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The Australian Women's Weekly
24 January 1962, page 7.


HIS AND HERS.
Surf-board pants in colorful cotton.
 Kerry Yates, of Bondi, and Mr. Ron Adler, of Clovelly,
wear them for surf-board riding -
Kerry's with a matching top.







Trove
1962 'SOMETHING FFERENT....', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 24 January, p. 7. (Teenagers' Weekly), viewed 08 Sep 2016
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41853263



Victor Harbour Times
SA
, 16 February 1962, page 5.

FINAL SURF CARNIVAL

The final surf carnival for the
season held at New Surfers last Sunday was a most successful day for the Port Elliot Surf Life Saving Club.
The club's two leading surf board riders — Bob Bruce and Bryce Whitford — displayed their superior ability when they won respectively the senior and junior events.

Trove
1962 'FINAL SURF CARNIVAL', Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986), 16 February, p. 5. , viewed 08 Sep 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186745459

The Canberra Times
26 February 1962, page 16.
Australian Surf Title To N.S.W.

HOBART, Sunday.—A crowd of 20,000 to-day saw New South Wales beat Queensland by five points to become Australian surf championship titleholders for 1962.
...
R. Little (Wollongong, N.S.W.), proved the master of the surf boards by taking both the championship and inter-club titles.
G. Lambert did the same in the surf ski events.

Trove

1962 'Australian Surf Title To N.S.W.', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 26 February, p. 16. , viewed 08 Sep 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104924503

The Canberra Times
5 March 1962, page 16.


Many Surprises In Lifesaving

HOBART, Sunday. — Surf Lifesaving had an almost completely new list of national title-holders after the Australian Inter-Club Championships at Burnie to-day
...
Surf Board champion Bob Little, Wollongong (N.S.W.), lost his title by only about a yard to D. Heussner, Maroubra (N.S.W.).

Results
Single Surf Ski Championship: R. Sumner Terrigal (N.S.W.) 1, P. Coles (North Bondi) 2, B. Stuart (Maroubra) 3.
Senior Surf Boat: Wanda (N.S.W.) 1, Mollymook (N.S.W.) 2, Cronulla 3.
Double Surf Ski Championship: D. Green, B. Stuart (Maroubra) 1, G. Lambert, R. Sumner (Terrigal) 2, G. Hogan, W. Luscombe, Torquay (Vic.) 3.
Junior Surf Boat Championship: Freshwater (N.S.W) 1, Swansea Caves (N.S.W.) 2. Nth. Narrabeen 3.
Surf Board Championship: D. Heussner (Maroubra) 1, R. Little (Wollongong) 2, D. Henderson (Freshwater) 3.

Trove
1962 'Many Surprises In Lifesaving', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 5 March, p. 16. , viewed 09 Sep 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104925256

The Australian Women's Weekly
Wednesday 7 March 1962, page 41S (Supplement- Teenagers' Weekly).

HIS FILMS ARE ALL SPLASH HITS


By KERRY YATES

Young American film producer and camera- man Bruce Brown, of California, really gets himself into deep water.

Bruce makes films (the action pictures on this page are "stills" from them) on surf-board-riding, and while he some times shoots film from tops of cars, helicopters, and boats, the main location set is in the water.

Bruce, blond and tanned, recently toured the east coast of Australia showing his surfing films to local enthusiasts in hired halls and theatres.

"I find the best angle to film surf-board-riders is right in front of them," said Bruce, "and that's why I'm usually in the water."

His 16mm. color movie camera has a specially designed waterproof case.
Bruce treads water, sometimes hundreds of yards from shore.
He films surf- board-riders as they speed toward him and then ducks to let the boards go over his head.

"I've picked up a few stitches (though no serious injuries) learning when to duck," said Bruce, "but it seems the only way to capture the height of mighty waves."

He also attaches a camera by suction-caps to the front of his surf- board and paddles out to join the riders.
Moving on his board beside the riders, he films them as they speed past.

Bruce brought his three full-length surfing movies to Australia.
Titled "Slippery When Wet," "Barefoot Adventure," and "Surf Crazy," they were filmed in the surfs of California, Mexico, and Hawaii.

Each movie runs for an hour and a half and shows the thrills and skills of surfboard-riding.

Bruce commentates from the stage during the color films, telling who's riding the waves and all about the beaches on the screen. "This gives it a personal touch," he said, "'and I can adapt different styles for different audiences."


