Bondi Surf Club Members Results  2.1km ocean swim (reduced to about 1300 metres): Cormac Guthrie (men's open overall and 13-19 years races), Simon Nothling  (men's 35-39 years), Tommy Woodriff (men's 45-49 years).   1km ocean swim: Isabelle Dobozy (women's 20-24 years race), Martin Greenberg (men's 65-69 years), Roy Swan (men's 75 years and over). 4km soft sand run: Anthony Carroll (men's 40-49 years race), Kirsty Beattie (women's open overall and under-20 races). Check out the Photos By Paul Thompson on our facebook page BONDI BLUEWATER CHALLENGE OCEAN SWIMS, held on Sunday, April 30 Men’s 2.1km (330 entered and distance reduced to about 1300 metres).  Fastest: Cormac Guthrie (Bondi/Matraville) 15min 11sec, Stuart Swinburn (University of NSW) 15:14, Nico Love (Bronte/Coogee) 15:26. 13-19 years: Same...

Unreliable History    This (R&R) Life: Part II Our fabulous and famous R&R coaches, Harry Nightingale and Mick Cooksley, were sharp-eyed and unrelenting in forcing us to do everything in the same way and at the same speed. We spent many, many hours practicing it all -- before and after school or work, fair weather or foul. Another ‘no-no’ was giggling and whispering, which we rarely did and only when we thought we could get away with it – never in big championship events. It sounds easy not to do, but it isn’t when you’re simulating mouth-to-mouth resuscitation only inches away from your mate’s face and you had possibly got up to all sorts of shenanigans the night before at...

Our master chronicler of all things Bondi, Alan Scott, has asked for contributions to supplement the huge amount of social history he has somehow managed to remember about that famous Australian beach suburb and our equally acclaimed surf club. He has suggested it may be interesting to explain to his many readers, and especially to all our mates at the club in the ‘60s and ‘70s, that curious aspect of surf club competition that is the Rescue & Resuscitation (R&R) event.  ‘Curious’ because it was such a collage of other activities – part marching, part swimming, part rescuing and part dressing up in what then would have been regarded as a woman’s full-length swimming costume. To an uninformed observer on...