So Saturday night was super fun and I was hoping Sunday would be more of the same. However it was super tiny, and almost not even breaking. However my dad is in town and he was watching me get my hop on. He’s definitely not a beach guy but was posted up in his fold out chair just like you would expect a dad to do. It’s so great having him here right now. He also snuck some video clips with his camera. I did have a good laugh when I had to inform after surfing that the iA focus feature on his camera wasn’t so “intelligent” and that he should switch it off if he films action stuff again. Anyway, I did a quick little edit of the non-existent surf and here is what he got. Thanks dad!

In these days of high speed internet and smart phones it’s becoming more rare to see print magazines. Over the course of the winter ESM featured several of Ryan Dennings videos that I was in, however I had never been printed in an east coast magazine. This month I cracked the ice in New Hampshire(no pun intended) with a small print picture in ESM. The shot was taken by Ryan Denning. For all you jokers I am in the top left, not the one in the bikini! Check it out at:

http://icecoast.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/schnell.jpg

To see more of Ryan Dennings work check out:

www.alpine-live.com

I surfed super early this morning and super late. The morning was ok, I surfed with my buddy garrett and got a couple fun waves and then I surfed after work this evening an it was super fun. There were a few good air sections but I’m still suffering from operator error since I’m not strapping on 6mm booties. I snapped a couple pics from my bike as I checked it after work.

The morning offered super fun waves with ramps everywhere. I wound up taking pictures after I surfed in the afternoon which was much worse but there were still a couple.

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L-Train and I went to a Padres game last night. We had great seats and the padres even won! Denorfia made a great catch in center field towards the end of the game robbing a home run.

The winner is Jon Kiskinis from Rye beach, New Hampshire!!!

I’m super pumped to be sending Jon the pad as he is getting a new board and answered the questions correctly mere seconds before a lot of familiar names.
I’ll list the order of the first few people to respond with all of the correct answers since I didn’t have the comments displayed to protect personal info.

1st- Jon Kiskinis
2nd- Lee Darwin
3rd- Jesse Felten
4th- Will “diamond” Phillips
5th- Matt “chia” Shibel
6th- Johnny Noris
7th- Will “diamond” Phillips
8th- Will “diamond” Phillips
9th- Matt “chia” Shibel
10th- Jon Kiskinis
11th- Brady Holden

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Ok everybody, here it is. I’ll be giving away this X-Trak icon series traction pad today at 7:00pm pacific standard time(10:00pm eastern). All you have to do is log on and be the first to post the correct answers along with your contact info under the “leave a comment” part of my post. Free shipping within the US. Good luck!

Here it is folks, please include your contact info along with the correct answer in the “leave a comment” area of this post.

List all of the color options of the
X-Trak “chromosome” Tech 2 traction pad as well as the name of the location that I went hiking on my “Monday 6/6/11 hike” post.

For X-Trak info head to:
X-Trak
Good luck!!

I had forgotten about how much I loved this picture that my newly 12 year old sister drew a few years ago. Of course I wound up with a surfboard under my arm haha.

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This may be embarrassing for her but I had to show it off.

There were some fun waves on offer. As the afternoon rolled on the marine layer came in, the wind picked up and the tide dropped which meant that the first hour and a half of the session was much more fun.

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