LiQUiFY Magazine December 2014 | Page 25

it well - there’s a lot of respect in the water whether you’re bodysurfing, shortboarding, bodyboarding, whatever it is, if you’re good at it and you have a smile on your face you tend to get waves. No one is pigeonholing anyone there, the ocean is the ocean and what you want to do, it’s up to you.” So who is really the best surfer in the water on the day? “It’s cliche, but I think the one having the most fun, and the one getting the deepest barrels I think (laughs).” Yeah, where we grew up if you didn’t get deep you sucked, it was ‘pull in or lose’, and by lose we meant get told to leave. “Yeah that’s it, it’s a pecking order, well it should be a pecking order out there, maybe the Gold Coast will figure that out again one day. You just got to get out there and have fun mate, that’s the main thing.” // LiQUiFY | 25