Summers here?!

What’s been happining guys? Its been a while since I have told ya what I have been up to.

Well the last few weeks over here on the East has been feeling like summer.  The water’s really warmed up, so you can get away with a short arm wettie now which is siiiiick!

Waves have been kind of average lately, a few small swells but nothing solid. But any swell is better than no swell aye!  So I have pretty much just been working away in the shop (Whangamata Surf shop) and just getting ready for summer and the contest season. Check back here soon and I will fill you guys in again!

Well its been a while since I have updated you guys on my life situation since I have been back from Bali.

Let’s just say adjusting to the cold waters took more than a few surfs! But starting to get used to the cold now though.

The surf has been absolute crap over the East Coast side for about two weeks! Pretty much un-surfable-flatness…….But today we were greeted with 2-4 foot light onsurf,what a sight! It was so good to be surfing a fun size surf again haha!

This week I have a few mates coming over from Brazil, so a good friend of mine from Auckland and I are going to take them surfing around NZ for a while. We don’t really have any plans so don’t be surprised if you see us sifting around a town near you.We are just going to go where ever the waves take us.

Check out the latest Kiwi Surf mag…

Well it’s been a little over a week since I left NZ to come to Bali. It’s been great so far been surfing 3 times a day in boardies. Its been great; I have been hanging with Sean Peggs and Silas the Kiwi Surf photog, a phew boys from down south and my mate from Whanga Ryan.We have been staying out at Bingin wich has been really handy surfing wise, had so many pits its crazy.We are just planning a trip now to somewhere im not going to tell you untill we get back haha but its ment to be good so amping for that. I will update you in a few days. Yeeew!

Well it’s been a full on month for me so far.  My family ended up going to Australia for a cupple of weeks, so they left me in charge of the shop for the time they were away.

They are back now and now I’m planning my trip away.  In two weeks I will be in Bali; I’m really excited and I haven’t been for two years so it should be great! I’m travelling with a good mate from Tairua Sean Peggs and Kiwi Surf Mag Photographer Silas. I will be gone for 6 weeks, so yeah kind of a long time away from home.  Right now I am just getting my boards ready and trying to decide what ones to take etc.  You guys can keep up to date with how my trip is going by just coming on here and checking out my blog.  So I am counting down the days haha.

In other news when my family were away I mannaged to sneak out of the shop for a few hours here and there and score some really fun waves! Not the usual Whanga Bar but a few diffrent spots I would never usually bother to check – to my surprise it was really fun waves, the winds were not the best but it made the waves really ripable.  Of course I want to tell you where this really fun bank was but I actually can’t. I will only say it was around close to Whangamata

I’m off now – will post another blog just before I head off!

If you guys haven’t heard every year there is a contest held in Kaikoura, called the O’Neill Cold Water Classic. This contest is made up of over 100 competitors and over 9 divisions. Every year O’Neill fly their team riders down to compete in it and test themselves in the very cold conditions. I’m not to sure on the exact temperature but if you weren’t in a 4.3 and booties you were cold within a few mins.

The contest is held at a break called Meat Works and breaks over rock boulders. It’s not a point break, it’s more peaks scattered up and down the coast. Its an awesome venue for a contest, lefts and rights and breaks in close. Throughout the contest the swell remained the same consistently in the 2 to 4ft range with clean offshores everyday.

I was competing in the Under 20 Mens and the Open Mens. I ended up 2nd in the Under 20s and 4th in the Open Men. I’m pretty stoked with that result and with the awesome waves we had down there – even though it was ridiculously freezing. I definitely want to do another trip down there because the waves are so epic, lefts, right hand point breaks, hollow shingle river mouths you name it its there!

Well im back home in Whangamata now, it’s nice to be home and a hell of a lot warmer. I haven’t been surfing since I’ve been back because there has been no surf ha, so it will be interesting to feel the difference in water temp! Anyway I’ll keep u updated on my next adventure, which is not to far away!

Well it’s been a while since I’ve updated you guy on whats been happining in my life! Lets just say that there has been a lot of surfing being done and not a whole lot of work haha. There has been alot of swell on the East which has been good, not the best conditions but its better than no surf huh.

I have also booked my flights to Indo wich im really amping for. I haven’t been for a few years now so I’m pretty excited! I will be traveling with my mate from Tairua Sean Peggs and Kiwi Surf Photographer Silas. We are off for 6 weeks so can’t wait to get outta the cold!  Also next week I am off to Kaikoura for the annual O’Neill Cold Water Classic wich takes place on Queens Birthday weekend, I’m trying to prepare my self for the cold.

Well I’m off for dinner, will keep you guys up to date on how things go down there! Braedon!

Here’s a few pics of the peps with their Dew at the other weekends Longboard Comp down in Whanga which was put on by the local boardriders club.  It was on the same weekend as the Beach Hop, you can check out loads more pics from the weekend here www.beachhop.co.nz . . .

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