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25.01.2022 NASA round 1 kicked off over the weekend with some epic waves and glorious sunshine A warm welcome to all our new members and not forgetting the old, we hope you all enjoyed yourself. @wickhamlane and @glenn_nicholls @ LJ Hooker Avalon

22.01.2022 Word from the council is they're considering closing ALL Northern Beaches over Easter if they don't see a big improvement in social distancing. Please park, surf or swim and go straight home. No hanging on the beach or in the carpark or just thinking the rules don't apply to you. Spread the word and we might be able to keep the luxury that many other parts of the world have already canned. https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/beaches

21.01.2022 Was this Australia’s first Boardriders club? Some locals believe so. The Beachcombers of Palm Beach, c1959 Seated John ‘Olly’ Oliver, John ‘Johnny Mac’ McIlroy, Ron Turton, Neridah Wright, Joy Gassman, Billy MacTaggart, John ‘Pine Apple’ Prosser. Back - ‘Ho Dad’ John Pullenger, John Dunn, Peter Dever, Frank ‘Speedy’ Gonsalves. Photo: Ron Turton

21.01.2022 In 1963, Surfing Australia (then known as the Australian Surfing Movement) was born out of a modest cottage in North Avalon called The Sphinx. The ASM organised the first ever national surfing titles, held at North Avalon in April 1963. Locals Mick Mabbott and Rodney Sumpter picked up 2nd and 3rd in the junior division, while Palmy local Pearl Turton took out the women’s division. All three went on to have formative roles in the evolution of surfing at the local and wider levels... Photo courtesy John Haymes

20.01.2022 Membership for 2021 is now open for this year via the Liveheats platform. You can sign up either as a competing surfer, or as a social member. Both competing and social members get an uber-cool NASA T-shirt. To be able to enter the comps you'll need to be a paid up competing surfer. See below for details on using a Service NSW Active Kids voucher - DO NOT USE LiveHeats to register. To sign up:... 1) Go to https://liveheats.com/nasa 2) Log in with an existing account or click "Sign up now" in the membership module 3) Find existing or enter new athlete/s details 4) Pay with a credit or debit card Once complete, you'll receive a confirmation email For competing surfers, the age divisions are: Micros - Under 10 (Born 2012 and later) Squids - Under 12 (Born 2010 and 2011) Groms - Under 14 (Born 2008 and 2009) Cadets - Under 16 (Born 2006 and 2007) Juniors - Under 18 (Born 2004 and 2005) Girls - Any age Opens - Any age Senior Mens and Women - Over 35 Legends - Over 50 We will again be accepting $100 Active Kids vouchers available at https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/campaign/active-kids. If you intend to use this process don't register via Liveheats, as we cannot refund fees paid into Liveheats. Once the Active Kids program for 2021 is up and running, email your active kids voucher to [email protected] and we'll register it manually. All the comp dates for the regular season are listed on Liveheats, with the first point score set for Saturday 20 Feb 2021. Follow NASA here on Facebook or Instagram @nasurfriders for regular updates and direct all registration enquiries to [email protected]

19.01.2022 Come along and find out about our 50th year celebrations, 2020 season format and other NASA info this Friday 21st, Avalon Surf Club @ 7pm. Sausage sizzle and Bar facilities. Every one is welcome see ya there

16.01.2022 In the space of just a few weeks, all our lives have been turned upside down by Covid-19. NASA was due to be celebrating its 50th year in 2020, but for now our focus is looking after family and community. We’ll keep you posted on the season’s progress, and look forward to getting to the other side of this. And when we do, we’ll have the mother of all celebrations! In the meantime we’ll be sharing some of the club’s colourful history, as well as the rich surfing history of Bar...renjoey Peninsula. Keep safe everyone, keep supporting our local businesses, and follow the local advice in and out of the water. Happy Easter!

