Tuesday, December 15, 2009

S.A Champs 2009 :)



















S.A champs was a whole new thing for me because it was my first year. yes i was extremely nervous and did not know what to expect with the initiation etc but by this photo you can see slightly how my hair turned out . . .and spex shaved a penis into the back of my head.








The first two days of S.A champs were at elands point break then the other days were all at famous with 2 or so heats at farmers.








for my first year of S.A 's and not knowing much of hustling etc it was pretty hard as well as some of the competition but i managed to come in 2nd place . . .losing by such little points :( bleakkk ! Andrew Raath was doing well and made the cut to move into qaurter finals but his quarter finals heat wasnt all to easy, he had murray van vuuren, aden kleve and adam waites . . and at the end he got a 3rd which knocked him out and getting a place of i think 9th. Here are some of the photos of me at S.A 's:

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

west coast oh how i love yoou!!!!!!!

2weeks or so ago i went up the coast with simon heale,pierre de villiers,mark clarke, and ruan de bruin...lesson 1!!!
ok so lesson 1 was a huge succses we has left and right barrels all to our selves its was perfect!!!

then on sunday went for lesson 2..
which was just as big of an succses accept 8people!!!stu lee ,chris w,and kyle mosetic joined us..
the crowd was all my friends u gotta love life! :)

since all of the photographers all have there own blog it would be disrespectful to take ther photos...
sooo ill just give u the link to there albums on facebook...

mark clarks lesson 1. from the 1st day,this is wen it went crosshore
mark clarks lesson 2. this is some shots .. from when it was on :)
simon heales lesson 1 & 2. simons has shots all in 1 album..


sadly simons working in durban so he wont be able to join us when we most likely might be camping there this weekend and getting it the whole weekend :D

love <3

Monday, July 20, 2009

ANOTHER succesful west coast mission!


call me a slut but me andrew raath is absolutly,madly inlove with our west coast... ivv ben getting ear perfection waves since thursday last week...
yesterday i went a bit further up the coast than normal to surf our own lil peace of paradise that u guys will never know of ;)
the left and right is pretty much amazing...
but today again i went and surfed a semi secret spot thats actualy not secret at all anymore..
but evryone is back at school so me and fowler got it alone and at its best ..4-6ft and 7ft on the bigger sets :) barreling across and just vomiting 24/7
....woth such kief as end sections as well so me and hm were just trading wave after wave :)
sadly i dont have any shots from yesterday but u can see an image on simons facebook page hear
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=3013982&id=567859738&ref=mf


and another thing i need a camara..
all i have is my phone lol and this is a picture i took of today :)
the photo does not to any justice and os the crappest quality ever!!!

some more gud swell coming through this week so ill keep u posted!

Friday, July 17, 2009

a little west coast trip!






welll yesterday we went not to far up the west coast 2 get some yummy barrels!!!
jason fowler was most prob the biggest stand out in the surf making barrels that looked impossible..
and i guess i had a few gooood 1s to ;)
today we went to the same place again accept we went with different people..
jason went with conner
and i went with simon "big red" heale ,who has just arrived back from a surf trip in oz..
hahha u can imagine how cold he found our water...
he didnt let it stop him though..
sadly the pictures from today didnt look to great "apparently"..
we got sum kief footage though ..
but the footage isnt mine its from melkbos bodyboarder piet who is making a movie..
im not ganna lie today i had most prob the deepest barrel of my life..they stopped shooting camera and video cos they both thought i never made it out.. STUFF MAN!!
i came out the barrel with such a smooth flip that was close to full roatation and ending the wave off with a role..
i hope i get a wave like that 1 in a contest haha...
im going on another surf trip on sunday and im hoping to score :)
well bye byer for now!!
p.s. yellow board is mine and blue board is jasons..


photos : conner eastment

Sunday, July 12, 2009

wedge classic and the shark island challenge!!


well all i can say is that the wedge classic didnt go to bad for me,i got a 2nd in juniors and a 9th in pro..
th waves werent realy doing its part it was like biggest 3ft..
but yea it was still loads of fun.. and atleast i had a gud time..
thats what bodyboarding all about having a good time..
but yea the winners are

pro:mark watts

juniors:adam waites

dk: darren halse

expression session: mark watts

and now on to the shark island event..
we have our very own jared houston entering it so i wish him the best of luck even though he most prob wont need it.. but ya heres a pic of jared ..

photo taken by : damon crawford

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

plett wedge =)

all i can say is well done to andrew raath! he has made the finals for juniors in the plett wedge competition. =)

his competition for this final is, adam waites, storm preswitch and dont know the other guys name =)
i have a feeling that andrew is guna come home with a 1st place! holding thumbs !!! =)

andrew has also entered pro! for his quarter finals he has quite a tough heat.
vaughn harris, warren vd merwe and aden kleve. good luck buddy!!!!

