So I've been on the North Shore now for about 5 days, had our first proper day at Pipe since I've been here and probably in the last month too. Some pretty solid ones, hard to get the right ones but good to be out there again and in some sizey waves.
Sunset event just finished today too with Parko taking the honors from Sunny, Travis was just confirmed to be on next year's WCT so big up to him for getting back on after a year back on the QS.
But what we have on our hands at the moment is the perfect storm just about to hit the islands!!! They're calling this next swell that hits tomorrow to be HUGE, 40 -50 ft, Eddie going to run, they closing down Kam highway, things are going to get gnarly here, probably going to have to stock up on some items from foodland to make sure we're good for the next few days. It's definitely going to be interesting to see what happens, just heard now that the bouy reading is the largest ever recorded in history!!!!!!! Heavy days boys and girls!!!!!
Will report back in a few days to let you know of the carnage to the North Shore!
Holding down the fort here...
Davey
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Off to the Rock on Monday, doing the trip over with Mr Emslie, probably going to work out at about 42 hrs of traveling to get there, well it is exactly half way around the world for us. Probably going to take around 7 boards with me over there, and with the new one's I'm picking up there from Bushman and the one's I already have in Hawaii from last year, I really should be ok for boards this year...
Been home now for almost a month and we have not had anything decent as far as swell goes here in Durban, been a few fun bowls but nothing great. Really looking forward to getting some good waves this year, hopefully the CT can finish off the season with a bang...
Flying up to Johannesburg early on Monday morning before I fly out that evening for Hawaii to do a video interview for this Christian Youth Conference they going to be having while I'm on the rock. Really looking forward to doing it, should be good!
Will try post some stuff from that side, hopefully get some clips or pics to put on this blog and maybe a story or two....
Anyways, have fun, enjoy and rock on!
Peace
Davey
Been home now for almost a month and we have not had anything decent as far as swell goes here in Durban, been a few fun bowls but nothing great. Really looking forward to getting some good waves this year, hopefully the CT can finish off the season with a bang...
Flying up to Johannesburg early on Monday morning before I fly out that evening for Hawaii to do a video interview for this Christian Youth Conference they going to be having while I'm on the rock. Really looking forward to doing it, should be good!
Will try post some stuff from that side, hopefully get some clips or pics to put on this blog and maybe a story or two....
Anyways, have fun, enjoy and rock on!
Peace
Davey
Thursday, November 12, 2009
New Design
Just picked these two boards up from Bilt last week, pretty stoked on the design , Mandla ( the Sprayer) , did on them , bit of the SA flag influence there. Going to probably rock this new design for a while....
Did a pretty funny shoot yesterday for the Bombsurf, and then ended up going to the launch of revamped Classic Eyes in Gateway Shopping Mall in Durban. They're one of Oakley's biggest accounts and Chris ( the owner ) is a super keen surfer , so it was a pretty fun evening, new store is sick and apparently the coffee there is crazy good, going to have to have a little tester I reckon.
Got a little over two weeks left in SA until I leave for the rock, been training pretty hard for it since I been home, had Simon Nicholson helping me with some coaching and been making some adjustments to my boards after this last leg in Europe. Pretty much , just super keen and hungry and excited at the moment and it feels good!
Hopefully there's a bit of swell on it's way here, would be good to get a bit of size under my belt before I arrive in Hawaii.
Anyways, rock on and live large!
Davey
Saturday, November 7, 2009
I know it's been a while since my last post, a bit has happened. Did a 2 week stint in Portugal for the final leg of our European invasion on the World Tour. Supertubes came to life and there were some serious waves on hand. But I'm back home now, feels really good to be back with the family in my own bed after 2 and a half months on the road. But that's part of the job! I've got about 3 weeks until I head off to the island of Oahu, Hawaii for the final event of the World Tour at the Banzai Pipeline! Probably the most prestigious of all events on tour, the one that everyone wants to win!
