Mid winter swells reeling

Mid Winter update

Ok so it has been a while to get around updating my blog, cos really it has been hard to find the time over the past 12 weeks of summertimes, I mean winter swells to find a gap.








Winter thus far has been so mild with only a handful of rainy day over the past 3 months, but still heaps of barrels and a few tow sessions nothing that will take the cake for the Rebel awards yet but watch this space as a big 7m swell hits us on Saturday. So crossing my fingers we have the a new battery in the ski - check! Now let me tell you pre-ops are an essential part of tow surfing, ensuring everything is 100%, but no matter how much time you spend on pre-op’s a curveball will always be thrown at you. As the below picks will show you the situation we found ourselves in 2 weeks ago when the battery decided to die mid session out at Sunset… yes it was a totally mission but between Rick, Sammo and Mad Mike we put our heads together and got the ski semi safely to KlienSlangkop to change the battery and get it back to the slipway. After having to pull Sammo and Ricks out the water drive around to where our ski was beached swap batteries and then mission home total 3 hrs!

Tow session at Sunnies just two of us out, look closely and will see a midget!



Otherwise Dunes is the new Long Beach and heaps of days down there have been super fun and the odd Kbay session in between.

Another mild winter slab no one around!!!




Then we have also made a few 3am west coast missions with the ski to surf this big lefthander, which found me left behind by the Ou’s (crossed comm’s) in the middle of nowhere- no clothes, no water, no food however managed to get a lift in the back of Andy’s bakkie back to town to find the guys kicking back sucking beers and watching the rugga’s in the local westkis pub!

Early 6am launch mission:

Got some solid walls way up Northwest



Now that my leg has heeled I have been hammering the km’s on the bike daily and feel as strong as ever and been handed new pass on life after my NDE. Have a cool goal to ride with the Cycle Lab team on the Double century race in Nov. But am training most mornings at 5:30am with Mat who has proved to inspire me get my butt of bed in the freezing cold and layer up with all the riding gear I can find from merino glove to my neck warmer… but still warmer than NZ!

Also a quick heads up was lucky enough to get invited to the movie premier of Life cycles http://www.lifecyclesfilm.com/ , if you get chance to see this insane visual display of cinematography capturing some of the best downhill MTBing I have seen!

Cool will keep updated as the winter swells are just starting to reel in!!!!exciting ….