Comments for Shaun Tomson | World Champion Surfer, Keynote Speaker & Author

Comment on GUILT & FORGIVENESS by Karianne Grimes

Karianne Grimes — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:12:12 +0000

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Comment on Riding the Wind with the King – Surfing Jeffreys Bay 2007 by David Wilson

David Wilson — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:04:46 +0000

Thank you Shaun for you beautiful creative writing. It puts the audience right there, a beautiful skill mastered over the years no doubt. Thank you for your stories they are all interesting and thrilling to reading. Please keep sending them out, the surfing world needs them, to learn about surfings history. These too will become part of a legacy you will always leave behind with everything else you have done for what we all cheerish and love about surfing . I did meet you once, it was 1978-79 at Angourie and it was a big solid 8 ft powerful swell. I saw you jump of the ledge and paddle straight into an insane barrel too deep but still you charged it so hard and got eaten inside that heavy barrel and took the hammerings from the next two, super deep inside weaving the pump you invented at backdoor, it looked amazing and so brave. I had been out for a few hours and was tired so lay on the sand so I could watch you front on from the beach with my two Kiwi mates who had also come in exhausted. The next five waves you caught were all just as deep and big, gutsy barrels but this time you made them all screaming out of the barrel laying down beautiful. full rail, blazing huge cutbacks into a figue 8 and back for the inside barrel. We were cheering and clapping on the beach on every wave you took off on. It was one of the best displays of tube riding I had ever seen, especially at Angourie. I will never forget it. A terrible thing had happend when you came in and walked up the hill to the carpark to your car. Some idiot, bastard had broken into your car and stole your keys, clothes and other stuff. You came down to us three kiwis who were still watching the surf pumping and we were wishing you were still out there. You suddenly appeared beside us and from where we were laying looking up at you, you looked like a giant! I didnt realise you were so Big ! (you looked like a rugby player!) You very politely asked us …”Excuse me guys, have you seen anybody around here with my clothes and things, someone has broken into my car ?” We all felt terrible anyone could do this, especially to you and reassured you we would keep a look out for any ‘suspicious crooks’. We were only visiting down from Kirra so didnt really know what to do. I knew some of the good locals that made surfboards there so I hoped someone up the top of the hill at the carpark helped you call the police and helped organise to get wherever you were staying. You were looking around the beach but there was no one around but us. I am sorry this happened to you or anyone thats out in the surf and their car gets broken into. I am thinking the only reason you will remember this is because of that cowardly robbery inflicted on you and not so much of the brilliant display of surfing you put on for yourself and us at Angourie. We were blown out that you were even there at this remote but popular surf spot along the NSW coast of Australia way back then. We all learned to adapt your tube riding style to the best of our ability and did make more tubes at Kirra that we couldnt before! Thank you Shaun for all your surfing skills and positive influences that you have given to the whole of the surfing world and other things that can happen in ‘life’ good and not so good.I will always look forward to reading your great stories. God bless you whever you may travel and keep sprinkling your stardust everywhere. Kiaora Shaun ~ Arohanui Aloha ~David

Comment on Riding the Wind with the King – Surfing Jeffreys Bay 2007 by Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:53:20 +0000

Thank you

Comment on Riding the Wind with the King – Surfing Jeffreys Bay 2007 by Craig Hardy

Craig Hardy — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:14:33 +0000

Great read, thanks. Welcome to the Central Coast.

Comment on Creating Corporate Purpose – On Purpose by Shaun Tomson

Shaun Tomson — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:32:46 +0000

Hi Gary – thanks for sharing this.

Comment on Leadership and burnout are inextricably connected by Carl James

Carl James — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:15:52 +0000

Very welcome words of encouragement.

Comment on Creating Corporate Purpose – On Purpose by Gary Ross

Gary Ross — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:20:32 +0000

1. I will give respect to get respect
2. Our planet is now a small boat with others with the amazing truth that it just fate that we all have more in common together at this exact time in space as ship mates.
3. Feed your mind with the others that have inspired you to always be learning and better for all of us on board this tiny ship.
4. Know that life’s greatest lessons may also be the most painful but they also act to guide us to the pathway for us and sometimes urgently but for our own greater good.
5. Nature rules and with strength and natures amazing solutions for survival leading to dynamic peace as the challenge and is unique for everything and everyone.
6. Nature has mastered all of the earths dynamic design details with artistic grace and harmony.
7. Waves are natures dynamic and powerful gift and every wave a paddle out for a surfer to ride for each wave in a swells journey that ends and sometimes born thousands of miles away.
8. Not easy for a dozen and taking a break to reflect and as it turns out… very important to know we have the freedom to guide our thoughts and ambitions and to try to learn why we are here.
9. God is more than a fantasy that exists and we are beholden to ourselves to be true as best we can for our private role of our lords vision tending the garden where we have landed and thanks to our special angel that caught us while ice climbing or when surfing a huge wave.
10. As a beginner in this dozen I can cheat to expand on one through nine but now know mankind can learn to be kind no matter what we all believe the reason we on the boat together.
11. When I learned to standup paddle I learned to appreciate sweeping the floor for the exercise to be a better paddler or the last parking spot away from the market to make me stronger for the longer walk. Life’s lessons are just mental exercises and the pain of our mistakes are also gifts that guild us forward.
12. I now appreciate all of the amazing people I have meant as examples to guide me and thank them now all in my mind regardless if they will never know their gifts to me. I wish them all well and with all I will never meet on this earth ship with wave for gift by example they gave me.

Comment on Riding the Wind with the King – Surfing Jeffreys Bay 2007 by Johnny Reimer

Johnny Reimer — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:42:56 +0000

In reply to SHAUN TOMSON. Never forget the first time I saw footage of you pulling through the wall deep inside at back door. Unheard of. Innovating thank you