is that why we have surfing australia, to cover all states?

This should go for 8 pages

Frankly I'm not concerned about the comp side of things myself - but surely you cant call something a national titles if you don't invite all states to compete.

I thought they held the national titles in August???

A little off topic but,what is a stand up paddle board

62mac said...
A little off topic but,what is a stand up paddle board

Wikipedia says:

A surfing device designed to piss off mal riders who think they have exclusive rights to the easiest fat ****ty waves on the coast

One thing I've noticed during the time I'm spending back on the East coast is that a lot of people don't seen to realise that the country extends further than the great dividing range.

When I tell people I live in South Australia they nearly always say it must be cold down there. I say to them, Well, its not down there. Its over there. SA goes further north than NSW does. Sometimes they want to argue about it. Bloody hell. Look at a farken map.

Scotty88 said...

Gwendy said...
One thing I've noticed during the time I'm spending back on the East coast is that a lot of people don't seen to realise that the country extends further than the great dividing range.

When I tell people I live in South Australia they nearly always say it must be cold down there. I say to them, Well, its not down there. Its over there. SA goes further north than NSW does. Sometimes they want to argue about it. Bloody hell. Look at a farken map.

Is it cold down there ?

Aparrently it wasn't last monday.

I heard a bit of a fire got real close to my place

Isn't NZ another AUSTRALIAN state....

what about the State of Disrepair? Is that in?

Oh my god your telling me there is others states besides NSW ???

62mac said...

dtm said...
Oh my god your telling me there is others states besides NSW ???

Yes that is true,one has a very good footy team

Melbourne Storm!

This reminds me of the NSW government how they spend millions of dollars on Sydney infastructure and neglect the rest of the state because all they're really interested in is votes.Its a state of disrepute really.

stimo said...

roggoodwin said...
Who is SUP AUstralia?, are they affiliated with SUrfing Australia?. I thought the national titles are part of the Surfing Australia Surf festival held in Port Maquarie and then possibly SUP will be stand alone in the future. We have our own State title races the racing is organised by SUPWA and the Surfing by Surfing WA, i would of thought each state was responsible for organising there own state title races. and surf comps so they can choose their state team.

Well said rog

SUP Australia and Surfing Australia are 2 separate bodies with no affiliation. It's getting difficult having 2 bodies as many races are saying you have to be a SUP Australia member to enter (eg Merimbula and the Surftech Winter Classic.) Last year there were 2 National Titles ???? but the one that seemed to count and had the country's best competitors in attendence was the Sufing Australia event at Port macquarie. SUP Australia's event included waves, flat water and a downwinder while the Surfing Australia event was waves, BOP and a DW.

Can we just have one organising body?

Coming from a self interest perspective.... to their credit, I know that there is a division to cater for the over 50's in the SUP Australia in those "Titles" events, I wonder if Surfing Oz and the State organizations, have adopted a similiar stand in showing their support for that category of over 50's to be allowed to compete in the State and National Titles at Port Mack.
Surfing Australia may have already announced the inclusion of the over 50's but I have just forgotten, its an age thing... can somebody remind me?

Russ, its better if they dont know about SA. Nothing to see here, we dont have any uncrowded waves suitable for Suping.

Isnt the winner the person who is having the most fun anyway. Who needs contests to prove that.