Friday, December 12, 2008

Very Funny AC

Watch it mate I still have the password to switch-foot.com....

Very Funny AC

Watch it mate I still have the password to switch-foot.com....

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Home


I've had so many days like this at Greenmount over the years. Such a fun wave it takes some beating.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Barnacle Season...


It's only a few weeks away. Plowhand and myself will be on the road up and down the California coast then onto the UK.
Looking like September 20th at the St Merryn Hall, Cornwall for a soulful evening of art, film, beer and T shirts(?).
Be there or be keelhauled.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Whilst on the subject...



Of California culture and the 60's, Ed Roths long lost 'Orbitron' was recently found outside a porn shop in Mexico where it had been sitting for quite some time and served as a waste bin. Great find.
http://www.theorbitron.com/

Saturday, June 7, 2008

surfer's cross



... used by surfers as a talisman to bring good waves, worn to distinguish the surfer from the rest of society...

... co-opted because young surfers would wear their father's war trophies as an anti-establishment statement...

Saturday, May 24, 2008

To catch a thief


3/4 way through the Miki Dora biography, what a great book. A highly recommended read to all Tube Farmers.
Read the Bunker Spreckels bio last week, another good one.
You couldn't invent characters like these. Seems to me that all the colour and life has been squeezed out of surfing in the last couple of decades.... but thats another story.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Saturday, May 3, 2008

some log type stuff




????

More surf history from the 30's and 40's



Brit roots






Don't know what all the fuss is about with this alaia business, us Brits have been riding them for a century or two.
Check out .... http://pronetobelly.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

From the vault



More of the Da Cat ad series from the mid 60's..... new wave way before new wave.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Which profile do you fit?



Which picture best represents the surfing lifestyle?

Surfer A

or

Surfer B

Monday, April 7, 2008

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Wax job police


Hows it looking MP?
Bead job OK for starters?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

mk1 spitfire







Had its maiden flight today in onshore shoulder high surf. Tricky waves with low tide suck outs, reforms and double ups. Board felt great though! Lots of fun.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Lets Rumble


Woke up last night to the UKs biggest earthquake in 25 years! 5.2 on the Richter scale. Biggest one in England for 250 years.
Started as a faint rumble then the bed started moving from side to side, things rattling in my room. I sat up and felt the walls and the whole house moving.
Strange thing is I was back home in 2002 and exactly the same thing happened. I seem to always be home for quakes. Then on the way back I stopped in Bali and was woken by one there too. Odd stuff.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Cornwall continued.....




Ye Olde Kernow Road Trip






Well just got back from 5 fabulous days in sunny Cornwall with Jojo. We had an ball down there meeting up with DC and his lovely girlfriend Anna.
Waves were superb every day, the 10 degree water made it nice and refreshing.
Good food, great beer (Tribute - sneaks up on you a bit), nice company, beautiful scenery - what more do you need?