March 2010

These days with Precise Computer shaping and the lack of time it takes to shape new surfboards, some pro surfers are getting around 150 boards a year off there shapers. With surfing progressing as fast as it is, the best guys need the best equipment at all times, and now with machine shaping it has made it so much easier to do so.

Well for years, Noosa Heads in Queensland has had the rep of being too crowded, too fat, and generally more trouble than it's worth! The scenery is world class and that seems to be the only thing the core surfing community gives it thumbs up for, or is it?

on Friday When Kimmins rocked up at pumping Burleigh at 7am to find the line up littered with a million people, he decided to post on his facebook before paddling out that he just saw someone get his leg ripped off by a bull shark at Burleigh cove. By the afternoon 71 people had commented on it, some people totally wigging out. His next post was "just caught a humpback whale on a hand reel" to see how Gullible people would be this time.

Im no Weather forecaster by any means but i do check the swell maps for Sunshine Coast/Gold Coast area about once a week to see whats going to happen with the waves.. This week i knew there was going to be quite a large swell due to the cyclone Ului off the Great Barrier Reef, but i definitely didn't expect to see it as big as its showing.. Its probably the biggest swell i've ever seen for this area on the maps, so i cant wait to see if it delivers.