flow like chase

last friday was not as good as I'd hoped. gale force offshore's aren't uncommon with nice long period waves. figures. looks like another storm is coming at weeks end. keepin my fingers crossed cause it feels like a while since I've had a solid session.
found this photo on msw taken by frenchguy. I was out there at the time of the photo. there were some good lefts, fast down the line.


if I could flow on water the way chase hawk flows on land... no brakes, no corrections, just smooth lines.

I'm on it

Waves Eastern Shore - eastern half
Issued 05:00 AM AST 13 February 2009
Today Tonight and Saturday Seas 2 to 3 metres building to 3 to 5 early this afternoon then subsiding to 2 to 3 overnight. Seas subsiding to 2 Saturday afternoon.

Foul Weatehr on Kurungabaa

check out the little piece about Foul Weather on Kurungabaa. It's here kurungabaa.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/foul-weather/

Kurungabaa is a great surf journal from Australia. Check it out.

an dis wan goes out to me lickle B.

versions - "Let Down" by Radiohead

I love Radiohead. It seems that the more I listen the more it emblazons into my psyche. here is the original Let Down. The Easy Star All-Stars recently did a cover of this song with the golden voiced Toots. You can here that version here: Easy Star All Stars, Let Down.


and in other Easy Star news, the band is releasing their third tribute album. This time a Beatles tribute covering the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's due out April 14th and "features guest vocals from an impressive list of reggae, dancehall and dub greats including Steel Pulse, Matisyahu, Michael Rose (Black Uhuru), Luciano, U Roy, Bunny Rugs (Third World), Ranking Roger (English Beat), Sugar Minott, Frankie Paul, Max Romeo and The Mighty Diamonds. The first single, “With A Little Help From My Friends,” featuring Luciano, will be released as an iTunes exclusive February 10. It will be paired with a b-side dub version featuring the legendary U Roy." bumbo clot bwoy!

phelps, kellogs, SNL, hypocracy

I'd like to dedicate this here clip to tres arboles who wrote a great rant about Kellogs dumping Phelps for smoking weed.




legalize marijuana already. this is getting ridiculous. the United States has more people incarcerated than any country on earth. yes even more than the axis of evil communist countries. of course business being business and profit margins the main priority, jails are a "good" way to make money. bullshit.

I support Michael Phelps. He's an amazing athlete. Oh and in case you didn't know, marijuana is not a sports enhancing drug. who gives a shit if Phelps wants to get stoned.

scary fast in the alpenrose velodrome

I rode the Alpenrose velodrome once with my friend T-Bone. We were newly arrived in PDX and we knew that one of the few outdoor velodromes in the US was but a short drive from downtown. Alpenrose is made out of concrete and I think it's one of the steepest tracks around. the day we rode it there was no one around but us. the track was a little moist. I got clipped in first and started down the straightaway. as soon as I hit the first bank I got nervy and drifted down to the flats without making it around. I was deflated and surprised at how intimidating it was.

of course T is and always has been ruthless. he's also got legs like Christmas hams. he hammered down the straight and went into the first bank with plenty of speed. as the bank curved he climbed higher and higher up the wall, his body almost perpendicular to the ground 8 feet below. after T's feat I had to commit. speed is the key and an even spin. fixed is a must as your cadence has to be smooth. my heart in my throat I charged again through the first turn and tried not to think about slamming. I made it around but not very high up. still the feeling was great. I realized two things by the end of our one hour trip the velodrome. I was in shit shape and it's much harder than it looks. you also need a bigger gear than you would use on the street. I wish we had one in Halifax.

thrillin in the phillipines

choreographed dance seems like a good prison activity.

mini simmons vs. what?

everyone's been raving about the mini-Simmons and it's had me thinkin. some prophesy that it's the next big thing. but what about this little clip from 2006 of a guy ripping a board that's shorter than the mini simmons and with no fins? it's a very similar outline with a wide tail.