The background music to the films, which seems to capture the sound of the sea, was composed and played by Bud Shank, a popular American jazz musician.

A big band backs Shank.

Bruce Brown-producer.
Bruce, 24, from Dana Point, California, has been interested in photography for eight years.
At 18, as a member of the American Submarine Service, he was stationed at Hawaii.
While he was there Bruce produced his first short color film of board riding.
An American surfboard building company decided to sponsor the showing of the film at seaside towns in America.

Since then Bruce has produced his three full-length movies and "about half a dozen short surfing films for television."
With his films he has toured the islands of Hawaii, most of California, and eastern U.S.A.

During his tour of eastern Australia (the tour, in January, was his first visit here), Bruce was thrilled with the enthusiasm of the surfboard-riders, mostly teenagers.
He filmed most of his new full-length movie, to be released some time this year, at surfing beaches along the coast of N.S.W.

Although the films show many local riders from the different beaches, Bruce usually takes a couple of champion surfboard-riders with him to appear in the films.

A top surfboard-riding star, Phil Edwards, of Oceanside, California, toured Australia with Bruce.
Phil, 23, nil and rugged, is a surfboard and sailing-boat builder by trade and has his own company in the U.S.

Phil Edwards-star
FOOTNOTE: Bruce got into "hot water" one day when he was filming board-riders at a quiet Californian beach.
Military police arrested him for "spying."

Bruce had to develop Iiis film to prove to the police that he had not been using his telescopic-lens camera to photograph a nearby "hush-hush" Army installation.


Trove
1962 'HIS FILMS ARE ALL SPLASH HITS', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 7 March, p. 5. (Teenagers' Weekly), viewed 01 Sep 2014,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59834088

Desert Sun
Palm Springs, Number 239, 11 May 1964, page 7.


Frank Sinatra Has Near Miss In Surf Mishap


LIHUI KAUAI, Hawaii (UPI) —
Singer Frank Sinatra had a close brush with death Sunday when he and three other persons were swept out to sea by a huge wave near his rented house on the island of Kauai
 “In another five minutes he would have been gone,” said Fire Lt. George Krawe, who took part in the rescue.
“His face was turning blue,”
The near-tragedy happened as Sinatra, Mrs. Howard W. Koch and two unidentified persons were struck by the wave as they waded in the surf of Wailua Bay.
The singer and Mrs. Koch, wife of the executive producer of a film which Sinatra is making in Hawaii, were swept about 75 yards out to sea by the undertow.
The other two persons fought their way hack through the surf and shouted for help at the Coco Palms Hotel, where guests summoned the local fire department.
Sinatra's next-door neighbor, Alfred O. Giles, heard the shouts and plunged into the waves with his surfboard.
Two other men, County Supervisor Louis Gonsalves and Harold Jim, swam to Sinatra from the main beach.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
Desert Sun, Number 239, 11 May 1964, page 7.
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19640511.2.61&srpos=321&e=-------en--20--321-byDA-txt-txIN-surfboard-------


The Australian Womens' Weekly
Wednesday 22 August 1962, 
Teenagers' Weekly (Supplement) cover

Cover image contributed by John Witzig, with many thanks, May 2011.

Our cover boys are some of the surfboard riders who competed at Narrabeen, one of Sydney's northern beaches, during the rally organised by the South Pacific Surf Riders Club last season. ( -page 41).

Cover story: 
Australian Wins International Championship in Peru -story page 3.

John noted that Midget Farrelly is kneeling in the centre of the photograph.
The other surfers require identification.

Note that most of the boards, probably early foam, are coloured and decals are impossible to identify.
Some of the boards in the centre appear to be balsawood.
Also note the twin fin bellyboard, centre of the rear row.

While most wear long legged boardshorts, several are in nylon briefs.
Some boardshorts have an external thick white waist cord, a short-lived fashion accessory- for example those of John Knobel (see below).

 

Garry Crockett uploaded this image on his Surf City Blog, April 24th, 2011, with the following notes:

"Just had a call from John Knobel, Bondi local in the 50s and 60s.
That’s him standing second from the left in front of the red balsa malibu, wearing his home-made blue board shorts with a snazzy rope belt.
John surfed on a Norm Casey hollow 16 foot toothpick before the malibus arrived in Sydney in 1956 although he was never part of the lifesaving scene.
As a youngster he wheeled his board the few blocks to the beach on a hand cart made from a packing case.
The switch to light-weight balsa in the late 50s was an amazing break through because “they could be thrown about from the tail” and unlike the old longboards were thrilling to ride.
It was also pretty clear that shorter boards meant more fun in the surf, so his early boards were under 9 foot.
John also recalled hopping over the back wall into the lifesavers’ change rooms at Bondi to rescue surfboards impounded by the likes of Aub Laidlaw.

