OUtTA HerE AGAiN

we are heading up to Stillbay 2moro morning for 8 days.
Gonna go chill, party, Fish, surf, eat and so on.

We surfed silkies yesterday and pipe the day before. Both sessions were fun, but small. The Pig is going amazing. Duncan fetched his board from the airport yesterday, but wasn't allowed to open the box till today. He was pissed that he couldnt surf it yesterday.

Today is X-mas...so happy x-mas to all.
Check back in 8days. Peace

                                  Strand(left to right): Silkies, Duckies, The Reef, Pipe, Seconds

                                                 Note: billion spongers on Silkies

                                                                      How fun

                                                                       2 FAcE

                                             Where we are going: Jongens and Stillbay

nothing

not much going on at the moment.

Duncan snapped another board at caves 2days ago. I got my dumpsterdiver and it is amazing. Duncan should get his 2moro.

                                          Duncan's snapped boards (2 boards in 2 sessions)

                                                    My new plank (pre spray design)

                                                    The end product

                                          The spray room

the design

Mossel Bay

We went to MosselBay with the bus and arrived there in the afternoon. It rained real bad and we spent most of wednesday and thursday in our tent. We were bored to the max. We surfed innerpool on thursday though. It was small and on the rocks.

Friday morning we were greated by 3Ft perfect, glassy Outerpool. The waves were amazing and we both ripped. Duncan snapped his board doing a turn off the top on a knee deep close-out.

Later that day my dad arrived and took us to Vic Bay were we surfed the beachie and the point. The water was brain-freeze cold and we only surfed for about an hour.

In the afternoon we headed back to Outerpool and it delivered again. The wind was onshore and the waves were really ledgey and on the rocks. We still had alot of fun though. We slept in the backpackers Fri night were some fifty year olds were having a reunion. They were shit noisy and gesuip as hell. On Saterday there was no waves, so we came back home.

Leaving here

2moro we leave for MosselBay. The weather looks a bit bad tough. It's gonna rain and the wind is going to be strong for the first 2 days, but from there onwards the conditions are gonna be sick. Hopefully we score some waves. Back in a week.

Solo Mission to Caves

Surfed caves today... it sucked. (sort of)

I surfed like a retard for most of the day, until the waves started tonnelling. I got 3 good, long tonnels and I was having fun...until I found out my dad missed all 3 fricken tonnels (Steffen and his dad saw them). But at least I got barreld.

Also missed a amazing tonnel (I went past it and did a turn). Check in video.

Here is the filmage my dad got today of me and filmage of both of us at Pringle bay

intenseflatnessoutheaster + no filmage

The good ol' south easter has been dominating the boland the past week, making the ocean flat and horrible. We spent a whole day at Caves last week and we got some fun waves (the waves were actually average, but they were better than all the other sessions we've had lately).

Really bored. Been raping the internet cap since there is absolutely nothing else to do. Duncan is in Heranus this weekend, but i'm gonna go on a solo mission to caves.

We haven't got any filmage in the past term, but we planning of going up the coast next week, so hopefully we get some footage(and barrels).

Since there's no new stuff to look at here is some older shots:

Small pipe

roundhouse at small pipe

getting upside down

sick turn

duckies

Lakey Peak 2010

Waaaves!!

After the worlds longest flatspell, we finally scored some epic waves. Strand delivered the goods 2 days in a row. Yesterday we surfed insanely ripable pipe and both of us had a really good session. After looking at the forecast, we decided that we would surf it again today. When we arrived, the south easter was howling. Luckily it was high tide and we surfed Silkies. Silkies was epic, only us and 2 other bodyboarders out and the waves were very hollow. It was the biggest I have ever seen Silkies. We both got tonneled off our titties. Best Silkies EVER!!

Another week and no waves

So ya im duncan, the other person who is apparently suppose to contribute to our blog?
its been another week of exams and still no surf. charl surfed silkies yesterday but i had to study :\
we are planning to surf caves tommorow but with our luck there probably wont be any waves soo its 10 push-ups(http://www.zigzag.co.za/features/exclusives/6967/Suck-in-the-gut-and-surf-harder-this-summer-with-Mark-Hill-/-The-Surfers-Strength-workout) before we go to bed and hoping the waves pull through.
peace

No Waves + Exams = No Fun

The waves have been really bad this entire term. We are busy writing exams, so we only go surf on weekends. The last three weekends we have been doing alot of driving, but we havent scored any waves. We always just end up surfing 1ft, unsurfable Strand. Duncan's also been injuring himself lately. He smashed his head open at caves last weekend. His fin came out on a bottom turn on a fat wave and he got raped. He then went looking for another fin and some cool random guy gave duncan one of his. In the meantime, Slater won world title n0.10. Kelly is king.

Hopefully we will score some waves this coming weekend.
Here's some vidsnapshots and a short video of the past 3weeks:

                                          Charl going vert

                                          Gliding over the foam

                                          Charl tailslide

                                          Charl tailslide

                                          Duncan flying

                                          Maybe we score some more of this. Pringles Feb 2010

                                          Heavy stuff

                                        

R.I.P Andy Irons

So today at school Andrew Smith told me that Andy Irons passed away. At first I thought he was only making a bad joke, but then I checked on the ASP site and saw that it was true.

Andy was one of our faverite surfers, with the one of the sickest styles. He is a true surfing legend and we will never forget him.

From today it is our goal to surf with the passion and aggression and charge in memory of A.I.

Rest in peace, Andy

Fail

The past weekend was a complete failure. There was a sick swell predicted for the weekend with SE winds and we were amped to surf since there was ZERO swell during the week. We drove to koelbay on Sun morning to go surf. Beaches had a pathetic bank so we went to caves. Caves was heavy and just closing out. After a 30min surf at caves we decided to head back to Strand. We ended up bodysurfing hollow Silkies, which was alot of fun. Both of us only surfed about 4 waves at koelbay + the Sharks beat WP. Dissapointing weekend.

Our next project is to build a underwater housing for our vid camera so that we can get some barrol shots. Check out this site: http://web.media.mit.edu/~tim/pix/waterproofcamera.html

Hopefully our housing will be ready in about 2weeks time. Then we will upload some epic stuff.

Duncan Campbell & Charl de Waal

post Number 1.0

Today we decided to pull out of the Spring Tide comp at Glen beach. The waves at glenbeach were terrible so we decided to go look for waves somewhere else. We ended up surfing really fun Long Beach(even though we decided that we would never surf that place again just a short while back), which was definitely the right decision. We live in the Boland. The Boland has sick waves, but for some reason we never seem to score perfect, good waves. We are constantly on the search for barrols, but we never find them.

This is excactly what this blog is about, the search for perfect waves and all the bad surfs in between.

Some photos: