wollongong comp 2005 when

[willow]

There is a lot of subjects here to reply to but here goes
I have been a Kneelo for over 30 years and I have never had anything to do with any club, until I moved to Wollongong 4 years ago when I was invited to come along to a WAKA (glad I spelt that right) point score. Since I joined the club I have I have meet some great guys and seen some amazing surfers. As a total outsider to the club seen I have been watching this thread and I feel I have to say something. The Wollongong comp for 2005 would have been great but I know that it is not easy to organize such a comp on short notice as you have to contact councils and such (who move reeeal fast) plus you have to give guys outside the area time to win enough brownie points at home to be able to go.

I was asked by Smurf about WAKA’s running a team comp in which I and others would probably not compete, I just thought it would be a great idea to be part of a club that hosted a great contest and we should obviously enter the best we have as a team and back up the guys that represent our club. Which to me is what clubs are all about.

As far as the prize money goes I am sure if the prize money was taken out there would still be just as many entries as most people who love their sport “any sport”, just enjoy the chance to get together with others who love the same thing and have a great time putting s*&^ on each other and catching up with people they have not seen for a while. It doesn’t matter how competitive they are out in the water. I may be wrong but I don’t think there are too many professional kneeboard riders out there who depend on comps for a living.
As Don from CA says it is better for the sport for the contest fees to go to the clubs so they continue to exist and be able to run more comps which is getting harder and more expensive to do. Clubs of old could survived on just members doing the jobs for free now there is more involved and more costs just to survive. Dunno about you guys but I would much prefer to have a trophy to put on the bar to show of to others that I won a comp doing what I love. Which is a lot better, than a few bucks in the bank to go towards bills.

As I said I am a rank outsider who has been surfing for a long time and has no aspirations of ever winning a comp (can’t teach an old dog) but I had to have my say.
Thanx for listening

GO THE WAKA’S (glad I spelt that right)

To Hart just bought a second hand flashpoint “ great board!!!!!!!!”

[albert]

I was asked by Smurf about WAKA’s running a team comp in which I and others would probably not compete,

I still dont understand this.. The format was formulated with the WAKAs specifically in mind as well as all the other regular circuit competitors.

why would you think you would probably not compete!! why is this so hard for me to understand!!

this has been by far one of the most frustrating things I have ever had to go through.

[Headwax]

nice first post willow

welcome to the world of hyperkneeloism ........

[john -]

welcome to the world of hyperkneeloism :

or


kneeboarders who are in touch with their "anima"








anima - see Carl Jung "Man and his Symbols"

[strudle]

kneeboarders who are in touch with their "anima"

an·i·ma
n.
The inner self of an individual; the soul.
In Jungian psychology:
The unconscious or true inner self of an individual, as opposed to the persona, or outer aspect of the personality.
The feminine inner personality, as present in the unconscious of the male. It is in contrast to the animus, which represents masculine characteristics.

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[john -]

......or the fact that we babble on like a lot of old women sometimes















which is not such a bad thing



women tend to live longer than men...which means more surf if you can keep fit for long enough

[Headwax]

You know,

When I get up in the morning, sometimes I stare at my face in the mirror as I contemplate abluting my ablutions. Occasionally, if the date is an even date (eg 12), I wonder if I, in fact, am not seeing my own face, but am actually gazing into the visage of a Jungian archetype...

I ask myself, "Will I be the hero today? The wise old man? Perhaps the trickster God who lurks in the shadows of the cave of the holy Grail?"

After a minutes stern silence from the face in the mirror I shrugg my shoulders and go back to bed.

Sometimes, just before I lay down, I reach under the matress, searching for the very small leather purse that once held my imaginary contest winnings.

But now they have all been dwindled away, on things like sandwhiches and mortgages and having my armour shodd shinily at the local blacksmiths.

No cash.
Trophies please.

[john -]

[quote="Headwax

I stare at my face in the mirror

[/quote]



ah......thats how you got those eye balls so white...... or should that be teeth



you know, good surfers probably end up with trophy girlfriends...well they did in "Puberty Blues"!




i wont say wives cos i might offend myself

[Headwax]

that should have read

I stare at the ruins of my face in abject terror...

My face is the trophy of my life.

I s'pose I should have taken the money....

sad isn't it?

[willow]

Maybe it was I who misunderstood the concept of what Smurf meant!
"It wouldn't be the first time I got it wrong"
Don't stress Albert