Sneaky Tee bay

Not a bad way to spend a friday afternoon, with no swell in town, we headed off to the otherside and checked out a pretty popular spot first. Was about 30 guys ruling the place, so we flagged it and shot round the corner to be greeted by an empty bay, with hell offshores and what appeared to be a pretty average size swell..

Until we got out there, the sets were bigger than the original estimation of about 2 ft.., the wind eased to light offshore and it was pumping. Even a few 4ft sizey swells rolled on in and worked us. There was lefts and rights and a few second barrels.

One of the best days i've seen it here in a looong time.

Coming to a cinema near you.

This looks like it could be an awsome movie!!!

Tekapo Boat Trip

Brodie is flying out to korea in 2 weeks. We had been talking it up what awsome wakeboarders we are (despite never ever doing it before). So we finally worked our asses into catching up with him and heading down there to put money were our mouth is.
A few dramas hitting the road, but we eventually made it to lake tekapo, to be greeted by a crystal day, no wind and full sunshine all around. Skipper nortz put us to the test and we held our own in amoungst the hardcore ski biscuits, kneeboarders and the occasional extreme lake kyakers.

Heres a few screen shots and clips of the "Southern Gold" times:

Brodie showing us how its done on the single ski.




Gk putting those thighs to use, with his trade mark power carve.





brett doing the usual "Dj styla"




Bret giving it a go in the chop..



Click on this one for sum mental animated GIF action...



Brodie busting



and a little more






Some excellent boat driving by first mate greg and I. massive airs all round.
Big ups to the Norton whanau for letting us use and abuse the family watercraft..

Tubing all day long..

In amongst the endless tunnels of water, B-rad managed to take a bit of time out, to snap a few sweet shots of a nice barrell day at a little bay up the coast..

worth waiting for.

Black and White..

some photo experiments..

Kaikoura Mission

Kaikoura has some of the best breaks in the east coast and when theres a 4-6ft swell running, it has to be a great place to be, so it is about time "logriding" got a kaiks blog entry.

We boosted to kaikoura on friday night, had a few beers, missing the 6am surf alarm, resulting in us checking out the spots along with everybody else in town.

First off Kahutara, a mean as right point that pumps in a south swell.. It was predomintantly NE swell. so was heaps smaller than the rest of the spots, but still a good option.



Then the infamous "meat works" named after the days before booties, when surfers would get there feet minced up on the way in.. This was real raw and heavy, crowded with lid riders.

So we went out at Graveyards for an hour or so, this had some powerful little waves, which wernt closing out as much as meatworks.

MANGAMANU!! - After getting some Kai and a bit of rest, we hit the most famous right point in the south island and it was pumping!!! 4-6ft sets consistantly rolling in. This was refected in the crowd of 60 odd surfers getting as many waves as priority allowed. Real good vibe going down with no snaking, which meant about 3 waves an hour due to the consistancy of the take-off zone and the locals knowing excactly where to be to get on every set.. This was a priceless day in the water.

Dawn Raid - Scarborough

I love fridays, because its my day off, and what a better way to start the day by getting up at 6am and going for a surf in town.. With the mass of swell coming through there was a few people getting a wave in before work, i managed to snap a couple of pics before i got out there..

LaGuna Skimboarding madness

With the summer swell being minmal and local trend wave of skimboarding hitting town, the Laguna die hards decided to give skim boarding a go.. Basically this is when you run as fast as possible with a tiny flat board, thorw it down, jump on it and skim across the water to an on coming wave. Best spots are intense shore breaks..

Heres greggie doin a tail slide at a super secret spot.. Usually theres heaps of swell when everywhere else is flat..





Then B-rad, thought skim boarding was to physically demanding, so decided to go smash the shorey with "Talin"






and then we hit another seceret spot, way more intense.. with about a 3metre drop into the sea just where the wave breaks.. we only had enough balls to hit the smallest of the sets rolling through..






This was a real dangerous spot.

On the rise

"memories"

Had an awesome trip to the bay.

WE saw the sun once in 3 days, the surf was pretty minimal, no wind and the odd 4ft set coming through, about 1-3ft of messy swell the whole time, but with the usual crew, we had a "glad" old time.

heres some classic shots for the photo album.