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bigman said..
About 15 years for me, bought my first sup while I was living back in Hobart, 7s Uberfish
On the Goldy not many doing it now, I'm the only sup out at Greenmount most of the time, lots wizzing around on efoils

Good crew down Tassie.
bring back the fish sup shapes!
every man and his dog are on foil drives now.
im just jealous! ??
id use one too if I could throw down 15 k
are there a crew at Currumbin still?

Thanks legend.
Nothing quite like it

That one time I scored a 7 page photo journalism article in a international magazine.
Retrofuturism
The only one in Australia who has a copy.

I've had the luxury of pioneering a few epic sup waves in my time.
outsides - A outside ledge in Newcastle that only starts to break at 6ft and holds 10ft max, loves the South - SE swell
ledging take off followed by a big wall that runs into deep water. Every session had it to myself and really had use land markers to line myself up.
miss the adrenaline and being scared of those crazy back reef bombs.

SUP Island - Port Kembla, NSW
when I moved to Wollongong I discovered my dream wave
best at 6ft, a left hander point break on a island known as a old seal colony, great whites they say.
Not the first one to surf it, but definitely was always on it over the 4 years I was in the gong, and always just me out.
Hands down the most challenging sup wave I've surfed and on my backhand even more challenging.

Having relationships with certain waves is such an experience. I love figuring out all of the facets of waves that carry serious power and will humble you real quick.
Ive also been fortunate to score some fickle reefs and river mouth set ups with no one out, especially living in my car/van for 6 years.
from the south coast all the way to Apollo Bay in Victoria, to now in NZ.
i miss my old friends and I hope in this lifetime I get to come and say hi and we can ride together once more.
just you and me together.

This past week my favourite part of Waihi Beach has finally got its perfectly shaped sand banks back.
Beach Access 15 has been absolutely smoking
With nice 2ft @12seconds with all day offshores and 2m high tides around the late morning making for 3 sessions a day picking the tides on the mid incoming, mid outgoing and mid incoming evening.
And scoring 15knots for wingfoiling on the high tides and an epic sup foil surf session with my new 1250 fireball front wing! Game changer.
Beach Access 15 has this path that highly resembles a few beach access paths on the north shore of Oahu particularly the one that runs next to JOBs house at pipeline and back door + this cool little one at V Land.
we have had these two consecutive massive tropical lows push past the NE coast super quick both going along the same path sending out that long period NZ lines.
Ive been a full forecast nerd watching every little movement and well it's paid off.
I love sup longboarding, but this past week Ive never felt it like I have before, the froth meter was through the roof, experimenting was in full swing with cross stepping with style from the nose back into a swooping inside paddle drop knee turns was the main focus + just stylish gliding take offs, cross stepping in a more slower and mindful mannerism of where my feet are going and style.
unfortunately I never have anyone to film so I use visualisation as really important tool prior to every wave and after every wave. As I see the wave coming and I'm getting into position I'm already planning what I want to achieve on every wave.
going back to the feeling. Like I said I've never felt sup longboarding like I have this week.
im riding a NSP sleepwalker 10x24@93.7L designed by Tully St John that I bought for $1000
the magic board indeed.
the best thing about this week that I had this epic bank all to myself every session, no one out, couldn't even see another surfer anywhere.
March, April & May are the best times for my coastline in NZ, let's hope the next three months deliver like last year and there are more epic sup longboard sessions to be had. Dam I'd love to drop an edit though.