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Surfing Peregian Beach  

Sometimes a visit to the local Pitta St surf spot at Peregian Beach brings a few suprises.

Hanging over the viewing platform rails and looking at really crappy, chopped up, mush called surf, which belies what was pushing in here a few days earlier.

“Pumpin’ Pitta” it certainly wasn’t,…on this day.

Three young surfers racing past me to get into the water, obviously to get cool, all said “g’day” as they ran past.

They proceeded to shred the surf to pieces. You could hear their laughter over the sound of the wind and waves.

The next day the same young guys happen to wander into the Surf Shop at Peregian Beach to check things out, and have a talk to Stevo.

Typically young guys talking surf and stuff, but the talk got to movies, and as Stevo is the owner of Sunnycoast Klips, making surf clips and videos the talk got exciting enough, and one of the young guys called James, had a video done (collaboration with one of the mates) featuring himself. Young James and his mate were well spoken young surfer dudes, that surf really well, and I think that if James was on the right gear, he would do better. But I digress.

His video is worth a look, and is a credit to those who got together to do it, and I think he won’t mind if I attach it here:-

One Sick Video of James

james harrisons new edit from Juka Productions on Vimeo.

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The Peregian beach precinct has a specialty “Surf-Shop”, and is highly visible on the David Low Way frontage of the Peregian roundabout on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.

Peregian Beach Surf-Shop is committed to their customers by providing them with quality brands of Surfboards and Surf Accessories, Surfboards and a large range of famous Surf brands in clothing. You may use your VISA, MASTERCARD, for any purchases by phone on 07 54713489 or inquiries by email @  surfshopperegian@gmail.com
STOP PRESS
Noosa Malibu Club,s latest News Letter about the Noosa Festival of Surfing final wash up
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CHRISTIAN WACH at Noosa Festival of Surfing

Seaglass Project Tom Wegener

CHRISTIAN WACH-Noosa Festival of Surfing
A young bloke called Christian Wach has been spending the last few weeks in the company of like minded people at Noosa and just happened to compete in, the Tom Wegener’s Finless Pro Division at the Noosa Festival of Surfing.
It doesn’t end here however; Christian opted to ride one of Tom Wegener’s Seaglass Project models that Tom designed for Global Surf Industries. In Christians words “the board was super fast and easy to ride, and paddled faster too”. A Seaglass Project finless board was part of the prize for the Finless Pro Division

Look Out No Fins

CHRISTIAN WACH at the Noosa Festival of Surfing

Needless to say Christian won this event, and what was remarkable it happens to be the first Pro Finless competition for all types of finless boards ever. It seems another first for Noosa and a young bloke called Christian Wach.

In a totally unselfish gesture Christian decided to sell the Tom Wegener Seaglass board he won, and donate the profits, (read 100%), towards the Japanese Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief Fund (Red Cross). Christian is also known for doing artwork designs on boards and for a small fee offered his artwork on the bottom of the board, the fee also being donated to the fund.

Se It Believe It

Wanna Buy? canvassurfboards@gmail.com will put you in the running.

Christian says “I have so many friends and supporters in Japan, their stoke, loyalty, and culture is so abundant in our surf industry, and I think the least we could do is help out with the intense struggles the are facing”

What a great gesture by Christian, and he is hoping to raise about  $400 + for a “rad board” and going to an “even radder cause”

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SURFERS LAMENT

By Birdie The Boardie

Bodyboarding:
Bodyboarding: The Forward Spin

We arrived on the Sunshine Coast back in ’93 and the main reason for selling up a successful business down south was for the health of our children suffering Asthma, in exchange for this relatively allergy free, beautiful Sunny Coast.

I spent a little time on my old 7’6” Shane Pintail trying to hot dog it after a fair few years lay off. I decided that my other Shane Round tail surfboard at the same length, but overall wider and thicker, which offered greater flotation was the one of choice, as I too had grown a bit wider and thicker, as it turned out.

The story hots up a few years later when my son was about 12 years old, and he was fairly accomplished at swimming, and with surfing his Body Board, as we had seen from time to time on small waves between the Groins.

My Son and I went down to the Noosa point and checked out T-Tree Bay together for the first time. It was a week day in School Holidays, and have got to say it was firing pretty well, all be it a tad crowded. So after a bit, we got a closer look and found our selves paddling out, he on his Body Board, me on my Shane “thicker wider” surfboard.

I suggested to my son that the waves were a bit big for him to go out to the Point. This is where as a parent I made my first mistake. I told him he should surf in the bay, and I then I proceeded to paddle out to get a point wave by myself. That was the next big mistake, and the third one was telling him to go in when I found him paddling up behind me. My last mistake was that I didn’t go in and surf the bay with him.

