I’ve got some friends who absolutely shred and their first language is Español!!
My first surf trip was to a little town just north of Puerto Vallarta. It was to visit my now long time friend Kalle Caranza. If you haven’t been following what he has been up to lately you need to check out his blog siesta robot
Anyway, he had invited me down and I was super excited to go. On this trip I made many more friends and one of them was Diego. He has the best style and is one of the nicest guys ever. ¡Eres cabron Diego! If you haven’t seen him surf you need to watch his part in the movie “rumors”.
Another person that Kalle introduced me to was Magnum Martinez. He will go on anything that the ocean can generate. Magnum could also give instructional courses on how to win heats. When I had stopped surfing, the picture that slapped me in the face and told me to get back in the water was this picture of Magnum Martinez.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ramon Navarro one time at Magnums house in Carlsbad. He had just won a big wave event in Hawaii and we were watching the “just released” Modern Collective. We were all tripping on the airs going on in the video. Ramon is trying to add a few X’s in front of the XXL awards this year.
I also got to eat dinner with Gabriel Villaran a couple times in Puerto Escondido a couple of summers ago. If you ever see him surf you will understand why he is atop this list. Another cool cat who has been showing off his skills in the innersection movies lately.
So click here and check out Kalles piece on The Top 10 Latin American Surfers:
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After a couple flat days at the end of January the waves are on the rise. I did a session at negros today and there were some fun little lefts with some head high sets coming in. I tried a 5’4″x19″x2.125″ “choppa” model today. It was super fun and erratic. If you haven’t checked one of these out yet click on the rusty banner I have on the side of the page and go to the surfboards page.

Holy cow! I don’t know where the time has gone!! My last post was on the 9th, so my apologies. I’ve had people visiting, been catching up with the family, surfing and work always takes some time too lol. Well here’s some random pics from the last few weeks. Enjoy!

“No look jumpers” are only cool in basketball! Here’s a good reason to pass on surfing scripps next time you think it’s a good idea. I was pretty pumped a couple days after this event when my buddy Daniel O’Keefe posted this picture on my Facebook wall. It made me laugh. This clown plowed me on Sunday after his buddy did the same minutes before on a right. Right on DUDES!!

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Here are the photos that I took while cruising around the other day. I’m so glad that the waves came through.