Thanks to Dennis Walthew for sending me these shot of lifesaving nationals!

Super proud of my yellow and blue clolours of Marine even if the skull cap is a bit corny!

It’s taken me 3 days of pondering over the happenings over last week’s nationals to sit down and write this blog. Such a contrast of positive and negative coming out of the champs I really don’t know where to start.

Lifesaving is in trouble. It is so badly run. Let’s leave it there. I don’t want to one of those doods who just bad mouths things. The problem is people now days are exposed to professionally run events that their (and my) perspectives have changed and we expect so much more.

There are so many positives on the other h...

With intrusions from Julia my amazing physio to rest my shoulder and Surfskischool classes being cancelled due to a buster SW I had the weekend kind of off to go watch the 4 Nations at Pirate. 

Day 1 – Taplin Win!   

A fitting time to put this up with SA Lifesaving this week. One of our Marine Surf Lifesaving Club Members, Wayne Ashford, and good friend to me in recent times has recently found some classic old lifesaving footage for way back in the day. He has spent some long hours converting its format and cutting it into workable videos. Well is hard work has paid off and he has just uploaded it all up onto youtube.

This is where it all started for me as a nipper, watching the legends of the time taking on mountainous surf with grace and humility. I grew up at Marine and am really proud of its...

Short, sharp and fun racing. Natal champs was over the weekend at Pirates which meant surf, even on a small day. I only do the ski races which makes it an easy weeks racing compared to most doing champs.