop-out with a rifle and smoke us. It was a fcked up experience.

My mate had to spend a few days in Port Lincoln hospital getting his jaw wired. So I went for a surf at a local left hander. I had been in the water about 30 mins when I seen this big fckn fin or fins - the dorsal and tail fin were about 12 feet apart. I was surfing with about 6 other guys and I looked around and they were all high tailing for a shallow spot on the point....I paddled for the same spot and there was no room for me to stand so I had to paddle through a deep channel to land with this pointer doing hot-laps around the suck-rock the locals were stuck on.

They were all laughing thinking I was gonna get chomped. Man they are fcked up people down there.

I was talking to a local later that day and telling him my woes and he said that the recent exposure by the pros has sent everyone into a spin.

Appatently Fanning, Parko and Koby Abberton were surfing waves near Streaky Bay and the locals said no footage - they were like - yeah man, no worries we respect your place - then in recent mags they are surfing the waves on the fckn video and saying how everyone is super nice.........Well there not super nice.

The SA crew are fck heads!!! Plain and simple.............

Hey pitching lip - any chance your mate is a loud mouth frother? I've been surfing those spots in SA you mentioned for 20 years + and the only violence I've seen is towards east coast blow-in's that think they are still in Sydney or the Goldy and have to take every wave that comes through. My suggestion is sit wide, wait your turn and either go when one of the locals calls you into one or go when no-one else can get on it and you'll be fine. If there are more than 6-8 guys out then wait for some to come in. Rock up with attitude and/or create a crowd and you'll be punished.

yeah , i was talking to the same local 10 mins after you and he said " sh!t, that pitching lip guy hasnt stopped whinging , he obviously got the ' go to south australia and have a wine ' email .
p.s harden up princess , and like maddogmorley said , wait your turn , leave your froth at home.

an example of two SA fck heads right there..............

Jeebus, how much leeway d'yer need, dickhead??!!

You're given the sagacious morsels "sit wide", "don't rock up with an attitude" and "wait your turn", and the best retort you can offer is "fuckheads" ???

You, friend, are wasted in the lineup. Strike now: our foreign service needs smart diplomatic types such as you in places like, um, North Korea. Or Iran. Nope, wait, Canada.

Yeah that seems a tad like fighting words but so much is lost in context when replying / commenting in these forums.

My problem with both comments (wools and maddog)is they assume that we were loud mouth, east coast wave whores.........both my mate and I are far from it. We both come from a community where we have been taught the "rules" in the line-up.......so my dismay deepens as to the treatment we received in SA.

All I offered was an experience I had in SA recently and two morons start having a crack at me (albeit one disguised as offering advice) and whaaat plays follow the leader. Fck me a raging mob of cyber fck heads if I ever seen one.....

And who sits wide anyway.....where I am from that is called shoulder-hopping........

Fair nuff, PL, I am the dickhead. Apologies. Bottom line is that no one should have had to deal with the shit you and your mate were put through.

Hey pitching lip - you need to calm down mate. I am not condoning what happened to you, no-one deserves that. Rather I was looking for reasons why because I find it really hard to believe that some 'Fckn crazy SA local' broke your mates jaw just for kicks. I suspect you either weren't waiting your turn or dropped in and I'm betting you threw some smart arse comment their way. We are only hearing one side of the story at the moment - your side.

Now I'm not saying I know every local over there but I do know a few and they are good honest blokes that love to fish, surf and have a few laughs with their mates. Just because they don't take sh!t doesn't mean they are crazy. I'm sure there are a few crazy ones but there are idiots in the lineup everywhere so no need to generalize about the SA crew.

And by suggesting siting wide - I'm not talking about taking off wide rather I'm suggesting you don't paddle straight to the inside.

SO your mate was completely innocent was he? Didn't say a thing and still got his jaw broken? If that's the case then yes that is fcuked and sorry your trip to SA ended like that.

