nuts!

Northern Tip (mho) from rory pringle @ conceptblue on Vimeo.

footage of cloudbreak with two go pro cameras

http://magicseaweed.com/video/votd.php

this is the best thing i've ever seen shot by a gopro camera. the footage around minute 3 is absolutely stunning, so powerful it pumps adrenaline right into your heart. i gave my gopro away because i found it distracting and difficult to use and the batteries finicky, but this footage is unreal...

herradura

this shot taken by reuters' own mariana bazo! woo-hoo!! herradura is one of the five heaviest waves
in peru...

herradura has been firing like this for a week...

chilca and UFOs...

this is supposedly from yesterday's monster swell, but i don't know for sure and it may be from last year's event at chilca, where UFOs are said to land...

i've seen this wave up close and can say that it is almost impossible to make it out the other side...

more rising sun

the best board i've ever had, the rising sun by t. patterson. surfed it on nice waves this weekend south of lima. on senorita's it caught the wave early and showed amazing responsiveness and control on a wave that glides over big nasty rocks that you need to navigate away from while on the wave. it also surfed nicely at caballeros and even punta roquitas. i've never ridden such a nice board that is so responsive, light, easy to turn, good for padding...
can't recommend this highly enough...

rising sun test ride

rode my t. patterson rising sun this morning for the first time. it performed better than expected. i have the feeling it will become my daily driver. it's a 6'2' x 20'' by 2.4''. this mean its thinner than my pod and narrower through the nose and tail, making it much more controllable and responsive. very nice. i surfed in the relative mush of lima but am anxious to try it in the pumping waves south of here. here is the guy talking about another board...

rising sun

rising sun - that's the new t. patterson model i'm about to pick up from his south american representative/shaper, dario of derrem. i sold a longboard and a 6'8' thruster in five minutes to raise the funds. we are happy. t. patterson is a socal native and has quite a following. the rising sun has a slightly narrower nose than the pod i'm currently riding, a bit more rocker and is a bit narrower and thinner throughout.
here is to you, mr. cornwall!

you can now drive between beaches on the pacific and atlantic

it's not like costa rica, but it is possible now to drive between the two oceans on either side of south america...

people under the stairs in oz...

now i really want to go to australia after seeing this people under the stairs down under video

fakes waves near real waves

this is quite literally the one of the strangest things i've seen in peru -- a wave machine set up in Asia, the annoyingly pituco beach community south of Lima, which is on the water and very close to some splendid breaks. i can't figure out why anyone would get on a wave machine when there are consistent waves only 50 yards away. i understand that it's part of a marketing thing done by the cell phone company, but come on, it's a waste of water in a desert, and you can surf with dolphins if you bother to enter the ocean...

inspiration for the cornwall van fan...

in shape or out of shape?

mr. inkawaves has spent the last 3 days doing cross-fit workouts run by a friend, mainly because my doctor told me i needed to stay out of the water for a few weeks because of a minor surgery and the risk of infection from lima's sparkling waters. i had thought i was in good shape. when i'm in a good groove and have slept well, i can normally surf for 3 hours in heavy surf, even in a current. i also do yoga a couple times a week, so all told i thought i was in good form. not so. i've been humbled. these last 3 days have shown that my fitness level stinks, that my legs and certain other parts of my upper body have atrophied in the last 2.5 years of pure surfing and yoga, and that my lung capacity isn't is good as it could be. i always knew that cross-training works and is necessary, but this has really hammered it home. if i could just get rid of the pulled muscle in my back all would be good...