When was your most epic session?

[slicktrigger]

Oi you lot. Who wants to brag about their most epic session?

Mine was way back in 1991 (yeah, I'm an old bastard) at Double Island Point during Cyclone Betsy. This place doesn't break often but when the conditions are right and you have a cylcone blowing out at sea it is arguably one of the best spots around. It is also the longest right hander on the east coast.

Anyway, we were out there and there was only about a crew of 10 guys. 6-8 foot sets, absolutley peeling. I stayed in the water for about four hours in the morning and another two in the arvo session. I was riding an old Shaping Co 6"4 square tail.

The waves were big, strong and they were fast.

We camped there for 3 nights and it was perfect the entire time. The only time you would paddle in was when you were totally exhausted and couldn't surf anymore.

It makes such a difference to your surfing when you get to ride perfect waves.

[ljw]

Well it definetely isn't xmas, boxing day 2003. Whats the go.... finally got some time off and not a decent wave in site. Right then, beer it is.

[yewwww!]

my most epic session i would have to say was when that cyclone benny swell it us. it was one of those morings when u wake up at bout 4-4:30 to see a perfect 6-8ft swell just rolling in. so i called up a few mates and we thought we'd give the jet ski a bit of a whirl at the bombie. so we were out there for about 2 hours towing it to the nicest bombs when we thought we'd just head in to naz and just start padleing in becuase we thought we were missing to much of the nice swell standing of the wall waiting for it to be our go. and that was the funest session ive ever had of my life. best barrles and sickes sections. it was soooo good. if only we could have every weekend like that........

[Brodysurfer]

mine would of been at the pass at byron lol
tho there was a cyclone swell last year sometime
and it was about solid 5 foot the banks were perfect and it was just barreling the whole way down the point biggest keg fest ever and there was only like 5 people out properly because lennox was going off tho the pass was cookin
longest waves of my life had fukn sore legs that night and sore arms as well


surfed from 6in the morning to 5 in the arvo best surf ever fuked up that night just passed out then did it all agean the nexed day thats the life

[straddiekook]

probly not the most epic, but def the funnest was back in 03 I think, at a certain campground on a certain QLD island, heavy 3 foot plus shorey, dry sand, me and about 5 other mates, nothing but reforms and makeable barrels, getting spat out onto dry sand, surfed it from about 5 till 12 then the winds finally swung.

Most epic would be either snapper-kirra newyears 04 or a couple of years back at straddie, perfect peaks, blue water and heavy 4-5 foot bowls, couldnt ask for much more.

New Years 04
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3258/6863cr3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Joshstar]

Mines defo tc benny to I think it was. 8ft straddie and it was holding that size easy. Other then that theres so many you just cant list them all

[straddiekook]

when was TC benny?

[straddiekook]

I remeber a pretty hectic cyclone swell at straddie in march 04, Straddie was off its tits, so big that it was breaking about 30 meters past the wall, but it was still holding the swell perfectly, none of this fat shit when it breaks past the wall like it does now, easily the biggest I've seen it hold,

[justin]

iluka bluff about a month ago

[darth_waver]

kawana 6ft perfect glassy offshore a few months ago now

[masta]

hmmm my best was earlier this year at greenie / kirra,,, all i remember is scoring heaps of kegs... wasnt thaaaat epic but stiks out as funest all time for me

still searching to have that perfect sesh with only few crew out

[Brodysurfer]

wow thats perfect


probly not the most epic, but def the funnest was back in 03 I think, at a certain campground on a certain QLD island, heavy 3 foot plus shorey, dry sand, me and about 5 other mates, nothing but reforms and makeable barrels, getting spat out onto dry sand, surfed it from about 5 till 12 then the winds finally swung.

Most epic would be either snapper-kirra newyears 04 or a couple of years back at straddie, perfect peaks, blue water and heavy 4-5 foot bowls, couldnt ask for much more.

New Years 04
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3258/6863cr3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Donweather]

Oi you lot. Who wants to brag about their most epic session?

Mine was way back in 1991 (yeah, I'm an old bastard) at Double Island Point during Cyclone Betsy. This place doesn't break often but when the conditions are right and you have a cylcone blowing out at sea it is arguably one of the best spots around. It is also the longest right hander on the east coast.

Anyway, we were out there and there was only about a crew of 10 guys. 6-8 foot sets, absolutley peeling. I stayed in the water for about four hours in the morning and another two in the arvo session. I was riding an old Shaping Co 6"4 square tail.

The waves were big, strong and they were fast.

We camped there for 3 nights and it was perfect the entire time. The only time you would paddle in was when you were totally exhausted and couldn't surf anymore.

It makes such a difference to your surfing when you get to ride perfect waves.

Slicktrigger,

What was the sweep like back then? Everytime I've surfed it in anything that's been reasonable wave size, the sweep has been horrendous....can't even paddle against it.

I agree on it's day it's one of the best point breaks around, but only if you've got a jet ski to get ya back up the point after the sweeps eaten ya.