Peter Bowes added in some names..

Top row left – Denis Lindsay
Top row right, Hawaiian shirt – Mick Dooley
Middle row right with spikey hair – Dave Standen
Black suit – Midget
Next but one – Bob Fell
Front row right – Puppy Dog Paton."

Page 3

International surf champ
By Kerry Yates

 BOB PIKE riding one of the great Hawaiian waves during last summer's international championships.
 
Below, holding the bronze seagull trophy
he won in the Peruvian Championship
while John Severson is presented
with his cup for second place.


Wherever the surf is running best - anywhere on the coast between Surfers' Paradise, Queensland, and Torquay, Victoria - there you'll find Bob Pike.
Enjoying the sun, sand, and salty spray, he's also training hard, for in a few months he plans to be off again to South America to defend his title of Surfboard Riding Champion of Peru.

BOB, now 22, won the championship last March in competition with the best from Hawaii, California, France, and Peru, and he made such a hit with the people of Lima that they asked him to come back next March - all expenses paid.
An old boy of The King's School, Sydney, Bob's home is at Manly, just north of Sydney Heads.

The first Australian to win a surf championship overseas, he was a member of the 20 strong Australian team which competed in the International Surfing Championships at Makaha Beach, Hawaii, last summer.
Because he injured a leg he had to drop out before the finals.

Several members of the team qualified, but had to return home before the finals, delayed by lack of a suitable surf, were held.
Bob, however, got a lucky break soon after the Hawaiian championships were over.

John Severson, a champion Californian rider who was visiting Hawaii for the surfing titles, offered Bob a trip to Peru.
The editor of the American magazine "The Surfer," John won all the board-riding events in last year's Peruvian championships and, before he left, the organisers asked him to arrange for Australian, Hawaiian, and Californian riders to compete in their 1962 championships.
John chose Bob and a Sydney friend, Mike Hickey, of Bilgola (another northern Sydney beach), to represent Australia.

It was all a great surprise to Bob.
"I didn't even know they surfed in Peru, but what a way to find out!" he said.
So off he went to California, where he joined two other boys heading for Peru, and they all drove down to Mexico with their surfboards tied to the roof of the car.
Taking a couple of weeks for the trip, the boys stopped to surf at all the famous beaches along America's west coast.

From Mexico they took a plane to Lima, capital of Peru, where they were put up at the best hotel, as guests of the city's Waikiki Surf Club.
During their month's stay the visiting surfers went to a party as guests of the President of Peru and were lavishly entertained by the city's citizens.

"There are several beautiful beaches near Lima," Bob said, "but the surf is small.
"The biggest waves are about 10ft. high, and a permanent off-shore wind makes the water too choppy for really good surfing.
"But Peru itself, and the people! They're terrific."


For winning the international exhibition board-riding event, Bob was awarded a bronze carving of two seagulls mounted on a marble base.
The trophy weighs 361b. and is valued at £150.Bob said that all the visiting surfers received "royal" treatment.

Holding the bronze seagull trophy he won in the Peruvian Championship
while John Severson is presented with his cup for second place.


Servants employed by the Waikiki Surf Club took charge of their surfboards, rubbed them down with paraffin wax. carried them to the water's edge, and even waited to carry them back after Bob and the other boys had finishing riding.

The servants handed them towels after they showered in the surf club, and even rubbed suntan lotion on their noses before they went out in the sun again.

After leaving school at 15, Bob did a two-year course at Sydney Technical College to become a qualified woolclasser.
He worked in shearing sheds in N.S.W. and Queensland to save the £600 for the trip to Hawaii.
During that time he visited every surf beach in the eastern States.

"Fairy Bower, about a mile off Manly Beach, is THE spot in Australia when the waves are on," he says.
"The surf in Hawaii, however, is even better-j ust like I'd always imagined.

But it is very different from ours.

"Waikiki Beach is similar to many Australian beaches- and not so good.

