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