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February 26, 2004
Beautiful Empty Wave Pictures
Beautiful empty wave pictures coming atcha
Drizzling Dreamtime:
Left and Right:
Who cares how big it is?
Too bad my ribs craxked
Posted by hawaiisurf at 05:41 PM | Comments (0)
February 22, 2004
6-8 foot North Shore, just looking
Well I haven't surfed much since I broke my rib, too painfull. Such a bummer, It's been clean 6-8 foot plus for like 5 days now, good conditions too.
I did get some pics of pipe today, absolutely going sick, guys getting spit out of wave after wave while I wached. Camera battery went dead after only a few pics:
Sequence: #1
Sequence: #1
Posted by hawaiisurf at 10:15 PM | Comments (1)
February 14, 2004
8-12 footswell, East side wrap
Woke up early everything was seconmd reef cloudbreaking.
Anyways found a spot on the east side w/ some wrap. 4 foot occ plus rights and lefts. The lefts would break so fast it was sick, usually its not quite so quick. I learned on on my first wave, a set, I dropped in late and went sideways in the barrel and landed so hard on my side I cracked a rib. Ouch!
But after that I went to the rights and it was so fun so I just stayed out. The right would just keep re-forming all the way in, one wave I had like 5 cutbacks. Real consistent session too with just my 2 friends and 2 other guys rotating.
I think I'm outta the water for a few days.....
Stopped at PIPE for a few pics on the way home:
Posted by hawaiisurf at 09:17 AM | Comments (2)
February 12, 2004
One Big Tow-in Left at a outer reef
Big and pretty sloppy out here now, but this morning there was no wind, so the wave faces were semi-glassy. Got to tow into 2-3 waves this morning at a outer reef left by a rock, only had a hour to do it in, the guy who owned the ski had to be at work at 9:30. 2 other teams out there.
I was stoked because the one really good one I got was the 3rd and biggest wave of the set, probaly 10-12 footer, looong left. We whipped into it kind of wierd, the ski was below me for the biggest part of the wave, so I just went down the line instead of dropping more into the pit. Ended up just beelined it for the channel, no turns really, but still stoking just for the speed on that 6'2" tow board I've got, which feels really solid.......The guy I was with has only been out a few times before, lots of kinks to work out, not that I'm any master or anything. It worked out great really......
Posted by hawaiisurf at 10:58 AM | Comments (0)
February 11, 2004
Pretty Big and Junk Most of the day
This morning everywhere looked like about 6-8, no wind but still kind of warbly. Actually it started to blow konas for like 10 minutes in the morning. HH looked good to tow, Christain and Bruce went out to experiment, I had to stay home and take care of some things so I missed it, Doh!
In honor of that I am putting up some tow-in pictures from the other month with Robbie, Here is his site I made him in exchange for Tow-in and training:
Towsurfing.net
Me:
Robbie just got whipped:
Brian about to release the rope:
Check Out Robbie getting towed by Ken Bradshaw at Phantoms:
More:
This one looks big:
Posted by hawaiisurf at 10:53 PM | Comments (0)
February 09, 2004
Undisclosed Location 4-5 foot glassy-offshore West Swell
Super glassy, offshore all day from S-SE winds. Surfed an undisclosed location: unreal 4-5 foot long lefts. Only a few friends spread out over the peak allowed constant wave-catching and paddling back out, which was long after some waves.
This spot is a high-performance-wall rather than barrel kind of wave, but definetly some bowls to be had. I had one bowl in particular that was super memorable: Outside take off was kind of flat, I did a roundhouse then right as I came around it BOWLED super hard and I got pitted right in front of Chris and Sebastian paddling out.
Caught a long wave almost all the way in, then the next one to the beach. The clouds parted and it poured rain for about 5 minutes, then I could see some whales breaching outside the lineup. Jason and I had a 2 beers at the car and we called it a day. Aloha!
Posted by hawaiisurf at 10:29 PM | Comments (3)
February 08, 2004
Semi small but fun lefts, just us out
The entire NS looks like about 3 feet and glassy. OPted for our favorite private left. Super inconsistent, but every 10-15 minutes a fun waves would come in. We took turns taking videos with Christian's new vid cam w/water housing. It's amazing how good the session looked on video, definetly gets you stoked to rip when the camera is on.
With the two of in the lineup, I would say we rode evry last set wave that came in.
Posted by hawaiisurf at 01:21 PM | Comments (0)
February 02, 2004
Glassy Ehukai Sandbar action, Gas Chanbers..
Waves were good today....short sessioned Ehukai sandbar super fun 3-4 left tubes, and then gas chambers was almost 5 foot on the set only a few guys out, but inconsistent. It was rad you would ride the right into the 3-6 inch deep closeout doubleup at the end.
Christain was testing his new Vid camera waterhousing, I think he got me in a few leetle barrel..
RP was firing hard too....
Ive got a small sinus infection, im weak all day intul I hit the water, at which point I feel great. When I get out im all achey:(
Posted by hawaiisurf at 08:23 PM | Comments (0)