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LAYBACK LONGBOARDERS INC 08/09
VOLUME NO 17 / ISSUE 1
NEXT POINTSCORE AUGUST 3RD 6:45AM
NICK OFF
IT’S MINE!
CONGRATULATIONS
NICK FARAGO
TAKING OUT THE
LAYBACK POINTSCORE
FOR THE SEASON 07/08
AUGUST
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Richard Green
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Andie Goldie
Glenn Moore
Rob Morgan
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Treasurer
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CONGRATULATIONS
LAYBACKER
DANE PIOLI
2008
AUSTRALIAN
LONGBOARD CHAMPION
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PRESIDENTS REPORT June Pointscore
June Pointscore
Hey there Laybackers,
So how about that A.G.M? I reckon that’s the fastest one on record I have ever been to. Thanks to the
fellow committee men who put their hands up again and to the newbies who took over. Welcome to the
committee to you guys. I would personally like to thank the guys I have worked with this year for all
the great work and time they have put into running such an awesome club. Cheers fellas!!!! Thanks
also to George for running the official side of things. I’m looking forward to the 2008/09 season, staying
“Laidback” and making sure we are all “taking it easy” and enjoying sharing surfing as the sport, art form
or spiritual activity we all love.
June almost didn’t even start, with a lot of Laybackers looking to calling it off and head back to bed. But
those that soldiered on and braved the weather (which stayed rain-free until the BBQ) were treated to
some small, but fun ridable waves at good ol’ faithful Bellambi. One member who was more stoked than
anyone to surf that day was our good mate Dave Milnes. 68 years old, a heart bypass, and a stroke didn’t
stop him from knocking (a very hung-over) me off in the first round. Good on ya Dave. I heard about it for
the rest of the day, week, month…. But never forget people that George beat Scotty at Cresent one year
in the Aussie Old Mal Titles… (Sorry dig but im not letting people forget Georges glory, good old Terry
hahah).
That’s about all I remember from the day because I spent the rest of it asleep in my car, but I did hear that
the rest of the day ran smoothly with the help of Andrew Wilson tallying and Head Judging and Hendo
lending a hand aswell. Thanks guys for your help. Next year the season might need to kick off with some
penalties for guys not judging when they are called. So remember, it’s two heats before you surf.
Get down there when the light is flashing, don’t wait ‘til the hooter goes, or you could lose some points.
THE RESULT
THE EFFECT
DAVE MILNES
SURF PHOTOS
Ph: 02 4274-3459
Mob: 0410-543-459
E-mail: [email protected]
LAYBACK 08 WINTER CLASSIC
Winter Classic
To all Laybackers,
I just wanted to say a personal thank you to everyone who came together to help make the classic and
awesome day. The reason why the vibe on the beach was so great was that the club pulled together and
made it a really fun day to run. Many compliments were given about the comp and i just wanted to say
thanks to everyone who chipped in.
From 5:30am we had something like 25 blokes on the point setting up tents, tables, chairs, flags, sirens,
food, etc and even had time to kill before the first heats went in the water. Awesome!!!
The guys that worked the food tent all day cooking, serving and selling raffle tickets did such a phenomenal
job. A big days work!! If you keep people fed with good food and great coffee at a comp everyone is happy
and comes back for more. Awesome!!!
The guys that worked in the sign on tent for early registration, handing out shirts, wax, selling raffle tix,
doing give away’s, playing music, calling judges/heats and working the microphone all day also made us a
motza and helped create the happy, friendly vibe of the day. Awesome!!!
And our Head Judge, Pete Sainsbury and Tallier Steve Pinnington kept the official side of things on track
all day.
Also thank you to the committee for all their hard work behind the scenes long before the day of the comp.
Good on ya Laybackers,
hang ten
Layback President 2008/9 jn.
9ft Open’s
Juniors
Old Mal
Ray Lawrence
2
Jarret Napper
2
Keegan White
4
Jayce Pioli
4
Jayce Pioli
4
Jesse Laws
1
Nic Farago
3
Shaun Olsen
6
Ash Laws
6
Dane Pioli
1
1
2
5
Bill Morris
Damien Farago
Jarret Napper
Josh Dunn
5
Daniel Hockey
3
Paul O’Grady
3
Samantha White
5
Over 35’s
Paul O’Grady
Scott Downing
Andrew Farago
Glenn Moore
John Fraser
Barney Dunn
3
2
4
6
1
5
Over 50’s
Bill Morris
Dave Byrne
Beau Brennan
Chris Bate
Dave Pimm
Dave Wilson
1
4
6
3
2
5
PRESIDENTS REPORT
Hey there Laybackers,
Well what a season 2007/08 was and this time around the final winner for the year was the young gun
Nic Farago taking it out at the last pointscore from myself and his Dad Andrew. Congratulations Nic on
a fantastic year surfing mate! We surf a lot together and I am proud to hand it over to you after a great
season. Better keep our eye on The Pugz next year, I reckon I’ll put a few bucks on him with Hendo’s
Surfbet to give us a run at the top.
