Beautiful waves, but that crowd at Greenmount! No rules apply? Don’t look back was the only one I could see in operation. You are welcome to it.

Amazing looking waves, but what a shit-fight that must be. I find myself wishing that you wouldn't show the drop-ins Tim (although that would eliminate 85% of the waves ridden there on any given day).

In a way it's glorifying their blatant c*nt-act and, by doing so, legitimising it. I don't care who they are, if they're dropping in, they're being a c*nt. Like stories about Trump, media producers need to just stop putting it up for public consumption, thereby starving it of oxygen and stripping it of any credibility, which it so obviously doesn't deserve.

Rant over.

p.s. I know it's unlikely, but I could have sworn I saw Occy riding a SUP natural foot at one point...

Cudgyou show some more of those needles being threaded?

that u Burz at 7:46?

its like ants on honey on the ground

As others have mentioned it doesn't look fun at all when it's that crowded. Count me out. However, as a spectacle it makes for compelling viewing. There's a lot going on out there. Beautiful camera work. Top drawer stuff really. I like how you get to see guys riding waves from paddling for position to the shut down. Gives you a real feel for the place.

My only criticism is that there's a bit too much slo-mo for my liking. That might just be because I'm a grumpy old man though. I'm sure there's probably many others out there who dig that kind of thing.
Keep up the good work though Tim. I'm a fan.

Bets wave goes to the booger at 12:26.
Typical East swell - "sectiony"
Nice footage though - 'look mum, no hands!'

Nice one Tim. Enjoyed the Kirra footage more, as the dropins before it at Greenmount were pretty full on.

At 14:00 the music went very 'Goat Simulator' and snapped me

It’s a shame that eagle doesn’t feed on humans. Feast!

Amazing video TB. Thoroughly enjoyed.

Taronga water park....swell wasn't as clean as i thought it was ........

no, it had a real ragged line to it.
glad I ignored the fomo and didn't go up.

I wonder what that eagle would be thinking. He has been there a while.
Is there a saturation point for super bank ? Really good footage , a bit sad though.

How's the synchronisation from 2:19 to 2:33?! Almost perfectly timed for 14 seconds straight - Crazy!

That shark at 18:30 was the only one to show its true colours.

Yeah for a few seconds I thought it was a photoshop thing.. But just pure synchronicity except the inside barrel.

Just as a thought experiment, do you think it would be as crowded if there were absolutely zero cameras and zero chances of being seen by anyone other than who is in the water?

Not that I have anything against photography, much the opposite. Always enjoy TB's work

Thanks Tim. Beautiful work .

Instead of FOMO it induced GIFTS* which is much better for my mental health.

*GIFTS = Glad I Flagged That Shitfight

Last time I surfed Kirra was Cyclone Oma swell Feb 2019.

I'd worked all day, it was a Saturday, drove up from Byron about 4pm, got to Kirra around 5. Amazingly found a park just under the Eagle. Didn't check it.

Saw a mate, he said it was heavy, some sick ones. Ran around with a 7'6" Desert Storm to Rainbow and jumped in.

Got caught in this bizarre whirlpool/current outside Greeny and got sucked out to sea.

Paddled into Big Groyne with the sun in my eyes, couldn't see shit except jet skis everywhere, sea of heads.
It was one of the most confusing, intimidating, chaotic line-ups I've ever seen. Just mental water world stuff. Mad, mad barrels going down off Big Groyne and wide all the way down to North Kirra.

Constant feathering sets, a fully pumped energised cyclone swell. I don't think there is anywhere else like it on Earth for sheer intensity.
It was like a battle for Mordor, just grunting orcs paddling over the top of each other.

I came over a wave and this big blue teepee was wedging in at me, I could see jet ski wakes every where. I had such a perfect entry into it, one paddle right at the apex of the wedge, blind take-off with the sun and spray in my eyes. There were bodies, skis, whizzing past me everywhere.
I hit the pedal to the metal and was immediately screaming northwards towards the skyscrapers of surfers paradise, I could feel big sections just throwing and whooshing over me. I could hear them. They sounded like jet engines. The sun was in my eyes and the whole wave was lit up with sun reflecting on it like a slab of steel.

I didn't stall, didn't slow down at any part of the ride, it was literally flying at top speed from start to finish. I ended up down North Kirra before the final slabbing section poleaxed me and destroyed me. Drove me into the bank, pinned me, flogged me good and proper. A really, really violent wipeout.

Came in, walked back to the car, enjoying the view.

One and done. The most memorable wave for a long, long time.

Drove home. Haven't been back.

