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ADRIAAN VAN DER WALLEN SPEAKS WITH BRUCE USHER

I live at Avalon and I’m a PDHPE teacher (sports and health teacher) at the Northern Beaches Secondary College. About 17 years ago, two year-eight students asked if I had a spare fibreglass board for them. They were doing the Learn to Surf program. Word got out, and the year-seven Learn to Surf kids started asking, and I kept looking. I lent out my 6’ 1” competition board and a few spares. Eventually friends started bringing me their old boards and I got boards from council clean-ups, auctions and garage sales – buying boards for between $10 and $20. It kept growing, and after a decade I had so many out there in the community I couldn’t keep track of who had what, so I started an Xcel spreadsheet. Borrowers…

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