You can partly blame Koby and friends for the treatment you recieved Pitching Lip but the truth is theres a bit of a civil war going on within the South Oz surfing community right now! On the one side you have some locals who are trying to turn themselves and their kids into surfing stars. They welcome the pro's. On the other side are the old school types who want to keep things quiet like they have always been. The surf media and companies are loving it. Give a kid a wetsuit made for a couple of dollars in a third world country and gain exposure to new breaks previously off limits. Its a pity Koby and crew didnt cop the treatment you did.

pitching lip , when you call all s.a crew fuckheads what do you expect, oh are you ok mate , hope your fine, gee thats a bit rough ...
you can tell by your comment that you've got attitude you angry little man .
honestly, how do you label the whole state after one bad experience ? my advice is to lay off the meth , have a cup of tea , apparently you like bryan adams so listen to a few of your favorite tracks until you've chilled a bit , then look in the mirror and see if the same dickhead is looking back at you.

HAH! that wetsuit comment above is priceless

Who the Fck is Bryan Adams?

Gets crowded now because schmukers kid wants to be a pro but can't get there on merit so him and his old man open streaky up. As well as the other good tow spots and VB's the island Bairds bay

Re: SA - I haven't surfed there, but I've read enough on youtube.com to give the place a wide birth. Plenty of SA waves on the tube, plenty of debate. It's very entertaining.

BTW - that's a quite there (gets crowded now..). NO idea why those paragraphs posted separately. I don't know those people, I just like reading their Internet arguments.

I did read recently the comment along the lines that its only one fatal shark attack away from going quiet again.

Who are you kidding pitching lip to say someone got there jaw broken for not doing anything? hard to believe........

I am not kidding anyone - I have provided a version of events that went down while I was surfing at Wolf Creek....make of it what you will!

Yorkessurfer seems to lend some insider perspective to the matter - it might explain the abrasiveness we experienced but the violence was off tap.....

come on guys everybody love everybody, amen!

surfpreacher hasnt surfed with them bra kids.

Nice picnic shed, good work boys for turning a thread into a localisim slagging match.
I think it is priceless how the Bra Boys took over from the boogie boarders and re-named the place to Ours. Goes to show the lid riders are as soft as the boards they ride.
Save a snag and tinnie for me Kobes, Ill happily sit back sucking piss and whoofing down barbie food to watch the maniacs on display!

Im glad we have entertained you non-local with this thread. Being a non-local i guess you have never experienced the joy(?) of rocking up to a break near your house only to find Koby and friends out there with a jetski towing even though its only 6ft and over 3000km from the break they took over and named OURS! And Pitching Lip you sound really pissed off that your mate got his jaw broken and wired shut! No more blowjobs for the rest of your trip across Australia! Bummer dude!

Its pretty simple, dont come over the west coast of SA and think your welcome, your not, I live in SA and surf over there and understand it, some things arent meant to change, blow-ins should be told or shown, all this hoo ha cos kid got his jaw broken oh well, maybe he was mistaken for Rye Kraike

Yorksurfer I have surfed your waves and they are not worth fighting over. I am sorry I forgot you tough guys like to fight over anything, cause you got no women down your way to keep it all in check.
Barneygumble you must be a tough guy too. Dorks!

True non-local! Its shit down here. Stick to middleton its heaps more consistant and theres no angry locals there!

i agree with yorkessurfer and nonlocal the waves are terrible, there are no women who weigh under 100kg, have teeth and are not covered in hair, there is no fresh water, persistent onshores, shit fishing and most of all no weed. So you better all just stick to the pass at Byron with ya lattes.

well , well , well , see what happens when your feerless leeder , agony aunt , and swellnet reserve wax caddy, yours truly , is absent from his castle?
the barbarians come around and use threatning language all because someone got his jaw broke ! this has regressed into a chest thumping match and anyone who purports violence is uneducated or uncooth or both!cretinous little men

who gives a flying rats about how good it is in that freezing faeces hole of a place . what the locals there pass as a wave is up for debate anyway and the times that one has graced that pitful place to get a wave it seems to be on or at best cross shore and cold, bastard cold. so dont be too quick to wave your flag down there ladies!!

for those that know and those that dont one is bigwayne , allround top bloke, righter of wrongs , and high performance coach of (il)repute, and male super model of the next swellnet ad campaign , it is ones duty to inform your goodselves (SEEING AS THOUGH WE HAVE DIGRESSED FROM THE ORIGINAL THREAD) that , we need to stop this uglyness and start "loving" each other again!

this was bought to you by a needing the fellas to stop acting like a bunh of old moles HRH bigwayne

Back on topic. bra boys! Pfffffffft, I wouldn't be going around naming myself after a women's article of clothing for one. And if it's slang for "brother" then I'm pretty sure there is a big body of water separating aus from NZ which is where they feel the need to call each other "bra". Can't stand the fact that a bunch of blokes have boganised the surf culture let alone somehow claimed to have funded a picnic shed. Very misleading headline. Cheers to the public that appreciate nature I say. Yewww!