Congratulations to our grommets on one of the biggest fields I have seen on a long time. A huge effort by
Sub-Grom Georgia Henderson to take out the younger Sub-Grom Trophey and some fantastic surfing by
Fabian West this year, taking out the Grommets division and Most Improved Surfer of the year. Well done
mate and we are all looking forward to surfing against both yourself and Kyle Matriensen in the Opens
next year. Good to see you both stepping up boys, it will really improve your surfing.
I had good fortune on my side in the Old Mal this year, closely followed by the style master Billy Morris.
As I said on the night, I just love surfing old boards and it really is a pleasure to share a few waves each
month with the guys in this division. We have one of the strongest Old Mal clans in the state and it’s great
to ‘keep the old girls wet!’ as we like to say.
Layback Classic 2008.
Most people on the club email list have already been sent an email about the success of this year’s
Layback Classic. The overwhelming input from club members to help set-up and pack up as well as work
the food tent and sign tent all day was phenomenal! Thanks again to Andrew Wilson and Shaun for their
super job on the microphone all day, and running the give-aways. Another huge effort by Rob and June
Armstrong on the catering and also by Kurt and all the boys who cooked on the day.
The club raised $1500 which was presented to Camp Quality at the presentation that day. I personally
think that if we can make a difference, using the money we raise as a club, then we succeeded this day.
Well done to all members who dug deep and sold raffle tickets. Your efforts will go a long way in helping
somebody is not as well off as we are. Great work Laybackers!
The Season Ahead
So bring on 2008/09 I say. Good luck to everyone. I hope you improve on your placings in each grade
from this year and continue the high standard of surfing that this club is currently showing. Remember
surfing is about the feeling we all get riding waves. It great to compete, so be competitive, but as long as
we are all smiling, sharing waves and enjoying the ocean, surfing in the Illawarra is in great hands.
Finally, a calendar of events and all pointscore dates will be coming in the next newsletter. Make sure you
grab a Membership Renewal Form at the next Pointscore and all forms and money are due by the start of
the October Pointscore!!! (or else you don’t surf in October) See you bright and early in August!
hang ten,
jn.
NICK FARAGO
LAYBACKERS CONTEST NEWS
STATE TITLES REPORT
COFFS HARBOUR
Laybackers Flying the flag for the state titles
this year were Scotty Downing over 40’s, Glenn
Moore Over 40’s & 8ft division, Andrew Farago
45’s with Nick Farago and Dane Pioli contesting
in the Opens & Damo Farago in the 18’s. We
all headed up to Coff’s in the Farago van for
an epic week of competing against NSW best
surfers. First stop was McDonalds of course because someone was hungry???. It was a classic
dash up the freeway watching surfing movies to
inspire us for the week ahead. A quick Surf on
the way up was the call and we piled out off the
van at Scotts Head with a nice 3 ft plus swell
rolling through which was thoroughly enjoyed
by all. Out of the van at Coffs harbour and were
greeted by our house mate and technical director Phill Baggs. Beds were sorted and the beers
flowed. Time for bed through on the Aussie flag
boxers walked out to the kitchen and there’s
Scotty in the same pair. Everyones up at the
crack off dawn because Scottys crack was playing tunes and woke the whole house I joined in
with a few tunes myself but it was no competi-
tion he won hands down. Apparently
I did win the snoring competition with
plenty of whining from the crew mostly
from Scotty who told me I’m NTA (never touring
again) but I reckon its bullshit I heard nothing.
Day 1 and we head off down to Diggers beach
and were greeted to a washing machine easily
6ft plus and not very inviting. The call was Park
Beach and we were greeted to cleaner condition
but still way overhead and impossible to paddle
out from the judging area so a 200 meter run
up the beach and a ten minute paddle out time.
Laybackers are off to a flying start with all crew
in the age division getting good results for there
first heats If you got three waves you were doing
good. Day 2 pretty much the same conditions.
We left park beach and Scotty judging for a trip
up to Arrawarra for a surf. Magic place and condition with nice 3-5ft swell running all the way
through to the boat ramp. We surfed for hours
sat back had a few beers in the sun and took in
the pleasure of it all. We got back and like everyone else told Bagsy that we should move the
comp to Arrawara. By Wednesday Bagsy was
gonna kill someone.
