The crew rushed out of work at 6:00 to take full advantage of the whole 16 minutes of sunlight we had left. Some of the crew headed to surf at the lighthouse where they scored some decent waist to should high waves. Myself, JD, Dave and Nuzzi headed to Kite Point where John Bryja had some kites set up for their testing for the SBC Kiteboarding Magazine. He also told me what I already found out yesterday but thought I’d share that they have completely redone their website. Check it out at sbckiteboard.com. I briefly got to ride the Liquid force HiFi and the Freak Dog Kite. Both seemed to fly well though I was pretty underpowered. Here are a couple shots from the night.
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Lighthouse Sunrise
It was another early morning. I headed out to the Lighthouse this morning to hopefully catch another great sunrise. It looked pretty weak from the house but I decided to head over anyways. We were also suppose to score a session today but it had looked by the sensors that the wind had dropped out. I waited around on the beach and it took for the sun to get up about 15 degrees for it to really look great. After that the wind picked up and I rode my 17m Fuel and my 6’3 surfboard very powered for a good hour. It was a great way to start off the day.
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Weekend Wrap Up
Friday I took a split at work and rode my 17m Fuel until I had the chicken loop rope break on me again. Other than that it was a good session and it was good to get back on the water again after so long.
Saturday there was no wind so we surfed all day. Tommie and I did dawn patrol at Joe P beach then took a a break for breakfast. Then headed back to Joe P for a couple waves. Zack came to tell us to head to the hotels and that’s were we surfed for the rest of the day. (where the pictures are from below) Rachel, Shannon, dave and I headed up to waves for the Demolition party at the slick house. It was great to see and hang out with everyone.
Saturday, Nick, Dave, Carrie and I headed to airport road for a little standup paddleboarding action. We had a very fun session.
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Sunset & Sunrise
Not much for a surf session last night so I got out the camera instead of playing in the knee to maybe thigh high wave. Jerome from MI is in Hatteras so we grabbed a drink last night and hopefully he will get some wind today and tomorrow before he heads home. I got up early again to shoot but didn’t get many good ones.
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Image in SBC Kiteboard
The 25th Issue of SBC Kiteboard Magazine was released and I got a picture in it. It is a small image but it was used. The shot is on the top left corner of page 26. The picture is of Davey Blair and 2 of his Chucktown buddies what were up during the Triple-S Rebuild of the infamous Camel Toe Slider.
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Weekend Wrap Up
Well its was another fun and exhausting weekend. However there was no wind to be found this weekend. But there were shoulder-head high + waves all weekend. The whole crew surfed all weekend long. Saturday we surfed at the lighthouse and the hotels and Sunday I scored 4 2+ hour surf sessions at the hotels. It looks like I graduated from tommie’s rocket program. This is where you learn to surf on the 9’1 then move to the destroyers 8’ then 7’. After that it’s to the Rockets, the 6’8 to the 6’4 and then the 5’10.
This weekend I finally, legitimately, got up on my Chamber 6’3. Friday, I headed to the light house and the waves were rather large and knew it would have been a heck of a time paddling out a 9’ board past the break and there were a ton of surfers out already so I figured it go play around on the chamber. That session I stood up on 2 waves and on the last one got in a small bottom and top turn in. Sunday it was chamber all day long. I got a couple good backside and frontside hacks in. I’m very happy to be able to surf and kite my one board now, as long as there are some good waist + surf around. I took the shots from the water below, and Carrie took the others.
PS: Thank goodness for Body Glide, The best stuff ever for anti-chafe !!!