Posts tagged: Surfing

So Beej and I have got our sh*t all sorted, and just chilling now with a beer and pizza and watching a little bit of Twister, all good. Tomorrow is a 4am start, 5am on the road, hopefully in the water and catching some waves by 1pm.

Might be a while until I get online to update the blog, so to everyone who ain’t coming with us, well, unlucky.

P Dog, Lukey and Perrie, we’ll catch up with you guys on Sunday arvo and Monday, it is gonna be a quality week, lets hope the waves are there for us, fingers crossed.

Peace people, it’s time for a (Tesco Finest) cookie and tea break.

PS: Elise, not sure when I will next speak to you, but hope the hike went well, you were goo, and it was fun, catch up soon sweetheart x.

Inspired by my recent surf tour of the world, I am thinking about heading off again next year. I will escape the British winter again to hopefully head off to North, Central and South America. Rough idea of countries goes something like this:

• USA
• Baha (Mexico) – feature some Todos Santos, Cortez Bank, hook up with Mike Parsons, haha!
• Costa Rica – Witches rock, hang with Robert (August) and Wingnut
• Chile
• Peru
• Argentina
• Brazil

Mmm, lucky I am busy with the old web dev, looks like I am gonna need the finance. All good though, the dream is to basically surf as many places as I can before I am 30 years old. I have this thing where I write all the differnt breaks on my board bag, think I have got up to 50 destinations, world wide now. Will be kinda funny turning up in North Devon next week, where I am sure if there is any swell at all, people will be hustling over a 3ft slop, best I show them what I learned in Noosa, Fiji, Ocean Beach etc. No comparison really, even though the dominator crew (Mornington Peninsular crew) won’t be there, I will put in a good show for the crowd, haha!

And so after 3 months of extremely hard graft, the WST06: World Surf Tour DVD is now complete. The first few copies are coming off the burner and I am getting read to send them to various people I met on the tour.

The short flim is about 50 minutes long, with about 15 or so different scenes. The footage is a mxiture of surfing, travel and a bit of fu*king around, so a little something for everyone really. Although the language in the film is a bit strong, (so anyone who gets upset with the C word, the F word etc will surely be in for a treat), the dialogue is pretty chill, so all good.

Next video project looks to be a doco about our forthcoming Devon surf trip, keep ya eyes peeled folks!

And so the family grows, look at the 4 of them, so content sitting side-by-side. What a proud father I am! Lets hope the whole family gets wet behind the lugholes next week when we take ‘em down to Lee Bay and let them cavort with the massive!

Well a year has passed, I am still stoked on surfing and it is now the official countdown to our annual summer surf trip to Lee Bay, North Devon. The summer flatness awaits, and last year’s crew are of course going to be in full attendence:

• BCE
• BJC
• Mr. L Reynolds

And this year we are joined by a surfer, who is simply known as The P Dog. The P enjoys nothing more than being cleaned up by a few rogue sets, that full-on, taking it on the head feeling, it is a dog’s world, and it wouldn’t surprise me if P dominates the line-up down at Croyde et al.

Me and BJC will be travelling down on Sunday 23rd, The Dog, with travel kennel and pedigree chum in tow, will be coming down on the train on the same day, and we’ll be joined by Lukey on Wednesday.

It should be a great trip, we have the tools: 8’2 (Mitch), 6’8 (General), 6’4 (Duke a.k.a Dominator), 4 Skims custom skimboard (Mini Mitch) and whatever bodyboards Luke decides to come with. We have swim fins, diving masks, snorkles, cricket bats, badminton stuff, it is all good.

We’ll keep you updated on the tour, may even shoot another video, just to keep the fans happy.

Peace from the east (of Anglia)

So Sulli has added a little entry on his blog about our surf trip to Bali, sweet man, the pics look great, shame you got a few typos! Check it all out here! By the way mate, nicked a pic, just to big you up, this is where he got his ‘wave of his life’, sweet bro, keep it up!

So I was thinking back to when I was over in Fiji with the dominator crew this morning, so I gazed over to www.fijisurf.com to check out the photos Jason had taken from the boat in the channel and saw this one. It immediately threw me back to King Kong Left. This picture was taken by Jason on the first day I was at the resort, I remember having this look of dread on my face when I paddled out, thinking shit, this is mini Teahupoo, most of the other surfers agreed, the only difference between us is that these boys had 5 -10 years worth of surfing experience on top of my modest 3!

Anyway one day I hope to return, maybe to Nagigia, or maybe somewhere new, either way, I will never forget looking at those faces and thinking, shit, I am never gonna make one of them! But I did, maybe not as big as the one in the picture, but I got there!

Peace!

Picture taken by Jason

So it would seem that going around the World for 4 or so months, chasing waves and women would increase your popularity with clients when you get back home. I say that, as I have been pretty much inundated with requests to spread the Hungry Browser web dev love since I have been back! Looks like it could be a prosperous summer to fund the next surf trip.

Haven’t had time to do much work on the DVD this week, as it’s been too hectic, but hoping to get it finished and ready to preview to the gang before I head off to Devon in a little under 3 weeks.

Once again, bring on the Devon! I can’t wait to be in the sea again, be it flat, pumping or most likely somewhere in between! It will be the first time I head to the English coast with 3 boards. Am kitted to the max, and that’s all that matters in the long run! Boards, wax, wettie and some gnarly waves and you’re done! Women come and go, but waves man, that is what is it all about, feed the soul, brother!

Sounds funny, but I can’t wait for some winter storms, as I am kitted out with my new Xcel 5mm mits and booties, it’s gonna be toasty when the time comes!

Found a nifty little site yesterday in my hungover state, I think I have seen it before, but not actually said anything. A site called archive.org, simply type in the address of a site you want to check out, and then, if listed, you can check out all the previous versions of that site. Kinda interesting!

A sidepoint as well, the official countdown has begun to Devon: Lee Bay 2006. Beej, P and myself, with the addition of Lukey, will be checking out to check in with the Lee Bay massive once again, 23rd July, it’s all about those summer crowds and knee-high, onshore winds that characterise the summer surf scene, hey, we might even get a wave to ride too!

In the words of the Sulli, “roll over Laird, Sully’s coming through, get off my set Hamilton, I’ll drop in on the little b*stard”.

You have to admire Sully’s vision on this one, just watch out for XXL Pro next year, Brad Gerlack, man, Sully is after your crown man!

Peace!