MarouBRA ya dickhead!

pond007. Bra is short for Maroubra & in NZ we call each other bro. Not brah, that's in Hawaii or bru in South Africa.

enzed, choice comment cuz'.

I think he was being facetious.

Ha! Too easy to wind u fellas up. So no comments on them being a bunch of bogans hey???

To be honest it looks more like a bloody bus shelter than a picnic shed. Maybe the 'bra boys' can start up their own busline for saturday afternoon outings and get togethers.. All aboard

Thanks zenagain. Facetious- nice word; I like it. My own views on the Bra Boys are that they serve a purpose in Maroubra itself, but it's a bit rich trying to be the enforcers wherever else they decide to roam. As for Ours; I would'nt ever want to surf the place, so I'm not going to refer to it as Mine.

I'm from sa and live on the east coast, media has ruined the bluff and gnarloo,people should have a place to discover without it being all over the mags, im over the east for my work. I miss southern ocean,the east has a lot more f*ckheads in the water than sa.but no one owns the breaks, its about protecting the environment and keeping spots like they were before surfing became so comercial

Funny how a discussion on a Sydney wave becomes a South Oz forum. There are definitely waves in SA where if you bring a camera - especially a big one saying "surf media dude" - you will cop a smack in the chops. Even a little camera can be problematic. I have taken footage of my wife and also my sister and copped flack for what was clearly not intended to be surf media.
I have enjoyed reading the mass debate (masterbate) tonight, some is enlightening some is wank. Exposing such spots creates schisms which the west coast community is struggling to deal with. I know there are people further north who do not look kindly on anyone filming any surfing at a couple of known spots. History reads that they have pulled guns out for this reason. They can get the shits up even if it is for recreational purposes. Some of them anyway.
So there is a latent violence stirring in the west of SA in the surfing fraternity. Has been for years.
Respect should be given and observed by any visitors.
Sometimes this means inconvenience but its not the east coast and there are different rules that apply. You are far from help so its a good idea to be polite and wait your turn. Frothing is the best way to have problems there.

I think your sanitising things a bit undies......

My view is that in SA your either gonna end up as a toothpick for a pointer or totally bummed cause if you even show a hint of enthusiasm or look like your having any fun in the waves some self appointed line-up chief is gonna mash that out of ya....... and / or your gonna end getting a caustic tan in an abandoned bank vault (Aka Snowtown - what kind of fcked up shite was that?? - pretty damn fcked up yaa).

Also, I just found out that SA has the highest murder rate per capita in the sthn hemi (not incl. South Africa). Wow man - they are frustrated frontiersman suffering from a limited gene pool - bra.

I started surfing the west coast at a young age, you need locals to regulate breaks to stop people being hassle heads drop ins etc, imagine living somewhere remote and the crowds acting like snapper, anyway I'd hate to see it change because if the media f*ck it it will never be the same, Sydney gold coast types wouldn't understand

Pl I feel sorry for your mate if u guys were doing nothing wrong, but geez I reckon there is another side to the story aswell, and the way you are writing off all sa surfers, bloke I've got mates down there that are so down to earth good aussies, hardcore surfers that surf for the right reasons, I hate seeing the try hard w*ankers that you get in the cities like the goldy and Sydney, and now Pl you sound like one of them, so you had to surf one of the breaks in the latest surf dvds, you wouldn't of left your suburb if you didn't watch them, stay at your beach break,.... Not just sa crew regulate breaks

