Surf Rage
( a surfers guide to turning
negatives into positives )
220 page, soft cover, 70,000 words by 11 different authors,
8 pages colour pic's.
Disclaimer: Personalized Signed copies are dependent on Nat's location
Surf Rage is an undeniable fact, that every committed
surfer has experienced in some form at some time. " Itıs
not only rampant in Australia, everywhere increasing
numbers of surfers search for quality waves " sayıs Nat
Young, the 53 year old, 4 time World Champion who compiled
this anthology.
Nat suffered incredible injuries from an incident at his
home beach of Angourie back in March 2000, the time spent
writing his 2 chapters was a form of therapy. When Nat had
sufficiently recuperated he contacted Derek Rielly, a young
surf journalist who had written an inspirational piece
about Surf Rage back in 1989, when he was the editor of
Australian Surfing Life magazine. Derek wrote one chapter
and together they drew up a short list of the most
qualified surf journalists they could think of, and invited
each one to contribute a chapter.
American Drew Kampion is regarded as the elder
statesman of surf journalism, having been editor of Surfer
and Surfing magazine and written numerous books on the
subject. Nick Carroll needs no introduction to surfers his
editorship of Surfing, Tracks and Deep magazine are
memorable. Fred Pawle is a dedicated surfer and sub editor
with the Australian newspaper. Carol Ann Philips is the
only girl on the team, as an attractive white boogie
boarder growing up in Hawaii, hers is a unique perspective
on the pecking order in the crowded line up of the islands.
Two very informative chapters were contributed by
Gunter Swoboda a surfing Psychologist and Gordon Stammers a
councillor with the Victorian State government justice
department. Both these learned men see surf rage as a fact
of overcrowding that has to be dealt with by every surfer
if they want to continue riding waves into the future.
Certainly California has seen the worst cases of surf
rage, from the surfer who was sent to jail for assault with
a deadly weapon when he attacked another surfer with his
board to a group of young surfers being arrested for
stoning an older man who paddled out at their home break.
Michael Kew is a 25 year old surfer who has a degree in
English and his chapter is the most detailed account of
surf rage in
America. In order to give a balanced understanding of the
situation Glen Hening one of the founding fathers of the
Surfrider Foundation wrote an inspired chapter.
South African surf writer Craig Jarvis turned in a
revealing piece concerning a honeymoon couple visiting
Mauritius and being confronted with violence and
aggression, that defiantly put a damper on their married
life. To lighten the heavy nature of this topic, DC Green
an experienced surf journalist who always manages to reveal
the funny side of any situation wrote about his
confrontation with surf rage in a typical Australian
country town.
