No words are needed, this is pure art!

Now my work here is done, I can get back to snowboarding

Still a bit dissapointed from the bad loss at Whangamata, we stopped into the Mount on the way home and I finally found the sweet spot on my new board! This board is so mean! Just didn’t have enough time to suss it out before the contest!

Stoked though, looking forward to practicing the next two weeks before the Port Waikato comp at the end of the month!

Chur chur. Mount Main beach super fun, check out the pics below:

Usually at surf comps I go to the problem is that the waves are too small . . . at Whangamata on the weekend for the Hyundai Pro Longboard tour it was the opposite – the waves were too big. Well, not too big but just ugly and too much water.

Join that with the fact that I’m unfit and you get me in my heat paddling for 20mins trying to get out the back. Caught one wave scoring a 4.5 but couldn’t get out the back again to catch another. I even came in and ran up the beach but just ran out of time!

So round 3 was as far as I made it in this comp which was very dissapointing, but it was good to watch the other competitors ripping. On Sunday the wind went offshore and the waves dropped for the finals. A good mate of mine Dylan Barnfield was on fire the whole comp and managed to take it out, it was a great final to watch.

Big ups to fellow MD Ambassador Daisy Thomas for winning the national title again! What a legend. Daisy and I gave out some Mountain Dew to a bunch of people along the Whangamata beach before her final, everyone was super stoked to meet her and then watch her win!  Check out some of the pics below…

I sat overlooking Raglans majestic point breaks practicing on my Ukulele reflecting on an awesome week so far and things were about to get better although I was unaware of this at the time, I was simply taking in the beauty of our land.

The time came and I went to pick my sister from another mister up and set off on our mission to Whangamata for the Longboard National Surfing Championships in a weeks time. We decided we would stop off in Ohope to pick up a surfboard from her Whanau who have a beautiful home and Motel a stones throw from the ocean. We stayed in a beautiful unit which overlooked Ohope beach and if any of you are looking for accommodation around the Whakatane area I would definitely recommend Sea View Motel, you are guaranteed a sea view and to have yourself a friendly, comfy, relaxing stay. Four days later we thought we had best be on our way after soaking up the sun, surfing super fun Ohope waves, hula hooping and searching for Moko the bodyboard thieving resident dolphin.

Let me rephrase that….. EXPLODED COLLAR BONE!! oh, o…. check these out!!

This is what eventuates when you don’t make the right call dropping into a jump…  after getting put off by a skier coming across my side of the drop in causing me to swerve and take a different line then I’m used too off the take off I decided to continue and hit it anyway…. bad move… heels slip out in front of me and after not being able to bring my super corked maneuver back to my feet, instead I land on my neck/shoulders on the knuckle…. not fun… Check out the rest of the pics below…

‘going going, back back to Cali Cali’ in the words of The Notorious B I G that’s were I was going….. minus the guns and gangstas. The whole Burton women’s team from all around the world all got together for a shoot on a bunch of fun features at the awesome Bear Mt for a week shoot. Check it. Susie the Burton Women’s team manager posted up some pics also http://burton.kontain.com/susiefloros/entries/70893/burton-wms-team-shoot—bear-mountain/ and check out the Bear Mt website its got all the info http://www.bearmountain.com/snowboard/page/2/http://www.bearmountain.com/snowboard/page/3/

Big thanks to the park crew at Bear, they are the best park crew ever, thanks for all the sled rides.

Burton Girls on the shred

Kelly Clark and Hannah Teter left there medals at home but definitely still brought there skills. Check out Kelly on the Quarter pipe boosting

Kelly Clark killing it on the quarter

Lunch time at Bear

Hannah cooking us dinner

Yum dinner in the pimp pa hot tub next

So stoked to be here with all the Burton girls from USA, Canada, Norway, Japan and little old NZ. Who knows where the awesome shots will turn up, no doubt somewhere radical with Blotto taking the shots so keep an eye out.

Blotto - get the shot

tree jib

More to come

Hey All, If you are in the Auckland area this Sunday the 7th of March, make sure you come along to the Epic Slide and Glide at the Waipuna Wakeboard Club in the Pamnure Basin. It should be a great day of action so make sure you dont miss it. Chur

Whangamata is looking good for this weekends leg of the Hyundai Pro longboard tour!

Spent all day today (friday) driving up, and absolute stunner of a day which bought out all the older drivers that like to look at the scenery and it made the roadworkers think “lets have roadworks on all of SH1 and SH2″. Yip thats right, good old 30km/h signs the whole way! You gotta love it ay

But when we finally rocked up to the beach the drive up became a distant memory as we saw mean surf  and checked out this sweet bach some friends of ours lent us!

After snapping my board in Sandy Bay, my shaper Roger Titcombe has been working hard to get me another one by this comp. Last night I picked it up and gave it a bit of a colour spray and slapped some Mountain Dew stickers on it! Surfed it for the first time as the sun went down tonight, so stoked with the board it is lighter and faster than all my others.. now i just gotta get used to it before my heat. Gona try get up for the dawny so off to bed I go.

Will let you fullas know how the comp goes! Chur chur