Here's Niccolo giving a demonstration of what happened upon impact.

stunet wrote:

Here's Niccolo giving a demonstration of what happened upon impact.

 

Haha!! Yeah he would've required every bit of that flexibility on this occasion.....

Great WOTD, amazing.

But really you have to be a show pony wanker to get a photo of yourself doing the splits with no shirt on in front of your surf boards, FFS!

Craig_Richo wrote:

Hi Guys

Terry is still around, still ripping and hand shaping fookin awesome boards in his shed.

If you want to see more follow his Instagram account TERRY_RICHOSURF

If you want to find out more about his boards, there is an email address on Instagram.

They can be delivered worldwide and you can even pick them up from his house and he will tell you some awesome stories.

Terry hasn't stopped shaping or surfing and will shape anything. His boards are unique and because he's getting a bit older now he only shapes max about 50 a year.

The Instagram is new and a website is coming over the next few months

Cheers

Craig are you related?
Not his brother ?
if so we surfed Cloud break early last year together

Todays pic , the ox still charging...what age would the ol boy be now ...over 60 ?

udo wrote:

Todays pic , the ox still charging...what age would the ol boy be now ...over 60 ?

Tempted as I am to say yes the truth is he's much younger - mid-40s. Maybe it's cos he's been photographed at the Island since he was young that it seems like he's older?

My apolgies to the ox..
Reckon im getting mixed up with popout Manion ?

Hes a champion ox. Mellowed a lot lately in attitude but still charging.

As a younger cunt I remenber the ox and his brother charging the island in mags and vids..id like to see the fat cunt punch on now.:)

Norchock , what do you think about giving that Kiwi brO some of your block laying dollars so he can go surf and party round the world.

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norchock wrote:

As a younger cunt I remenber the ox and his brother charging the island in mags and vids..id like to see the fat cunt punch on now.:)

Hey mate, can you drop the language? Also, you're talking about someone who's had a recent, and very serious, brush with the Big C. Fella is upright and as committed as ever.

udo wrote:

My apolgies to the ox.. Reckon im getting mixed up with popout Manion ?

You must be mixing 'em up Udo. Popout....now there's an old prick. He was 18 when that famous photo of him at Cronulla Point was taken which means he's about 97 years old now. Carries on like he's much older but.

Ha ha ha...

stunet wrote:

Here's Niccolo giving a demonstration of what happened upon impact.

No stringer to be seen in those small little boards .

 

No wax either . No evidence he can surf !

Am I the only surfer left on Earth that still utilises just one hand to stall ?

Are two so much more effective ?

Is it a balance thing ?

Or an affected style that will go the way of the soul arch bottom turn ?

Anyone ?

Nice pit by the way MR Cooney.

Geez those waves look like they're bending along quite a bit.
Peaky stuff.
Great Pic;)

Wonder if Russ paddled into that beast? Serious pit!!

Here you go Rabs, first shot of the sequence...

Cheers for that Stu. What a charger. Awesome skill & commitment!!

Now that could be SnowSurfing Mr Peel;)

Great photo;)
Zen?

Back in Japan tomorrow Welly and Niggly, will try and find the pic I have in NZ of a very similar cloud formation. But todays is something else. Stunning.

go girl

Great shot! I am looking for his board, is that it buried in the wall behind him?

That WOTD pic looks like a slightly enlarged version of Slater's new wave pool. I think he's cracked it!! He just needs to work on the color. Minor detail.....

Locked in deep and dropped in on a pearler judging by the tumbling whitewash on the far left.

Cheers.

What a great shot, the fickle nature of the break and the natural beauty of the area is timeless. God I miss that part of the coast.

Didn't take long for Kelly to sort out that water colour issue.

Touché!

Damn that wotd today is just making me sick. East coast - Monday - goddammit.

Flawless.

Now that I have about 4 weeks off you can expect that will be the last you see of that. :-) The southerly blew up Monday as soon as I got off work.

Yeah, brings back some distant very fond memories of a certain NSW sth coast rivermouth other end of the bay with a legendary lefthand bar.

Beautiful colors. Magic looking wave. Great shot!

Yep, that's a sure nice wave & there's a great bakery just down the road ... happy days

gee today's wave is pretty good also, could have surfed that if its near a tiny port on the coast ,,,, very sharp shallow reef

Has Loch-Ness made her way to Tassie's shores?!? A rare sighting?!?

Incredible looking wave btw.

Is it lochie or a whale? 1st thing that registered before looking at the wave

floyd wrote:

Is it lochie or a whale? 1st thing that registered before looking at the wave

The posters I'm selling on EBay for $100 a pop clearly state it Nessie. The demand has been amazing :)

Wow, didn't even see that out the back!

Actually, just checked the high res. It's a bird.

thermalben wrote:

Actually, just checked the high res. It's a bird.

Nice work Ben. Mystery solved :)

another case of not seeing the birds for the waves in the swellnet office ...... haha

mmm, today's could be my local on a good day

Healey 's Waimea pit from a couple of days ago.....sweet Jesus that's a beast.

Another crowded 'superbank' on the way. Isn't Noosa enough deterrent Jack?

yocal wrote:

Another crowded 'superbank' on the way. Isn't Noosa enough deterrent Jack?

Your sentiment is spot on Yocal. Only problem being is that Jack is just doing what Jack does & as SN has clearly stated previously they are a "surf content" website, so your sentiment won't get much significant sympathy here......

yocal wrote:

Another crowded 'superbank' on the way. Isn't Noosa enough deterrent Jack?

There will be double the people there next time it's on!!

Rabbits68 wrote:

yocal wrote:

Another crowded 'superbank' on the way. Isn't Noosa enough deterrent Jack?

Your sentiment is spot on Yocal. Only problem being is that Jack is just doing what Jack does & as SN has clearly stated previously they are a "surf content" website, so your sentiment won't get much significant sympathy here......

Look fellas...did we name it?

No, not even the state it's in, so how about you take your whinging to everyone who has named it or given far greater exposure to the place? You can start with Nat Young, and his 'History of Australian Surfing' down through Mark Warren and every other person who's written a surf atlas, after that you can take surfing magazines to task 'cos I've seen numerous shots, including one whole feature in an Oz mag last summer, then once you've silenced them you can start on social media and the thousands - I'm being serious, thousands - of times it's been photographed or mentioned.

Once you've done all that then I'll know you're operating from a position of principle.

If you had never been there before you wouldn't know where it was, but maybe some people now will work it out because you guys gave clues to its location.