 The story behind the name is open to conjecture yet it is believed to have come from the summers spent jumping off the rocks at Tamarama beach freestyle without anything except a desire to swim beyond the breakers.Post that many of the subsequent members embraced being a "surfer"...more metaphysical than anything else...yet the name embraced the idea of being free.The Tamarama Rock Surfers also founded the Old Fitzroy Home Theatre in 1997 after sell-out season in Sydney of the play "Road" written by Jim Cartwright and performed at the Lansdowne Hotel.