peace =)

Saturday, July 4, 2009

wedge classic 2009


th wedge classic 2009 is ganna be happening this week and im leaving early tomorrow morning with ruan de bruin and daniel worsly,we ganna stop along the way and hopefully get some surfs in!
well sadly even if i win the wedge classic its impossible for me 2 win SABA..
aden kleve and bradly moys are the only people that can still win it..but luckily for aden,bradleys busy getting some indo barrels with terence peiters..
but im pretty keen to win this 1 so im ganna put my mind to it and hopefully susceed..
the divisions im entering is junoirs and pro..i want to get somewhere in both !!
also sadly jason fowler isnt going up wish sucks because i wouldv put my down on him to win!
also would like to thank science and reef for the equipment im using :)
ill update in a few days time with whats ben going down :)
hears a picture if me at 1 of my fave breaks ..when the banks are doing its part that is :)

Thursday, July 2, 2009

mr connor eastment and chris joubert

thanks to these boys we have a cool header...
;)

yes i have a few things to say!!!!!!!!!









firstly todAY is 2nd july 2009.. exactly a year ago my bodyboarding friend chris "chrizzle" elliot past away ...
last year this time we were all in very big shock thankfully we have healed a bit..but chrizzle man hope u resting in peace....

secondly,2 of my very close friends are doing the "shark island challenge trials"to make it to the main event of the shark island challenge..my friends that are jarret "pik" johnson and simon "big red" heale.
these to dominate it in the water and are the most kief guys you will ever meet in your life time..
check there blogspot out ..... www.thislifeis-ours.blogspot.com
also they both just had a interview with riptide go check it
http://www.riptidemag.com.au/forum/viewforum.php?f=18

thirdly next week is the wedge classic ,the best and most fun contest of the year.. and today is the last day to enter so i suggest you do it now ;) haha
it ganna be a jol .... follow this link http://www.sixty40.co.za/wedge-classic-2009
also jason has concussion so hopefully he will still be able to enter it....
will always remember u chris RIP!!!! PEACE <3

OH YA P.S.
SIMON HEALES PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY DAMON CRAWFORD
JARRET JOHNSONS PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY PIERRE DE VILLERS
AND CHRIZZLES PHOTO WAS BY DC MIKE

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

all i can say is yum yum yum :)

well all i can say is yum yum yum..
i have been getting such goooooooood waves this last week with jason.. not all the time togethere though but we both were getting our fair share of barrel/rampz...
friday we had sum unexposed reef ..that no 1 would expect to actualy be good ..realy good...
jason got a croc by bigger set though haha
well i didnt surf the weekend because i was partying ;)
but jaSon got some good beach break ..where we both went surfing at on monday and all left with smiles on our face..
on tuesday me ruan chris w,jean hoffmon, and eugene meyer made a lil mission up our beautiful west coast to a undisclosed reef..
when we got there we ran out cos we saw a very nice set come through but we got boned hard cos it was 1 good set evry half hour so we didnt bother and went back to another good beach break that we had our fair share of lefts that we wanted for practice for the plett wedge...
im happy but now i have to sacrifise my self to my mom for all the money she has givin me...
lol
peace

Thursday, June 25, 2009

failed missions :( :(

this morning andrew was phoned by ruan piesang de bruin to go get sum sweet lil wedges ...
cos we all need to get some practice in for the wedge classic whats happening in just over a weeks time..
andrew phoned me to come with but school boned me big tym and my mom said that im not aloud to go with..

then at about 2 andrew phoned me2 say that its not worth surfing today and him and ruan keen to come play sum pool..
we had our pool game ,ruan left ..and me and andrew just relaxed ..
then ruan phoned andrew to tell him that the winds has switched to offshore and we should go surf the left breaking wedge...
when we got there our smiles died and we realised it was spring tide and the tide was already high so we got wet and hated life..
when we got back home we decided to go check how our local break was...

and astonished andrew ruan and i were boned by nice hollow 5ft barrels with some nugget sections
to bleak that the sun was going down...
so we just went home...
bleak days..
tomorrow is looking promising ..
and this weekend i have trials with some very good looking swell..
and next week we ganna make a west coast mission and hopefully get some proper barrels :)
will u keep updated
peace jason

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

some pictures 2 show you what we do ;) and who we are











the sequence is me and the flip is jason fowler...
the photogrpher of my invert is adrian maritz
and the photographer of jasons backflip is nic vorster..
more to c later

craygromdreams begin!!! a bodyboarding journal

ok so this is a blog me and my lil supergrom friend jason fowler created...
me who is andrew raath..
we decided it would be pretty cool if we made 1 of these since its the new "cool" thing to make haha :)
we are going to just let you know about the waves we are getting and competitions we are entering or what not...
its basically what can be called a "bodyboarding journal"