I couldn’t help but think of what my dad always says to me during my explorations today. He simply says “I like hanging out with you because you’re the luckiest guy I know”.

Well dad…
I’m sure not gonna argue with that statement! We wish you were here!

Here are some more photos I took of some of the gems we stumbled upon. Enjoy!

We made it! Stopped in Dominical last night and now off to the south!!

Rusty Boardhouse had a pretty awesome team assembled for the Oakley Shop Challenge this year. It consisted of Jake Halstead, Hunter Lysaught, Jacob Szekely and myself. Halstead was our “whammy” surfer and did a great job navagating the chop, disbursing water and doubling a very good score of a 7.8. Unfortunately though, Surfride posted some pretty big scores all around and as they say….second place IS the first loser and we will not be going to Bali.

Seaside

Jacob Szekely

Jake Halstead

Hunter Lysaught

What the Schnell

What a crazy day of weather here in San Diego today. Here is a little collage I made. All these photos were taken today. Enjoy.

It was another fun day in LJ. I got a chance to try a couple of my boards with the new Roberts fins. I really liked the fins a lot. They were very responsive for being that large of a fin, and had no problem releasing out or over the back while providing plenty of hold through turns. I highly recommend these fins for anybody looking for a fin for their everyday or performance shortboard. Here is the official write up from Future:

It was an amazing day. Perfect weather and super shreddable waves.

Mr. Tony Zacharek was getting all the action. Here are a couple he got of me.

There were some fun little waves and a great sunset today. Here’s a couple pics.

I had a great session today. There were lots of ramps and also lined up walls to hit. Here is a picture somebody snapped of me this morning. I found it on www.surfinside.com under “surf reports” and then click on the calendar with todays date. There is one shot before this but unfortunately they either didn’t take the rest of the sequence or just didn’t post it. This was a no grab air reverse that I made. I was riding my 5’6″ Rusty small wave blade that Pedro Battaglin made me and it was going great. Remember to order up your small wave boards before the summer rush!

It was a great week with lots of waves and little to no wind. I hope everyone was scoring. Here’s some photos I clicked during the last week.