''But for the keen surfboard rider other Hawaiian beaches have the perfect waves.
These beaches - Makaha, Sunset, Alamoana, and the Banzai Pipeline - have the best surf in the world.
''The waves, building up to heights of 15 to 25ft. and then dumping on the shore, are very exciting to ride.

"And the greatest thrill of all is the Banzai Pipeline.
"This is an area where the waves, often reaching 25ft., curl over at the top to form a 'pipe' before dumping on a rocky shelf of jagged coral.
"And this was the place that put me out of the Hawaiian championships.

"I lost my board going down the Pipeline, but got out of it with a few scratches and an injured leg.
My board, however, was wrecked.
All the front was bashed in and the fin was snapped off."


Trove
1962 'International surf champ', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 22 August, p. 3. (Teenagers Weekly), viewed 09 Sep 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41860055


Notes
1962 Peruvian International Contest, Lima Peru
Inaugural contest at Kon Tiki Surf.
Large wave, small wave and paddling races.
The Big Wave contest was won by Felipe Pomar.

The same week a specialty Big Wave contest was held at Villa Beach, won by Australian surfer, Bob Pike.
Correcting the previous entry, Felipe Pomar emailed in January 2010:
I was enjoying your site when I came across a mistake .
You site shows Bob Pike from Au. as the winner of the Peruvian International 1962 Big Wave event.
Bob was my friend,and a great big wave surfer.
And he did win that event that year at Villa beach.
That event however was a specialty event.
The Peru International Big wave event was held that same week at the Kon Tiki Surf spot.
The winner of the Peru International Big Wave Contest in the year 1962 was  Felipe Pomar.
Sorry to point out a mistake in your site.
Hopefully you can correct that .
Many thanks to Felipe for this contribution.

Victor Harbour Times
SA,
, 31 August 1962, page 1.
To Lead State S.L.S.C. Team

Bob Bruce, captain of the Port Elliot Surt Lifesaving Club, has been chosen as captain ot the S.A. lifesaving team to represent the State in the Empire Games Surf Carnival at Scarborough Beach, W.A., in November next.
Bob won every surf board race at all carnivals last season, and was a member of the State team
which competed in the Tasmanian Surt Carnival at Burnie.
Last year, Christies Beach was the venue of the S.A. surf life saving championships, but this season they will be held at Horseshoe Hay, Port Elliot.
This l)iK event, winch is the climax of the season, is being held in conjunction with the South Coast Festival on 23rd and 24th February.
The Port Elliot club has already begun preparations for this event.

Trove
1962 'To Load State S.L.S.C. Team', Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986), 31 August, p. 1. , viewed 09 Sep 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186744871

Good Neighbour
ACT, 1 October 1962, page 6.

SURF
Now its just in season

D
URING the 1962-63 surfing season which begins officially this month, thousands of newcomers to Australia will experience for the first time the pleasures of sun and surf.
If you are one of this number, remember a few simple precautions and you will be able to swim happily and safely at any of Australia's many magnificent beaches. 
At weekends, you will see that each beach is marked with two red and yellow flags.
The surf
between these two flags is where lifesavers consider it safest and best for surfing.
Lifesavers keep a watchful eye on all who surf in this area.
It is foolish to surf in a secluded part of the beach which is not attended by lifesavers.
If caught in an undertow or current, signal for help by raising your arm high in the air and float until help arrives.
Never panic or get excited.
If you are suddenly seized with cramp, do not struggle.
Signal for help and float, keeping the affected part still.
Cramp alone does not cause drowning, but fear does.
Even the strongest swimmers can be taken out in a "rip."
If this should happen to you, do not try to swim against it, but swim across it.
If you feel
yourself getting into difficulties take up a floating position and give the distress signal.
Lifesavers will then come to you with a rescue line and take you back to the beach and safety.
Come out of the water whenever you feel cold and never enter the surf within an hour of having had a heavy meal or cramp may follow.
Don't swim out too far on your own.
Always get a few friends to be with you.
If you hear a bell or siren, it means that a shark has been sighted and you should return to the beach as quickly as possible.
When the surf is very rough and dangerous it is unwise to go swimming.
A sign saying "Dangerous— Beach Closed" is displayed on the beach and the patrol area flags are crossed when the surf is too rough for safe swimming.
When a rescue is being performed, you can assist by standing well back from the rescue line or any other lifesaving equipment.

