Thursday, April 07, 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Backside

Cocky bastard, B-rad throwing it down on the boulder shorey..

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Monday, February 07, 2011

Radical

My little bros sent me some shots from back home in NZ.
Photos by Brother #2, and rider Brother #4.
S U M M M E R !

Friday, January 21, 2011

Hi Shredibility

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Rory over at Vice let me know they have finally released a new episode of Hi Shredibility. A 2 part woodboard shaping, maine sliding sneak preview into Mikey DeTemple's new project.
Check out the epicness:Part 1 and Part 2.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Diana Uploads

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Some More Uploads from my journey..

Here.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Diana Moments


Some shots from aroudn lisbon from the Diana.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Lisboa



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Lisbon Streets.
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Street signs.
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Cute little trams
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Supertubos doing its thing.
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Real fisherman.
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Guincho, beach near lisbon.. always onshore apparently.
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Camping, cliffside.
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Jam packed camping ground
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Light House.
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Crystal.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Jose Segundo

While in spain I had another chance meeting of epic proportions, Jose Segundo a designer, surfer, lomo lover from Montevideo, U.  He is doing a surf mission around Portugal in September, so i hope to join him on this little journey.

He has a really nice blog, about surfing and other things.. (and his beautiful surf shots are featured in my favorite surf newspaper Kook!) YEW!

Heres some of his shots from Uruguay. (click to enlarge)
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Drifting in the Basque Country


The beach is small but packed with people and the craziest feeling on the far side of the beach near the best banks was this cliff full of cats living in the rocks?


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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Slide your Life Away

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Emil Kozak

Randomly i met the super talented mr Emil Kozak on the beach in Southern france.. we got chatting and he sent me some shots of some beautiful boards he has done the graphics for.. (rather strange coincidenece given the inspiration for my blog graphics..)

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Drifting Hobo - shot bro.

Heres some photos that relate to the previous post.. In no particular order..

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Hossegor house of dreams.

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Quality example of a french man. Camenbert, red wine and a beret.

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Glitzy Biarittz.

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Biarittz super banks.. on a crappy day..

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Aleks taking some time out of the water for some esplanade sliding.

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The result of a night on cliff and some sprinkler action..

Monday, February 08, 2010

Memories

Missing the local..

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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Surfing Finland

I dont think i have ever associated these two words together before..

But yes its true, the myths have been proved correct, there are waves in finland.

According to My surf guide marko, the season has begun, and it all depends on the wind variations which involve howling onshores, bringing a few feet of wind swell. Similar to surfing the great lakes i guess. Wind swell is totally different than ground swell, in the fact it has no push, which most normal surfers are used to. Wind swell is an aquired style, the finnish surfing community have locked down. After a 300km drive, during the rush hour on a friday, we caught our first glimps of the coast, and totally to my suprise i saw what resmebled a rough looking right hand point.

Before paddling out to this secret spot, marko warned me of the dangers; dark water means you cant see the bottom. Its really rocky and shallow with rocks popping up all over the place. Also glass, and the heavy localism of these spots. The line up was like a frenzy of thrashing seals.

I didnt listen or actually, i went into auto drive as i caught my first wave, and cruised into shore, and upon jumping off the wave was met by a big boulder to the ankle inches below the water, and the howling onshores sending the board rocketing at my face.

Apart from this i witnessed some of the most wave hungry commited surfers, who were getting stoked on some nice peaks, that without the search for the glide would probably just roll through unridden as the mythical water mountains of the baltic sea.

This was truly an exotic experience for a kiwi, and one of the random greatest things i have experienced in finland, laying my head down to sleep arriving back home in helsinki at 2:30am with the satisfied feeling you only get from a good session.

Hers some shots to get you frothing about your next arctic surf adventures....


My first glimps of the point..


A very strange sight, driving through the streets of helsinki..