Watch: Tim Bonython // Fin Deep
The number of photographers vs the number of surfers tells you everything you need to now about the nature of this wave.
Spectacular. Alluring. Dangerous as all get out.
I needn't explain anymore, the wide images do enough of the talking. Swell direction is crucial, needing enough angle to offer an escape, yet even so it's with fins skimming the rocks below.
Knifing in under the rearing lip would seem the obvious strategy, the shorter the board the better. So it's worth watching Lachie Rombouts approach on his longboard-length gun turning what seems a foolhardy challenge into functional barrel-riding.
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Not only functional but actually the only standup surfer that successfully rides this slab, wave after wave.
what happened to "need my 6"2 because "my 6"4 is too big for knifing" ?
Incredible surfing eh! Style, control, subtle shifts of the body.
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Amazing technique.
And it's pioneering. Has anyone ever done this before?
Pretty laughable the photog to surfer ratio...
Good to see Timmy trying his absolute best to expose the spot. Would expect nothing less…
Not that many guys could surf that spot.
Cant see your average Joe heading down from Sydney.
I think your safe....
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Yeah, I guess, but imagine if there were other, more accessible waves nearby...
Lachie owned it - amazing. Speaks to the crowdedness of the EC that there were that many ppl out - photog or otherwise at a wave like that
Lachie bought his gun to a knife fight. Unsurprisingly dominated.
Fuck me every cunt from the central coast down was out. Do you really need to provide swell conditions and a directions as well? What a joke.
Lol yeah what a clown for highlighting the right swell direction for supers to work.
So it's Tim's fault there was 30 surfers and 20 photogs in the water?? The spot obviously isn't secret, get the feeling it's self limiting, 99.9% of surfers ain't paddling out there, the .1% already know the deal... Did you paddle out?
Is it all Tim's fault no. Does he and the rest of the circus help? No.
Wrt to me. No. I'm out of the water with an injury from a different break near there still.
What a dumb statement and a stupid question. Your intelligence is on show.
So, you must just surf the same one or two breaks all your life to date.
Never surfed elsewhere nationally or internationally? In someone else’s backyard.
Such a statement of entitlement and selfishness.
When will some surfers understand there are no secrets, whilst people own a ‘computer with a phone in it’ ,auto GPS tracking and a camera , you’ll rarely ever have a break to YOURSELF. AW
90% of my surfs are to myself mate, secrets are still out there, its the mentality of secrets spots not existing anymore that is ruining it. Also the logic of only the top 1% wanting to surf it is flawed, just because it's not affecting you doesn't mean it's to the likening of some of the local superstars like Tim Taplin. It's just like saying climate change is all good cause its only going to impact those that are living on low lying islands near the equator or in less stable climates; while your privileged voice is chewing away in your 15L/100km guzzling modded out landcruiser.
Dbut. Hi. Hope ya well. Your opinion, thanks for replying .Of course there are secret spots and may surfers keep finding them or even know where they are locally.
I just get the jack of some surfers feeling like they own breaks or ‘their’ spot is for ‘them’.
I think it was ‘@blow-in-9999’ view that some surfers were being lured down the coast just because someone mentioned ideal swell directions and conditions, really. We have that much electronic information on hand daily, mission strikes will always happen. Back when i started surfing the most immediate thing in the morning was to get a newspaper ASAP to feast your eyes on a weather map and try to ascertain what’s going to happen at your locale. All the best AW.
"only a surfer knows the feeling"
Hollywood style!
What's the deal with people towing in through crew who are paddling in?
Thanks for the footage Tim, always love your enthusiasm, that fella on the purple gun was killing, freakish pig dogg'n.. When's the next movie tour???
goddammit... same ol recipe... Bonython's mug and now his dumb tattoo needing attention ... boring vox pop... atrocious music. More good footage wrecked.
Lochie Rombouts, all over it and stand out.
A few bruises dished out I'd suspect.
Really enjoyed the vid, well put together as usual by Tim.
Would love to learn a bit more about lachie and the boards he rides.
Such an different / refreshing / inspiring approach to waves of consequence.
Wonder if that board is a struggle on his forehand, similar to JOB only riding left on foamies.
The set waves that got TOW Surfed would have been caught by a guy paddling. they robbed the paddler of the opportunity because they're closed minds assumed "nobody can paddle them"!
I normally refuse to watch Tim's vids for his blatant disregard for the law regarding tow in surfing and the way he smuggly flaunts it. For a laugh i thought i will give this one a go until he puts up a tow guy getting pulled through a line up of paddle surfers.
And what do you know...... the very first fucking wave..... LMAO i will never watch another one of these again
I’m not sure Tim has much say in what surfers choose to do or not do in a lineup and is there to document the action not dictate.
valid point.
pretty simple. Don't give the peanuts that do it any cred. Delete the footage or shame them for the shit behaviour. But he doesn't, he does the opposite,
Thurston wave was amazing.
Was trying to remember where I’d heard Lachie Rambouts name before, and I think it came to me.
Wasn’t he the fella that caught that monster Avalon wave a few years ago?
Balls of steel, pretty cluey technique too.
That place is scary, super sketchy, better them than me.......