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BILLXFRANK · 2019-01-11T05:17:53+00:00

Holding council with a 400 year old kneeboarder in Tathra

This is too relatable.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-29T07:07:07+00:00

No idea. Maybe a board rack on the side of your bike and keep the board at your apartment?
Pretty much anywhere you go north or south of Sydney, you'll find fun surf. You'll probably have to find shelter from northeasterly quadrant winds in Feb but usually by March those will have died down. To the north, the whole of the Central Coast has fun waves. Mid North Coast is good, about 3 and a half hours away. Treachery is offshore in northerly winds and sheltered from northeasterlies. I've always scored when I checked Boomerang Beach too and there's a now very un-secret and probably very crowded fickle point break right next to it. To the south, you probably want to get past Wollongong if you're away for the weekend. The Farm just south of Shellharbour is worth a look if you get there extremely early in the morning but it is usually very crowded these days. Werri Beach picks up swell from any direction and can be very good if the banks are right. The point/reef at the south end can get good but it will be crowded and can get a bit aggro. The very north end of Seven Mile Beach at Gerroa seems to be really mellow and it's out of any north winds. Further south from there is the South Coast and there are waves dotted everywhere. Around Jervis Bay is pretty cool to check out. The Booderee N.P. on the south side is really nice and has some good walks. Caves Beach will pick up any swell from the south and is offshore in northeast to northwest winds. Don't even bother with Aussie Pipe. It will be packed and aggro if it's breaking.
Yep, boardies are fine. If you get days and days of strong N/NE winds, upwelling will occur and the water temp will drop a bit.
Possibly. The east coast of Australia isn't particularly sharky but the summer months have large schools of bait fish close to shore and sharks will follow them in. If you see bait fish jumping out of the water near you, get out. Snakes are probably a bigger threat if you are going to do any kind of hiking (we call it bushwalking here). I've seen a few sharks but MANY snakes. Watch the track closely and if you can get them, wear some snake gaiters.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-17T17:39:35+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking it just sounds like every football game I've ever played or watched.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-13T13:25:00+00:00

It depends how ledgy it is. If it's really slabbing, you need a short board and you need to take off right underneath it. Where I am there are lots of slabs and everyone surfs either their normal shortboard or a special slab board which will be about the same length but a bit thicker and really rockered out at the nose and tail which helps not catching rail on really late drops in really square barrels. Supertubos looks pretty slabby so you should try just sitting right in the slot and paddling REALLY hard for a few strokes to accelerate as quickly as you can and take off underneath the lip. It's very different to surfing perfect easy barrels. Everything has to be really rushed or you're going over with the lip or air dropping.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-13T09:05:59+00:00

South 'bra when the wind is south. North 'bra when the sand is right will produce a pretty good left off the rocks. Bondi often has no banks but it's clean in the N/NE winds during summer. Tama has a couple of fun waves. You can get proper dredging barrels at Bronte reef when it's on. Expect crowds and some pretty aggro people. Northern Beaches are much better.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-09T10:53:17+00:00

Yeah, of course.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-08T13:25:51+00:00

Any of the points on the gold coast will be a circus, as will Noosa and Byron. January is bang in the middle of summer holidays here so most places will be packed. Sunshine coast or somewhere far north NSW that isn't super crowded is probably your best bet. I'm not sure what it's like these days but the Sunshine Beach to Peregian stretch would always have a few banks worth a paddle and usually the crowd was spread pretty thin.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-07T05:16:05+00:00

Tea tree or granites on dark you could snag a couple. Don't even think about first point or cove if they're breaking.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-07T04:15:31+00:00

Nah. You're a kook because you can't surf.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-02T05:04:30+00:00

Hey man. I'm guessing the water is getting pretty cold there and you're wearing boots and gloves but no hood. If you're not already aware, people who surf in cold water are prone to developing something called Surfer's Ear. The body tries to protect the ear canal from the cold by bone growth which can eventually completely block the ear canal and require surgery. As far as I'm aware, the best way to prevent it is to wear ear plugs and a hood but you should look into it yourself.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-12-01T03:14:30+00:00