Back home for dinner and pugs is cooking a
PARK BEACH BOMBS
cont
feast of Nachos. Homer Fraser is invited over for
a feed and a few beers and Pugs rings the bell for
dinner. Nacho’s Pugs style is amazing you have
to see it to believe it! Its huge I could have made
4 dinners off my own plate alone! Not being a big
cheese lover I carefully lifted what must have been
half a bag of cheese of the top of my nacho’s. I ate
the remaining contents which was great. Good to
see that Pugs can look after himself in the kitchen
and doubt that he would ever go hungry having
that culinary knowledge. Homer left satisfied and
blocked for days!. The surfing continued and we
were all doing well Andrew was the first to bow out
in the rep semis whilst Scotty and Glenn continued
to progress with Glenn needing a 1 or 2nd to make
the finals I ended up coming third 5th overall but
gets me to the Aussies I’m thoroughly stoked after trying for years. Scotty made the finals only to
were the yellow jersey and nearly having to do a
nude run in the peanut gallery as he couldn’t buy a
wave until 5 minutes to go in a 30 minute final the
crowd erupted and the pressure was off he brought
home the 4th place trophy. Continuing on through
the week and its the opens, juniors and 8 footers
turn to compete and size still hanging around the
heats were hot Nick surfed great although puts
himself under to much pressure worrying about
other surfers mate your good enough stop stressing. Pugs was on fire all week burning everyone in
there heats and whilst free surfing too. On the back
from Arrawarra we stopped in at the legend surf
museum with Scotty Dillon welcoming us as long
as we had 5 bucks each on us and that’s were it
started. Pugs went straight through the back room
and Scotty Dillon asking Nick if he’s going to pay for
the bloke who ate his lunch! For an hour and a half
Pugs and Scotty Dillon were at each other in good
spirt of course .It was a great afternoon checkin
out some old relics that scotty had collected over
the years. Make it one of your stops on the way up
the coast its well worth 5 bucks. Back home and its
BBQ night at home meat and salads organized and
its time to gas up the BBQ and gas it up scotty did
hearing a hissing sound we checked the bottle and
hose only to find that a burner was left open upon
realizing this out of the corner of my eye I saw Andrew Farago ‘s thumb press the ignition button and
Kaaabooom I shot back nearly going through the
brickwork. Flames hitting the ceiling and killer escaping less a few nostril hairs, Yes plenty off laughter after that Not trusting anybody now I let Scotty
the brave firey kick it over again with gas on and
thousand clicks on the ignition while in a get ready
THAT’S SCOTT IN YELLOW
LEGENDS MUSEUM
to run stance and that bbq refuses to ignite. Finally
it’s a manual job with the lighter and were cooking.
It would have been the best funniest home video
ever. With the week coming to an end Nick didn’t
make the finals but secured a place in the Aussies while Pugs took home a trophy in the finals
4th for the juniors and surfed very well all week in
his heats. Killer made the 8ft finals jagging a sixth
place on a borrowed board from Dave Frazer in
turn for some Photoshop lessons (Thanks Dave).
Having some surf down time I decided to do some
shadow judging with the pro’s for a day and its a
real eye opener not just for your judging but also
to improve your surfing just that one day made
me aware of some of the mistakes I was making
in judging and surfing I appreciate what I soaked
in from the day and advise anybody to have a go
if given the chance to do it at that level just rock
up and ask. It was a great week away and looking
forward to the Aussies with all the Layback boys
again in August in Port Macquarie.
Wish us all good luck.
Glenn Killer Casey Jones Moore
LAYBACK PRESO NIGHT
Presentation Night
For this year’s Presentation night we finally found
a room the perfect size to fit everyone in. Surfing
is about the clan, being part of something that we
all feel special about. Judging by the roll up at this
year’s Preso it is obvious that our Layback clan, or
big surfing family is as strong as ever!!
So we had the perfect size room and still ran outta
chairs hahaha. This, unfortunately, being due to
people not booking their tickets early on. There was
at least two months to RSVP and still people were
calling the week of. Just so we have it all sweet
next for next year’s Preso we will be pre-selling
tickets and there is will be a cut-off date for ticket
purchases. This will make it easier to cater for too!
But all Laybackers that attended with their wives
and families had a great time up at the Palm Court,
while listening to ‘Flash’ ripping on guitar (with some
awesome assistance from Hughesy on Bass and
Scotty on Harmonica I must say). Thanks a million
to Pete Scrine who bought his laptop up at the last
minute so we could watch some awesome old surf
movies from the 70’s and to Batesy who provided
the footage of the classic for the big screen.
Hendo lead us through the evening and with a
decade of experience on the microphone he did
another fantastic job. Thanks for all your help mate
and to Shaun, Greeny and Rob for all your help
organizing and running the night. It’s been a great
committee effort this year and I sincerely appreciate
all the effort the committee members put in to make
this club such a success.
