Thursday, April 29, 2010

Note boats




Jordan's Rake - Simmons Paddle Pop
I hear Jason Westman(the man who makes the kick arse fins on the board)
has taken it to Noosa and been having the best surf of his life...day after day.
well thats what Jordan tells me anyway. 
look at more rake boards at http://www.rakeclothing.com

Note - Quad Bonzer

surf was pumping at posso's today.
heres some shots i got of Jordan...as luck would have it, i missed his best wave....oh well.

Note Quad bonzer and hull from sasha leitmanis on Vimeo.

KALI - NOT THE DEATH OF SEXY

 a good friend, Kelly Clarkson is designing and making good functional bikinis
 for surfing in, or just being sexy in.
you should check them out.
grab some for yourself.
or for someone you want to see in them!


she surfs better than the other one sings
and shes a pretty damn cool chick too.




Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Matt Shay has been surfing real good. look and you will see.
club comp 2 weeks back, he and i at the rivermouth alone...two goofy footers  in heaven.... pity the tide was dropping so quickly....it was fun while it lasted...


a snap shot of shaydog.....a rather lengthy one. from sasha leitmanis on Vimeo.


 speaking of club comps
 check the forecast for the coming saturday...
...weet-bix for breakky children!

nonsense and rubbish

I went on an adventure to Crescent Head in the month of May last year.
The rain was pouring, rivers rising and sand receding.
I spent 4 days down the dusty, and once dry road.
Alone in my van, with the following 3 books....

1. Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull(if you haven't read it you haven't lived)
2. 101 crimes of the century (not a bright idea, given the circumstances) 
3. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist


all read in record time.

I learned in those four days, that there are only so many cups of tea you can drink.... ...and that i was sick of conversing with my own mind....
the weather had now settled, so I ventured into town.  
I found myself enjoying observing others taking part in their life's perception of normality....there I sat for hours....oh, the simple things in life...
Again tried to push my tea drinking limits....unsuccessfully.
I was getting restless....too much tea and sugar...so off i went.

I walked alone, along the beach for over an hour, only to realise alone i was not...i was surrounded by my friends and enemies, taking on the form of plastic drink bottles, odd thongs, deflated helium balloons, rope and buckets....just to name a few.


The handle-less bucket is where my days adventure really began.
I created a masterpiece of other peoples rubbish.
and i am proud to say that I was proud of that masterpiece.
I will add a photo shortly


this rubbish had an impact on my life...but not in a way I could have imagined...


and thus i concluded...


My life is full of rubbish.
tis, they say, ones trash is another's treasure,
but who says how much that trash will measure?
my life, it seems may be full off rubbish,
but i think ill try and recycle it.
and give it the chance to become something dignified.


.....so recycle it I did....
and now i wonder....what became of it?




                                                                -Mark Twain   




Tuesday, April 20, 2010

......


im always guaranteed a laugh when i poop, i mean pop into the factory... 

one man. two dogs. two shits. five meters apart. one prawn growling. three of us watching. 
......sucks to be him.....hahaha

picked up my new board today....ive got a good feeling about this one.
its got a good weight about it.

Poss was pumping this morning...... splendid crew out, no hassles.....back to normal finally!
i hope tomorrow is kind to me and my new friend.

COMING SOON TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU....

NOTE SURFBOARDS BLOG AND WEBSITE WILL BE UP AND RUNNING SHORTLY  LADIES AND GENTS.
KEEP YOUR EYES AND EARS PEELED..... SHITS ABOUT TO GET FREAKY...

HERES THE LINK




The boys in their enclosure...

Monday, April 19, 2010

the flex test





the time for a new board is oh so near...
 1/8 " cedar stringer.....
the intention... flex...
and flex it does.

Jordan and Sean have created for me, a masterpiece. 

visually, the curves and the colour, its a combination of gold mixed with more gold.
it better go as good as it looks
or there might be trouble.
but i doubt that will be a problem....
unless Jilis keeps jumping on my board and breaks it because he is so jealous of it.


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flexy flexy flexy flexy flexy.
curvy, flat, curvy, flat, curvy, flat, curvy, flat,
arh on and on it goes
oh the possibilities.

Saturday, April 17, 2010



went to noosa,  got punished, surfed lots, laughed lots...... people everywhere.
jumped on a plane Melbourne bound, sad to leave.
woke up the next morning...cold.,
back in the van that gurgles to life, and carries me off to a better place
a place with only 4 other people in sight.
the best ive surfed it since they closed the road a few years back.
 ah paradise....well my version of paradise at the moment anyway.
Jordan was nice enough to take some photos for me.
thanks.







of late i have been stuck in lifes vortices...feet now planted back on solid-ish ground...my mind now back in my skull...or so it seems...