Donweather

[what_a_bogan]

funnist surf not too small not too big.

straddie last year it was solid 4-5 so much fun booger and mazey where out i seriously i got out of soo many barrels i lost count easy 15+.

and spooks just a couple of months ago solid 4 light offshore lowtide no one out but u and a couple of mates!! what more can ya ask for????

[Joshstar]

You and ur yamba missions, call yaself a local kook ;)

[Donweather]

1842
Mine would have to be Maldives 2000. Best boat trip I've had and awesome setup for perfect waves. One afternoon we got 6ft Cokes and Chickens to ourselves. Just myself and two of my mates surfing perfect reef breaks as the sun was setting in warm tropical waters.

We surfed it til spaghetti arms kicked in then paddled back to the boat and got stuck into some late afternoon beers overlooking perfect Cokes with no one out.

Donweather

[sunnycoastbooger]

god i could never list them all. So many of them at g-land last year and this year. As for this year, ones that stand out are:
One perfect day at turtles, full on cranking, 3 of us out from early morning to lunch.
Straddie just before i went to indo with stumps and booger, the day that surfer got air lifted out.
Apart from g-land, our first surf at canggu this year, nothing big, but the wedge was working sick with just us 3 out.
Wurtulla when i got back, cranked all day, you have seen the photos, apartently 6ft according to darth haha.
And a few of the ballina mishs me and stumps have scored with

[darth_waver]

hahaha easy 8ft

[stumps]

so many over the past few months, it is soughta hard to remember the best surfs i ahve had, like it doesnt have to be that good and i think it is mad, hahahaha, i am just stocked all the time to be in the water, (it pisses SCB right off hahaha) soughta like pat off endless summer 2, every session i get the wave of my life, haha, except with out the skipping, haha

[sunnycoastbooger]

stumps, the only thing you and good surf have in common is your good at avoiding each other

[RustyJoe]

hahahaha

[stumps]

stumps, the only thing you and good surf have in common is your good at avoiding each other

Fuck off, what would you know, gay cunt, haha

[Schnell]

At the risk of sounding like a name dropping wanker I would have to say the Far Bar at Puerto very early one morning at an absolutely flawless 6ft with just me and a mate and a couple of others, then 4-6ft Desert Point until it was spoilt by a boat load of Brazilians.

As far as Oz goes, funnest sesh would have to be some flawless beachies up at Double Island with just the boys out.

[Burgundy]

wurtulla a few months ago with SCB and another mate.

[stumars]

My best Qld session Id have to say Kirra a few months ago, the crowds wernt too bad at all. Besides that ive had some sik surfs at tressels it breaks so sweet over the reef and its never really crowded, south wall Ballina, and heaps of good sessions at nrth wall, and sharpes. Fuck i miss living in Ballina.

[louie_the_fly]

Big NE swell... W wind... 1 million twats at head high noosa. My brother and I got out at northern end of sunshine beach. No one out every dick head is at noosa. Up to double over head long left hand barrels spinning off and reeling down the beach. Piss easy rip to get out too. (actually had many sessions like this)

then the next weekend... the low moves south... big SE swell SW wind... southern end of abay was doing an exact mirror. My brother and I and no one out. Every twat still at noosa

Otherwise I had this session at kirra (pre sand pumping) on about a 4-5ft day. was pretty ordinary until i picked off wwhat I thought was a big fat one from the end of big groyne. turned into an absolute fkn grinder. got shacked from about 3/4 along big groyne all the way past little groyne. just racing it the whole way. every time i thought i was coming out a whole new thick barrell section with throw down the line. walking back along the point i looked from where i started getting shacked until where i came out and shook my head in disbelief.

[consumer]

probably a few sessions at main nth strad over the years. tonga bowls 2002 before tc Wati fucked us up

[Atlas]

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surfed this joint in morocco at a perfect 4ft for a couple of days. the first 200 metres like the superbank, the next 500 metres just a perfect wall. you end up with jelly legs at the clump of rocks at the bottom middle of the photo and takes it takes you 20 minutes to walk back. dick all people out, just a few euro kooks. the outside section around the corner was a solid 8-10ft.

best barrels i've had would be sultans in the maldives or the superbank a few years ago

[sunnycoastbooger]

Fuck off, what would you know, gay cunt, haha

haha what would i know? Because every surf you have i pretty much know of. Dont worry it will change when you man up and actually come to indo

[Joshstar]

Where the fuck is that?

[what_a_bogan]

Straddie just before i went to indo with stumps and booger, the day that surfer got air lifted out.


ya that day was ffucking heavy! i fuckin got creamed on one and my sholder hurted for like the next 3 months. and i bitched a fair few waves after that happend.

[Cazza]

my funnest would probably have been broken head. surfed it at 3-4 foot with only 3 of us out, was damn perfect, more people came as the sun started to rise but the crowd was still slim. was just hell fun.

