Tag / Surfing

I’ve just spent the weekend around Cronulla Beach in the Sydney suburbs for the finals of the Red Bull junior surf masters. After 2 weeks of relatively no swell it was good to see that at least a little swell had developed for the competition. Brett Burcher was the eventual winner from todays finals and he takes home a cool $10,000. Here’s a couple of shots from the event.

I don’t often manage to wake up for sunrise, i didn’t even manage it last weekend when i was camping on a beach with only the unzipping of a tent required. This morning i made one. Got up at 5.30am and trundled down to the beach for sunrise. Only question is now, at 7.27 do i push on through or go back to bed…….

After what seemed like forever i’ve finally made it back to the UK this weekend. i managed to fit in a three day “summer” holiday in LA on the way home and with temperatures hovering around the 40 degrees it was definitely hot enough. 

I stayed down by the beach in between Santa Monica and Venice. What a wicked place. Armed with my skateboard it was so much fun cruising up and down then main stretch. Before my flight on Thursday i made my way to Venice pier and took a few photos of the surfers. With snowboarding photos there’s so many things you have to get right to make it a good photo. I’m sure that with surfing its exactly the same but for this first attempt its fair to say that ignorance is bliss. “that looks nice…..i’ll keep it!”

I’ve got a few things coming up over the next couple weeks. I’m going to be at the Londonfreeze festival (www.londonfreeze.com) near the end of the month quickly followed by a road trip to Saas Fee for the worldcup halfpipe and then onto Schladming in Austria for the Horsefeathers Pleasurejam. In the meantime i plan to kick up my feet and relax!