Fellow MD Ambassador Daisy Thomas and I handed hundreds of cans out to competitors and others watching! Huge congrats to Daisy for taking out the womans division!!

On a boiling hot day, there can’t be anything better than an icy cold Mountain Dew!! Just ask these guys…

Check out the rest of the pics below!!!

The Sunny Sandy Bay turned on the waves for the second comp of the Hyundai Pro Longboard Tour.

After scoring some primo waves in Raglan last week, my wife and I drove up to Whangarei for the comp where we found some super fun waves that were much like Titahi Bay back home. It was about 2-4ft with fresh onshores to start day one of the contest off, perfect, just what im used to! I was seeded through to round 3 which was algoods until I saw round two. Taylor Jensen, World number 2 and USA champ won his heat and was in my round 3 heat… I also had two other really good surfers in my heat. At first my head spun out and I began to freak – but I went for a free surf and got my focus sorted! I came second to Taylor but was only 1 point away from him..

Heres a video of the semi’s and final. I have one wave on it, about 1min and 8seconds in. Plus here’s more about the comp…

Wow what a day, back in the beautiful Kaikoura and today was such an amazing day, perfect blue Sky’s, hot weather clear waters and magical mountains; I forgot how sweet this place is.

Today I went out with my big bro Kelvin on his Snorkling tour and I’m not just saying this because hes my big bro but man it was sick!! I learnt so much about the different kinds of marine life, what we could actually catch the regulations of sizes etc which I found really interesting.  We got all kitted up with weight belts gloves all the gears and went hunting for some Kai. It really is another world under there. There were heaps of young playful fur seals following us around. I think they were playing that chicken game with each other because they were getting super close, very cheaky .

Bit of a Video from the X Games, Enjoy!

Happy in between runs.... seemed to be going ok

I’ve taken the week off so me and the Wifey can cruise on up to the Sandy Bay comp this weekend in Whangarei. Packed with pleanty of Dew and two new surf boards im ready to rock n roll!!

On the way through Taupo we went on the Huka Falls Jet, was so mean! It was our anniversary present.

And ofcourse I jumped off every bridge I could find. It gets hot and boring driving all day…

Hi guys, Sorry I haven’t updated to recently, Ive had a wee bit of a rough week. Aspen and the X Games were going great until the day of competing for me. I fell both my first 2 runs in the slope-style and really needed to land my last, I had a great run going until the last jump. I’m not sure what happened but its got something to do with rider error, I took off wrong on the last jump (70 foot) and ended up crashing in a marvelous fashion.

I got support cards! pretty cool

I was knocked out and taken to hospital where they cat scanned everything. Im OK, I have bruised lung and a sore head, pretty good considering, I think everyone thinks if I was from anywhere else other than New Zealand it would of been way worse as we apparently are pretty tough down under.

It wasn’t the way I wanted this week to go but alas stuff like this happens and you cant get too bummed about it. I’m stoked for Jenny Jones who took 1st place, Jamie Anderson 2nd and Jana Mayen 3rd (if she landed her cab 9 on the last jump I’m sure she would be further up the podium) SICK for pushing women’s snowboarding! Cab 9s!!!

Heya, The first contest of the season for me and it went pretty well. The Whangamata Pro happens every year apart from last year where it was postponed because the ocean replicated a mil pond. This year we were much luckier and Hughey dished up some good 3ft waves consistently throughout the weekend.

Currently I lye flat on my bed with a tired body, the paddle was a pretty solid one today and I felt like I had put a bit of energy into both heats today so it was a good intense morning.

The female surfers in NZ have risen the bar quiet considerably and it is amazing to watch, especially seeing grommies who were once mini groms, grow up and shred! Keep shrowwping!

Cheers Mountain Dew!!

Well I might head off and have a Nana nap now.

Ka Kite

Hi Guys in Whanga at mo having a great time got awesome pumping waves the day we arrived. I had the best surf. Unfortunately I had a shocker in my heat the next day. The girls were surfing well so credit to them. Still having a great time and tomorrow weather depending we will be doing a photoshoot with Silas from Surfing NZ mag, we may head over 2 the west coast. Tonight is also the industry event party so that will be fun to catchup with everyone. Oh also check out Curl mag I heard that I have an editorial in it. Cya