Pitching lip - sanitising is for toilets. You are being very black and white. Easy to hang shit online. Have you spent time there? Doesnt sound like it. If you are willing to put in the time and clock the kms then there are jewels to be had. Or you could sit out a SW front for a few days. Or weeks. Its all about spending time to experience the coast - not just the waves but the local culture. Put in the time and yes there are still tools but you'll get a few. Although that might be curtailed a bit if you are a nob. I dont live in SA now but I have spent time on a few of the reefs that are being exposed now and there is no doubt they can be world class. Tooth pick for sharks? Sure, take your ticket and see what happens. Twice now I have left the day before someone has been munched where I have been surfing.
Re murders - I think you'll find that this has happened away from the coast despite the localism so maybe get your facts right before posting. No murders have been committed by SA surfers that I am aware of. Generalising like that is narrow minded and does not reflect what is actually happening. But thanks for your feedback...

Seems like I'm not the only one that thinks there is more to Pitching Lip's story about his mates broken jaw. So when are we going to hear what really happened Pitching Lip?

And what has Snowtown got to do with anything?. Snowtown is hundreds of km's from any surf and has no relevance at all to this thread.

Given the general distain you have shown for SA and its surfers in this thread it's no wonder your mate got his jaw broken. You must be a load mouth frother and they are not tolerated over here. Get over it.

Going along the line of most of the comments here regarding SA, if you show respect, don't hassle too much in the water, and show up with just yourself or one other person generally you'll be alright at the more remote spots in SA.

It's when you arrive with an agressive and selfish attitude that you'll get into trouble.

Some of the locals are more agressive and agro than others, but if you respect them and stay out of their way you'll be fine.

It's an amazing place to explore, and the localism just adds to another part of the experience.

For your mate to get hit, he must of done something wrong, or gave a bit of lip back to the locals. Would like to hear the story though..

I drove through SA in the middle of Winter in a HQ panelvan.

I had one surf, there was no-one in the water. It was perfect 6-8ft and heavy as fuck. I headbutted the shallow limestone reef end section and almost bled to death in the water.

Managed to rip my wetty arm off and staunch the blood flow, goat-scrambled up the cliff and passed out in the carpark.
Woke up in a pool of dried blood and flies.
No-one around.
Walked to the beach and two oldies drove me to hospital.
Old mate didn't want to leave his fishing spot, his wife talked him into it.
Saw a shitload of empty, desolate bombies going off unridden.

Youse can have it.

Jeeeeez, thanks a bunch, Freeride.

To the rest of yers: remember, Freeride is a journo, and journos exaggerate.

It's nowhere near as good here as he makes it sound....

Seems like a lot a crusted out blokes who'd been on the front end of a bong or thousand too many.
And probably hadn't had their hands on enough women to soften that hard paranoid edge.

I was travelling solo and found blokes ready enough for a chat.

Tough gig. I've got respect for anyone who carves out a living on the west coast.

I guess Nthn NSW surfers dont smoke bongs like those crusty S.A blokes freeride? Yeah right! I read a comment from you that you gave the weed up long ago! Me too! But im not one of those exsmokers who puts shit on other peoples habits. Its a bit hypocritical! To each there own!

Yeah, fair call.

There's plenty of 'em round here too.......guess they just get buried in amongst all the Sydney metrosexuals who've moved in.

Hey Pl a few of us would like to hear the full story, what was said in the water in the lead up to the broken jaw

Having been to SA a couple of times of late my impression of the surfing community was one of total respect.
Many times I pulled up at isolated sharky spots to see just some solo bearded guy sitting just enjoying the solitude and waves.Most guys I know would feel uncomfortable surfing Fingal on their own.As for bagging the Schmucker family well Jeff does suffer from liking things his own way but when it comes to knowing the southern ocean and what swims in it he in a class all of his own.As for him towing down that way, all of those spots, he paddled surfed as a kid growing up long before all the blow ins who are now all locals. .There is a very good reason why he tows and the answer is hanging in the Local Streaky petrol station.