Probably close to 10 years since I’ve surfed there. Last surf was a three hour shit fight jumping in at snapper and getting nailed by wide sets, hammered by the current, catching waves that fizzled out or sectioned off, and of course faded on almost every wave. Did another lap after getting washed in through greenie after chasing an inside bowl that never came. Rinse and repeat. Headed out to sea a little near spot x after seeing a few rogue bigger ones and a boil that gave some respite from the current. Was caught out of position twice and wore two 8 footers on the head. Was about to wave the white flag when a lump formed up on the horizon. Perfect position. About 80 metres the high side of big groyne and out in deeper water. A perfect chip in on my favourite 6’6 to an inviting short high line barrel...into a half wrap and check stall to set up my line as the wave gathers its momentum and starts to get real serious on its journey into big groyne. It slows and opens yet stretches for a hundred yards...the pristine emerald blue green turns dirty brown as it draws hard sand into its vortex and I stand inside it purely at its mercy. It goes horribly square and darkens and every inch of me and my treasured and trusted 6’6 hold on for dear life. I come out blind in the spit and without time to process what just happened I’m double pumping to set up the next longer, but less intense section. My 6’6 switches back on before I do and she glides perfectly back into trim and I thank her subconsciously as I’ve done a hundred times before. What should have been a complex and 50/50 section at best, seems to stand still as her perfectly honed rail flies me out onto the shoulder. I get time to gather myself and a fun little end bowl props up...an almost childishly simple redirect stands me into the last bowl arms wide in awe and appreciation. Then I’m on the beach...sitting on the tailgate of my station wagon, reflecting as the adrenaline dumps. 3 hours of frustration and anger at the circus my favourite wave had turned into and then one wave...4 barrels. A wave of a lifetime. Emotions conflicted. So conflicted. I drive home and pull into the drive and sit.

I feel empty.
Sad.
I too have never been back.
It’s too much.

Great stories chaps.

I've had dozens of waves at Kirra and Snapper but one wave in particular (I wrote about it here ages ago) is burned into my memory forever.

If you get a good one at Kirra it's almost life changing.

2019 in July I surfed Kirra for a week straight and it was so empty couldn't believe it, mostly void of stickered surfers too

Last time for me was late 90's, '99 I think. The year before the superbank started?
What a wave, the lip throwing as soon as takeoff, the air pressure changing all around you, the sections that shut down - or tube like mad things. Very different to SW WA and completely manic. It was eye opening. You guys had it bigger that I did, but I kept going out when I was there. The sand was such that there was an unmakeable section just after the groyne on the takeoff and there was this blond haired kid who was making it, swore he later went on to become a world champ.
Jumped off Greenmount and got panted as I'd forgotten to tie my boardies (paddling out at same time as hottest chick I've ever seen surfing...) by the time I'd got them back on and got through the whitewater, there I was at Kirra, it only seemed a minute.
Showed the grom this footage and I don't know if he understood what I was raving about...

Great Footage Tim. Well done to get us so close to the action. Noticed some very well cropped/zoomed in on that last location.

But seriously I think I can honestly say I won't ever surf that superwank ever again. The amount of blatant burns is just down right shameful. You should all be sinned and cursed forever if you're one of those wankers in that vid.

I surfed a Nth NSW point break earlier this week for 3 days straight. Nothing epic but super fun 2-4ft peelers with crew ranging from no one to 10-12 max. Not one single drop in the whole 3 days apart from the one day the blow in brazzos/euros landed with two car loads and believed it was their right to claim every wave.

We are all there to equally enjoy what nature has delivered for us. No one, and I mean NO ONE has any more right or owed a wave compared to anyone else who is in the line up and respectfully waiting and catching waves.

LOOK LEFT YOU FCKTARDS!!!!

Epic stories above. Cheers. Only ever surfed Kirra twice whilst on a lap around Aus. Wasn't proper big Kirra but just remember how perfect certain sections were. Must be a scary place when its huge with all that water moving around. Classic risk v's reward scenario.

That ‘intensity’ comment from Freeride’s post captivates my imagination. I don’t know about comparing it to somewhere like pipe.........but yes.

When it’s > 6 foot and you start to float down from Cooly into the top of the groin, that’s when the butterflies kick in.

This is the moment you need a set to come, you are at the top, there are 80 hungry rippers just down the line from you paddling back up to render you obsolete from the lineup.

A thick 8 footer rears up for the deep. If you’re not one of the pricks, don’t own a ski and usually only get a couple of waves per lap out there, it’s now or never............for me that is probably as heart pumping as surfing in this part of the world gets.

seahound love to here your views on Kirra today- the Ski's the Burnings
as someone said the old days supported big crowds but nil burnings was a firm but fair flowing lineup ?

Unreal Tim. That Kirra water footage was as good as i've ever seen. Felt like i was back in Coolangatta! Great work. Your passion for the moving picture really comes out in this one. Cheers!

thats fucking bullshit . i remenber not to long ago you head down to spot x to get away from the cunts , meaning every one . now look at it . dont know if i could cope with that .want to kill some cunt . you fuck with my life by dropping in on a sand slab you better fucking disapear real quick .. now think about that , call me old school and i am , no respect you be put in ya place . or a board between ya ears befor a beat down .

Nightmare on Marine Parade.