Bisse Surf-Art

Stood model for Bisse, a swedish fotographer and his art-project on surfers. Bisse came to the hostal and convinced everyone that was around to come with. In the end, all surfers have to stand in the same position in front of the same wall. I don't know yet what's going to happen with the pictures. There's nothing published yet from his side. I'm going to hand those informations in later.

first-off my picture:

and because the pictures seemed a bit sterile to us we convinced him to do a group-shot

Down-the-river

Went with Tyler, a riverguide from now Oregon, on a waveless day down the river. The original plan was to go down just the two of us. But the comercial boat had too many passengers, so we took two Canadians in our raft. Positive side-effect was that Tyler earned some money and I got to have some pictures of this trip

all pictures except the waterfall-pictures: Dominical Surf Adventures

at the beginning it was all easy:

then there was the step where we first went down...

...and then tried to surf it as a standing wave. But except for a boat full of water we achieved nothing.

a little break at the waterfall

here a sequence of our submarine

the Canadian then tried to ride the tip of the boat

and a picture of the winners

Sector Salamandra

Still a subsequent entry for Zarautz: In a bookstore in San Sebastian we found the new Boulderguide for Galizia. In it the Boulder-sector I cleaned at Monte Xalo next to  La Coruña.
picture: Totti Lingott

Panama II

On the pacific side it's beautiful aswell...

Vendee

A short yellowfoot-video of the week in Vendee/ France:

Panama

Island-exploring at the Caribean side of Panama. There was surf too, but no pictures of it

Costa Rica- Panama

The border-crossing from Costa Rica to Panama is still an experience to be made

San José

The first days in Costa Rica I had to wait in San José for my bags that Iberia lost somewhere on the way. What a luck there's barbecues. Whereas next to the ginormous fish the 5kg meat-mountain on the grill in the back looks pretty tiny

The Lolli III: testing phase

A by now already "all-time" test-week in Vendée was about the best what could happen to test the Lolli
all pictures Soso/ © Jo Meschede

Cabo Ogoño

It's no secret that the basques have excellent climbing. Therefore Totti and I went to climb at Cabo Ogoño

Descent to the start of the route

Start of the second pitch

at the second anchor

traverse in the third pitch

the last pitch

and the obligatory picture on top

Zarautz VII

Finally the last subsequent entry to the Surfcamp in Zarautz. In the third and last camp finally we had some decent waves aswell

Therefore mid-day-break looked like this: everybody sleeping...

The Lolli II

Finplugs

second colour

first glassing with extra fiber to take away excess raisin

Finish and Leashplug

and don't forget to celebrate

Zarautz VI

Another subsequent entry from eating Pintxos (Tapas) in San Sebastian

The Lolli

After 4 years with the "wilde 13" and about 160.000 km travelled I feel like surfing another board. Therefore the new one-board-quiver needs to be there so the bag ain't too heavy.  Handy I had to come back to Freiburg with the bus from the university after the surfcamp. So quickly to the workshop to develop the new prototype for extensive travels with the guys from yellowfoot.
Firstoff on the computer:

Quickly building a blank

into the cutter

the other side aswell

and there is the rough shape. Just sanding...

...and inlets out of harder wood to protect the ends of the board

For it to be a real prototype there needs to be a colour-experiment, too. Here the first step:

That's it for today, Soon more.