Finally good waves

As good as this weekend was.

I have next to no shots to show for it.

This weekend was full of the worst string of events for me.

Started off on friday night driving down on the new highway and getting flashed doing 108km/h 5 meters before a 110km/h sign.

Saturday woke up to a pumping box so i geared up as fast as i could.

Got into the water paddled out and thought i might be able to shoot the inside for a bit as there wernt many west sets coming through.

Third wave out there was a massive west set.

As i sat there pondering what to do i see Hardy and Thorpe gun it for the safety of the channel.

This 5 foot wall of water continued to suck water rapidly from the reef i was now knee deep on top of.

The next 5 seconds seemed to take for ever as i bailed my board held my housing and hugged the first bit of reef my hands touched.

As the set broke on my head the shockwave ripped me from the reef throwing me around like a rag doll only stopping to bounce me off the next bit of reef.

Stripping my fin off i was moving so fast through the water feet first my ankle went straight into a nice chunk of reef tearing holes and slicing it up.

i surface from the water a wave later sitting on an exposed nigerhead to find the housing of my handle had snapped at the bottom.

Ending in the emergency room at margs hospital.

Later that day i went to the purvis's house to watch my boys down the cats in possibly the best game of football i have every watched.

I came away bitter, almost in tears.

After that all i wanted was for this day to be over.

We had an early night and were up early to head to mufflers.

missing the turn for the first path sent me on this rabbit track that would link us up to the other path(should of turned around)

about 1k down this track we his a dead end for my car.

The housings of scratches i now have on my new car discust's me.

Turned around and took the other track.

We were amped to find only jake stone and Nick out.

I shot 400 from the rocks and soon after i set up mitch rawlins and tom hannam rocked up.

Not long after Chris "im neging out thismorning" Gurney, alex halsey and ryan donovan rocked up to add to the crowd.

i filled my card up and went to chuck it on the laptop to find my new lens that i bought 2 days ago doesnt focus rite on my camera.

Every shot i had from that weekend was now a waste of time.

I was so filthy towards this weekend i just wanted to head home.

On the way home i thought me might get a small medge on low tide.

So i flagged the new highway and went through mandurah with speed limits of 70km/h

It was flat as a tack.

We decided to head to pengoes, possibly the only thing that will ever make the shittest day epic in my life.

Just out of mandurah when im doing 100km/h and *flash*.

The dirty fucking pigs, i hate you so much.

Now there is an extremely high possibility that i have lst my license, therefore my job and my car.

Yeah its fucked.

Anyway pengoes was pretty shallow and dry but as the tide picked up a few fun ones rolled through.

Headed home checked the shots again.

Took 2 shots away from the weekend.

Which was a letdown because everyone was ripping.

Anyway here they are, Two slow shutter shots of jake stone at mufflers

When will it end?

For the last 4 months, intense low pressure systems have been hitting the South West coastline non stop.

I think i could count on 2 hands the ammount of 'good' days we have had this winter.

due to the shit winds during the day and everyone discovering that cott gets fun on days like this

we have been forced to grovel at night at a dim light breakwall.

Which happens to be a left......and i fucking hate lefts.

So Spring. SORT YOUR SHIT OUT.

Change of Seasons, Change of Setting

Spring has bought a big change for us all..........

Normally i picture pring as been sunny and warm.

Winter has not ended and does not look like it ever will.

The other day i got my new fisheye set up, Thanks to Gurney.

With a few good days here and there, trying to mix work with shooting is impossible.

So I've been shooting alot of skate the past week and a bit.

Shooting skate is so much different to surf, been able to control the subjects around you and using lighting is probly the best 2 things about it.

Heres some of the stuff from a shoot we did at Curtin Uni a week ago.

Peace.

part 2

its saturday today.

11:30 to be exact.

at this time today i was ment to be sitting in 78's with a few mates while anberlin did i little acoustic set.

fail!!

were still at home.

so i thought id blog the rest of the trip.

Last part of the Trip

thursday it was about 2:30 when we went to the other sife of the state to get tommic.

rockin mums car again he open the door and makes the instant call on how much it looks like an aero plane.

left tommics, got down to margs a bit before 7.

sitting in the car out the front of brumbys waiting for them to make the bruffins id been talking up for the last 3 hours in the car.

After 45 minutes of waiting for these and a free coffee later were on our way.

every where wasnt getting anyswell at all.

Box was inconsistant

gas was nothing

north point, id seen bigger waves in my pool

cobbles was maxing.

A quick call to Alex Miller it was the same deal towards yallingup.

we drove around till around 10 30 untill we jumped down to gas.

