The land of dreams

the land of dreams is the word i learnt from spex and jerry at SA champs last year..
when they say "the land of dreams" they refuring to the beautiful place named Cape Town.

Cape Town is as most of you know the most amazing place in this world that some get the privilege of living in.
im back in this "land of dreams" place and its needless to say that im ready to get some waves.
Starting from today i will be out in the water everyday as soon as its rideable trying to get back into the comfort zone.
Not going to lie when im keen to get back into the rythem of things with my surfing.

The location of wear i will be staying is the deep end of melkbosstrand.Not the best and closest location to get waves and to places but im happy to be back in my local town i spent 17years living in,and jason fowler lives here to so it will be just like the old days..

On the subject of Jason Fowler,he just got an interview on my good friend Simon Heales blog which has a link to on this page,but just because some of you are lazy to find it here's the link //http://simonhealephoto.tumblr.com/
so give it a look at,im stoked to say that Fowler gave me some love..
so heres some love for him..
i feel bad if your in the junior division this year because fowler will give you a nice spanking,but dont take that as a way not to enter contests,2nd place is still cool..
hopefully my next post will be about good waves ivv got with good friends and photos..
see some of you at Wp trials on the 6th of march ..
boom
yeeeeeeeeeeeew

a quick update

So the WP trial dates have been decided,the cape classic dates are out and the tour is a month from starting..
this is good....im starting to feel ready and more fit than usual.
i havent drank alcohol in a month now and just from that makes me feel better.
All i need now is to get down to cape town,test the water and see how my riding is,which im pretty nervous about seeing as though i have only surfed once this year so far and not exactly the best waves either.
i hope fowler has been atleast surfing more...
i willl make another post as soon as i know my dates for getting back to cape town..
in the meen time i reckon who ever is keen to enter wp trials must get on it as the 1st trial is on the 6th of march..
on another note,the pipeline pro is starting on the 15th of feb and we should support all the saffas on the rock as much as possible,best of luck to those riders...
anyhow cheers for now

3 posts in 1

me getting a hut.
photo:mark clark


the reason why this is called 3posts in 1 is cos ill be making 3 posts in 1 hahahahahaha :)
sooo 1stly i told you last week that im not drinking anymore on a rergular basis but more on a special occasion basis..sooo anyways i feeling alot more healthy after not touching alcohol or any fizzy drinks and the odd bit of core training here and there...but as soon as my ankle is 100% i will be training extremly hard for the start of wp trials and the 1st stop on the saba tour,the cape classic



2nd of all :jared houston will be leaving in a couple of days to go to hawaii to enter the pipeline pro where he finished 3rd last year and evrything came togethere for him.
he finished 10th on the world tour for 2010 and also won the rookie of the year since it was his 1st year on the world tour ..lakka

me and jerry at sa champs 2010

3RDLY
, a good friend caleb tennant has ben away for 3weeks now in the states.and has came 5th in his 1st race,he had abad start and reckons he can make podium if he has a goood 1..
caleb went to the states to get further in motorcross.he is 16 years old and has won 4x sa championchips and a bunch of other races to,now his racing in the states and doing well..he is staying at the millsaps training facility in georgia with the likes of joey vatgy,nico leocata,sean lipanovich,nick myers and steven clarke just to name a few..well done to caleb and best of luck..all the pictures bellow are of caleb
the caleb we all know and love

tyler rattray and caleb tennant

calebs pro whip

caleb showing why he deserves to be overseas

NEALY BLEW IT ,BEGAN TO BLEW IT ,I BLEW IT!!!

exactly what me and fowler need to be doing this year MANNING UP

me and fowler passed out(this isnt how u should be acting like)

ma and fowler out on the joll

leaving for sa champs

pretty much this blog has become a dying pacient...i have no real excuse for not keeping update and fowler def doesnt either.

so pretty much i can give u a summery of what we have been up2 the last couple of months

what went down and whats about to go down

the last time there was a proper post was in april or something like that.

sooo ivv ben to durban and entered margate where i got a disgusting 5th,went to wedge classic in plettenberg bay where i got an even worse 7th and then went to the west coast classic where i slightly redeemed my self with a 2nd placing..

me and fowler ALSO entered the CHRIS ELLIOT WP CHAMPS ,where we both finalised ...

in that final we were both feeling the confidence to win but i just went all out from the 1st wave to lead the heat but get struck down in the last few minutes by an interference call,

soo i got a 2nd and fowler got a fair 1st..

me and fowler were also chosen to represent WP at the 2010 south african champs which was held in durban,wp came 3rd overall,i got a 5th and fowler got a 7th i also collected a 2nd in SABA (the south african tour)..not bad for fowler being it his 1st year in u18...

also there was another contest being held by jared houston called the grom bash which fowler destroyed and got a well deserving 1st place..

after that i can say both me and fowler got a bit lost in the party scene partying for more than half a week at times.

i went to plett rage and came back taking part in the same night life games with out a stop,then it was new years which didnt slow me down at all either...then it was the 1st week of 2011 which i spent drinking wine and getting slorted...not the best decision...

soo today i watched 1 of the people i started bodyboarding with make his 2nd overseas surfing destinating(1st 1 to oz) to hawaii,and believe me he deserves it,he bodyboards well and charges like a hell man ,he worked a 9-5 job plus is studying..he desrves this,i may not be jelous because he has worked his way there and i have drank every bit of money i had out,so whos fault is that???mine!!!!

