UNDERGROUND EXPLORER: ROB WARD

UNDERGROUND EXPLORER: ROB WARD

Roger Mansfield has very kindly let me publish this great piece on Rob Ward taken from his book ‘The Surfing Tribe’. The story of British surfing would not be complete without reference to its underground surfers – those who passed up competition, fashion...
Future of my life – Rob Ward

Future of my life – Rob Ward

When I was in Simonstown Naval Dockyard with HMS Jaguar (in South Africa) I had made friends with a young fellow on a Naval  replenishment vessel. We’d met, so to speak, in the Mozambique Channel, during a RAS  (“Replenishment at Sea”). He and I...
Gail (Sheath) Broomfield

Gail (Sheath) Broomfield

I suppose I have always considered myself a surfer. I was brought up in Joberg, South Africa, but holidays on the coast at Morgans Bay and Port St Johns near Durban always involved belly boarding on the wooden boards. It was in Port St Johns in 1970 that I spotted...
Rob Ward

Rob Ward

I have recently been in contact with Rob Ward and this is what he had to say.   I am heading off into the South Australian desert in a week or so to Cactus. If you Google Ceduna South Australia and go west 60k to Penong, Cactus is on the coast 20k roughly south....
Come Surfing – by Robert Ward

Come Surfing – by Robert Ward

What is Surfing – by Robert Ward Is it pushing a plywood strip through six inches of white summer foam with Dad and the family, taking a slide of twenty yards with the kids screaming with excitiement? For many this is surfing. For some the difference between...