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Short boards, mini<br />
mals, mals, logs, fishes,<br />
alaias, whatever you<br />
have laying around in<br />
the shed or even your<br />
pride and joy sitting<br />
in the lounge room...<br />
We want it!<br />
HOW IT WORKS...<br />
1. Get in touch! Either call or e-mail us<br />
2. Tell us about the board you want to trade and<br />
what new gear you’re after - SUP, surf, kite or wake!<br />
3. Send us a current picture of your<br />
board. We’ll evaluate the trade-in<br />
price and let you know how much it<br />
is worth against your purchase<br />
4. We agree on a price and organise the<br />
collection of your old surfboard and freight<br />
your new board or gear to your door!<br />
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?<br />
CONTACT US TODAY and trade that<br />
old surfboard for some new gear!<br />
SAVE $!!<br />
Trade in your old<br />
SURFBOARD<br />
against a brand new SUP,<br />
surfboard, kiteboard or<br />
other gear<br />
INTERSTATE?<br />
NO WORRIES!<br />
We’ll even arrange<br />
freight and collection!<br />
SWITCH YOUR THINKING<br />
The sport of surfing has spawned many other board sports. Skateboarding,<br />
windsurfing, snowboarding, wakeboarding and kiteboarding come to mind.<br />
All of these offshoots of surfing have left surfing for dead in one area:<br />
riding ambidextrous - or going switchfoot.<br />
Most surfers go through their whole lives without even trying to surf the<br />
other way. Their ego stops them as they don’t want to look like a kook. As<br />
a goofy footer on the North Coast surfing mostly right handers, if the wave<br />
has an easy take-off, I go switch. The excitement level is raised just doing<br />
any turn, and getting barreled is amazing.<br />
Anybody out there that wants to try, start going switchfoot on your<br />
skateboard down a gentle slope. Getting your back foot to learn how to<br />
turn is the hardest bit. When you feel comfortable turning the skateboard<br />
into tighter turns, the next step is trying to surf switchfoot. The easiest way<br />
is find a nice, peeling wave, about a metre high. Take off kneeling up and<br />
when you feel in control jump up switchfoot with your hands on the rails<br />
until you stabilize.<br />
Jeffrey’s Bay is pumping three-metre waves. A surfer takes off goofy and<br />
blasts a couple of vertical backhand re-entries on the big walls of the Bay.<br />
He does a cutback, switches feet and then flies along the Supertubes<br />
section getting barreled naturally...<br />
We have tow in surfing, carving surfing and aerial surfing. The future of<br />
surfing is being able to do all types of surfing switchfoot.<br />
Ian Brown, Broken Head<br />
You are spot on Ian - switch is the way to go. Plus, it will give me a better<br />
excuse for being a kook in general.<br />
LE LEGROPE... HAW! HAW!<br />
Hi Just writing to let you know that the history of the<br />
leash is wrong. Enclosed are some notes from a mag dated June 1965 -<br />
International Surfing Vol 1 No 4.<br />
Mick Kershler, Anna Bay<br />
NOTE: The little article (above) shows a French man, Durcodoy, with<br />
‘new device to keep from losing his board.’ The writer goes on to say<br />
‘Personally, I’d rather take a swim than have my leg snapped off.’<br />
Thanks Mick! We followed up on that for you... According to our history<br />
man, Ondi, there were most definitely a number of earlier ways that<br />
people were trying as leg ropes in a personal capacity. They tied all<br />
sorts to themselves to avoid the swim, but the 70s kudos to Pat O’Neill<br />
is specifically for the first leash to go into production - essentially the<br />
beginning of the leash as we know it today.<br />
LEFT: Leash history BELOW: Mick with his surf collection<br />
letters@smorgasboarder.com.au<br />
LETTERS<br />
24 jan/feb <strong>2012</strong>
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