Two Dudes. One Camera. Day 3
Posted by: Zander
Danielle’s swell dropped quickly and this morning we woke up to clean waist high leftovers. We went out on boat hoping to find an island with a bit more swell and catch some big fish in the process.
What we found were big rocks, little waves, and small fish. Oh well. We still caught dinner and enjoyed another day of amazing weather so all is well. We had planned to stay up here through the weekend, but it’s looking like we may end up dead in the path of Earl and are over getting marooned in a Hurricane. Instead, we are looking to hop a flight tomorrow and hopefully catch the surf FL is about to enjoy. Anyway, check the video below!
DAY 2.
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The surf came up today as expected thanks to Hurricane Danielle. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite as big as we’d hoped it would be. There were some inconsistent head high sets at times which peeled nicely down the rock points up this way. Nothing amazing, but super fun. Certainly not complaining.
Looks like Earl has picked up steam ( I just got horrible news that the famous Bomba Shack in Tortola was destroyed) and I really hope everyone in the Northern Caribbean is okay. That is one massive Hurricane. Looks like the entire Eastern Seaboard is about to get some great surf, and hopefully Earl never gets close enough to anyone to do any further damage.
AN ISLAND. DAY 1.
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With two tropical systems churning in the Atlantic (Danielle and Earl) Chris Ropero and I decided to head North to an island in New England. Other than the Patriots and Celtics, there in nothing I don’t love about this part of the United States. It’s absolutely beautiful. Right now, the weather is perfect.
We are camping out and hiking around hoping to find a few shreddable points during the next six days. Here is a quick video of our day of traveling and the small surf we stumbled into. Hopefully with all this storm activity we’ll see something with some more size soon…I’ll have a new video up daily while we’re here!
Surf Shop Challenge
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Yesterday Mike Pimental, Ryan Ripko, Eric Taylor, and myself competed for Surf Station at the Oakley Shop Challenge in NSB. Our team was solid, the waves were fun, and yet we came up 100 times short of our potential and failed to make the final. Mike P, NSB local, was shredding prior to our heat but couldn’t for the life of him find a score in the tag team event and had to come in after a 3 point ride to save time. Ripko suffered a similar fate and ended his run after a 4, ET tried desperately to find the 8 point plus ride necessary to put us in contention but it wasn’t to be. He ended up with a 5 after his best wave failed to cooperate after one good turn and was forced to the beach. By the time I was sent out, I required an impossible 14 out of 10 point score to turn the heat.
Excuses, Excuses, you might say. But I say just wait till next year. This team wants revenge, and we are gunning for the Sunrise dream team after there three-peat victory. We’re gonna get em! Next time!
Gabes Groms Go Off
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Over 70 frothing little ones showed up to compete on Saturday. We were greeted with small surf but it was no matter to the groms. They were out shredding all day long. Gabe judged every heat of the event and ended the day giving away as much of his sponsors gear as he could possibly fit into one Matix backpack. The little guys were all very pleased, I heard more than once during the day that it was “the best contest EVER!”
GABES GROMS 2010 from zander morton on Vimeo.
RESULTS!
Boys (13-16)
1st place – Jon Heater
2nd place – Tyler Faulkner
3rd place – Marley Peck
4th place – Cannon Embry
5th place – Alex Gonzalez
6th place – Sam Amer
Grom (10-12)
1st place – Evan Brownell
2nd place – Patrick Conklin
3rd place – Micah Peck
4th place – Chase Stevens
5th place – Eric Westbrook
6th place – Harrison Dagler
Mini Grom’s (9 & under)
1st place – Shawn Arthur
2nd place – Kaleb Kirshenbaum
3rd place – Joel Luteran
4th place – Noah Brownell
5th place – Micha Peck
6th place – Louis Jackson
Girl’s (16 & under)
1st place – Zoe Bonik
2nd place – Elena Sopranei
3nd place – Shelby Williams
4th place – Emilia Sopranei
5th place – Chloe Piester
6th place – Jazmine Dean
Surf Station Surf Camp-Better than Christmas!
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Our 2010 Summer Surf Camp kicked off today. Check out how pumped our campers were to get things started in the video below. Give us a call of stop in anytime to sign up, plenty of space still available and we’ll be running 4 days weekly until the end of August!
SURFCAMP from zander morton on Vimeo.
KLING OF TRESTLES!
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By now I’m sure you’ve heard about Gabe’s enormous victory at the Nike 6.0 Lowers Prime event in CA two weeks ago. If you haven’t, you must have been living under a rock. After the big win he only had a single night to celebrate out west before boarding a plane for Brazil. Yesterday, he finally arrived home. And of course, we were waiting.
A crew of us met him in the airport waiting lot where he was given a champagne shower (the first of many) and carried by shoulder around the parking lot. From there, we had a quick surf and lunch before the celebration really started at Tory’s house. It was an epic evening. Thanks to Tory for hosting the party, Annie (Gabe’s mom) for cooking a delicious feast, and Ryan from Seven Tiki rum for providing, well, a whole ton of great beverage.
Oh, and of course thanks to Gabe for winning the event. We all love a good excuse for a great party!
Kling of Trestles from zander morton on Vimeo.
NICARAGUA
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I just returned from a quick week jaunt down to Nicaragua. Prior to the trip I hadn’t surfed in what felt like two months amidst the worst winter of waves Florida has ever seen. Arriving to solid swell like this was a welcome relief!
Nicaragua is surprisingly still very undeveloped. In the Popoyo region, aside from the surf lodges, there is pretty much nothing. A house to buy gas from, a small market, and a bull fighting ring.
We met these groms one day driving down a pothole littered road as we were trying to find some mysto beachbreak. They jumped in our car, led us to the spot, carried our gear, and took photos with ashers camera while we surfed. They also surfed for the first time ever on one of ashers boards and were getting up first try. It was impressive. At the end of the day we hooked them up with a bunch of our stuff. The were frothing.
Another day we surfed the outer reef a solid 15 foot (I’m using face heights) with a few bigger ones. The wind was howling offshore and I rode a way too small 6’1″. The other guys were on 6’10″s. Ryan Briggs took the wave of the day, airdropped sideways, got sucked over the falls and dragged 100 yards underwater. It was the beating of his life. That wave is heavy. It’s as scary as any other wave in the world at that size. It’s shallow, far out, and rocks pop up everywhere.
Here’s Briggs checking the shots and me nursing a neck injury after getting completely owned by that wave. Good trip!
Sunglasses. At Night.
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We just got a giant shipment of sunglasses from an assortment of awesome brands. Adam M was quite excited. You should be too. Come on in to check em all out!
SUNNIES from zander morton on Vimeo.
NEW MERRICKS!
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Eight boxes of wave sleds from Channel Islands just arrived including Dumpster Divers (Can’t keep em on the shelves), Wizard Sleeves, Protons, Whips, and last but not least colorful resin tint T Strange longboards.
Here a few of the guys pull boards from the last box. Board unpacking is quite efficient up here at the shop, everybody ready and willing to get some fresh air and check out the newest shapes as they arrive. (Well, that’s what they’ll tell ya. In reality it’s because today there were good looking women at the Shave Ice stand and Matto, Vince and Zach couldn’t wait for the chance to work shirtless. AH HAHA)
Anyway, come on in and check em out!
Here Zach poses with local legend/firefighter Dusty Welsch’s 9’0″ triple stringer custom gun, a board Dusty’ll ride in monster mainland mex waves that I wouldn’t want any part of!
