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little bird

i'd like to be sliding that little slider behind that little bird there at sliders point!

i'll take it.

slider's point.

tomorrow is my birthday!

i always call my mom and thank her on my birthday. it is as much of a day for her as it is for me. it's been a busy and beautiful week around here. hope you are getting some!

i am getting organized over here, I am about to announce more details concerning a pig get together ( down here in south OC) scheduled for some time in late june. A lua? A pig roast? A big pile of pig boards at the beach for all to check out and compare...what?

a little flat spell stoke!!

get shacked!

surfing with a buddy

my buddy dan was visiting. sliders offered up nice conditions...albeit small. i shot these photos yesterday. My buddy richard holcombe was shooting friday morning. He said he got some of Dan and I. we'll see!

no complaints here.
litttle left.
A frame.

mid week stoke generators.

i haven't put any photos from Richard Holcombe up in a while. Here are a few gems. i got a nice barrel on the day pictured below.

this is a different day, on my first blackboard.
i love the composition of this shot. that pelican was probably surfing that wave, and pulled up right when it pitched. it will probably drop in beyond the section, or on the wave behind this one.
the picture below just speaks to me....makes me want to surf.
the video below spoke to me for reasons i am not sure about.

peak

rainbow!

sliders sequence from richard holcombe

cooperfish blackboard cutting back at sliders point.

when am i gunna get my F@CKING STOKE!!

bunkum

thinking about this wave....the anticipation of it...the satisfaction you would get from surfing it...that is not twaddle, nor is it drivel, nor is it gobbledygook, nay bunkum, nay poppycock, nay piffle.

if i were on the wave below i would not be in a state of tumult, nor would i be in a fracas state, nor would i be thinking of starting a brouhaha...be it with out saying... i would not be feeling any bedlam.

i love surfing nice waves on a board i understand. surfers are some of the luckiest beings on the planet.

change.

like winter to spring...like bottom to top.

tuesday!!

it feels great to have Jazz the Glass shrink wrapped. it feels great to be performing well at work. it feels great to have a healthy and happy wife. it feels great to do a nice cutback on a COOPERFISH BLACKBOARD.

happy tuesday.

save the date! April 10.

Ventura Sacred Craft. Saturday evening, after the stimulus overload of the event, roll by the Bell Arts studio (342 North Ventura Ave (Four blocks from Patagonia, eight blocks from the water, 1 block from superb tacos) for some laughter and relaxation. We will be showing Jazz the Glass, we will have COOPERFISH BLACKBOARDS on display, and SLIDE magazine will be there. We will have Jazz the Glass shirts and DVDs available for purchase. more details to follow.

...sacred craft weekend...

April 10. we have some stuff planned. if you are interested in the design of surfboards, if you are intrigued by the COOPERFISH BLACKBOARD, if you think Slide Magazine is a worthy periodical and if you are interested in seeing Jazz the Glass...you might want to be around Ventura on April 10 2010. more details to follow. we are taking pre orders for Jazz the Glass right now. I posted some links for purchasing Jazz the Glass T-shirts (if you are so inclined) on the side bar to the right.

please don't be mad at me.

that is how i felt today. it was one of those days where the EPIC waves kept coming to me, and ...and there was no one around that could have even caught them on the inside...i was in the spot where if i didn't catch the wave it would have gone by unridden. so why should i ask people not to be mad at me?...well, at times people get angry when good things happen to you out in the water ...over and over and over and over in ones session. today, i had about an hour of a conveyor belt style barrel run. probably 3 or 4 super clean stand up barrels. that shite just doesn't happen to me. i think it has a lot to do with this board i rode today. I was on the COOPERFISH BLACKBOARD prototype 2. it sits in the water differently than my other blackboard. my other blackboard accelerates more rapidly that the BBII, but the BBII is faster over all...at least that is what i felt today. BBII sits in the right part of the wave, with BBI i find myself cutting back to stay where I want to be. i am so lucky ..i hope anyone reading this finds some "lazy point breaks and glassy tubes" . i shot the photos below of the wave framed by the driftwood and of the surfer in the last photo. RH shot the others.

surfing is fun.

i went surfing today. i shot the below videos from the session. the pic is from a different session. thanks be to RH for the shot!!

violet black ...dropin in!!!

i am so stoked to be a father to be!  my life is about to ...cut back.