My son was a pretty good Body Boarder as it turns out, he later told me had surfed fairly big waves not known to me previously, but hey I didn’t know, what do kids tell you?                                                                                                                                                          I was afraid he would get hurt mixing it with the adults on the point that day and I really did think the surf was too big, and was afraid he would get hurt and spoil my session, there I said it. Spoil my session.

Didn’t see much of my son in the bay, and after about an hour or so I got one to the beach and found him sitting on a rock waiting to go home.

Didn’t speak much to each other, any conversation seemed strained.

SURFERS LAMENT

It’s 2011 and I now own a Surf Shop, but my son and I never surfed together again. He gave away Body Boarding for other things. It is now that I lament that whole day, and give myself an upper cut every time I think of it, for not staying with him…in the bay, enjoying good surf…together.

I now see Parent’s and their Kids having a beginner’s session between the Groins and at the Points interacting, and I’m really happy for them.

Today, I rue the day I behaved like a selfish idiot, and ignored my son, and putting all this aside, we are to this day best of mates, and that’s epic!
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SURF SCENE-Die Another Day-James Bond.
Saw this video on www.surfshop.com just recently and thought it was a hoot and a definite share for my followers

Surf Scene waves look familiar and so do the Surfers.

A block of Stomp wax to any one that can place the surfers and the surf spot.

SURF SHOP

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ABOUT SURFBOARDS

WHAT I RIDE…TODAY

I was having a long chat with one of my best mates, I’ll call him Jay, about surfboards and other things in surfing as you do, and he made the comment that I have never given a personal critique on my Surf-Shop site about any thing I have ever ridden in my past. Jay suggested that, as I have a lot of history in the surf and on the beach, I should be able to write about Surfboards and What I Ride Today.

Having a Surf-Shop allows me to test ride a lot of surfboards, especially when the distributors loan them out, and I have to say at this point, as an older guy, a test ride some times doesn’t come easy and I get trashed. Best to bury those kinds of days.

So Jay,… here is the story About Surfboards, and What I Ride Today.

Jamie Willems from Global Surf Industries suggested I have a go of this new McTavish 9’1” Original SLX, and after a couple of days I just couldn’t come to grips with it. I couldn’t really understand why, but it just didn’t suit my style of riding. Quite a dilemma, as I always have been a fan of McTavish Surfboards, so now I thought a McTavish was never going to be in the mix.

A few weeks passed and Jamie told me of an event that was to raise money for under privileged children called the “Board Meeting,” and Jamie suggested I have a go and Global surf Industries will look after the riders in the team with surfboards. OK I’ll be in it, and Jamie gave me a McTavish 9’1” Fireball Evolution to try. Being the latest model with great looking grey McTavish shadow logos across the lower half of the deck was impressive, and this look really made this board stand out and I was set to go.

So I needed a couple of days to fam. myself on it, and Granite had a little slider and the tides were just right. This board was set up by Jamie at absolutely bog standard settings with all original fins, and the centre fin placed in the middle of the box. Should work, well the first wave was a shoulder high job, with a nice wall and a progressively breaking lip. This board was so responsive, just flicking it around with little cut backs and bottom turns, and the board handling the lip without any concern, dropping down with out any rail grab to throw you off, and that was just the first wave. This thing was I would say the most responsive board I have ever wet my feet on. That board is that new SLX Bia-Axial high performance super lightweight constructed surfboard McTavish him self raves about, and all true. This board put a smile on my face for a whole three-hour session.

I came back to earth when the comp came around the following weekend. The event controllers decided the shore break at the Kawana Surf Life Savers Club was the location of choice.  With at least an overhead shore break wave that hammered and broke a few boards during the day, I was not impressed with the surf at all, as I don’t really like a shore break. This unsure feeling set the tone for me for the rest of the day, and when our teams heat came around and it was my turn to hit it. All I had to do was only catch one wave, and then pass on to my team member, quite simple really, but I just didn’t time anything at all and got trashed so many times, in the end a foamy got me in for a hand over.

That surfing session on that new McTavish was a disaster, as was a day out with Jamie Willems at Happy Valley not long ago. Well that guy can surf an ironing board, but his choice this day was a McTavish 9’1” Original in SLX Bi-Axial light weight model, (the one I couldn’t come to grips with) and he proceeded to shred the surf apart, and watching him became my pastime at that point.

I have had some great little sessions since that time however, including some overhead waves at my fav. spot, and the McTavish Fireball SLX board under my feet (read “me”) likes long smooth walls for some hot dogging and nose rides.

This board has put a smile on my face, and it is all About Surfboards and What I Ride Today. Every time I take it out it undoubtedly reassures me it is the best I have been lucky enough to surf so far, and lets face it at my age, the enthusiasm it has instilled is all the help I need, because I know that in the end, all you need is enthusiasm.

Get your bit of McTavish Fireball Evo SLX enthusiasm from Surf-Shop at Peregian Beach and you can use your Master and Visa cards and phone us for any further information at 07 54713489.

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