This is were it needs to go, in ten more years the pros will be doing this as a stock top turn. This was Dusty Payne at the Bells event in his heat against Slater. Pretty filthy nosepick to nail in a heat, especially first turn off the bottom. I might be claiming this is the best maneuver done in a ASP event this year? Don't think he made it through the heat but he was up against Jimmy Slade so its not suprising.

Check out the video that is the 7th down from the top, called Damage inc, on Danes blog. It was from 2002' which means he was probably 15 years old, give or take a year or two. Destroying it, surfing fast, powerful and loose- trademark Dane. The funny part is the size of his boards? It looks like hes trying out some guns for mavericks or sunset maybe, the things gotta be 6'3 or 6'4? Just seems kind of bizarre because he rides such short boards now, one extreme to the other I guess. chek it out on the link below


http://www.marinelayerproductions.com/

Would just like to take a second and apologize to my readers for sucking so bad lately. Its not that there isn't anything going on out in the surf world, its just that i've been too busy to pay much attention to it. Working two jobs, getting busy with summer, surf lessons and life have made it tough to get on the c-puter and write. Anyways, some things have been made easier, one job and surf lessons for summer (gonna miss T-Lu's   ) got life a little more in order, should be able to get back to posting useless dribble for everyones enjoyment. Plus the J-bay comp starts in July, i believe, so hopefully they will get a huge swell and we can see how the rookie tricksters fare against the staples in heavier, more challenging surf. Should be interesting, stay tuned. 

This was the funnest contest i have surfed in awhile. It was a last minute impromptu running of the Rasta Gray Pro division. Beers from the end of our  Saturday shift at the shop ended up being implemented down on the beach for the competitors Sunday morning. It all worked out well except for the fact that i drew Wayne who had been possessed by some holy jah spirit that was into throwing tail whips under the sections and imploding them on themselves. Killer. Bye bye twenty bucks. Watch those 3 or 4 turns he does in our heat?  The waves were 2 foot crap and he was just stomping his foot in the perfect place on each wave. Impressive. Very impressive. I drank my beer better though                  chek the link below

disclaimer: everybody featured drinking in this video is over 21 years old. drinking beer is not cool, especially before you go surfing. skating maybe, surfing, no.....   

http://vimeo.com/12222276

This is not an attempt at shameless shop promotion but more so an attempt to hook up all my loyal blogg followers. We are having a huge memorial day sale this weekend, all kinds of stuff under the tents out front- crazy deals on shoes, clothes and all that good schwag, but more importantly we are going to have a huge sale on used boards! We are going to have a pile of used boards for $100, a pile for $150 and a pile for $250. If you need a backup board, or want to stoke out a neighborhood kid or family member, come by and grab a marked down board out of one of the piles. We can also make some deals on new boards as well, but you gotta come in and talk to me, Dane or Ty about that one. Should still be a little wave so go catch one or two, then come by the shop and see what we're hustlin'',  Peace!

heres a link to a great blog from our photo friend Logan Bowles. These days anyone can get a good digital camera and shoot 57 photos until they get a good one (film used to cost to much to do that) That makes it a lot harder to decipher the good photographers from the average ones. Logan is a good one, a very good one and although hes young and hes got a lot to learn, i have no doubt hes got a great future ahead of him clicking away if thats what he wants to do. I'm putting this link in my favorites.

 http://bowlesphoto.tumblr.com/


that tumblr site is cool! I think i'm going to start a blog reviewing imported beer on there! haha, wine too! 

Waves have been fun the last two days. Nothing insane, but rideable and rippable for sure. Forecast looks good and i think everybody is ready to get in the water so there should be some insane surfing to watch. I know within the last two days i have already seen the likes of Jake McGuire, Dane Jefferies, Adam McGill, Seth Tiliakos, Justin Quintal, Jay "T Curren" Gordon and Slasher Nolan all busting airs, smacking lips and eating waves like hungry jackals. I mean that literally, between my two sessions i saw every person i named land a little boost or two. Top honors go to Jake for consistency- he landed about ten in a two hour period yesterday and all of them were clean and buttery. Asher for overall sickness and amplitude. He stuck one at the pier today that was a solid four feet high, frontside speed blast that he rotated around and rode out of clean. Keep your eye on the swell by checking 911, surfjaxpier and the buoys. Put some links to them below, see everybody in the water!

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41012

http://www.911surfreport.com/

  Sunrise team rider Adam McGill goes winching with Joey from ridiculous winches and blasts this mutant air. They claim to have found a buttery winch spot somewhere between here and Vilano. As soon as my knee is better i'm going to hit it up with them and do a little recon mission. I keep tellin Hoss if he can do this on a 1 foot wave, then he can do it on a four foot wave (of course getting all that speed the winch provides isn't easy) I call this the Dane blast cause hes so centered over his board, but slightly tweaked. Sick.

heres the video that got me worked up, the narration is brutal, the guy sounds dead or something?

 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/aerial-footage-bp-oil-spill-shows-gulf-bleeding-video.php

Exxon Valdeez happened 21 years ago. I was a little kid when it happened and remember it being on the news every night for a month or so. Horrifying pictures and videos of baby seals, penguins and birds covered in a thick, sheeny black liquid that seemed to choke the life out of them. I was not able to realize the magnitude of what i was watching, not really comprehending the overall effects of the incident. The lost jobs, lost ways of life, the death of animals and mother nature in a place where they both were so alive and vibrant. 
Fast forward to 2010, the world is a completely different place, we have high speed internet, cell phones for everyone in the household, fast paced life, fast food, fast everything, fast. Life is bigger, cars are bigger, houses are bigger, those fast food meals are bigger (super sized to be exact) and guess what, oil spills are bigger; a lot bigger.The oil rig that blew up in the gulf is dumping upwards of 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the ocean. I don't know exact numbers, as far as gallons, but the Valdeez incident did not involve anywhere near that much oil and it still caused massive death and destruction. BP makes billions and billions of dollars a year pushing their crude sludge to millions and millions of willing americans. The CEO's, owners and executives of BP are swimming in money, much like fish in the gulf are now swimming in oil. I don't feel like i need to say anymore about BP, if you give half a crap about this world we live in you will immediately stop supporting anything they own or do. Personally i would walk ten miles barefoot over broken glass before i would spend a dollar at a BP gas station filling my truck. I ask all of you to do the same, the only place BP will feel any pain is their wallets, and in my eyes, they deserve to feel pain.
Next up is the government, god knows that we arent going to go into debates about Obama vs. Bush idealogies, i'm just going to say one thing. We can put people on the moon, we can invent computers that move at the speed of light, yet we can't plug up a leaking oil pipe? Really? All the resources that the US government and US corporations have, and we can't stop a broken leak in the ocean? I find that hard to fathom, but lets take their side for a minute and say its not possible. If its not possible and not a fixeable leak,in a reasonable amount of time, then we have no business being out there drilling into mother earths gut ( i sound like a treehugger, haha).
Shame on BP and shame on our government for letting this continue, at least try and hit them where it hurts and stop supporting all BP gas stations and companies today. Its all we can do ( at least until the oil washes up, then we can physically go and try to save the wildlife that will be dying on our beaches and in our backyards)