On Crowds

"It seems like the ones who have just accepted the crowd factor are the most happy and content."

Patrick Trefz in Surfing World 304 (2010)

It's Like Shoes

"if you've got the board that is perfect for the conditions you just have a ball, you don't have bad surfs. It's like shoes. You have running shoes, mountain climbing shoes, tennis shoes and they all have a different application... it's like surfboards for us" 

Bert Berger in Surfing World no. 294 (2009)

Anything

"I'll ride anything. Stand up on a bodyboard, longboard, shortboard, anything."

Julian Wilson in Surfing World 304 (2010)

Speed

"The key to surfing, and everybody knows it, is that if you have speed you can do anything you want."

Donavan Frankenreiter in Surfing World 304 (2010)

Yeah Right

"I found Noosa in '59 but no-one believed me until about '63" 

remembers Bob McTavish in Surfing World 295 (2009). With the crowded conditions so familiar to us these days, sounds like a "problem" anyone of us would gladly handle...

Morning Wall

"The equipment the best guys are using, in many sports, is often not suitable nor applicable to the average joe."

So said the King. Kelly Slater in Surfing World 294 (2009)

One for One

"If alternatives exist in ways to turn the fun on then there's more health all around. Whatever gives you the fun. Go for it."

Derek Hynd in Surfing World 296 (2009)

Spray It

"I think when surfing gets in your blood, it's like having saltwater in the veins. You just feel a mad hankering to get out there."

Stuart Bedford-Brown in Surfing World 293 (2009)

Beach Power

"The amount of energy in the waves that reach only our shores each year is equivalent to probably twice the world's current power usage" 

Dr Tom Dennis in Surfing World 292 (2008)

Rewards

"The trials reap great rewards when it all comes together."

Nathan Myers in Surfing World 291 (2008). Brett being rewarded for getting out of bed early.

Fun on Foam

"After decades of riding variations of basically one standard board, the average Aussie surfer has now decided that anything goes."

Surfing World 294 (2009)

Whoops

Azza. Living, learning, swimming. You're in good company mate, here's what Derek Hynd had to say on the matter:

"A lost art in surfing is the bloody swim to the beach... getting washed in and thinking during the swims. Aside from the aerobics, the minute or so is easy time to reflect on what you did wrong."

Surfing World 296 in 2009