Riding a Edge Spoon

with Nathan Hughes

pics by Mark Williams

Burning Palms Express a few months back
Edge Spoon by Neal Cameron


























































I caught up with Nathan last week when he paddled out at my local on a surf mat, so it was good to pick his brains about riding spoons, as this is all he surfs , and has a few in his collection ranging from single fins to the hybrid ‘ three fin ‘ models that Neal is pictured with above.
Living in Wollongong, he has a few choice point breaks , reefs and beaches to choose from . Spoons require bigger, stronger surf to really get them going and flexing, but unlike the sixties when the crowds were minimal, and the pointbreaks more user friendly, its way harder to snare a few good bombs from the ever increasing crowd of surfers of today . We spoke about the difference between the single fins compared to the modern hybrid multi fin, and he agreed that the original mono fin spoons rode and flexed the best, and was in fact getting a single fin put back in his favourite carbon spoon.



Below is a couple of videos I made last years riding my spoon ( pictured below with Phil Harper ) out at Gilligans, with the go pro mounted right on the nose, facing back, and the other with the camera mounted on my helmet.





Spoontastic from adam williams on Vimeo.



Surfing a Egg Shell from adam williams on Vimeo.


Bobby Welch & Gene West with spoons by Terry Hendricks

Riding a Surf Mat

with Nathan and my self last Monday













I was surprised to see another mat rider paddle out the other day, even more when I saw it was Nathan who normally rides his edge spoon, and considering  he only hops on a mat ever now and then, he rode it quite well , taping the speed line in the wave face with ease as you can see in the video below…



RAW from adam williams on Vimeo.


Rear Vision












Sequence of good mate Robert Bourke stalling with some Style!

SATURDAY MORNING

It was a cracker of a Sunrise, with just Paul , Phil and myself  out on the beach…..pity the swell was small and inconsistent!





 














Paul and Phil

Wairo Sunrise Glow

Faster than a Speeding Bullet…..

Underwater torpedo’s aka spinning toobes

Friday Afternoon

Solo Slide with Paul Newman







mat cove from adam williams on Vimeo.

Hawaiian Adventure’s

Climbing

Diamond Head Crater

Well we climb it, not the hardest walk I have done and Pigeon House Mountain down here on the NSW coast is way harder, but once you reach the summit , you look down upon Waikiki and have a 360 view right round. My wife and I took the guided tour, and for $26 each , we were picked up from our Hotel and given a guided tour up to the summit, with plenty of information thrown in, and then dropped back to our hotel at Waikiki ….of course you can just drive up there and walk it yourself without the guide, but I really recommend this as it way informative and you get a  personalized  ‘I climb Diamond Head certificate ‘ at the end…..lol










I filmed most of the trip via my Go Pro camera, so these videos explains about the geology, history , flora and fauna of the crater.



Diamond Head part1 from adam williams on Vimeo.










The climb via a pole mounted go pro camera


Diamond Head part2 from adam williams on Vimeo.


and the views from the summit.

Waikiki Twilight

There was plenty of free entertainment down on the beach .





Just to the left of  the Duke Kahanamoku statue .





Every second afternoon there would be some live singing and Hawaiian dancing……with a picture perfect sunset in the background









So after a nice swim on the beach













You would hear the Conch Shell blow













and the entertainment would start!




Plenty of colour in their beautiful costumes!









this little clip was filmed over a few afternoons with my canon 70D and IPhone camera



waikiki-duke from adam williams on Vimeo.


As the sun sets


























































Taimane Gardner "Aerial Romance" Live on the Lawn