The weekend kicked off on Friday for most of New Zealands top competitive surfers. The weather forecast was near perfect and the waves on the rise. I flew on into the big city of Auckland and picked up my ride…a Hybrid Spaceship to be precise. The ins and outs of the spaceship were explained to me, like how the petrol goes further and is friendly on mother earth because the car is also powered by a battery hence the name Hybrid.

Unfortunately when we got into Rags the surf had not yet picked up but we hit the point anyway in hope for a freak set or two to come through, but we were definitely a little too optimistic. Lucky for us there were waves the next day, still pretty darn small but I had cancelled my subscription to expectations and went out. There ended up being some super fun wee waves and the swell was picking up fast.

Competition time and there were little waves lingering when the women hit the water. We were up nice and early in the morning and the wind was nice and light with the sun shining, being the first heat in the water I was able to sneak a few pearlers in. That heat went well and I moved through to the finals. They decided to hold all of the womens heats up until the final on Saturday, the morning was fun but as the day progressed the wave quality diminished. My semi final was an absolute nightmare with half a foot (knee high) onshore waves breaking onto dry rocks at Manu Bay, definately the most challenging conditions I have had to surf but the age old saying “we are all in the same boat” springs to mind and if you lucked onto a set wave and surfed it well you were safe and sound.

Cups of tea on the jetty in the sunshine with good friends,walking up into the amazing Bridal Veil Falls and lots of surfing is what went down also.

A big huge thank you to the Poulter family for having me over the week, your awesome!!

Off to Whanga in a few days for the Longboarding Nationals, good times.

I hope everyone on the east coast are safe and sound after the Tsunami and thoughts are going out to those in Chile. xx

So if you ever wonder what snowboarders get up to when they have some down time …….. well looks like I can answer that question for you.

I had some time off riding after my eXtreme crash I had at the eXtreme Games and I started to struggle with filling up my days soooooo I found this amazing puzzleame ‘wolf song’ which has become the past time of my household.

Best puzzle ever....'wolf song'

Hi guys well we have just flown into PNG.  We flew out of Brizzy and straight into Port Morsby, apparently this place is meant to be a bit dangerous!  We went straight to the resort as we could not get a connecting flight.  But this resort is awesome, I’m staying with Dru and the photographer Sheildsy. It has a lot of security and barbed fences around the outskirts but inside the locals are so friendly and the resort is very nice.  We’re flying out this afternoon to Kavieng to board the PNG explorer were we will boat around looking for the best surf possible for 8 days!  Very exciting.  We still have a few hours here to pass away so I’m going to hit up the gym and the pool. There won’t be coverage on the boat as far as I know so I will let you know how it all goes when I’m back!  Hope to get some rad pics and footage. Speak soon!  From Ange

Here’s a few pics of what I’ve been up to lately in Canada…bears, burgers and bluebird skys… I also have some comps coming up next weekend so I’ll let you know how I get on with them…

Here’s the beautiful panarama view at Sunshine (one of the mountains we are riding at here in Banff, Canada!!)

Hi guys, so exciting – I’m going to Papua New Guinea with a few Pro guy surfers (I’m going to be the only girl surfer on board). It all happened so quickly because this nice swell was forecasted and Andrew Sheild the photographer for Australian Surfing Life magazine thought that this was the best opportunity to get the best waves, so it all literally happened within a couple of days.  Yesterday we found out about the swell and today tickets were booked!!!  So I’m heading off to PNG tomorrow yeesh so quick! Very exciting!

We will be on a boat for 8 days traveling around finding the most remote best surfing conditions.  It is forecasted that we will find beautiful 4-6ft reef breaks. I have never been to PNG and it’s a pretty remote surfing area so without a doubt we will be surfing some un-crowded surf!!  I’ll write another blog when I get back with heaps of pics from my trip!

Hello there, Sorry it has been so long since my last blog entry, I have been keeping busy with my rehabilitation as well as getting prepared for going back to the USA. I have booked my flights and will be out of here on the 27th of May (about a week before the 6 month mark after surgery) I am really looking forward to getting back over there and back on the water.. Speaking of back on the water I managed to go for a wake surf the other day!! So much fun!

Finals Double up

Over the weekend I was down in Mangakino for the North Island Championships as well as the first ever M-I-A Wakefest.  The North islands were probably the biggest and best to date, I was commentating the event and there were some seriously good rides going down across all of the divisions. Not to mention the crowd was the biggest we have ever had in Mango.

On the Saturday night we went on up to the Motocross track where ‘Wakefest’ was being held, unfortunately we missed the first act which was the ‘Sons of Zion’ as they were playing pretty early in the evening. At about 8.30 on came D-Dub who were playing some super funky tunes that got everyone cutting shapes on the D-floor. They were followed up by Concord Dawn who raged on through the night. Make sure you come along next year as this thing gets bigger and better!

The results from the weekend are as follows:

Hi guys, our friends Yoyo and Andy are over from Germany at the moment.  Yoyo is a pro river surfer, pretty crazy they do all these cool tricks surfing but on a wave in a river!  It’s meant to be pretty different to surfing in the ocean, well obviously, but they do most tricks just going horizontal along a wave instead of vertically like we do on a ocean wave.  Anyway he has also brought a photographer over called Andy, he does photos in water and on land so hopefully I’ll be able to post some pics soon!!

Hi guys, well thought I’d give you an update on how things have been going. I’ve been back at work doing my remedial massage and personal training business, I’ve been getting a few clients and ticking away which is great.  It’s awesome because I only have to work one or two hours a day and the rest I can surf and focus on other things

I have been hanging out down at the QS Pro that is happening just around the corner from my house at Burleigh Point. It’s a all mens QS event.  My boyfriend Dru was in it and he did really well in his first heat busting some interesting airs that I only dream about doing……but I will keep trying…….his next heat he could of sown up but unfortunately he snapped the back fin out after getting a great wave. It was super tricky to get another board because you have to climb over all the rocks his board caddy ran a board down to him but then he had to paddle all the way back out and it was low tide and a big paddle with only  few minutes left needing only a 4 point ride.  Sad because he can do those in his sleep but anyway he ran out of time.  Bummer!  But it was a great experience and he was able to show cast some of his talent out there which was great!