Wednesday, 22 October 2014

On Your Knee’s Please

Another Classic Day down at the Fun Park ……

Knee Riding from Learner’s thru to the Peak

All pictures by Eric Bridges

Thursday 16th October 2014

The Summer Cycle has begun with plenty of South East Swell and North East Winds , perfect conditions for one of my favourite waves , Wreck Bay , or more so Learners, which runs from a point and into the main Peak , enabling you a very long left hand wall and the chance to backdoor the Peak and pop out the other side.

The main Peak pictured below with Learners to the left

Beautiful Pigeon House Mountain and surrounds always makes a fantastic backdrop to the surfing action in the foreground….all that is missing is some palm trees and you would swear you were surfing somewhere in Indonesia !

Its way easy to walk around the back of the point and jump in and paddle back round to the take off spot.

Entering the Peak

Plenty of Power and Speed to Burn

A loose one sneaks past the crowd unridden

Plenty of wall for slide 360’s

and the Right is not bad either, I had ridden this from Learners and the Left had started to out run me, so I cutback right and got the push from the blowout of the barrel as I came off the bottom

Tommy the Body Boarder pictured below

Boogie Bowl Action

This is some video that I filmed with my Go Pro mounted to my helmet , shot at the 240fps slow mo setting, It gives you a chance to see what its like to run from Learners thru to the Peak, and as you can see its such a fun wave to ride. There was only about 20 odd surfers on the main peak, with a couple of sticker boys in the line up being filmed, so I was quite happy to paddle over to Learners and get wave after wave to myself, whilst the rest of the crew scratched it out on the main Peak.

Spot X from adam williams on Vimeo.

Vinnie Boat Ramp

Wednesday 15th October 2014

Yes another Bay Swell and this is the 5th time the boat ramp has broken for the year. With the low front sitting off the coast and was very well predicted on all the surfing sites , the Bay broke right on cue with the forecast and so every man and his dog was hitting the other 2 main breaks, the Bombie and Sailors Grave, which was twice the size, but I was on the hunt between jobs and only had a small window of time before heading back to work, so when pulling up and only seeing 2 guys out and a great set peel thru unridden, well its a no brainer eh?

Go Pro Vision again from my helmet

240 fps

Vinnie Ramp from adam williams on Vimeo.

Back to Spot X

Saturday 18th October 2014

Pics by Brian Manahan

So after surfing great waves during the week, Brian decided to come down and join us for a paddle. We were hoping to get the mats out again, but after seeing waves peeling from Learners again, both Brian and myself stayed on knee boards whilst Eric being the Mat Man he is, took out his or should I say my trusty 4GF Omni surf mat. Not as big or clean as the previous Thursday afternoon, but sure was alot fun surfing my ‘rail ‘ thru the crowd , with a good backdoor barrel to put a smile on my face for the rest of the session. After surfing for over 3 hours we were well and truly stuffed , but nothing a pie and coffee wont fix!

The Peak

Surfing your ‘rail ‘

My trusty 5 ‘10” Drift tri fin kneeboard.

SCUMM Brothers

Adam Quinn below

Spot X Trail

Making TRACKS

Some more GO PRO vision via my helmet mount.

tracks from adam williams on Vimeo.

Pigeon House Mountain

What a great week of surfing we have had and makes us appreciate we we live and play.

Sunday, 12 October 2014

Spot X

WRECK BAY- CRYSTAL CYLINDERS

I have been venturing back out to my old haunt again , a place with many names. Some call it Summercloud Bay or Black Rock, while other’s call it Wreck Bay and with the mission on the hill overlooking the break, there is lots of frothing young kids 5 minutes walk away, so with good mobile phone reception available down on the beach its not very often you can get it empty and cranking, The not so forecasted days can still deliver some fun sessions with a minimal crowd.

Slow down when entering the Mission….

Onshore , Messy & Kneelboarding

Friday morning was solid and onshore, but still had a few running from Learner’s. I filmed this with a glove mounted go pro camera for a different view on things. The current was horrendous and if you got clipped, you would get swept down past the peak into no mans land….needless to say the crowd was very minimal!

finger tip control from adam williams on Vimeo.

Monday Morning Long Weekend.

With the Bunnies winning the footie ( ARL) grand final the night before, there was hope of a sneaky solo session, but on entering the car park at daybreak, and with two there vehicles already there, that hope soon disappeared , but overall a fun session riding surf mats, the waves were lucky to be 2-3ft and a small local crew to share with!

Vision from my camera below

HIDE & SEEK from adam williams on Vimeo.

and via Paul Newmans go pro below

Short Fast Loud !! from Bulkheads Stuff on Vimeo.

Wednesday afternoon, nearly offshore and some fun 3ft+ sets coming thru. It was good to see some old faces and a fairly cruizey local crowd. I caught a few waves with my kneeboard but decided to go in and grab my mask and snorkel for some filming from the water.

thump from adam williams on Vimeo.