I had a feeling the Simmons was too good to be true when I saw the video of RK surfing an alaia. he does that really well too.
you can get a top quality finless biscuit (aka sponge) for under two bills or a mini-simmons for $1,050.00. either way you won't be able to dominate on either one unless you can surf as well as RK.

lust - surf history in NS

this is abstract. however if you like film, surfing, eccentricity, anarchy then is is worth it.

plants and animals, bye bye bye

skunked

Today I woke up early and fought with the layer of ice enveloping my car. Then I scraped and picked at the knee high wall of frozen snow and ice blocking my driveway. After a sketchy ass drive I arrived at the first lookout point. The parking lot was completely iced over and I was worried about driving the blue flame in. I parked on the edge and slid down to take a look at the bay. It was big and disorganized still, even though the wind was practically dead. The bay had big sets closing out the a-frame and the point. Further down I could see sets hitting the other headland, some wrapping and pitching like some far off wave in the south pacific. But it was too big and shifty to make the solo walk and paddle. Water dropped down to 0 C. (32 F.) and the air temps are down to about -9C. Way outside you could see huge sets feathering on an outer reef. The swell is supposed to be straight out of the south but it almost seemed like it had some east in it.

The next point looked a little better but for a pre-work session it looked questionably rideable. The waves were breaking inside but off the headland. Again it was super shifty and it seems like the angle was wrong or the swell just needs more time to get organized. Skunked! I couldn’t believe it. After a second looksy I sucked it up and started the drive back home. The roads were just as bad as before except now there was the morning traffic rush. The worst part about getting skunked on a weekday morning is having to drive back into the city with rush hour traffic –especially the morning after an ice storm.

Now I sit here readying myself for a full days work. I’ll try and not think what the other point, that misto one that works like a machine on this type of swell, and how it’s probably overhead and barreling. I’ll try and pretend like the waves are terrible all day and I’m not missing anything. But you know how it is, I’ll sit here the whole time brooding about how I got skunked cause I couldn’t wait a little longer, or drive a little farther.

Today is three years since I started Ku Yah. Thanks for reading along all this time.

style: mad man spencer

found this over at happy feet

quiver check: skates

45" log, 28" convert concave banana cruiser, 8" blank and clay wheeled roller derby circa early 60's.


"what?"

chinese new year dinner for E

waves of anticipation: the longest morning

this is where I hope to surf this afternoon. the wind should be calm and if it holds it could look just like this. right now the buoy is reading 7' @ 12 seconds but it's sure to drop in the next few hours. got a 10' pivot fin from if only yesterday for the log and looking forward to giving it a go. D$ wish you were here but I doubt you'd be into these conditions:

Wave Height: 7.2 ft
Dominant Wave Period (DPD): 12 sec
Air Temperature (ATMP): 28.4 °F
Water Temperature (WTMP): 35.2 °F
Wind Chill (CHILL): 17.6 °F

leave yuh wit some duppy art

twitter, crack, and winter waves

according to the twitter ad, real life happens between blog posts and emails. so I guess that means that the less time you spend on blog posts and email and twittering your thumbs then the more "real life" you have. that's easy enough.

no twitter for me thanks.

would you really want to know if I was taking a shit, or taking out the compost, or scooping dog crap in the back yard? would you care that I like to watch cartoons, and eat bananas. no -we don't need to know what each other are doing in short sweet sentences every day and minute. twitter me this twitter me that -am not on crack.

nope.


snagged this photo from MSW taken a week ago at one of our points. this photo is from the mornin. I surfed it at sunset and it had dropped in size a little but still gobs of fun on the log and cordless.



in other news, we got a nasty storm last night followed by a short thaw. now that the temps have plummeted again there's an inch thick layer of slick ice all over the the city. but the good news is that winter storms bring waves and this one is no exception. if you live in NS then I hope you'll get out there this evening or tomorrow when the wind drops off a bit.

pixies

food one

food one

cody simpkins lumberjack

there's loggin and then there's this kid. wild style, corldless and rippin. the music coulda been art blakey

halifax coal power: the past and present

Brothers and coal miners in Nova Scotia, Cecil and Charlie are eating lunch about 4 km out under the Atlantic, 244 m below the ocean floor. photo by John F. Mailer.

"All of the approximately 1.4 million tonnes of coal we imported from Colombia last year came from one infamous mine in the northwest: Cerrejon. It is the largest open pit mine in the world..."

"Cerrejon has a 20-year history of violently displacing indigenous and Afro-Colombian farming communities, including Manantial, Caracoli and, most notoriously, Tabaco. Arsenault has written that "the village of Tabaco, a sustainable farming community populated primarily by Afro-Colombians, was destroyed by Cerrejon's bulldozers in 2001 to make way for more coal exports."

excerpts from:
Blood coal: Coal is dirty business and Nova Scotia's electricity is destroying the South American environment. by Chris Benjamin