The surf school has been extreamley buisy this month,and we have a few tired instructors on our hands,this week was especialy hard as Kane fell sick on saturday with kidney stones.so matthew and myself had to pick up the ball .its been fun for myself to be back out there teaching and ive meet some nice people from some interesting back grounds.yesterday Scott and Chris came to the surf school for some beginer lessons,which is not that strange but their...
This week i took Thomas on a half day surf tour,i went through the normal routine of showing Tom a few south coast breaks so he knew his way around barbados and the breaks that are ,or might break while he is here on holiday for a week.by the way Tom is from New York and is quite a keen long boarder,I was already bored with this as i knew soup bowl was 2-3 ft clean and sweet.But a job...
Axe Garrett ,the only active dreadordead competion surfer left has decided not to surf the remaining junior Burkie contest.when asked why .He said he feels a bit burnt out .not an unreasonable answer i thought.He then went on to say ,I think i am going to concentrate on swiming for the rest of the year as i made the finals in the inter school sports in free style .I want to swim he said ok i said we will find...
Yes i know soup bowl was sweet 4-5 ft but it was raining and there was 2 ft semi clean at brandons so Kane and myself paddled out and caught a few before work no long drive and got to work on time .It was barely worth it but riding those small waves sure make you use those muscles.the wave suddenly came to an end around 10 am. Just as Matthew turned up with his morning surf lesson.perfect for the...
I could not believe my eyes,Jays 9/0 EPS Local Motion back in the work shop he had broken it just before he left for england 3 ft from the nose so i fixed it sold it and back it came yesterday broken 4 ft fron the tail ,its a lovely board and the rocker line is still in tack so im going to make it nice again.The thing is on those bigger days at soup bowl one should take it...
What a fantastic afternoon session 4-6 ft on the set super glassy barreling long sections ,i could go no but thats not fair to the guys that were not there.Matthew and myself surfed our hearts out and for a good reason the following day was not even on the same page.Matthew rode his Wayne Lynch 6/3 surf tech and i was on my trusty 6/8 local motion eps fun board.we both had a blast ,i missed one large drop probably...
I have worked hard this year to make surf board rentals easier,and realy offer a much larger and more comprehensive range of boards.IT seems fewer people are traveling with their boards and more surfers want better equipment.at dread or dead we plan to meet this demand and will have the surf shop in hastings open from monday to saturday with our rentals and seckond hand boards avaliable.the beach shop at the Amerillis hotel will be open on sundays as well...
Yesterday was ,a great day semi clean 4ft + on the set ocasional barrel i saw one young American tourist surfer get one of the longest back hand barrels ive seen in a long time ,but those waves were far and few between.taking nothing away from the young surfer the last back hand barrel i ve seen like that was Tim Curren a few years ago and that day the barrels were consistant.The young man did well grabbed the rail...
Ok i just finished repairing mine and it looks good ,like new ,ill say proudly.so here is a few tips for repairing those blades .first youll need some sand paper,stanley knife,masking tape.epoxy resign and hardner ,some carbon fiber matting,and a can of black paint. get your stanley knife and cut all the lose and cracked areas of the blade you wish to repair away,sand these areas with a course paper 80 grit.mix a relitave amount of epoxy resign to flill...
Yesterday i visited soup bowl .it had reasonable size so i went out.there were a couple of tourist and Julius another local.the peaks were all over the place and with an onshore wind jacking up or breaking on your head .wonderful it was realy hard to find a line out there and after 5 waves i called it a day.The surf today looks simular to yesterday but its on the south coast the wind seems to be playing a big part in...