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Surfing
made simple!
 The Australasian Post, August 22
1992
Surfing made simple!
A
Great recession-busting initiative has landed Vince
Hayes a crack job - as Australia's first professional
body-surfing coach.
Since September, Vince, 41, has been body-surfing
coach at the luxury Hyatt Regency Coolum, on Queensland's
Sunshine Coast, tutoring its world-wide clientele
in a seemingly long-lost art.
Indeed, he is quick to pour sold water on the idea
that surf enjoyment in the 90s means a high-tech board
or boogie board.
"To me, bodysurfing is more enjoyable than board-riding.
It's less glamorous - because you don't go round with
the image of having a surfboard on top of your car,"
the former lifeguard says.
"That it's exhilarating and as physical, and
I ______ there's a greater ________ achievement. You're
_______ out into the water without your security blanket!"
When his lawn-mowing business slowed a little during
winter last year Vince activated his plan.
He approached the Hyatt's general manager, Maurice
Holland, who instantly declared it a goer.
"Of course, they wanted to know my credentials
at first," says Vince. "Apart from my general
sports coaching certificates, I have been a member
of Coolum Beach Life Saving Club for 20 years, I have
my bronze life-saving medallion and am qualified in
first aid.
" You don't have to be Grant Kenny or Guy Leech
to do what I'm doing. My experience in the surf is
virtually a life-time.
"I grew up in Brisbane and learnt basic body-surfing
from Dad down at nearby Redcliffe. Learning from your
parents was the way you did it in days."
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Surfing
made simple!
A GREAT recession-busting
initiative has landed
Vince Hayes a crack
job - as Australia's
first professional body-surfing
coach.
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Man
over the moon about
body surfing
By
Steven Lamdie
BURN
the boogie board and
put the Malibu in the
back shed because the
summer is the season
of the "moon"
board and a return to
the body surfing days
of 40 years ago.
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New
body surfing clinic
A
UNIQUE tourist facility
to instill surf safety,
surf awareness, surf
skills, surf enjoyment
and surf knowlege and
fitness may be approved
by the Maroochy Shire
Council.
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Surf
safety is a must do
says Coolum icon
By
Peter Gardener
VINCE
Hayes looks like he's
lived all his life by
the sea.
His chiseled featured,
like the barnacled rocks
out the front of his
Oceanside home at Coolum,
appear to have weathered
many a savage sea.
And so they have. .
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Vince
turns hobby into surfing
first
IT
started with his father-in-law,
who reckons if you've
got a hobby and you're
good at it, you may as
well make money out of
it.
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Body
surf lessons a QLD first
By
PeterTrundle
THE
three Sunshine Coast councils
have approved what lifesavers
believe will be the first
bodysurfing lessons on
public beaches in Queensland.
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