Burleigh Heads

only a surfer knows the feeling right

so i just felt like i had to really once i kind of set that standard i'd gotten two 10s in a single heat in Burleigh Heads against Lane and typically before that the guys would just leave the grandstand when the girls were on well they started to stick around and stay because you know I got dropped in and drained and spat out and then it was just like they're like freaking out in the grandstand and then They ended up staying and watching Lisa and I in the finals.

And it was a big change in 1997 and women's surfing in that moment.

And there's been a lot of changes through it.

Will be over the weekend as well.

Uh, but, uh, if you tuck yourself into any protected corners up, uh, up the Sunny Coast, you wanna be ha- hanging around Noosa and Burleigh Heads down here.

I know you frequent the Burleigh Pav quite often, uh, Gary.

Yeah.

Yeah, so book launch is on the 24th of November.

And I'm on the Gold Coast, so we're doing a book launch on the 26th of November at the surf club at Burleigh Heads, and we're doing it there in the event room.

And we actually had Jason's funeral service there as well, so we're having his book launch there.

It felt there was no other question about where to hold that.

Mm.

It's how can we improve everything around it to make it so that more people can get involved? Um, and they delivered that in event one, um, at Burleigh Heads, and shout out to Burleigh and the World Ocean Series team and everyone involved because, uh, yeah, I, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I know the kids enjoyed it-

Mm

Yeah, yep.

And it was at, good waves at Burleigh Heads.

Um, what about, you know what I'm always curious about, Jack? And a- again, this is my naive observation, but it seems like I remember thinking at one point the history of surfing is in fact the history of design because a lot of the great waves of the world were opened up by, by virtue of the boards that were there.

Like, for instance, Teahupo'o would not have probably been a, a, a, a wave back in 1964.

So, so thinking about, like, those-

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... those times you were on tour and you were in Australia and they would have the contest at Burleigh Heads, for instance, and Michael Peterson, the waves contributed- And the boards, there was a kind of a coalescence o- of these two things, right?

Well, I would s- I would say yes, but there was some kind of, like, a magic, magic about him, just like there was with Gerry at Pipeline.

Yep.

He's got two places in Burleigh Heads.

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Oh, that, that's great stuff, isn't it?