Winter

Been a pretty decent winter on the east coast, with regular swells over 6ft since the start of june. Been non stop down the coast havnt really had much chance to really update ye old blog, so thought i would throw few low res photos up here quickly.

Shark Island comp was also held, with Comp Favourite Chris James excelling in his heat. Chris managed to get a combined score of 0.0. Although in his defence he is part of the Nomad Free Surf Division (plug) so it only seems fitting. Despite this effort chris still celebrated the session with a dart. From there we went further south, and chris, obviously in an attempt to salvage what little was left of his bodyboarding career, did by far one of the most amazing moves ive ever witnessed. Photo glory cannot be shared yet due to it being locked in a top secret bomb shelter.

Chris - career salvage

Cool cade sharp has also been around, although no shots here at the moment, i will be able to upload one in a few weeks (latest riptide). Max Arent has also been making regular trips to the south coast, with a few pole cam photo glorys under his belt he has taken a back seat last few weeks, just trying to buy as many drinks in nsw as possible in one month.

Enough random garbage here are a few photos from around the place.

Max Arent - early morning

Chris James

To early , to cold

One of favourite fisheye shots

Laury Grenier - South Beachie

also hope everyone is getting excited for Phil Gallaghers new mag. Got a few runners in there so everyone stay tuned for release dates. Also will be doing a full interview on phil and the new mag within next few days so check back for that.

As Max Arent says "Surfings a source, change your life swear to god"

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Dust

An old advert for nomad last year. Thanks for the dk board....

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Nineballs and No toes

1ft onshore no toes. Thats how this trip started. We sat in our cars for at least 4 hours, overlooking onshore garbage bags that was the south coast. Everyone of us read an entire movement issue, slept, set high scores on the greatest game ever made for iphone ' Blowfish', took photos of a half decomposed lizard, got cotton mouth from peanut butter and bread, discussed how bad this decision was, blamed swellnet, planned revenge attacks, chris texted over 60ppl, will smoked over 60 darts, drink king max drank all of his drinks, saffa jared looked like Nathan Bracken and wilso somehow managed to keep spirits just above suicide with random acts of hilarity.

Night drives

BLOWFISH!

No Toes Gatekeeper

2 bacon and egg rolls later the swell had picked up considerably so we hit up a fun arvo surf. Nothing all time, and especially nothing worth driving large distances for, but chris managed to make it worthwhile with an uncharacteristically stylish invert out into the flats.

Creep

That night was spent hanging with old mate at milton pub. If u have not had the privilege of meeting old mate manager you really havnt lived. Definitely one of the most sarcastic people alive, but none then less manages to make everyone laugh. an early night for most, but not for will. Everytime, without fail will gets incredibly drunk with old mate manager and sits up till 4 oclock drinking Guinness. Will doesn't seem to mind gettin an hour sleep then waking feeling inches from death.

The next morning was alot better. Gettin there before sunrise we were on it first. But as the light increased so did the people. at one stage the rocks looked like the pipe contest with the pro show in town. Here are a few of the photos.

Lifestlye

Pierre

Subway

Jared Houston, 'saffa'

Man Vs Wild Bear Grills

Team Zion

Max Arent is "DRINK KING" (more shots of max soon)

Tom Rigby, No board needed?

Thom Rob

Scene

Maccas - Redbull - Picton road - home.

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Georgia Fair

Some very good music by up and comers georgia fair. saw them the other night. very very nice! Ill do a full post on them when i get time.

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Official retirement from photography

Sorry to break the news to all of the dedicated followers of this blog but due to my recent decision to take up bodyboarding full time i will no longer be able to, as Steve Wall said "be the resident hellman, floating in the impact zone of many, previously thought unrideable, waves, capturing all these never before seen angles "

Below is my video resume. Already sent it to QCD, VS and Nomad. Expecting a reply before the day is out ill let you no how i go. Thanks for your ongoing support during this time. 

Regards

Andrew Smythe

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yeowwwwwww

http://vimeo.com/5149932

new video by will hodgett its farkin amazing so check it out 

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Incoming

International jetsetter and possibly earths most competitive person has arrived in our fine state. Pierre Louis Costes touched down on wednesday night, having already passed through WA and queensland on his annual pilgrimage to land a backflip on every single wave on Australia's coast. After sitting through wat i can safely say was the longest traffic delay of my life on the m2 we arrive at the airport a good half an hour after we planned. 

'hey mate, sorry were late worst traffic on way here" to which he replies "fuck man, so cold right now"

Unfortunately for pierre he was treated to the back seat of will hodgetts car. What should be a comforatable ride down the coast never is when will is driving. Refusing to wind the window up the entire way, on easily the coldest day of the year seemed to push the frenchy a little bit far. "fuck man why u do that with your window, i so cold back here!"

The next day was a little dissapointing, with the swell being to small for where we had planend to surf. after a negative breakfast stop at the most expensive corner store in australia with max and corey we headed further south to find some fun 3-4ft waves with practically no one out. Despite the good conditions calls such as "i hate this wave man" from max and even though pierre has never surfed the spot he also said its the shittest wave around. With nowhere else to go we gave it a shot. I negged out within the first 10 mins of floating in the lineup and headed in to sleep on the grass. Will cleaned up with footage though, wich im sure you will be seeing soon  on wills blog.  http://monksmonastery.blog

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After another comfortable night in a warm bed we headed to blackrock without frenchy. After getting there he called asking wat it was like. it looked pretty fun and with only 2 people out we were pretty keen to stay there. After surfing for a few hours pierre wanders across the rocks. When we asked how he got here from ulladulla he replied 

"Hitchhiked man, only 3 different cars aswell! Pretty good hey!"

enough said

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