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While you're
in Byron, learn to surf with the legend: Former U.S.A. Champion
Rusty Miller. (Byron's original instructor (since
1973)
Rusty shows you his special approach in a two hour session
of standing up and riding waves. Learn about the spirit,
culture, and surfing lifestyle.
Feel the magic of this ancient Hawaiian endeavour with Byron
Bay's original and most experienced surfboard riding instructor.
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Rusty, USA surfing
champion of 1965 came to Byron Bay in the early seventies
from Hawaii to visit Garth Murphy, former business partner in
Surf Research,
the first surfing accessory company he'd established in California
with Mike
Doyle and Fred Ryan. He'd been living on the island of Kauai since
the late
60s riding the long right point waves at Hanalei Bay and the Pipeline
like
left barrels of Cannons with his good mate Joey Cabel.
He was backing
away from competition surfing and running out of sponsorships
as the Americansurf scene went commercial and the waves got more
and more crowded.
Byron was a new beginning at a time when Nixon was turning up
the heat in Viet Nam and America was shooting its visionary leaders.
Here he begin the first
alternative newspaper, the Byron Express during the Nimbin Aquarius
Festival
time and also worked for Tracks magazine during its beginnings.
He began teaching surfing here and brought out the first safe'soft
boards' made by
Tom Morey, inventor of the Boogie board. With Steve Foreman, coach
to 5
women world surfing champions, he conducted the Department of
Sport and
Recreation live in surf camps at Lennox Head for ten years, helped
with the
summer free surf lesson sponsored by radio station 2LM, and helped
design
the safety procedures used in our national surf schools.
He is the editor and publisher of the Byron Bay Guide which is
in its 18th year of
publication. Married with two daughters, Rusty is an activist
in local
affairs concerning our physical and social environment, a former
president
of Surfrider Foundation Australia, Byron Bay and a stoked Hobie
catamaran
sailor.
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There
is heaps of room in the pacific ocean..use it ... if you
wish to get along with everyone in the waves... try to stay
out of log jams and uncomfortable situations ... you can
do it by staying alert ad aware..keep your board perpendicular
to the waves.. not broadside blocking others paddling for
waves or position ..when you are paddling out anticipate
the
scenarios about you before they become nightmare accidents..
keep your 360 degree radar on... paddle wide and usually
you will get outside faster because youll be wide of incomming
currents... often outside there is better
outgoing currents... be aware ... watch listen... and try
to stay out of the way of surfers who are riding the waves..
the old golden rule applies here...learn the tribal
law... nothing gets a surfer more frustrated than when he
has a good wave and some son of a gun is paddling right
in front of a perfect take off situation...or doesn't see
that someone on a wave needs another 10 metres of space
to project into a section they must make to make the wave...
it
doesn't matter that you are not the best surfer out there...people
in the waves will enjoy your spirit if you earn the reputation
of being kind friendly, considerate and sharing with the
waves...building good surf karma
pays many fold in your future.
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Phone:
66 847 390
Mobile: 0428 847 390
E-mail: rustym@mullum.com.au
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