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by Tony Wales
Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:21 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: big East Coast swell coming
Replies: 33
Views: 4153

"Giant" east coast swells in US making news in Australia!! Sydney Morning Herald news report here: http://www.smh.com.au/world/hunt-for-spectators-after-hurricane-wave-sweeps-them-out-to-sea-20090824-evew.html Check ou the video - truly terrifying waves .... Reminds me of the time I flew i...
by Tony Wales
Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:40 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: Mashby & Shark Island shots
Replies: 0
Views: 2291

Mashby & Shark Island shots

Local Cronulla photographer Greg McCarthy has some shots from Cronulla Point and Shark Island up on his website taken over the last week or so. SKC multichampion Mark Ashby scored a nice cutty shot at the Point ... also heaps of images from the bodyboard Shark Island challenge Round run which was su...
by Tony Wales
Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:46 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: George Greenough ranked 19th greatest surfer of all time
Replies: 34
Views: 4795

KenM wrote:
Tony Wales wrote:
KenM wrote: Who's Dane Reynolds?
A Jordy Smith clone .... :wink:
Who's Jordy Smith? :lol:
Rejected sperm from the "Bertelman" gene pool .... :twisted:
by Tony Wales
Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:34 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: George Greenough ranked 19th greatest surfer of all time
Replies: 34
Views: 4795

KenM wrote:
kidrock wrote:#25: Dane Reynolds. :?

whatever. :roll:
Who's Dane Reynolds?
A Jordy Smith clone .... :wink:
by Tony Wales
Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:35 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: George Greenough ranked 19th greatest surfer of all time
Replies: 34
Views: 4795

really? lists? come on, being in the marketing biz, the tendency to make lists in mags is the easy way out. have you guys ever actually read the writing in these bloody rags? for the most part, its flippin crap! oh, you can find the nugget here and there but really, writing and reading about surfin...
by Tony Wales
Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:54 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: George Greenough ranked 19th greatest surfer of all time
Replies: 34
Views: 4795

Interestimg list and one that surprises me a bit because it tends to put aside the USA'centric bias that most SURFER/SURFING polls tend to suffer from. Still a few surprises ... I just don't get the Shane Dorian and Bruce Irons worship and its probably a bit early to be putting Dane Reynolds so far ...
by Tony Wales
Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:03 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: Steamer Lane voted #1 surf city
Replies: 28
Views: 4708

I heard that Wollongong is going to rename itself after it's favourite kneelo son .... SMURF CITY!
by Tony Wales
Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:04 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: Steamer Lane voted #1 surf city
Replies: 28
Views: 4708

You want consistent surf? Bali/Indo in June and July where you are all but guaranteed 2 solid swells every 10 days and the wind WILL be offshore. You want 50 yard barrels? Easy ... G-Land! Think Money Trees & Speedies. Surf City? In the most pure sense of the words ... Kuta. It might be a shamb...
by Tony Wales
Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:04 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: Steamer Lane voted #1 surf city
Replies: 28
Views: 4708

Phsst! You Americans have yet to see Bundeena!

:wink:
by Tony Wales
Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:41 pm
Forum: Travels...
Topic: java kneelos road trip
Replies: 19
Views: 3850

Great report .... potential there. I think I remember Peter Whittaker, he was from NZ, used to hang around with Marty? No, Peter was from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland - around the mid 80s Peter was the administrator of Surfing Queensland and was manager of the Queensland team at Aussie titles. Pe...
by Tony Wales
Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:51 pm
Forum: Travels...
Topic: java kneelos road trip
Replies: 19
Views: 3850

Great report guys. Shocked at the development at "B'w'r". What the... ?? Has the breakwall affected the reef or is it just wide enough? None the less that breakwall will change the flow of fresh water which is instrumental in shaping the reef. Can you still gain access to the reef or is it...
by Tony Wales
Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:20 pm
Forum: Travels...
Topic: arti-wave
Replies: 7
Views: 1643

Mike Fernandez wrote:Sacrilege!
(Although in Australia I am known as the Arizona wave pool king, no joke! just ask Waka, or Slats.)
Seriously, I don't know. :wink:
The chicks were sssoooooo impressed!!
by Tony Wales
Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:56 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: Who made the first kneeboards? (that weren't flex spoons)
Replies: 37
Views: 5161

Uncle Fester Kneelo! Link: http://www.ksusa.org/Forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=21174&user_id=1930 http://www.ksusa.org/Forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=21174&user_id=1930 Jackie Coogan, San Onofre, 1937. Photo Don James EDIT: Bugger! Couldn't get the pasteing image in thread thingy to work b...
by Tony Wales
Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:41 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: Who made the first kneeboards? (that weren't flex spoons)
Replies: 37
Views: 5161

Hey McKnee, that picture looks like a frame grab from a "Little Rascals" scene :lol: I bet Uncle Fester was a rail grabber from the Old Skool :lol: Yep, just checked the photo. Rail grabber! Wish I could work out how to paste image into this thread. What file type to scan, wht button to p...
by Tony Wales
Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:17 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
Topic: Who made the first kneeboards? (that weren't flex spoons)
Replies: 37
Views: 5161

Re: Can you do tricks with a lightbulb?

At the time of the photo Coogan was married to actress Betty Grable and they lived at Malibu. Far out Tony! I never knew Coogan was married to Betty Grable. She was incredibly famous for her legs and was something of a pin-up girl during WWII. This is kind of the mid twentieth century equivalent of...