Bondi Stories, vol.1.

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Bondi Stories Californian surfboard manufacturers recently spent nearly £3000 on photographic equipment and paid all expenses for three of California’s best surfers to go to Hawaii for a threemonth film-making trip. Brilliant surfer Bud Browne, of Honolulu, financed a trip around the world with two exciting 50-minute films taken on Hawaiian beaches. Hollywood is to make a film with a surfboard theme, based on an American best seller, “Gidget”, written by Californian journalist Frederick Kohler. Introduced to a number of surfboard riders by his daughter, Mr. Kohler liked their philosophy and jargon. He called his book “Gidget”, meaning girl midget, the surfers’ nickname for his daughter. 20
T The Beach Scene Tracks Magazine 1971 John Witzig he crews hang at various places. At the tunnel, the second ramp, the first ramp, the rocks near the end of the beach, and at the baths. There are younger kids at the tunnel. They are swollen in numbers because it’s hot and it’s nearly holidays. They’re young and stoked and they haven’t yet acquired specific characteristics like the other groups. Or if they have they’re keeping quiet about it so far. Bondi gets good in winter. A lot of waves and the crowds are not bad. In summer it’s the most populated bit of beach in the country. From the harsh dawn there are joggers and strollers and sitters and swimmers. There are hundreds of kids that walk out of the wilderness with a board under an arm and a towel in a hand and sunburn cream on a nose. On those summer weekends it’s glary at six o’clock and the sun is hot when it’s an inch above the horizon. The kids pull on their shorts, squint at the good peak that’s formed in the south corner, look around for someone’s wax. Old men do Yoga amongst the rocks. Joggers jog out of the hills and along the concrete promenade. And the surfers hit the peak, and it’s crowded by seven o’clock. There are a lot of people. They go by one another without recognition. In the water, despite the crowds, there isn’t a fierce competitiveness. There are too many people for that somehow. They withdraw to their own worlds. The simple facts of survival ensure a respect and consideration that is implied mostly, and almost carelessly. Brad Mayes is one of a lot of good surfers at Bondi. He hangs mostly at the second ramp. His surfing shows traces of Ted Spencer, perhaps the littlest bit of Nat, and it’s probably representative of the strongest group at Bondi. There are
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