Utmost Spirit

* Deus Surf Swap Meet

April 11, 2010

Posted in: News

Steve selling 'Ocean Rhythms' DVDs at the Deus Surf Swap Meet. Photo: Lyndon Core

The 2nd Deus Ex Machina Surf Swap Meet was held at Deus Ex Machina retail showroom and associated car park located on Parramatta Road, Camperdown in Sydney on Saturday April 10th, 2010.

Myself and my 18yr old son Lyndon turned up for our first visit to the Meet. We set up our marquee and product table to fly the ‘Ocean Rhythms’ flag and sell and sign a few DVDs.

What a great day we had; I ran into a lot of people I had not seen in a long time including old friend; ASP WQS Tour Director Al Hunt – a serious surfing magazine collector and memorabilia collector. I used to work with Al a lot when I did the commentary on the ASP Pro Tour in the early to mid eighties.

Old friend Dave Wilson of Gordon & Smith was also there with his board display. Dave and I used to work together at G&S in Taren Point back in the late sixties and early seventies. I also made a lot of new surf stoked friends on the day.

We were blessed with a perfect sunny day and a great crowd of enthused surf collectors who swarmed around the booths all day. Patrons have the chance to buy, sell, or trade all types of ocean and surf gear, including new and used surfboards, wetsuits, clothing, magazines, surf art, photos, surf music, posters and other surf collectable items.

We got great reaction from serious surfing DVD collectors with the news that my first film ‘In Natural Flow’ [1971/2] will be re-released in the coming Spring – just in time for the Summer of 2010/11. In Natural Flow has been sitting in my garage for the past 25 years and has not been seen anywhere around the world.

Do yourselves a favour and check: www.boardcollector.com/ for great ongoing surf collectable information and photo coverage of this very cool day. Can’t wait for the next one.

 Steve