My new board!!

Finally I managed 20mins of (painful) freestyle on my board yesterday, I was on a 3.7 stacked it was howling, and I am so happy with my board, it likes strong winds a lot more than the other boards i have been using! With Phi's 15.5cm fin too its sweet! 

Ribs feeling a bit better today so hopefully get some more playtime, 3.7 weather again :) !!!

So I have still got sore ribs, but thats ok for me because the curse of the wind is still taking place.  Its windy but a gentle force 3-(bottom of)4 most of the time.  

We have however had a very funny week, with some awesome guests, 4 in particular were away from the families for a week and armed with Rum and the all important Elvis suits.  The first Elvis night involved warm up drinks followed by beach olympics in elvis suits and snorkelling gear, followed by board lobbing competitions, to say the least.  We were then treated to a second Elvis night, involving plenty of egyptian Rum, everybody having a turn in the suits dancing Elvis- style and then plenty more dancing.  It was one of the best nights we have had in the hotel in the whole year I have been here.

I have put up some more pictures, from this week, wavebeach trip, a good advert for Severne sails, and also a little elvis in action. 

New board = worst wind since July!!

So I got my new board, an RRD Twintip 88, and I am really happy with it.  Its a little different to the one I'm used to, but I have managed do everything i normally can do on it.  Now to some new moves!!  Sadly it bought with it a curse on the wind, we've had the most lightwind days since July this week.

I haven't yet got any photos but its on the list of things to do definitely.

The windiest day this week bought winds of 35knots or more.  The guests all wanted to check out the wavebeach so we headed up there and spent 3 hours jumping and riding, it was some of the best conditions i have ever seen there.  I spent a while at my tripod photographing the guests, who thankfully kept me entertained with some great aerials, sneaking in a few runs in between with a few nice jumps for myself.   

Later we decided to do the downwinder back to the centre, great fun, except the wind out in the middle of the channel wasnt so good, being on a 3.3m sail I spent most of the time bobbing back, when I finally got planning I stacked a gybe down some massive swell and had to finish the trip with really bruised ribs.  

I managed a few freestyle sessions yesterday on my day off, making sure my new board can spock. We went back to the wavebeach which was great, very mellow and chilled out compared to the day before.  Even in the swell and small waves I managed a couple of vulcans and a spock before the wind died which i am very pleased with. I need to take a couple of days off to get my ribs better and chill now.

We had a couple of nights where it seemed to be windy and so the boys went on the water and I got the camera out.  Sadly the first night it turned out to be a tempting gust and no more, the second night was better although still not amazingly windy.  Phil and Dan managed to pull off a few moves and we got a couple of great shots.  I'm really looking forward to some more windy nights so we can improve on these pictures, maybe even get one of me :) .

I was disappointed that my last photos were unable to be enlarged so I have reloaded the same shot in a different size so I hope you can click and zoom now, I have also posterized it in photoshop for a bit of difference, I think its pretty cool.

More jumping at the wave beach :)

So we had another great session at the wavebeach, plenty of wind although not so many ramps or rides this time.  Towards the end of the day the tide went out and the ramps increased, luckily Phil took the camera during this time and got the shots of me above.  

We have also had plenty of wind in the bay and freestyle action continues.  Phil has got his new 2010 board today (and some funky new sail stickers from Bray Lake) so i'm sure we'll have some more pics of him up here very soon.  

The internet has been a bit dodgy here lately, as has my stomach, hence the lack of updates, and also we have got quite a lot of guests here now too.  Its great to have a good crowd, we have some Irish guys here who have invited us to go check out their local spots anytime we're in the UK which would be very cool.  We also have a lot of mates here at the moment (Rick in the photo above is one of them), they are beginners to advanced which is really fun helping them improve and also showing them what a cool place we have been living in for the past 11 months.  

We have had so much wind, the biggest sail I have been using is a 3.7, spending a lot of time on a 3.3!! Tiny!! Its great, although i could happily have a day of 4.2 weather now for a rest!

These photos are from two days ago at the wave beach, it was an awesome day, i did the biggest jumps i have ever done, really high i was very happy but extremely scared!  When you are in the air, looking down realising you are so high you have no idea what will happen when you land as you've never been so high it was scary!  

We have had lots of mates out last week and this next week will bring even more, as well as some guests here for the September wind in Egypt.  August hasn't dropped below a force 4, mostly being force 5-8 every day.  September is renowned for its wind here so it should be another great month.

I managed to get my first Flaka the other day too, I was really happy with that even if it was a complete fluke and it may well be another 2 months or more till the next!  Just got to keep on trying....