So it's all about getting the right training in now before I jet off, get the lungs ready for some possible beat downs, get the confidence up to push myself just that much more, it's an El Nino year so there could be some serious swells for this season. They've actually already had some serious waves hit the North Shore this winter and November has only just started!
If anything interesting happens while I'm home, will post it on the blog. Hopefully I can get some waves while I'm home cause I've actually had no waves at all this year. Missed all the swells that have hit Durban and when I've been on the road for events, we've pretty much had bad waves all year round too. So if you know of any good waves around, let me know!
Peace out
Davey
So it's all about getting the right training in now before I jet off, get the lungs ready for some possible beat downs, get the confidence up to push myself just that much more, it's an El Nino year so there could be some serious swells for this season. They've actually already had some serious waves hit the North Shore this winter and November has only just started!
If anything interesting happens while I'm home, will post it on the blog. Hopefully I can get some waves while I'm home cause I've actually had no waves at all this year. Missed all the swells that have hit Durban and when I've been on the road for events, we've pretty much had bad waves all year round too. So if you know of any good waves around, let me know!
Peace out
Davey
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Mundaka madness!!!!
Hey all,
So we're in the Basque town of Mundaka, and famous to the very good left hander ( when it's on). Right now , it's dead flat, not a ripple to even think about surfing but the swell charts are saying a bit of a bump on the weekend, got our fingers crossed!!!!
So I'm into the 3rd event of our 4 event leg through the States and Europe, we're in Spain now, were in France last week and head over to Portugal next week. What most of us have done is leased vehicles from Renault and just drive to each event, the drive was only like 2 hrs from Hossegor but the next drive to Peniche, Portugal , I think will take around 9 hrs, so I've been told...
They've so far run half of round 1, but have used the new format, straight first round elimination , which has obviously seen 8 guys out of the event already with 8 heats being run. It's a really heavy scenario cause this spot is so fickle, and they usually only get half a day to surf when there's swell cause this place does not break on high tide, that they almost have to use the new format. That or send the first round to a below average back up venue and have the 2nd round onwards at mundaka if there's waves. It's pretty much a catch 22, and they aint going to make every one happy. Me personally, don't like the new format, I really don't think it's fair that 16 guys are seeded ahead of the other 32, take any other sport, tennis, golf, F1 , the guys all start at the same round. Period! And especially to lose on day one of the 13 day waiting period with the new format, heavy days... But that's what we have now but there could be a few interesting changes happen in the next few days..........
Besides eating tapas, enjoying the siesta's and trying to surf when we can, been keeping it pretty mellow, and I think the next few days will be the same. So where ever you are, enjoy what you do and do what you enjoy.
Peace
Davey
So we're in the Basque town of Mundaka, and famous to the very good left hander ( when it's on). Right now , it's dead flat, not a ripple to even think about surfing but the swell charts are saying a bit of a bump on the weekend, got our fingers crossed!!!!
So I'm into the 3rd event of our 4 event leg through the States and Europe, we're in Spain now, were in France last week and head over to Portugal next week. What most of us have done is leased vehicles from Renault and just drive to each event, the drive was only like 2 hrs from Hossegor but the next drive to Peniche, Portugal , I think will take around 9 hrs, so I've been told...
They've so far run half of round 1, but have used the new format, straight first round elimination , which has obviously seen 8 guys out of the event already with 8 heats being run. It's a really heavy scenario cause this spot is so fickle, and they usually only get half a day to surf when there's swell cause this place does not break on high tide, that they almost have to use the new format. That or send the first round to a below average back up venue and have the 2nd round onwards at mundaka if there's waves. It's pretty much a catch 22, and they aint going to make every one happy. Me personally, don't like the new format, I really don't think it's fair that 16 guys are seeded ahead of the other 32, take any other sport, tennis, golf, F1 , the guys all start at the same round. Period! And especially to lose on day one of the 13 day waiting period with the new format, heavy days... But that's what we have now but there could be a few interesting changes happen in the next few days..........
