Fellow surfers less impressed, however, “this warrants violence.”
If you were in Sydney on Sunday, y’would’ve thrown yourself into the dreamiest of four-to-six-foot barrels, pretty wedges wiped smooth by an all-day north-west wind.
Day of the year at most places, one of the best days ever at my local etc.
At Cronulla, home to some of the city’s finest reefs including but not limited to Voodoo and Shark Island, spectators were thrilled when local legend Ronnie “Skull” Hill fired up his homemade jet-board at the Island, scooping up waves from outside and deep on the reef, before riding to glory.
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Following a post on the Instagram account @sufads, however, the figurative knives came out from surfers apparently jealous of Skull’s innovative and effective approach to wave-riding.
“He’s a known pest and they’ve been trying to get him for a while now.”
“After wathcing this i think im now done with surfing forever.”
Tbh you have to give the man credit, he has been a pest at shark island for years however on Sunday during a bodyboard comp managed to run through the lineup for about 30 mins. Every single person there told him to fuck off and he just kept doing laps kinda finding it funny hahahahahahaha.”
“Is this guy trolling? Looks like hes really trying to piss off the lids??”
“…this warrants violence.”
And, from Stu Nettle, chief writer at surf forecast site Swellnet.com, something a little more serious:
“Ronnie Hill AKA Skull. Amazingly, he’s been taken to court with charges dismissed owing to testimony from the importer of the machine.”
Wild etc.
Are you pro or anti-jet-board? I’m in the former camp though fear I may be in the minority.
Below is Skull at Voodoo from a few years back.
Magic.
It’s Shark Island, not Shark Tank.
I’m sure mick Simmons sports store in eighties sold these
Hahahaha!
Considering that Australia, and specifically Australian surfers, very well may have the worst surf etiquette and most damning crowds on the planet, this approach seems practical and justified.
There is always a new worst thing ever to hit the sport , sups then foils, then wing foils now this
coincidently all picked up by the rich wankers around here rather than good blokes , strange …
Are we talking real violence or “words are violence” that’s all the rage these days?
This guy must hate everyone he has ever surfed with.
nothing new, rcj and pato chased storms on such craft already…
Can we set up a BG crowdfund page to send Skull to Lowers on finals day?
Just imagine even two more jetboards in this lineup, it would lead to an actual murder in the parking lot. This time it’s funny burning grumpy locals but imagine a few dozen tech bros purchasing these- I know in Santa Cruz it would mean at least four of these in the water on any given day, it’s getting thick with rich VALs.
Tech bros are going to invent a shittier version of localism based on how rich you are. It’s inevitable. I’m almost surprised they haven’t tried it yet.
Well, some of them try to do the private beach thing. Others will have fucking jetboards. Thank goodness my local break is a shitty closeout, they’ll never flock there!
Skull should be tarred & feathered and then placed on restrained public display in front of the reef.
I thought it was the legendary saffa @brorcsurfer at first.
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Whilst riding a softie clubbie board today at my local, and facing imminent bilateral knee surgery, I was considering how to keep on …. surfing, my thoughts turned to a SUP.
This story offers me a possible solution….. however I’d add a bull bar!
A wave pig with big balls, pretty funny though.
Laird just creamed in his Coffey… Sipping Jetstreams is so satisfying
I’d love it if he just buzzed-by doing a sort of cartoon-level run of face-slapping: PAPPAPPAPPAPPAPPAPPAPPAPPAPPAP.
I love this guy!
How great would it be to get an interview with him here?
I thought I was ‘anti’ jetboard till seeing this particularly spectacular antihero.
Oh what joy it must be to burn so many booogans at once…
I can fix surfing. Make it a law, that everyone has to ride a board 6″ shorter than their height. Should get interesting….
How come surfads turned off the comments?