Shooting the breakers
Out of the water, be careful of sunburn.
If you feel yourself getting burned, move into the shade, apply protecting cream or lotion and cover yourself.
To experience the thrill of"shooting the breakers" like an expert, observe these useful suggestions:—
When swimming out to the wave area dive under the broken waves and do not breast them.
If you do try to breast them you will find yourself being forced back to the beach.
Having got to the wave area, you are in a position to "crack" a wave.

STEP FOUR: Bend your knees -slightly, one foot in front of the other, and lift your arms to the sides.
Try to lean a little forward and let the board make its own way to shore.

The best way
to do this is to wait until the wave is about to break then swim in front of it so that, when the wave breaks, you will be on its crest.
The surge of the wave will pick you up and carry you towards the beach at a speed of up to28 m.p.h.
To maintain your position onthe wave, lie face downwards, shoulders hunched, with most of the weight in your shoulders.
Keep your head downand kick your feet.
If you feel yourself slippingback, start swimming again and, with your last stroke, take a deep breath before sliding down the wave.
To keep going, tuck your arms beside or underneath you or stretch them over your head, always keeping your body rigid.
If you are on a long shoot you will find it necessary to raise your head quickly to lake in air.
Lower your head and kick if you think that you are losing the wave.
To get off the wave, lift your head and transfer your weight to your hips and legs.
A good shoot is one of 50 to 60yards and if you get a few of this length you can consideryourself a surf expert.
Be careful of the waves that rise steeply instead of rolling because they are likely to"dump" you.
To escape them,
take a deep breath and dive to the bottom, digging your hands into the sand, and wait until the wave has passed.

Joining a surf club has a lot
to offer and if you are 14 years old or more and an averageswimmer, you can become one of Australia's gallant lifesavers.
After a period of training for the Bronze Medallion you will have your qualification as a lifesaver.
In a club you will have opportunitiesto take part in swimming, surf boat racing, surf board riding, beach events and other individual and team events at surf carnivals.
On the administrative side, you could become an instructor or an examiner.
Club membership will enable you to meet many fellows of your own age.

Trove
1962 'S U R F', Good Neighbour (ACT : 1950 - 1969), 1 October, p. 6. , viewed 01 Sep 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17653008



The Australian Womens' Weekly
Wednesday 22 October 1962,
Teenagers' Weekly (Supplement), page 47S.

BY KERRY YATES

This summer thousands of Australian teenagers will be going surfboard-riding.
With the sport growing enormously in popularity, special sections of most beaches are now reserved for board-riders, and the riders have developed a language all their own.

So if you're a sandie who dreams of riding an elephant gun out the back, waiting to beach a boomer without going down the mine,
you'd better study this . . .