Besides eating tapas, enjoying the siesta's and trying to surf when we can, been keeping it pretty mellow, and I think the next few days will be the same. So where ever you are, enjoy what you do and do what you enjoy.
Peace
Davey
Friday, September 25, 2009
Hossegor, France
Hey All,
So I'm here in Hossegor, France, there summer time has just finished it's not too busy and way more quiet than a month ago. Weather is still really warm, water is good, thought it'd be a lot colder than it is and they've already finished 2 rounds of the Quiky Pro France. Kieren Perrow got the better of me in our round 2 match up yesterday, so it's a few days off now for me until my next event starts in Mundaka, Spain. Arrived here on Monday from the States, been super jet lagged the last few days, was up at 2 am yesterday morning wishing I'd taken some sleeping tabs the night before. The route from USA to Europe is pretty heavy on the body with a 9 hr time difference from California. But I'm seem to be doing a lot better today, just need to try avoid those arvo naps ( so easy to have them here) so I sleep all the way through...
I finally got to see my family again, after way too long, so good to see them!!! And to have them join me here in Hossegor is really rad too cause it's such a classic town with a lot of really cool things to do and see in and around Hossegor and Biarritz. Plus, a lot of the other surfers have their families and kids here too and at the same hotel so it's pretty good seeing all the kids run around and swimming in the pool, like I said, an awesome spot for the families!
Another bit of news, is that we're expecting an addition to the family around the 24th March next year which my wife and I are super excited about. She's only around 14 weeks now so it's too early to tell the sex yet, but really keen to find out what it'll be... I'm sure two will be a lot harder than one but we're up for it!
Surf and swell don't look too promising here for the next few days, but hopefully this means we get some really good waves for Mundaka cause when that place is on, it's ON!!!!
Thought I'd post the shoe I got to design at the last event I was at, the Hurley Pro, one of the perks we got was to design our own personal shoe, how ever we wanted it, be it a basketball shoe, running, just plain sneaker etc , pretty hard to choose actually when you have som many options available, but this is my end product!!!!
WIll post up again sooner than later...
Cheers
Davey
So I'm here in Hossegor, France, there summer time has just finished it's not too busy and way more quiet than a month ago. Weather is still really warm, water is good, thought it'd be a lot colder than it is and they've already finished 2 rounds of the Quiky Pro France. Kieren Perrow got the better of me in our round 2 match up yesterday, so it's a few days off now for me until my next event starts in Mundaka, Spain. Arrived here on Monday from the States, been super jet lagged the last few days, was up at 2 am yesterday morning wishing I'd taken some sleeping tabs the night before. The route from USA to Europe is pretty heavy on the body with a 9 hr time difference from California. But I'm seem to be doing a lot better today, just need to try avoid those arvo naps ( so easy to have them here) so I sleep all the way through...
I finally got to see my family again, after way too long, so good to see them!!! And to have them join me here in Hossegor is really rad too cause it's such a classic town with a lot of really cool things to do and see in and around Hossegor and Biarritz. Plus, a lot of the other surfers have their families and kids here too and at the same hotel so it's pretty good seeing all the kids run around and swimming in the pool, like I said, an awesome spot for the families!
Another bit of news, is that we're expecting an addition to the family around the 24th March next year which my wife and I are super excited about. She's only around 14 weeks now so it's too early to tell the sex yet, but really keen to find out what it'll be... I'm sure two will be a lot harder than one but we're up for it!
Surf and swell don't look too promising here for the next few days, but hopefully this means we get some really good waves for Mundaka cause when that place is on, it's ON!!!!
Thought I'd post the shoe I got to design at the last event I was at, the Hurley Pro, one of the perks we got was to design our own personal shoe, how ever we wanted it, be it a basketball shoe, running, just plain sneaker etc , pretty hard to choose actually when you have som many options available, but this is my end product!!!!
WIll post up again sooner than later...
Cheers
Davey
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