Last week’s highlights

Hossegor on Thursday morning. Courtesy of Jeff Ruiz.

-meeting Tyler & Jennifer and surfing with them at Guéthary and taking them out for tapas around Donosti. Glad to meet you guys.

-surfing for my very first time a wave I had heard quite a lot but never surfed before. It’s a reefbreak, not too far from home and it’s more of a winter wave (requires big swells), but it worked on Wednesday (on-shore) and now I know I’ll get there more often.

-trying my Bing Synchronizer as a quad. It works much better than as a bonzer in “not so fast and hollow” waves, and can provide for a good alternative until my new quad is ready as an everyday board.

-checking the forecast and seeing that we might be in for a whole week of waves and light winds.

Stoked.

Kurungabaa... THANKS!!!

It was a huge honor already to be invited to submit one of my stories (the English version of Dino’s Left) to a publication I admire as much as Kurungabaa. But when I saw my name next to Drew Kampion, Nick Carroll or Jamie Brisick (who I met for the first time recently) among other notable writers I had to wonder: can it get any better? Stoked!

A little break

Yes, that's what I'm taking right now; pheeeeeew!!! Since my last post (a month and a half ago) I've been very busy first with THIS, and then with THIS. And right now I'm working on THIS one (due in a month's time). AMSTEL asked us to run their surf campaing this summer -first time they ever go into surfing, at least here in Spain- and we are stoked to be organizing some stuff for them within long stablished events as the Cosmic Children of the Festival Internacional de Longboard de Salinas...

In between all this the new 3sesenta came out with the Mediterranean Special Issue, something that is very close to my heart because it is the very first time it's done... and after all that's where I come from. Can you imagine if Carve mag, o Surfer magazine US, published an issue dedicated entirely to the UK's -or US- East Coast? Well that is what 3sesenta managed to do and I'm very happy to be part of it. Check the cover of this issue on the right column.

And as for the waves it seem like we missed spring this year, and swell, weather and wind wise we moved from winter straight into summer. Right now we are enduring one of the worst flat spells ever (along with a heat wave) that just got broken by a rainy episode with on-shore dribble. Not stoked... specially now that i have some time on my hands!!!

Thanks God, there's been a few classic days... but only a few. Courtesy of Esnifa Salitre.