Growing up as a grom, your surf days are typically spent down at your local, within a distance, you can either walk or bike. Sometimes if you’re lucky your parents might also surf so when they can you will get the chance to head further afield and experience new places and meet new faces. You may even be lucky enough to have an older sibling or meet older mates in the neighbourhood who have cars, and throw you in the boot or on the back floor, you’d do whatever it took to experience the pumping swells that frequent other surf zones, especially when your local hasn’t produced a wave in a while. Yet imagine the pain when your parents are too busy or the older brother or sister, has simply had enough of hanging out with the annoying younger grom, or the car is full with other mates and you’re left home all alone, missing out on pumping surf!
Denne historien er fra NZ Surfing Magazine #188 October /November 2019-utgaven av NZ SURFING MAGAZINE.
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Denne historien er fra NZ Surfing Magazine #188 October /November 2019-utgaven av NZ SURFING MAGAZINE.
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Trigger Finger
Ask any top surf coach and the two elements they will concentrate on and recommend are a solid bottom turn and being able to develop speed - as they say, speed is your friend, and many of the best surfers on the planet also happen to be the fastest surfers.
THESHAPESHIFTER ROGER HALL
Ladies and Gentleman Choose Your Weapons: How to decide on your next surfboard.
The Olympians
Over 50 years ago surfing’s greatest ambassador of all time, the legendary Duke Kahanamoku, had a vision that one day surfing would become an Olympic sport.
The Gladiator Pit
Born from the era of the Roman Empire, armed combatants known as gladiators would enter the arena also known as the Gladiator Pit to face up against other gladiators, animals and criminals in fierce battle in what was seen as entertainment often ending in death to one or the other.
Rising Grom Asia Braithwaite
There are those young athletes that get into sport who possess natural talent, even the X-factor, yet as the road is usually a far-too-easy passage, they either take it for granted or don’t push beyond their capabilities.
Licence To Score
The adventures behind the wheel of Mount Grom Luke Griffin.
Land Of The Long Lefts
It was the year 1966 and the sport of surfing was sweeping the world.
Theshapeshifter - Roger Hall
Ever heard of a Mini Simmons?
The Road Less Travelled
Take a look at a map of our coastline and you will see thousands of kilometres of coastline, 15,000 to be almost exact, making it the 9th longest in the world.
Then & Now
It was the early 80s and the world of sport was evolving rapidly.