Gas was fun but nothing special, the tide was dropping so fast and even gas was getting exposed on the bigger sets making it a bitch to shoot fisheye.

id had enough and came in with luke when he snapped his leash.

sitting on the shore tommics first waves after we gotten in he pulled one of the biggest inverts ive seen at gas, bailing on the landing as he saw the exposed reef under him.

i really cant be fucked writing the rest of this trip. so here is a well shortened version

we went to chooks

ate chooks

went to booj

scored booj

went home

cooked dinner

ate dinner

went to bed

slept

woke up

drove to box

paddled out

shot

went home

the end.

hopefully im going down to shoot some skate tonight so ill try get some stuff for u tomorrow

About Time

Its been like 12 days since i got back from my trip.

I have realised i wish i had never come home.

Work has been so long and im over working 7-6 everyday.

The Trip

On Thursday I headed off to the airport to pick up Luke, Running 15 minutes late I was lucky that his flight was delayed 20 minutes.

After getting luke we got in the car headed home un-packed and packed the car.

Not having my own car was bullshit for this trip.

I had mums Kia Carnival, which is like a fucking alcoholic on the petrol.

We set off friday morning with Louis and Brendan hoping to score an early Wedge on the way down.

FAIL! it was perfect offshore and good swell. Too bad they dredged the cut.

Next option was quickly head to a nearby reef. As we got to the hill and ran over to check it out.

We were greeted with perfect 4-5 foot peaks. Crowd factor was high for a friday morning and it was real inconsistant. We watched if for about an hour waiting for lewy to find his way there.

Ended up flagging it to race down in the hope of better waves.

Quickly stoping in bunbry to check sidewash.... fail ended up going to get me a milkshake from wendys.

Back on track we got to rabbits about an hour later.

Winds had turned sse but there was a good bank out there.

Gearing up in the cold rain wasnt fun.

As we get down to the beach Luke cant stop complaining about how cold it is and how the Hoax Coast is so warm.

Rabbits turned to shit, "5 foot onshore and straight".

We were ment to be down there for another week but the forcast changed and was shit for the next 5 days.

We stayed one more night hoping we might get lucky with the wind.

Next trip

So south was shit, I Got a call that day asking if i wanted to do a day trip to rotto.

Forecast was good and we were all keen for waves.

About 10 minutes later we were packed up and heading home.

Lewy been so amped said he got us on the "last ferry" at 5:45.

Only there was no ferry at 5:45.

We were taking the "spruce moose"

Lewy picked us up from my place, straight from work i hear him screaming around the corner.

We were half hour late, lewy didnt have his board wetty or fins so he had to borrow some gear.

He is only 5foot 6, borrowing a 43 inch board from his brother i could'nt help but laugh when i saw him with a huge board and pair of hydro's.

We made it to the airport just in time.

Getting the plane over was the best experiance i had ever had with that island.

Flying over the top we found a new wave that works on the certain conditions.

Crashed the night at Reece's place,

Waking up in the morning i went to the jetty early to pick up jeremy who had came over for the day.

I almost cryed when i saw about 10 other people with boards jump off.

By chance one of Lukes mates Tomic from the goldy was over.

The bus eventually got to box, we were the only ones left on it.

Looking at it from the bus stop everyone was amping.

Ive never run so fast to get to the cliff.

As the boys suited up and jumped down the cliff and started paddeling i noticed i was the only one left minus Reece who wasnt really in the mood.

I convinced him to come out with me to hang in the channel.

So i kind of cant be fucked Writing the rest of the story as i really need to do a shit,

Yeah graphic i know but i havnt been since yesterday so its goign to be huge.

Ill write the rest of the story and the other trip tomorrow.

Heres some shots from rotto that havnt been put up yet

click them to look at them full size

Box's

Shot out at both box's recently,

Ill chuck some more stuff up soon.

In the mean time:

Buy this

Check back here in a few days

Heres a few emptys and a really bad edit of tom-o, the origional was blown out.

Ill post them all back up in a day or two when i figure how to link flickr with this thing.

Trips and new cars

Around 3 months ago i bought my first car.

When i got it i thought yeah awesome a Subaru reliable cars.

Definately not this one.

I paid 2 grand for it we got it down for 3.5 off of some crack head(sold it for his fix)

As soon as i drove it home something went wrong with the suspension.

2 grand fix

then another heap of things went wrong with it

anyway i spent around 6 grand fixing it so far.

Its going now which i am stoked about.

Got a loan for a Forester or x-trail.

Anyway enough whining about my car.

Friday morning im heading away.

Dont know where too or for how long.

But where ever has waves.

Ill post some shit as we get around.

The Ledge

A Couple of weeks ago i headed down to margs for the weekend

with Lewy and Charlie.

We scored good cobbles the first day and shit gas in the arvo.

Housing fucked up so didnt get anything worth posting in the time it worked.

The next day we went and check 'The Ledge'.

Managed to get a shot or two but missed most of the better waves coming through.

Check Hugh Forwards blog he filmed both sessions.

Check my flickr for better quality versions of the shot blogger takes it hard

Victim

To the blog.

Ill throw up some shots when i figure this out

And have some shit to spray.