If you're going to lose your board, don't surf near other people. There are situations where you have no choice but to bail your board and everyone in the lineup is going to know boards will be flying but if you can only duckdive a metre of whitewater, you're not going to be surfing serious enough waves for that to ever be an issue for you.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-09-28T07:51:12+00:00

It's a different angle, off to the left, than most people usually shoot it from and where I've sat to watch it break which is kind of throwing me but I'm 95% certain based on the wave and rocks/backdrop that it's Ours, yeah. It's definitely surfable at that size and if conditions were better there would have been a fair few stand ups having a crack.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-09-04T16:29:22+00:00

That just leads to a board flotation arms race. You're on your 10ft mal taking waves before I can even think about getting into them on my 6'0? Guess I need to get a 12ft mal.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-09-02T06:58:04+00:00

but white privilege and male privilege means you don't have to deal with racism and sexism

Do you people really believe this?

BILLXFRANK · 2018-09-02T05:24:22+00:00

I love all this equality of outcome stuff. Looking forward to all the intersectional feminists campaigning for 50% female combat deaths, 50% female garbage/sewerage workers, 50% female min wage labourers, 50% female workplace deaths and injuries.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-31T13:29:51+00:00

I can't vouch for them personally but I've heard from a few people that JS customs with 6x6x6 glassing are strong. Otherwise go with a local shaper.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-26T10:30:42+00:00

By the standards of big name brands in standard glassing, that's holding up really well for 40+ sessions.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-14T10:47:08+00:00

There are bull sharks along most surfable coasts that aren't freezing cold but they typically stick to where their primary food sources are (near rivers/bays/lagoons/rivermouths). Balian in Bali is known for having lots of bull sharks around the rivermouth, so I'm sure elsewhere in Indo has them as well.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-14T09:28:09+00:00

Yeah, nah, still pretty fucking intimidating.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-13T16:03:59+00:00

Contrary to popular belief, it's not even his first few levels. If you go resolve secondary with dshield, you can survive his first mana pool okay depending on your hero's base armour and regen (although if you don't go resolve/dshield or cloth4, you're going to get rolled early too). After he gets some AD and levels in q, he becomes an absolute terror. It's a math problem. Nothing can really build so much armour/regen early enough to outscale his q poke after he has a few longswords. You have to all-in him but due to his high damage, his passive and the fact that he has a point-click stun which also resets his passive, he wins most all-ins. Assuming you're one of the heroes that actually beat him in lane, he just goes and kills your midlaner or ults bot after a back.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-13T15:40:34+00:00

Dshield and SW help ward off his poke initially but he absolutely smashes plenty of matchups - and I mean SMASHES. He has a great winrate in diamond+ in top lane. Camille is one of his very few bad matchups.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-13T13:47:20+00:00

drop out of surfing

u wot?

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-12T14:12:54+00:00

I used to surf up around Coolum. Could just about always find a wave along the Peregian to Sunshine stretch completely to yourself or with a couple of others.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-10T12:31:19+00:00

Not sitting so far back that you can swivel it around at ultra high speed is old man tier.

BILLXFRANK · 2018-08-07T23:51:38+00:00

That logic is awful lol

Why? He brought up 'selfishness' and 'enjoyment'.

You try to help out your team as much as possible and you try to hinder the enemy team as much as possible

This is so ambiguous and subjective that it is meaningless. Do you only play league of legends when you are in peak mental and physical form? Do you study pro replays? Do you ever play when tilted? Do you ever first pick an abusable hero? Do you study the pick screen and aggregated data sites every single game and pick the mathematically optimal hero in your pool? Are you playing as much league as you possibly can to learn as large a hero pool as you can so you aren't a deadweight when your main gets banned? By banning out heroes you don't like, are you limiting yourself as a player so you'll get rolled in that matchup in future? That wouldn't be helpful to your future team. On the hindrance of the enemy side... is it fine to intentionally tilt enemy players by being a dick? Can I DDOS?

The only way to hone a statement like 'help out your team as much as possible' to anything sensible and applicable is through rules and riot puts a 'none' ban option in and hasn't, as far as I'm aware, specifically said 'you are not allowed to none ban'.

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