[Gary B]

HAd so many days that I would rate as all time so its hard to pick one.
Best ones are
North wall Ballina - 6-8' with bigger ones coming through, the peak was way out past the end of the wall it was that big. Just big long walls with great cutty sections (you'd a loved it squiddy ;) )
Kirra '93 - Crew of about 12guys surfing the begining of a new groundswell, we were all justr talking turns surfing big groyne to the shed, just had this circuit happening. No one was dropping in and everyone was just hooting each other and stoked to score it reasonably uncrowded.
A spot in West Java... - perfect 10-12' walls with a barrel on take off and an end section barrel. The best rights I have ever surfed period! Was an epic session till we got smacked by a 15' or bigger clean up set. Biggest most perfect waves i have ever surfed.

[straddiekook]

same kirra back in '77

[Joshstar]

Scored a good day with mazey and ron jeremy between the pipe and the wall. 4-5ft
Hard to remember all the days, you just know they were epic

[backloop]

same kirra back in '77

If that was the time Kirra was going off its tits for about 30 days, never dropping below 4-5feet, then i would have to agree with you. Would have to rate as one of the all time specials. Used to wake up each morning to perfect waves and hardly anyone out. Some of the bigger days got up to around 8-10feet, and smooth as a greasy oil slick.

Ahhhh....the good ole days.

[Gary B]

If that was the time Kirra was going off its tits for about 30 days, never dropping below 4-5feet, then i would have to agree with you. Would have to rate as one of the all time specials. Used to wake up each morning to perfect waves and hardly anyone out. Some of the bigger days got up to around 8-10feet, and smooth as a greasy oil slick.

Ahhhh....the good ole days.

Nah that was in 86 or 87 from memory

[Fisheye]

damn nigga that was 91 or 92

[straddiekook]

If that was the time Kirra was going off its tits for about 30 days, never dropping below 4-5feet, then i would have to agree with you. Would have to rate as one of the all time specials. Used to wake up each morning to perfect waves and hardly anyone out. Some of the bigger days got up to around 8-10feet, and smooth as a greasy oil slick.

Ahhhh....the good ole days.

Na im full of shit, I was a nobody back in those days...

[backloop]

The date is not as important as the memories, but sorry Gaz, Fisheye, it actually was around 77or78. I left the GC shortly after to travel for a few years, so it had to be about then. Tracks did a good article on it.

[Gary B]

I reckon the 7 week swell was deffs in 86. It was featured in the billabong movie surf into summer or another of their early ones.. maybe i'm to old to rember date...or my hat is getting to tight.

[Bill]

A few (and far between) good kirra seshs from late 90's early 00's.

Couple of largish days at burlz,

Too many perfect days at stradds. June/July 2002 had perfect waves almost everyday there.

Nth and Sth Walls @ Ballina have produced damn epic waves.

Sunny Coast lots, blah blah,

I WANT WAVES NOW FARRRK

[Ron Jeremy]

Straddie just before i went to indo with stumps and booger, the day that surfer got air lifted out.



Most epic would be either snapper-kirra newyears 04

^Two of my faves for sure. though I think the new years '04 swell i surfed on the 2nd not the 1st of January, which was bigger but just as clean by memory...

...Then of course pretty much every sesh i had in the mentawais: lances left, bankvaults and bintangs especially...

...and a few of the golden old days at needles before every grommie boogieboarder on the goldy decided to become a 'local' there

[Atlas]

yeah i surfed the superbank for that 04 NYE swell. i was out for like 5 hours and my girlfriend got soo pissed off with me getting surnburnt on the beach haha..."just one more round" pffft

[louie_the_fly]

the first few days of the june 05 swell was fkn nice. huge offshore SC beachies until the banks were rooted.

[sunnycoastbooger]

yep. wurtulla was awesome in that swell

[Thorno]

Yeah i was in yamba for that swell.....angourie was going mental.

[liquid high images]

yep. wurtulla was awesome in that swell

you got that right...

[Gary B]

yep. wurtulla was awesome in that swell

I lost a good board at wurtulla in that swell..
It was only its second surf
BUt it was deffs worth it.

[straddiekook]

^Two of my faves for sure. though I think the new years '04 swell i surfed on the 2nd not the 1st of January, which was bigger but just as clean by memory...



I surfed it for about 5 days straight, it was the best way to kick off a new year

[Ron Jeremy]

yeah nothing better ay. crossing the fingers for an unseasonal november cyclone or groundswell

[louie_the_fly]

yep. wurtulla was awesome in that swell

i scored big big lefts at the northern end of sunshine with 2 guys out. just massive fkn walls. then a fews days later it got too big and straight and the banks were smashed up. Had a decent session up at DI during it too.

[sunnycoastbooger]

are u a booger Louie? why would u want big walls when u could got big barrels at wurtulla?

[louie_the_fly]

booger yeah... the walls had barrels on them. big barrelly outside section, long fast wall then a barrelling inside section. then you walked up the beach to the rocks hopped back in the rip and hoped a set didnt get you on the way out

[what_a_bogan]

ya that winter swell last year was sick!! never seen strad sooo big and perfect.