so this year is my year ,my 1st year in pro and im as unfit as an old fat dog ready to pek..

time to shape up,man up and prove that i still wanna do well in bodyboarding and make it big in the world some day maybe to...so this year is dedicated to bodyboarding not to that siff thing called alcohol..i cant promise that i will sugseed but ill rather try than regret it 1 day when i realy realise i BLEW IT BIG TIME..

i hope u guys wish me andrew raath and jason fowler the best of luck for this year...also expect to see this blog being updated on a more regular basis and here are a few picks from the partying and my most recent bodyboarding sequence i have courtsey of kyle cabano who has his own blog http://vivalaboogie.blogspot.com/

photo of andrew raath :)

photo taken by : simon heale

missions all over :)

heres just some photos of some of the waves we been getting these holidays.

these days were just too good, big barrels and ramps :)

sorry about the quality of the photos all were taken with my phone :) haha

gota upgrade some time soon too a decent camera!!

those two black dots are guys which i have circled

hmmm :)

alot bigger than it looks . . .

Cape classics day 2

ahh . . this was terrible for me near the end :( but my semi finals werent all too bad, having andrew raath, stephen du preez and corban warrington. The results of the semis were andrew first, me second, stephen 3rd and corban 4th.

Then we went into finals :( this for me was a apsolute disaster!!i didnt get any good waves at all. Well its one of those bad heats and was just at the wrong time. . The finals were as follows, storm preswitch 1st, andrew raath 2nd, matthew lombard 3rd and sadly me 4th :(. . .oh well theirs alwaya next year!!

JUNIOUR WINNERS

ANDREW RAATHS FLIP IN SEMIS

photos taken by : Marcel Habets

cape classic day 1

so i arrived back in the mother city on tuesday and never been more happy,wednesday terence pieters and 2 other south coast groms arrived and thursday michael "ratt"ostler and jake rosenberg arrived.friday we hit a surf at koel bay with some fun 3-5ft wedges ben had..

so the cape classic was held at koel bay today and the waves were pretty fun 3-4ft wedges.
some insane riding was shown in the pro division and junior divsion.triston roberts owned boys and rid like a pro..
anyways i was seaded in to pro quaters and junior qauters in my junior quaterand i got a 2nd to josh austen and in 3rd was james adams and bas koopmans in 4th..
in fowlers heat he got a 1st with storm prestwich 2nd ,aiden wilson 3rd and jason selby 4th..
and now me and him meet up in the semi with stephan du preez and corban warrington..
in my pro quater i have charles pass,warren van der merwe and storm prestwich ,the contest should be held on monday and we will upload some photos from the event soon!

session at hoek :)

So me (Jason Fowler) and sum mates have been surfing hoek lately and got it pretty good the first time, like 5 feet maybe some 6 feet ones. . getting big pits :) but i never got any photos of that time but i have got of our second session which was small but fun. These photos were taken when the waves started getting crap. . .my mom took these photos :)




messing around . . . :)

Travis Trabshauw dropping in on a stand up :) haha

JARED HOUSTON and the CAPE CLASSIC and the start of WP TRIALS 2010

i andrew raath am pease to say that 1 of my close friends has prooved to the world what the saffa's have known for a good couple of years and the austrlians have realised in the past couple of months.
that JARED HOUSTON is in fact 1 of the most talented bodyboarders in the world..
he has made us proud and made his way into the pipeline pro 2010's final and coming in 3rd place against the guys he grew up watching on dvd's.(he has also just got a double page spread in the lastest rip tide). sacha specker a person that has supported and pushed me in my bodyboarding since i was 12 also did well in the dk dicison grabbing a 5th placing.i actually think that he mustv had an off day becAUse in my eyes he is the best dk rider in the world and over all rider when it comes to prone riding dk riding and stand up surfing(in stand uo surfing he will kill most ou's that reckon they really good).
amazing that south africans actually are world standard..2010 is our country's year!
see more from the event here and more from the dk event here


WP TRIALS 2010:

Also me ,jason and the rest of wp have started with our trials.
me and jason also tied for 1st place and jason did the best invert i have ever seen him do and got a perfect 10 across the boards with judges.
so this year is ganna be looking difficult for me and jason in the same division!
our 2nd trial is in april and get hold of deon meyer if u keen on entering or go here.


CAPE CLASSIC 2010:

So this years cape classic will be taking place on the weekend of the 20 - 22nd march.
if u keen on entering go here ..
just remember that evry competition brings u expereince and you always learn something even if u loose, exspecially when u loose, because u know what u must do next time..
and dont enter cos u think its a waist if money cos its always a jol chilling with kief people and watching some insane riding from our country's top bodyboarders..
even iba tour campaighner marck mccarthy is coming down for the contest as so iv heard
..
and also its always at the place wiht the besrt waves cos its a roaming venue..

also jason will be uodating the blog a bit later with some photos and words from a surf at hoek he had...

photo of me was taken by:pierre de villiers
jareds photo of him holding the trophy is :wesley liuqurish
and his riptide photo ull be able to read on the photo lol

ill update soon hopefully peace

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:

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

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!

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

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

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 =)

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 :)

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

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