Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Looking for Mermaids

Neal Cameron pictured above with a Western Australian species of Mermaid called a ’Cassandra’….its amazing what you see when leaving the surf!

BLUE LAGOON from adam williams on Vimeo.

All I could find was a pair of flippers and a air mattress!

pictures below by Justin Spittle via his Go Pro camera

Justin had a dig at finding one as well……

and found a flipper and surf mat

as did Johnny Tofu

and Terry Towelling

Darth tried his Jedi Knight Powers to find one

ItS a dArTH dAy !! from Bulkheads Stuff on Vimeo.

but to no avail…

VIMEO from adam williams on Vimeo.

Finders are Keepers!

SCUMM GIRL

Da Bolts daughter Julie has decided to join us in the fun

pictured by Daddy da Bolt

Had a matt ride at shallows today! Now I'm hooked! S.C.U.M.M!!!!!! The water is beautiful and warm

Blown Out

some pictures from Brian ‘rocks’ Manahan from a couple of weeks ago

Technique is purely up to the rider…..some like to paddle their mats into a wave like they do with a board, where as I like to kick into my waves..

Keep your weight forward and onto your mat

as you feel your mat taking off, slip your body forward with one hand on the deck and the other on the rail

by keeping your inside hand palm down , you can lift and squeeze your outside rail to help control your direction, with your inside leg and flipper acting as a stabilizing rudder.

once on the fly you can release the outside rail, keeping your head down and body weight forward

Lift both flippers up and feel the slingshot effect of having no drag and just pure frictionless slide…why keep your hands flat on the deck? instead of gipping the front ‘body board style’?
Mats are soft and pliable , so its a natural to ‘pull ‘ onto the front causing the mat to stall and lose speed , so its no different to pushing forward on your deck when riding a kneeboard or footboard…keeping your weight forward will always help with forward propulsion and speed.

SCUMM FUN

A third mat rider up Werri Beach way ?

Nice Hat

Wairo Womp

wairo wompfest from adam williams on Vimeo.

After Saturdays miserable weather it was great to wake up to some sun shine and off shore winds last Sunday. Paul and myself ventured down south and scored some fun waves for a hour on the beach before being over run by a dozen foot boarders…a quick breaky and then a slide on a empty reef break…

Lifes a Beach
vision from Paul’s camera

Lifes a beach March 2014 from Bulkheads Stuff on Vimeo

Tree Hugging Hippie

The Bum Tree has finally be removed from the side of the road by Council, much to the efforts of locals and our own SCUMM representative Eric da Bolt was there to help save the tree but to no avail.

another Rob Rennie sighting occur this week

as did with Butter’s

Kneel on Brothers

May the Force be with You.

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

White Man Dreaming

Artwork by Master Artist and Craftsman Stuart Wissing using simple Posca Pen’s , inspire by our Indigenous Brothers.

My good friend Tom Backer recently posted some of his similar artwork on his blog !

http://hebrides-storm.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/painting-up-our-coffee-table-and-guitar.html

pretty cool Tommy

Artwork below by Victorian artist Steve Parker , who donated his time and skill for one of the prizes at the 2011 World Titles. Steve also did a didgeridoo as first prize in the men's Opens , which was won by Albert Munoz , the artwork on that was incredible , with hand prints from all the local kids incorporated in with his own work, sorry that I dont have a picture of it to show.

My youngest son Curtis was also inspired to make me a walking stick for my 51st birthday, with Stuart giving him a few pointers on making the stick from scratch to applying the artwork with pens

Emu Head below

Surf Mat Adventures

scumm mornings from adam williams on Vimeo.

some more vision from the other weekend surfing with the boys

Tuck those wings in Eric!

Paul’s 50th Birthday Womp

Happy Birthday Matee!

pauls 50th womp from adam williams on Vimeo.

We had a great slide for his birthday, the surf wasn’t the greatest but with just us SCUMM and Paul’s nephew Jeremiah joining in on the fun, the mate-ship made up for the wave quality…even a pod of Dolphins came in to say Happy Birthday!