Comments on: Riding the Wind with the King – Surfing Jeffreys Bay 2007 https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/ Live your Code Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:04:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: David Wilson https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-357 Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:04:46 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-357 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

]]> By: Tim https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-355 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:53:20 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-355 Thank you

]]> By: Craig Hardy https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-352 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:14:33 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-352 Great read, thanks. Welcome to the Central Coast.

]]> By: Johnny Reimer https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-6 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:42:56 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-6 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

]]> By: SHAUN TOMSON https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-5 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:45:07 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-5 Thanks Rob!

]]> By: SHAUN TOMSON https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-4 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:44:43 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-4 In reply to Scott.

Thanks for th good vibes Scottie!

]]> By: Sophie Goodrich https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-3 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 06:58:44 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-3 A true gentleman of the sport , his excellence in his writing and talks mirrors his talent in the water ..aloha Rob

]]> By: Scott https://shauntomson.com/riding-the-wind-with-the-king-jeffreys-bay-2007/#comment-2 Sat, 15 Jul 2023 21:29:19 +0000 https://shauntomson.com/?p=2191#comment-2 AWESOME Shaun …. you guys were and continue to be my surfing/lifestyle hero’s …. inspiring me to do good in life and be good to mother Earth…. because the earth is the realist inspiration that all of us have in common and i learned that from you my older brothers Kelly and all who came before me…. and of course my lengthy stay in the Hawaiian Islands which brought it all together with the Aloha Spirit….. Mahalo for being there for me Shaun….Always Aloha Scottie

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