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Really was not planning on getting waves today

Got to caves and it looked average. Got in crowded as heck but still managed to get nuggets. Carried on getting better and better until it was solid 3ft perfect wedges just in time for me to leave.

Anyway got cooking wedges for about 45min an had a good surf.




The setup



Big roll on a powerful section at S.A champs

IDONTHAVEMUCHTOSAY

I dont have much to say today.

Having quite a crappy flat spell.

All blown out.

But desperate times call for desperate measures so i will probably make a mission to go tomorrow or friday. Need a bit of practice for saterdays contest




Check the wind swell for the weekend



A place a wish i was still surfing

hallelujah

Summer is almost here.

Therefore sand banks are recovering and my favorite wave will soon be producing the goods.

Getting a new board this week. Getting amped for the weekend.

There is a small contest on in camps bay this weekend. swell is looking filthy so not gonna get much wave but amped for the beach

Enjoi your week

Some photos from my stash





Nice fun reef break



Darren halse back flip



Nice spray

PC under attack

Apparently my computer has 1000 virus's.

Thats a real shitter.

Going to loose a good amount of photos so im pretty bummed.

Got home from a camp today and it was looking like a koel-bay-day. So dialed a lift and got there with lightning speed. ha. Surfed until the sun was down. Got some siiiiick wedges.

Here are a few pics to please you




Darren Halse with a nice invert up the west coast




unsurfed West coast beach break



Me at the waveshouse Durban while waiting for flight after S.A champs last year

wind+sun=DEATH

Please understand that it is spring and that the combination of wind+sun=DEATH. Getting blown away down here with the pumping South easterly winds that are known to blow this time of the year. Wind swell. Blown out offshore days. Whats not to love. Atleast with the changing of seasons we know that summer is on its way and our favorite beachies will soon be pumping again.

Been having a hectic week. Exams coming up and not getting all that time to bodyboard. I got some waves yesterday at a nice beach/reef break with some cranking lefts and fun right handers. Landed a nice flip in the first 30min and then practiced my lefts.

Going on a church camp this weekend(woohoo) so not going to be having waves. Or updating the blog' Should have some good stories to share after the weekend.

Here is a nice sequence of myself doing a nice reverse at my local break.

Photos by Chris Joubert





Take off








The money shot






DISCLAIMER: ALL PHOTOS USED ON THIS BLOG NOT TAKEN BY ME HAVE BEEN USED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Ghost face Killa

PIPI slashing the kak out of this bad boy .......
Past few days there's been minimum swell nothing much to do, had few good waves on weekend but not yet those sik bastards rolling in....Summer banks slowly making the return back and should have Motchies rolling in soon.

From the archives

Was looking through my photos when i realized that we have some good waves this side of the coast... Might not be crazy big slab like OZ but we definitely have our fair share of good reefs. Including a fun not so secret secret spot in the boland. Its like a mini slad with these bitchfatherfarker rocks that stick out the water on take off. Besides the take off its a pretty mellow out wave. DO NOT SURF ON SPRING LOW. please don't. thats why i am here.

Have had legend surfs there with good flip sections if timed right. Have hit the reef before but nothing serious. Here are a few shots courtesy of friendly photodawgs





Going, going, gone




The take off zone
Photo by Andre Loubser




Showing teeth
Photo by Andre Loubser

Sofie

Darren halse ..
enjoying the Raw mother nature the west coast has to offer him.

photo by : Marcel Habbets




Webster from Boland Representing the "LOC" and the local girl 'SOFIE ' with this flip that earned him a 1st place in junior's Division.













photo by : Marcel Habbets





Webster's flip at Famous from the crowd's view.

Photo by : Ian Thurtell

DA DOOM

Got some interesting news........

Entered a contest on the riptide forum to make a blog. Lucky for me, me and Mr Lombaard have already started our blog so we have a slight advantage.

Got some waves this weekend. Got some cooooking caves yesterday and some small fun caves today. Popped a few flips and some nice reverse attempts.... all in good time

Until then here are some photos of empty waves up the west coast









Famous getting big








A fine left

bull shit school shit

School depressing shit. Not enjoiing it. But one day it will be over and I will want it back. But until then its bull shit.

Got some photos up the west coast this holiday that just past. A few will be hidden for future use. and here are some




A nice wave that i enjoyed surfing alone, yes alone







Jason Fowler with big roll during S.A champs






Darren Halse with a nice DK thingy haha

Eye of the storm

Cobus Bosman

Denotations

Invert:

1. To turn inside out or upside down: invert an hourglass.

2. To reverse the position, order, or condition of: invert the subject and predicate of a sentence.

3. To subject to inversion.


To some people this is what invert means. But it has a different meaning to bodyboarders. Here are a few photos of different people inverting. enjoooooooiiiiiiii







Mr Storm Prestwich busting big in quarter final heat




Iain Campbell busting big





Random man who was ripping




Mc Carthy with a good vert on a not so good wave

THESE ARE NOT MINE

So what they not mine? im in them though and im sure the kind women who took the pics won't mind.

