Friday, August 20, 2010

gnarly winter session



yesterday was very cold with a very gusty offshore wind and solid swell.
it was only supposed to be 3-4ft but by afternoon the swell had doubled in size and the bombies at 13th beach would been easily in the 6-8ft range. after a quick, frustrating session at 13th the swell was just out of control turning the waves into a big soupy mess. making it out the back without getting cleaned up by a set was a mission. to make it worse when i came in after a few waves i somehow ended up locking myself out of my car for an hour in the freezing cold... not much fun.

when i finally got back into the car we headed up the road to poo point at the western end of the beach where it is much more sheltered from the swell. the waves were a lot cleaner here but the bigger ones were mostly really fat walls with only with one good section before closing out heavily on the inside (that section claimed quite a bit of broken gear). it wasn't really epic but still got some good photos, thanks to phi, which made it all worthwhile.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

preeetty good wavesailing session

Another solid day down at Phillip Island. Over logo high sets, 25 knots cross shore and not that cold for winter!
Was a pretty fun session.










Thanks to Hector for coming and taking some photos.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Windsurfing Movie II Premier



Forgot to mention that last Friday we had the Australian premier of the Windsurfing Movie 2. It was sick. Jason Polakow turned up and did a bit of talk which was good as well before jetting off to the Cocos Islands in time for a big swell.

The movie is awesome, pretty different to the first one with the story revolving mostly around Levi travelling to some epic spots. Again excellent music (not as good as the first one because that's one of the best soundtracks ever!)and sick action put together in more of cohesive story format than the first. The Jaws section of the movie was really cool, had me buzzing for the rest of the night to get some big swell!
Looks like Thursday should be pretty epic. Hopefully we can get some photos and video in some solid conditions.

Monday, August 2, 2010

sick winter wavesailing and injuries


Today I scored the best conditions I've ever had in Victoria, smooth logo high sets on a very nice reef break with 25 knots cross off. And also it was port tack! It was seriously good. The wind dropped off towards the end of the session otherwise I probably would've been out there till dark.


Other than today not much has been happening. Had one session at Sandy point in some fun conditions over a week ago but it only lasted an hour. Yesterday got out on bay for a little while but seeing as I'm not supposed be windsurfing, I've decided against jumping for a while, so it wasn't very exciting... This is because we found out that my recurring back injury from March is a bilateral stress fracture of my L5 vetebrae... Definitely not ideal. I'm supposed to be off the water for at least three months, but seeing it was holding up fine the whole time in Maui I will keep sailing and just be careful. Also started an exercise program to strengthen all my core/back muscles to reduce the chance of making it any worse.



Looks like we might get some more solid conditions over the next week so hopefully winter is starting to come good!