SURF - RIDERS' DICTIONARY

ANGLE: Direction a surfboard travels across a wave, for example, left angle.
BAGGIES: Baggy pants worn over swimsuits when riding a surfboard.
BEACH BUM: A boy who doesn't work or go to school, just hangs around the beach all day and surfs.
BEACH A WAVE: To ride the same wave all the way to the beach.
BIG SETS: Groups of extra big waves, breaking and rolling in one after the other.
BIG W: Dramatic fall off a surfboard.
BLASTER: A big wave.
BLEACHIE: Surboard-rider who bleaches his hair.
BOARD SHORTS: Pants worn for riding surfboards. .
BOARD WAGGON: Car used for transporting surfboards from beach to beach.
BOATIES: Members of a surf club boat crew.
BODGIES: Lumps on knees and feet caused by constant surfboard-riding.
BODY SHOOTING: Riding a wave without a board.
BOMBIE: Short for bombora, where waves break over a reef of rocks just below the surface.
BOOMER: Big wave.
"BOWER" BOYS: Name given to expert riders at Fairy Bower, a surfing spot about one mile off Manly Beach, Sydney, famous for its big and sometimes dangerous surf.
CORNER: Changing direction while riding a wave. For example, left corner is to turn to the left.
CUT: Another method of turning across a wave. To right cut is to move sharply to the right when riding a wave.
DEEP-SEA FIN: Special type of surfboard fin, made from fibreglass or balsa, with a solid square shape.
DING: Split or hole in a surfboard.
DOWN THE MINE: When nose board goes under the surface an heads for the bottom, throwing tk
DUMP: A big wave which breaks suddenly and steeply, with most of the water hitting the bottom hard.
Can be very dangerous.
ELEPHANT GUN: A type of surfboard, long, tapered, and heavy, used in big surfs.
Used to shoot the big ones, hence the name.
EL SPONTANEO: Method of trick riding-right at the front of ihe board, feet apart and crouching over.
FLICK-OFF: Method of getting off a wave as it nears the shore. Moving to the back of the board, the rider flicks the board backwards over the wáve.
GAS: Anything which is very good.
GIDGET: A girl surfboard-rider.
GOOFY FOOT: A very good rider whoreverses the usual way of standing by putting right foot in front of left.
GRAB THE RAIL: To grab the side of the board to avoid losing it on a wave.
GREENIE: A big wave before it breaks into white foam.
GREMLIN: A mythical figure who tips up boards, or a young surfrider with bleached hair.
HANGING TEN: A trick method of riding with toes tucked over the front of the surfboard.
HAWAIIAN PULL-OUT: Grabbing nose of board and pulling it through a wave.
HEAD DIP: Trick riding - putting head in and out of a wave while riding it.
HEAVY: A big wave.
HO-DAD: Anyone who annoys board riders while they surf.
HUEY: The surfboard-riders' god of the waves.
They often call, "Come on, Huey, send the waves up," as they wait for a big one beyond the line of breakers.
HUMP: A wave.
KAHUNA: Similar to "Huey" - the god of the Californian and Hawaiian board-riders.
KING: The best rider at any beach.
LAYBACK: A supreme test of skill in trick riding.
The rider lies flat on his back, with feet facing the way board is going.
LEPRECHAUN: Surfboard-rider under 13 years old.
LOCAL: Usually a good rider who lives and surfs most of the time at a particular beach.
MALIBU: Type of surfboard made from foam, balsa, or fibreglass and under 10ft. long.
MUNCHIE: Any type of food.
NOAH: Shark, from rhyming slang "Noah's Ark."
NOSE-RIDING: Standing right at front of the board while riding a wave.
OKINOUIE: Type of board similar to the malibu.
OKS: Bermuda shorts worn for surfboard-riding.
OUTSIDE or OUT THE BACK: A long way out at sea, beyond the first line of breakers.
PIRATE: A board-rider who crashes into other riders and makes a nuisance of himself.
PLANK: Any type of surfboard.
PIG: Type of surfboard with back and front ends shaped to a point.
PITT STREET SHOOT: A wave with four or more riders on it at the same time.
POLY: Type of board made of foam and fibreglass.
POPE: The best rider of a group of locals or, more usually, the best of a number of neighboring groups.
Better than a "king."
QUASIMODO: Trick riding, with body bent nearly double, with one hand stretched out in front and the other behind.
RUBBISHED: To be thrown off wave and dumped on shore.
SANDIES: People who sit on the beach and don't usually surf; and learners.
SHORE DUMP: A wave which breaks heavily on the sand.
SLIDE: Moving smoothly on a wave-front the crest to the trough.
SLICE: To travel across a wave with sharp cut to the right or left.
STRINGER: Strip of hardwood set into a foam board to strengthen it.
SURFTE: A fond term for a good and keen surfer. ,
SURF KING: A good rider in an area, sometimes conceited.
SURF SAFARI: A trip around different beaches to find a good surf.
TANDEM: Two people riding on one surfboard.
TEARDROP: Type of surfboard with wide back and pointed front.
TIKI: Lucky charm worn by some riders.
TOES-ON-NOSE: Trick riding, standing at front of board with toes curled over the edge.
TOURIST: A board-rider who travels from his usual beach to another for the day.
Sometimes refers to a beginner who becomes a pest to other riders.
TUBE: The area of a dumping wave between the breaking crest and the trough.
UTOPIA: Makaha Beach in Hawaii, considered by board-riders as the best surfing spot in the world.
WALL: A steep wave.
WAX: Paraffin wax, rubbed on a board to prevent slipping.
WHITE WATER: Area of surf where the waves are breaking.
WIDOWS: Girls left sitting on the beach all day while their boy-friends ride their surfboards.
WIPEOUT: A dramatic fall off a board when a rider is trying to catch a wave.
WIPEOUT WAGGON: Car used for transporting boards and riders from beach to beach.
ZIP TWEEDS: Long shorts worn for board-riding.


Trove
1962 'SURF- RIDERS' DICTIONARY', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 24 October, p. 3. (Teenagers Weekly), viewed 01 Sep 2014,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4402735


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