14.01.2022 If you want to keep surfing, please don’t hang at the beach with your families and friends like nothing’s changed. Go for a surf, keep your distance from others and go straight home. Bondi is already pulling surfers out of the water and Northern Beaches Council just closed a whole bunch of beaches this afternoon, including Palmy. The more people ignore official advice, the tighter restrictions will get. This is not a drill.

14.01.2022 Welcome to NASA 2021 first comp this Saturday 20th jan. Registration is now up on @live_heats Please make sure you have registered as we will not be taking sign ups on the day. Nth Av doing it thang.

13.01.2022 Mick Mabbott, runner up in the 1963 Interstate Surf Meet, father of the Wedge, local legend. After collecting his trophy at those first national titles, Mick largely retired from competitive surfing, preferring to surf ‘as a means of self expression’. But that didn’t stop him being recognised as one of the sports greats. In 1966 Surfing World listed Mick in Australia’s top 20 surfers, and ‘perhaps its top goofy foot’. In 1967 Surf International wrote that Mick ‘used to ride the left at North Avalon rocks like he owned the place’. Not much has changed over the years. Photo courtesy Mr Mabbott

12.01.2022 Our little club just helped make a big difference. The CEO of the Wilderness Society just happened to see our ‘Fight for the Bight’ paddle out in November, and was inspired to get behind the campaign, taking Equinor to Court. He has just informed us that they won! Equinor pulled out a week before proceedings and the drilling will not go ahead! What a win!!! Thanks heaps for taking up the fight @mattfbrennan and The Wilderness Society, and everyone who paddled out. #everyonemakesadifference

11.01.2022 No big surprise, but due to the current risks with the COVID-19 virus the committee has decided to postpone the 2nd comp of the year originally scheduled for this Saturday March 28th. We will be in touch with our next steps once there has been further direction from Surfing NSW and the various health departments.

11.01.2022 We’ll start this heritage series at the beginning. As we bunker down with the Coronavirus pandemic,spare a thought for the Peninsula’s original surfers, the Garigals. The Garigal were skilled waterpeople, using their ‘nawi’ canoes to fish and surf the Barrenjoey’s teeming ‘badu’ waters, even in big surf. Unfortunately for the Garigal, within a few short years of the First Fleet’s arrival, a smallpox epidemic killed between 50 to 90 percent of the local Aboriginal population.... Thousands of years of surf culture was wiped out almost overnight. Art: John Ogden @cosmic_cyclops

07.01.2022 The Avalon-based ASM and Bob Evans were instrumental in organising the first world surfing championships, held at Manly in May 1964. As we all know, Midget made history becoming the sport’s first ever world champ, in front of 60,000 spectators. Avalon’s Mick Dooley also made the final, placing fifth. This iconic @johnwitzig photo of Midget on a quiet glassy left at Palm Beach in 1964 illustrates his affinity with the place. Midget started his first shaping business near Barrenjoey in the 60s, and lived in Palmy until his death in 2016.

07.01.2022 Sunday 18 November 1956. South Av played host to the first public* demonstration of ‘malibu’ surfing in Australia. About 20,000 spectators turned out to watch the visiting American team put on the display, which included Pipe legend Greg ‘Da Bull’ Noll and paddleboard champ Tommy Zahn, pictured here. One of those spectators was a 13 year old Bernard ‘Midget’ Farrelly, who decided right there and then what he wanted to do for the rest of his life

06.01.2022 Some Great results from NASA groms over the weekend at the @woolworths_au surfer grom comp Loci @cullenkula123 with 1st place finish in the U10’s and @aliockwell with a 4th place finish in the U14’s girls division. Well done Groms and to all the other NASA members who competed on the weekend. Yeww @ Curl Curl, New South Wales, Australia

06.01.2022 We’re on at whale for a 7.30 start Groms up first. Due to small conditions a call will be made later this morning for Open and Seniors and so on.

05.01.2022 We’re on at South Av with a 7.30 start for the Cadets.

03.01.2022 This isn’t today but we are on this morning at Whaley with a 7.30 start for our Grom division.

02.01.2022 We’re on at South Av with a 7.30 start for the cadets.