Morning session was another closeout survival fest - don’t go on the wrong wave. Jes and I gave her a go without too much success. Tomorrow has a better morning forecast.

3-6ft, glassy but closing out.

Paddled out this evening for a quick evening session with Steph. Couple good waves bug choppy and hard to stay in the right spot.

Overall a great day - looking fed to a lit more of them coming up as the full crew arrives over the weekend.

Tried for a couple lefts but the waves just had no where to go. Got worked on the inside by some large bombs - good hold down that reminded me to take deep breaths and chill. Jesse said the 2 even larger set waves behind me woulda caught me inside no matter what. Chalk it up to getting wet and de-kooking a bit. Surf tonight.

Swell 4-7ft and closing out - not a great direction.

Water insanely warm.

Air temps - hot in the shade and mind melting in the sun.

Arms already rebelling and complaining.

Stoked.

Now it’s siesta time. Swell photos later.

This is a view off the backside in Big Jay. Spectacular.

Looking good right now that I’ll be able to go score some waves this weekend. Been a rough year for surfing with only my cali trip, one 3 days weekend and now this potential 2 day trip. Not lot of water time. All those days have been scores so i’m not complaining too much but I’m feeling dry.

Hopefully with Brigitte being 2 next summer it will be a lot easier and funner to get the family down to the coast.

Some okay looking swell, offshore winds, water temps still around 50°F (11°C) and sunshine. High of 4°C on Sunday though means it’ll be chilly out of the water !!

http://magicseaweed.com/The-Wall-Surf-Report/369/

Pretty sick Canadian surf site.

http://beta.gotsurf.ca/en or on Twitter

Make sure you watch this in HD.

“This is Gavin Beschen getting and incredible tube ride in Mexico with a GoPro HD”

Unreal.

Johan is teaming up with the Surf MTL club to offer a surfboard building class. Johan really knows his stuff now and can offer some crazy insight. Plus you end up with a ready to ride board to bring down to the coast or the river.

“Make a surfboard with Surf Montreal?! Thats right, we are teaming up with Master Montreal Shaper Johan Elder to teach you how to shape, glass and sand a surfboard. Each student will Learn how to glass and sand a board from a pre-shaped blank (4 shapes to chose from) to a final product. We will also teach you the skills and knowledge to shape foam and make a board from scratch!

When? November 21st, 28th, Dec 5th (Dates are pending but will be confirmed shortly)

Where? Kanellos Studios, near Rosemont Metro.

How Much? $600.00 (introductory price) includes all materials, tools, and you leave with a finished board ready to surf!

Who? Chris from Surf Montreal and Master Montreal Shaper Johan Elder will be giving the course.

The minimum age to participate is 18 and you have to be willing to get a little dusty. Making a surfboard was featured on Discovery’s Dirty Jobs so leave the Armani suit at home!

This is the first class of it’s kind in Quebec and a great opportunity for anyone looking to learn how to shape a board to actually learn it with a professional shaper on hand to show you how it’s done, forget shaping video’s this is the real deal!

The class will be limited to 10 Students to ensure individualized attention and ensure everyone has amazing professional results so space is definitely limited.

Registration is open from now until Sunday October 15th or until the spaces fill up.

For additional information or the registration form send an e-mail chris@surfmtl.com”

She’s walking everywhere, just starting babbling now, and very aware of what’s going on around her, what she wants to do and where she wants to be.

So awesome.

Been a very quiet summer on the blog as we’ve been passed the milestone of 1 year with B. I’ve been on the lazy dad track.

The ocean was mainly flat and the couple times I could go circumstances conspired against me. I haven’t surfed since cali in May — seems like a very very long time ago.

Hopefully all that’s going to change this weekend. Danielle on the way and she looks good. Currently tracking as hurricane off the Southern Eastern seaboard she surely had many surfers frothing from the bottom of FL to NS, Canada.

My arms are so weak i’m going to get beat down — but at least there’ll be a smile as I go.

http://magicseaweed.com/hurricane/index.php?name=DANIELLE

Quality photo by Mr. Ed Fladung

Vans — loved them what I was young. Gave up on them while skating as the uppers didn’t last. Back to them cause I love them.

Read the history of Vans

Grain, colour, light, salt water and reef — just beautiful.

Go see them all and leave him a nice comment …
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/edfladung/sets/72157624516619316

Good looking foam mowing going on here.

Bali on small waves — on a rented T&C 9’ 6”. Killing in.

“A boy called Jack riding a hired board from kuta : town and county hawai 9’6”

More info…

“According to Tom Woods from ST Surf Images (thanks Tom, for tuning us into this video…!), Jack Lynch could not get his boards to Bali due to another airline/luggage fiasco, so he hired this old log in Kuta and get his shred on.”

http://vimeo.com/12205395

Very interesting. Some great looking stuff from Ed — love the photo/line on the cover. Maybe we’ll find out more soon !!

“And the waves will wash it all away.”

http://www.qualitypeoples.com/new-things

With an opening still like the one above — how can you not watch ?!! Worth clicking through to VIMEO and watching HD if you can.

“About a year ago, I had the chance thanks to Tim Mc Kenna to shoot one of the best sessions I have ever shot since I’m filming surfing. Tim and me discretly escaped from the contest in Teahupoo to join Kelly Slater, Manoa Drollet and Benjamin Sanchis to go to this super fickl wave called “Malik’s right” by the boys. Just us on the spot for few hours, only two friendly locals Hector and Aken came to get few waves. I have been using few waves of this session for my movie “Cloud9” but I couldn’t get the opportunity to show what happened really and to give a sample of the vibe there. It was a very special moment for all of us, we dedicate this session to Malik Joyeux, we miss you brother.

Thanks Sam Smith for the amazing under water shots and thanks to TMK for having me onboard!
soundtrack “brothers” by hot Chip from their album One Life Stand”

http://vimeo.com/10412347

Prototypical tropical barrel shot taken by Paul Kennedy. Doesn’t make it any less amazing.

Buy the print here.

Fun illustration of the characters of the 6 seasons of LOST.

“It’s a monster. Made of smoke.”

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/lost/index.html

Magic Rolling Board (1976) takes a look at the joys and pleasures of skateboarding.

(link courtesy of @driftsurfing)

Ed’s been testing out a water housing with some fun results !! Can’t wait to see more.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edfladung/

More eye candy from Cyrus Sutton somewhere in South America. Beautiful colours through the pitching lip. (Click here and watch it in HD)

“This sequence was taken from my recent trip to S. America. My girl’s been studying abroad down there for a few months so I headed down for some lovin’ and long lefts. I purposefully didn’t bring any camera equipment except for a little HD Go Pro camera. The morning of what was supposedly the swell of the season, my girlfriend and I woke up before dawn and navigated the rocks to empty spinning lefts. For forty-five minutes we shared sunrise lefts. Eventually the pack paddled out and the camera fogged up, so I ditched the head rig and shared perfect waves with the locals all day. I’m stoked to have these opening rides recorded, it was a session I’ll never forget…”

Stoke-age link from Johan

“A glorious portrait of surfing in Penwith Cornwall UK from wavedreamer.co.uk. Thanks to Richard Asquith and Henry Price for the beautiful track called Haven.”

http://surferspath.mpora.com/featured-content/amstel-surfilm-festibal-shorts-good-morning-cornwall.html

Some friends of Amelia here at work — back in AUS — “noosa and sunshine surfing with the boys”.

Looks damn fun — ahh summer time !!

Scotty Stopnik’s crew at Churches. Some fun looking sliding and good looking CA waves (1:40 mark).