Nat's Nat And That's That: A Surfing Legend - Brossura

Young, Nat

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0958575002 ISBN 13: 9780958575003

Casa editrice: Nymboida Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Describes the life and accomplishments of one of Australia's greatest surfers of the modern era, in a book the also describes the Western cultural shifts that have happened within the past forty years.

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Nat Young has lived the surfing life for almost half a century. He is recognised as one of the great surfers in the history of the sport. His motto is and always has been to " make it a beautiful life " he believes you have only one chance and you had better make it a good one. Nat was an integral part in the redesigning of the longboard in the late 60s and a co-founder of the longboard renaissance in the early 80s. The four times World Champion still lives his life totally devoted to riding waves, surfing either a long or short board at every opportunity he gets.

Nat has always loved good projects, so far he has written 5 books, 3 of which are available on this site. The other 2, Surfing Australia¹s East Coast and Surfing and Sailboard Guide to Australia are collectors items. He has made 2 movies, Fall-Line(1977) and The History of Australian Surfing (1984). These days he lives an idyllic but still eventful life based in his beloved Angourie, where he combines his love for surf with his other great passion, his family.

Nat¹s wife Ti is 44 years old, a tall striking blond from the Palm Beach on the northern beaches of Sydney, she loves the surfing life style but has never ridden a wave on a board, preferring bodysurfing as a much purer form of surfing. Naomi is Nat¹s eldest child, born in Byron Bay in 1971, she was a very fortunate girl growing up in both the country and the city. The beautiful Naomi is a competent goofy foot, who loves the cruising style of riding her longboard with her husband Nick and working as a flight attendant for Qantas. 17 year old Nava is the academic in the family. Another talented Goofy foot, she spends her life chasing waves, snow and trying to decide what course at which university will suite her best. Beau is the current star of the family, he has taken over Nat¹s place as the best surfer in the Young clan. At 26 Beau has already achieved his personal ambition by becoming the 2000 World Longboard Surfing Champion and his competative career is definately not over yet. 10 year old Bryce is exploding everywhere he chooses to open up, he is already in the top bracket of snowboarders for his age, can bust airs and carve on either his shortboards or skateboards. This completes the picture of what makes it a beautiful life for the Young family.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Robert "Nat" Young claims honestly not to remember the first time he rode a wave. He remembers the place- Sydney's Collaroy Beach in the 1950s- and he remembers how it felt. The sensations of those early rides on an inflatable rubber surfmat, "kicking and paddling into it, rushing straight down the face of wave," drove the course of Nat's life from then on. Today, with numerous world titles spanning three decades, he is generally regarded as the greatest surfer of the modern era, and one of Australia's finest ever athletes.
But surfers are not like other athletes, and this book shows us why. It began as a series of short stories, drawn from Nat's dinner party tales; in the writing process it became something else entirely. What has emerged is not just yet another story of a sportsman's relentless training, ups and downs, and eventual triumph over adversity. It's a sociological journey. As Nat crashes around the world from adventure to adventure, winning, losing and everything in between, he experiences the big Western cultural shifts of the past forty years from ground level. Australia before Vietnam and during the draft; hippie 1970 Byron Bay; the good life in California with obscure surfing legend Mickey Dora; Kuta before the tourism boom; environmentalism; dope; international fame and its consequences; it's all here. As Nat says: "It's been a wonderful time to be alive and if I had it over I wouldn't change a thing- and it ain't over yet."

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• Editore: Nymboida Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0958575002
• ISBN 13: 9780958575003
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 460