Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2016 i Tracks

PUTTING THE BOOT IN! I refer to Phil Jarrett 's Sorry article in your last Tracks Issue. (see cover above) Hey Phil ! On behalf of the boys down here in SA we don't really care what you think of the 70 s surfing era in SA I also met Fitzy at the bar that year. What an absolute gentleman with his mass of curls. One of the finest surfers I have met. The 60s and 70s were a great part of the surfing evolution and it really didn't matter geographicly where you lived. I might remind you of the pioneer surfwear king John Arnold who gave you guys the first Surf Brand Golden Breed from Gawler Place Adelaide. Wayne Lynch was a great friend and mentor for the Adelaide…

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As surfing’s evolution hit overdrive in the 70s Jeff Divine was the guy with his finger on a burning lens. The nascent North Shore scene with its cast of colourful mainstays and itinerant surf stars was a focal point for the young photographer. As the likes of Gerry Lopez, Larry Bertlemann, Mark Richards, Shaun Tomson and Buttons made the North Shore surfing’s ultimate stage, Divine had front row seats to the show. Ultimately, some of the era’s most defining lifestyle and action shots was the pay off for a decade of North Shore dedication. When surfing made its radical segue from the heady days of counter-culture experimentation into the commercially charged 80s, Jeff rolled with times and was still shooting prolifically. In 1981 he was appointed to the position of…

MAKING THE CUT The surfers have only had a couple of down days after returning from a WQS in Japan and here they are again, hustling through airport queues, dragging six-packed board bags and downing sleeping pills so that the contortion required to catch z’s on a cramped Air Asia flight comes a little easier. The Japan contest was miserably small and none of our crew has secured a result worth talking about. The local sushi joint was apparently the only saving grace. “I ate 20 plates in a sitting,” boasts Wade Carmichael whose mane of hair, hulking frame and forest of facial growth make him look like he should be slaying dragons on the set of Game of Thrones. In Japan they were no match for the wing-heeled backside…

Wayne Lynch arrives the night the swell leaves. It’s been pumping for weeks. Six-foot yesterday. Ten foot the day before. Surfers are nursing injuries and replacing boards, cross-eyed with surf. Wayne arises in the dark, descends the private staircase and paddles out through a reef corridor. Already a crowd is swarming The Peak. He strokes away from them, due south. Past the cliff the reef becomes fractured, the waves less perfect but eventually they’re to Lynch’s tastes: empty. Finally, he’s alone with the cliffs and the sea. The swell is weak and infrequent but the water warm and clear. Looking up you can glimpse the morning sun glinting off the Uluwatu Sea Temple. Wayne Lynch rides a wave. It’s his first on the Bukit in 43 years. He swore he’d…

FROM THE VAULT - THE ORIGINAL TRACKS HOUSE A legendary pic of the Tracks ancestors. Taken at Tony (Captain Good-vibes) Edwards' place at Palm Beach. It features (L-R) Phil Jarratt, Albe Falzon, Mary Camardie, Stephen Cooney, Tony, Sally & Chloe Edwards and Frank Pithers. FOLLOW. @conorheygi - liquid hypnotism! LISTEN - THE WHEELERS OF OZ - REVIVALISED The Wheelers from The Wizard Of Oz used to scare the shit out of me as a child, but this is not them. This is scuzzy and deeply satisfying riffage from a bunch of Perth lads. Well worth a listen! BEHIND PAGE ONE - SIMON WILLIAMS As the eight foot detonator bore down on him it was a textbook case of fight vs flight for Jackson Baker. Jacko's brain was screaming "No!" but…

I’ve been getting boards from the same shaper for ten years but I had a go of a mate’s board recently and it was one of the more mainstream models and it went unreal. I’d really like to try something else, but I feel like a slut? – Daz Feel that hard pounding at the base of your skull? That's your head getting fucked. This is a true conundrum, within the realms of would you rather a penis for a nose, or a nose for a penis? Is your loyalty worth sacrificing surf performance? Is your ten-year commitment worth throwing away on a new, all be it sexy, floozy? How about this? Get the dimensions from your mate's board, ask your own shaper to replicate it, and then check the…

The first time I met Nat Young (the original) was 42 years ago at a dive in Woolloomooloo with peanut shells all over the floor. The occasion was the presentation party for the inaugural Coke/2SM Surfabout contest, then the world’s richest. The big bucks ($5000 total purse) had dragged the two biggest names of the 1960s out of retirement, Midget Farrelly from his boatshed shaping bay at Palm Beach, Nat from his north coast Nirvana where he was the figurehead of the country soul movement, in which the competitor’s jersey had been swapped for the higher consciousness of organic food, eco-awareness and heaps of dope. But five large is not to be sneezed at, so Nat had put the dogs in care and driven down from his kingdom. Considering the…