November Update

November was a good varied activity month for me again. 

It started off with some really good solo Upper Dart runs in my ZET kayak in some fantastic washing over the slab levels. Such a blast!

I did manage a little bit of DWS but most of my climbing was spent indoors again due to the weather. 

Scored some great surf down Bantham though, some of which was on my longboard and 8'0" retro board, but I also had a really good session down there in my surf kayak too - ripping it up in some nice solid headhigh waves. Wicked fun! :)

I also scored some pretty decent and well overhead surf down Cornwall too, getting some chunky and adrenaline fuelled rides that stoked me right out. Woohoo! :)

The other thing we managed this month due to some particularly heavy rainfall was a spot of riverboarding on the Dart on our boogie boards. I had a great time with Carl surfing the top wave on the Loop as well as running the whole section down to Holne Bridge, plus a nice top wave session with my friend Chris in which I managed to surf not only the boogie board but also a skim board, a knee board and a small foam surfboard stood up on the wave. I lasted about 30 secs of stood up surfing on the top wave which was pretty good as the wave is quite bumpy and tricky to ride like this. 

All in all, a few really good months of crazy fun! Excellent! :)

October Update

October was a bit of a mixed bag really. The weather wasn't generally as good as September but I still managed to cram a variety of different activities into the month. 

I managed some nice DWS sessions at Berry Head early in the month before the weather forced me indoors and some training on my home wall again. 

I also managed to score a bit more surfing in too, some on the longboard locally, but also a few fantastic bodysurfing sessions trying out my new DaFin swim fins and the handplane I'd shaped myself. It was a wonderful feeling swimming into some clean three to four footers with minimal equipment and gliding down the line using my body as a surfboard. Getting so close to the wave was an awesome and amazing experience, and I'm definitely going to do more of it from now on.

Right at the end of the month I scored a mad coasteering session with my mate Josh in some pretty rough conditions off Berry Head. Getting sloshed about by some big waves added quite a bit of excitement to the day. Following another session with my mate Carl again I'd managed to get enough footage with my new GoPro camera to make up a short movie which I uploaded to YouTube. The link is here:

http://youtu.be/52IHHYE5ICg

Enjoy! :)

September Update

With great weather for the most part during September along with a series of quality swells coming through which also coincided with a few weeks holiday, the whole month turned into a surfing, deep water soloing and coasteering extravaganza!! 

When the winds were from the North and West and the sun was shining I was up at Berry Head smashing out my favourite DWS routes, with the odd coasteering session thrown in for good measure.

Once the wind was offshore on the North Coast of Cornwall and the swells were starting to hit I was soon back down to my favourite spots to make the most of the perfect conditions. I scored plenty of excellent surf sessions during this period, with a few almost epic days of quality overhead and clean surf in which I bagged some awesomely wicked rides. Stoked!

On one particularly good day myself and surfing buddy Carl borrowed a GoPro camera and managed to get enough footage for him to make up a short movie of our day of quality waves. The only down side of the GoPro is that the fisheye lens makes the head high surf look about two foot! Anyway, the link to the YouTube video is here:

http://youtu.be/9Rea5FVBCow

Enjoy! :)