The Mal Awards are the fun part of the evening
where we see just how much of a sense of humour
we all have about the funny things that go on
throughout the season. This year’s winners I am
sure will hold these trophies in high esteem and
keep them on display for all friends and family to
see and ask “What the **** is that ugly thing….?”
Hahahah I know that’s what they said when they
have ended up at my house. Congrats to these
winners: Shane Irvine (Cooks Award), Scotty (The
Loiterer), Dan Oaten (The Snake Award), Dave
Clements (The Drop-In Award), Gary West – not
Dave(Judges Award), Andy Goldie (The Wipe-Out
Award).
We also had some 10 year members this year in
Simmo and Kev Napper. I was humbled to give
my old man the Surfers Surfer Award too this year.
If it wasn’t for his enjoyment of riding waves then
my surfing would not be where it is today. And our
Club-Man of the year Bazza was lost for words for
the first time ever when asked to give a speech.
Good on Bazz, you are a legend! The Presidents
Encourage Award was given to our first ever club
President George Kennedy, who had some very
kind words to say about the current shape of the
Layback club. How’s the guitar you won at the
classic going George? Can’t wait to rock out with
you at Tabourie next year mate!
Thanks again to everyone involved in the
organization and to all those that attended and had
a great time. It’s awesome to get together and
have a few beers and talk about the year that was.
And what a year it was! Can’t wait to see how this
coming season is gonna pan out!!!
MAGGIE’S LAYBACK PRESO PICS
“Chewin the Fat” with Nick Farago
NAME; Nicholas Kane Farago
STREET YOU GREW UP IN; Louis Street
FIRST PET’S NAME; Boof the goldfish
OCUPATION; Trainee Mechanical Engineer
FAVOURITE BOARD; My Surftech Town & Country
FAVOURITE HOLIDAY SPOT; Crescent Heads [when there’s waves]
FAVOURITE DRINK; Coke
FAVOURITE HOBBY; Surfing is my favourite but
I also like skateboarding, soccer & basketball
FAVOUITE FOOD; Anything Pugz leaves me.
FAVOURITE SURFERS; Taylor Jensen, Bonga,
Harley Ingelby, Fanning,Taj, Parko, just to
name a few
WHAT’S FUN; Surfing good waves
with my friends & family
BEST ADVICE RECEIVED; How do you know you can’t do
something if you haven’t tried.
ADVICE TO GIVE; Show respect in the surf.
WHO WILL WIN THE DIVISIONS IN THE CLUB; A
Grade - Jarret B Grade – Hendo
C Grade – Dad
THE FINAL WORD IS;
I would like to thank all the Laybackers
who have helped me out and thanks to
Ocean & Earth, Surftech and
Adseu Engineering.
HENDO
Layback Bit’s
Pete Sainsbury’s comment to Greenie which was
...Greenie I want you to know that I only agree with 97% of
what Hendo said bout you, all the rest wasn’t true!
Buy Flash a beer - say thanks to a man who is donating
his time. - Hendo
Hursty to Daniel “The Snake” Oaten - hey my names on
there too !
Dave “Dropin” Clements - this trophy will take pride of
place at the bottom of my wardrobe
Pete Sainsbury’s comment to Nick Farago...Nick you have
the skills to go pro, Damo you’ve got the right attitude to do it.
Sing like you are in the shower
Dance like nobody is watching
Surf with your favourite Jimi Hendrix song in your head
Keep the sand between your toes
Hello all in the Gong,
Firstly, I have just been reading your last copy of the Laybacker No 16 Issue 8, as an avid reader
and subscriber to Pacific Longboarder I really look forward to getting updates from home (via the
hyperlink), yes I said home, having been born in Wollongong Hospital and growing up in Pioneer
Road, Bellambi I spent all my formative years surfing the point. Some fantastic memories that
have been etched permanently in the brain vault.
I have been residing on the Gold Coast now for the past twenty years, surfing the point breaks
from Currumbin to Snapper and the Tweed Coast (with now unbelievable crowd numbers) but my
favourite surfing period so far were the days I spent surfing Bellambi Point. Seeing photo’s of all
the point scores from your newsletter is a highlight. The point was a lot different in my day, riding
my pushy with long board on a homemade bike trailer through the old rifle range down dirt roads to
the point with the old coal jetty and boat sheds along the bay to where the boat ramp now exists.
I have looked at the name list on your point scores from previous issues and there a quite a few
names that I remember surfing with from those halcyon days.
I don’t get back to the Gong that often but still have family at Woonona and Towradgi, so next time
I do get down your way, it will be with my McTavish Fireball under my arm and hopefully sharing
some waves.
Now that I have had my little reminisce I will sign off saying, thank you for the great work you and
your team is doing, awaiting your next update.
Cheers
Alan GILL
(Old Bellambi Boy)
www.laybacks.org
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