We had epic waves. Unfortunately the camera only focused on us for half an hour so didnt get many pics. enjoy


Chris-jan on a big one

Going underground

showing the kids

Soooo...........

Hell yeah! Luckily for the sake of the blog I git a new camera recently and im pretty amped to start taking photos. I have been pretty sick lately so haven't had chance to take it on a trip to the ocean yet.........but I have been playing around with it a bit at home and have taken some fun photos.

When the money is flowing well again I think I am going to either buy a water housing, or a new zoom lense. So for the moment kids, I am going to be cropping my photos hahaha. Should work for now.

Anyway posts should start flying in soon seeing as there is now an extra camera. Hopefully my skills progress.

Just some pics

Real life vintage

So this is how the shit went down:

15h00: Get home from Stellenbosch only to realize that it is completely blown out and my chance of getiing waves is zero

15h30: After pondering I decide to roam the streets of Greenways on my tri-cycle

16h00: Find a awesome golf tee-off and try ramp it 16h10: After being spotted by one of the elders I am forced to make a getaway

16h30: Find a log and decide to construct my own ramp

16h45: After rolling awkwardly sized log I am spotted by one of the others and confronted with wise words. I decided to be stubborn and was commanded to return the log to its home and my idea to build a log ramp was crushed. Now i sit at home and eat

I strongly advise some anger-management for these tortoise-like people

Anyway the weekend is drawing closer and I will be able to surf my sorrows away. Hoping for good waves tomorrow at a friendly wave known as bikini.



Gunning for the beach in hope of safety




Bikini backline looking tasty

The impact on social and ethical behaviour of people

Dont swear when there are little kids on the bus sitting next to you, or aywhere for that matter.

They might turn out like a MAN i met at pipe a week ago. Me myself and I was the only person on the wave when i see this little old man dropping in so i made it clear that you dont drop in on me, but this seemed to be a big mistake as this man grabbed me and shouted these exact words, reenactment- Junker " Ooi dont drop in dude "

Old Man " What did you just say you little cunt poes motherfuck#$ dick yogurt &@#*&^$(($*&#Q$)&)(#@$&) mailto:$@&$)(&*#$ man bear pig."

So i said nothing as he told me to do. End.


Some good caves











Jurgen doing what he wants

A duke in the Urinal

Picture by : Cobus Bosman

BIG small WAVES

So the day started like this: wake up early morning to try find a lift to the beach. Ended up getting a lift with this brudda from my class. So we first head to Paranoia point and its about 4ft, not exactly what we were hoping for. Then we mission to Pringle reef and its not even peaking and to top it off the wind is onshore. So we head on to Betties where we are greeted with 6ft messy close outs. We were starting to loose hope.We headed on to Onrus were we found an out of control beach break and some crazy unsurfed reefs that look like fucking Luna park. I haven't even seen a wave gas like this one on a dvd. But it looked bigger than what we could handle and was inconsistent. Our last bit of hope was Bay View and we were expecting it to be huge as well, but it wasn't. It was about 6-8ft with the occasional freak set(about 10ft)and breaking on the inside slab, sucking dry on the occasional set. WE WERE PUMPED. I was a bit nervous to paddle in but just went for it. It was sick. Bay view is a big wave spot that demands constant focus when surfing. We were getting some sick waves. Seeing as it was breaking on the slab sections and it was low tide it was making some crazy steps and throwing some wide barrels and scaring the shit out of me. Towards the end of the session I caught a smaller wave to get out the water but didn't quite catch it. When i turned around I was faced with a BIGGG one and didn't even try duck dive, just swam down! Anyway my leash snapped and I was left with no other option but to swim. I got nailed by the sets that followed and when it looked calmer I began my swim out of this place. The swim went surprisingly fast and after looking for about 30min I found my board lying in a rock pool far away from bay view and she survived without any holes in it. Just shows what waves have the power of doing.

The kind human who took brought me to this place





Its always good to take one to the head



A real nice one

I will follow up on this blog when I get the other pics

Ronson (Universal Gas Lighter)

Oi oi oi

Fuck my knee

Fuck it hard

Missioned with poen 2day to get some rather bouncy crushing waves

was interesting after everyone of his waves he looked back to see if i got a photo, kids these days

But all in all was a good day, even if we disscused that shot little timber merchants dude and coen ranting about female parts :)

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