Mid winter 2013 morning surf

Heh Folks,

   I am back after a very busy business commitments overseas.

   I am glad to be back home where I can head back to do what I love most.

   The water is still amazingly wonderful. But surf conditions have not been so ideal lately. We had been getting storms, swell close-outs and onshore winds.

    As a local surfer, I get what I can get, and I don't mind getting out there, just to get some views. After all, it is a rush.

   Last weekend, mid July, we were getting half way to our winter, Eastern coast of Australia. One of the great surfing conditions we ever got this year.

   I thought, I'd share with you some of the actions:

http://youtu.be/g8l56NjlCkw

Life is too short to stay put and do nothing! Get out there and enjoy.

Stay tuned, Folks!

Swellseeker65

Swellseeker in surfing actions - Captured by GoPro 2

G'Day Folks,

     Apologies for not sharing these in time with you. It has not been ideal lately from a swells front. But as locals, I get what I can get. So here they are for your enjoyment. Just Click on the Link(s):

1. Episode 5 - Around the Bend - Last Days 2012

2. Episode 4 - Escape the City Rats Race

 

3. Episode 3 - Boomorang

4. I surf as Free Spirit

5. Episode 2 - The Big House

6. Episode 1 I Surf

Thats the way the cookie crumbles, Folks! Thanks for Reading and Watching.

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR  to You and Family.

My first surf videos with Go-Pro

Hi All,

    I am very excited to have purchased a new Go-Pro 2 Surf Edition. It got into action last week with my McTavish Fireball.

    I can not tell you enough how happy I am with the video quality, and it is also so nice to be able to see your own surfing actions, improving styles. And most of all, it is so much fun.

    Sharing it with you:

 Surf with Go_Pro

And some pictures:

Oh Lala - The Yellow Sheila

I could not believe my luck that striked me over last weekend. I tumbled across the local Car Boot sales yesterday, and spotted this GEM lying next to a seller's truck.

Little that I thought this would be for sale. Indeed it was, with a ridiculously dirt cheap price. It is one of the very first longboards which was personally shaped by a local and famous shaper, SHANE.

It is a 9f1x23"x2 5/8, stringer-less, single fin, wide square tail, V bottom all the way through.

Judging the design, shape and condition, it would be at least over 40 years old. The man told me he had been displaying it in his home bar for 30 years. And surprisingly still in reasonably good shape, ride-able.

I could not wait to have a ride on it. Took it out before sunset, Sunday. It has no leash plug. So it was a real exercise for me to retrieve it several times, a few hundred meters to swim back to shore to collect it. Just like the old days....

It picks the waves so easy, but a little harder to turn than some of my modern longboards in my quiver. I think my head is over the hill with this one.

I have named it as "Oh La La - The Yellow Sheila"

Thanks for reading, Folks!

It's Tubing time. Yeeeeeeeew!

Down the swell, in my soul
carving deep as I turn
I dance about without a care
as I make the people stare
I hope one day to see them come
on a board and riding some
On my board they see me prance
It's longboarding, that is my dance

My new SingleFin: Yellow

Heh Folks,
    
It has been a while since I last blogged. Sorry guys, got very busy with my new global project that I lead.

    I thought I get back to give you some updates on my fin making hobby.

Have you watched a movie "Singlefin: Yellow"? Great longboard movie!

I am inspired by this great movie. So I wanted to make my own Yellow fin one day. That day has come. So here it is!

Well! It is not exactly the same Yellow fin like the movie. I wanted to make it longer tail and slimmer base. The intent is to generate more drives and make the turns sharper. Especially  to accommodate the swells conditions we have up here in the Coast.

Can hardly wait for the weekend to come!

Yeeeeeew!

Newly additions to my quiver

Picked up an unwanted Meyerhoffer 9f1 board. It was in pretty bad shape when it was handed over to me.

Thanks to Symo. He brought this bad boy back to life. For those whom do not know about the MeyerHoffer longboard. Here are a couple of links as reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SS7XpYQ4s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeVOt8j0uVk

The red one is a 6f6 egg. SUPER fun. It has a really nice concave at nose to scoop on the waves real fast.

Can't wait for the weekend to come to test drive the libra pad look-alike. The Meyerhoffer board that is, in case you wonder...Yeeeew!