Aloha.

good call Lopez. Walk into that back room in the Streaky Bay petrol station and try not to have a little gulp of fear of those amazing beasts. Whilst the west coast community is quite spread out there is a sense of camaraderie to an extent - especially when it comes to blow ins from the east coast... Although having said that I understand there is some friction around the place at the moment due to a push to have a surfing reserve declared at Cactus much as what currently exists at Angourie and Broken Head. This is second hand info but I understand there is a perception this will lead to more crowds.
Maybe? But it is still a spot that is way out in the desert and hard to get to, and it still has a persona of localism and heavy locals. Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.....

All this talk of trouble is ... well, troubling.

And another thing. Those little hooks at the back ... they're the trouble with those damn bras.

It's all very troubling.

As they say in the classics, cogito sumere potum alterum.

I enjoyed Mundies comment that this blog has "moved" from the bra boys to the west coast of SA! So true but really this conversation is linked, its about the potential loss of those bastions of solitude around our wonderful continent! Where you can go for a cheap, camp, surf, fish and general chill out. I am an SA boy through and through and love my home (more than anywhere to be honest), but live abroad where there lots of waves but its hard to get away from the masses for any real solitude. Many crew (well very little crew) in these desert areas of Australia moved to these areas for such reasons, to be alone and to be adventurous!! They need to be respected that they are out there all the time dealing with CONSTANT heat, flies, no women, sharks etc., for the great waves that do OCCASIONALLY happen! So when you pass through show some respect, surf a wave that is maybe not the best in town but is less crowded and still super fun, smile and be low key and there is no way in the wide world your jaw will be broken!!!!!!!!Pitching lip your juvenile remark about the high amount of SA serial killers just confirms that you are the type of person that such a beautiful part of Australia'a coast can do without!

Pitching Lip is full of it. There is no way his mates jaw got broken in the surf by a local otherwise why won't he tell us how it happened? I'm betting he got it broken after asking some guy in the local pub for a blowie.

Pitching Lip sounds a little too well educated to be stupid enough to give lip when isolated and out numbered in the water. Can't comment on his friend, he isn't here telling the story.

All these 'froth' references. It should be reasonable to assume we are not all Julian Wilson air show frothers in pink wetsuits on the east coast. Perhaps like not all South Australian's are inbred desert dwellers with machine guns and a limited gene pool..

I hate blow inns as much as the next disenchanted rural coast dweller. But just TWO (up here they travel in packs of 10!) travelling guys out numbered and attacked? Even if they took a photo, smiled or even spoke back to some local hero. Nobody deserves that and I hope the person responsible loses an arm to a white and has to watch everybody else surf for the rest of days.

Nobody is looking at the bigger pitcher. A person was assaulted for going surfing.. that's fucked up.

Pitching Lip sounds a little too well educated to be stupid enough to give lip when isolated and out numbered in the water. Can't comment on his friend, he isn't here telling the story.

All these 'froth' references. It should be reasonable to assume we are not all Julian Wilson air show frothers in pink wetsuits on the east coast. Perhaps like not all South Australian's are inbred desert dwellers with machine guns and a limited gene pool..

I hate blow inns as much as the next disenchanted rural coast dweller. But just TWO (up here they travel in packs of 10!) travelling guys out numbered and attacked? Even if they took a photo, smiled or even spoke back to some local hero. Nobody deserves that and I hope the person responsible loses an arm to a white and has to watch everybody else surf for the rest of days.

Nobody is looking at the bigger pitcher. A person was assaulted for going surfing.. that's fucked up.

Nice links fishheadsushi. Coupla familiar spots there...

I have explained what happened. Obviously we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The crew onthe reef we surfed were playing the enforcers and one of the exciteable cave men went way over the top! Pop - broken fckn jaw thanks for coming.

You call it bullshite mad dog, whatever, your clearly a kook. My original point for posting was to share an experience and warn people of what's going down over there.

That's all I got on this. Happy surfing!

Whatever you reckon Pitching Lip. I've been surfing those reefs for 20 years and never had a problem with any of the locals. It must be just you and your mate and the angry vibe you carry with you wherever you go. Given you have no idea as to my surfing abilities the kook comment is meaningless. Main thing is we won't see you back in SA in a hurry which is a good thing....

Seems you have a high opinion of your own surfing ability. How good are ya?

I meant kook in a character sense, not so much your surfing ability. Perhaps you can post some pics of you laying down some siiick lines just to keep your ego intact!