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POOL CODY'S

It's 3.20 p.m. on a Wednesday and Cody Worrall just knocked off work tiling. He picks up the phone from his house in Tweed Heads, the most Northern town in NSW, and the birds are making a racket in the background. Cody is friendly and speaks quickly. He's a no-bullshit sort of fella, all too happy to explain how he achieved a lifelong dream of having his own backyard pool. It's six feet deep, but super tight and elliptical, meaning there's no flat bottom in it. Cody's mate, Matty Coaker, the builder who worked on the pool and owner of Cocanut Pools, explained, “It's a pretty gnarly pool. The thing doesn't even have any flat in it. If you have a good session there, you can hardly walk the next day.”.

Younger readers may be less familiar with Cody's status as a heavy transition skater from the Gold Coast. For a refresher, check out the back catalogue of Hoon videos that proliferated from roughly 2005 until 2016. They show the Hoon crew as a bunch of hard-drinkin’, heavily tattooed transition skaters with scabby knees and sandy hair. The “Hoon Runs”, led by Andrew Currie, were infamous for the heavy

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