Life With Jacob

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Stock Standard

Just got a new board yesterday that's going super well and just found out that I'm going to jbay this weekend for the swell I'm so amped!
heres a share of my excitement with some old pics Ive yet to publish!

kyle cabano pic

Trying to fully rotate at cool bay a little wile back...

Cobus Bosman

Sunday, September 11, 2011

GOGO JBAY MIX

Recently had some pretty disappointing results

Got knocked in the 1st round of Bbong pro junior in vic bay

4th wp open u20

2nd West Coast board riders

Since i have gotten back from Vic haven't really been too amped to surf!

Very discouraged after getting such bad results until today. I had a MAD day wake boarding and a quick surf at strand to get my salt water veins pumping again! Not to mention looking through all these old photos from the holidays and imagining surfing such good waves again makes me just wanna go surfing!

Take a look maybe it will make you amped for a surf too!

enjoy...

Just before the Billabong Pro made a road trip up to Jbay stayed with amazing people had a rocking jol and even scored some mad waves!

Having absolutely no boards before i left i borrowed my mates 5.7 fish i surfed with throughout the trip
the boards so thin and has these crazy channels running through it.

My girl friend Alice Steele brought her camera along..
Shes got a pretty good eye for action photography!

editing 2 turns into 1? lol

I am sure you all will be hearing from me soon!
until next time
Adio's

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Car and Jump Surfing!

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Hout Bay isn't known for its extreme beach break surf. It's where Capetonians kick back, walk along the beach, visit the market and have some of the best fish and chips at the local fisheries.

The beach break may in fact qualify as SA's most consistent 1ft closeout. It takes a huge swell on the Atlantic to break, usually the type of swell that makes Dungeons max out.

Last Saturday, a 7.2m swell was forecast, so Jacob Mellish and I planned to meet up at "The Bay" and see what we could get in the way of shots. The waves were smaller than expected, in the 2ft range. I shot for about an hour until the wind swung a light onshore.

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We chilled in the parking lot for a while before deciding to hit up some lunch at the new indoor market down the road. We hassled around in the crowd, grabbed some baguettes and squeezed in to a crowded bench to eat. The waves had been small and we were discussing the "if only's" of the Hout Bay Harbour wall. Like "Ahh if only the harbour wall was angled a bit more to allow more swell in!" "If only we could tie a ski rope to a car and tow you into those waves..." There's a thought. Jacob was keen to give it a go, so we ran off to Spar and bought a skinny nylon ski rope. We popped over to Jacobs house and his mom's boyfriend, Dale, who was a wizz with carbon fibre and knew exactly how to splice a nylon rope, had a perfect tow handle ready for us in 10min.

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I was driving the car; Jacob was in position in the water, now all we needed was one of the inconsistent sets to arrive.

We gave it a test on the flat water and everything looked good. By this stage curious onlookers started to crowd the pier, looking like the infamous Japanese tourists, cameras held glued to their eyes and ready to shoot anything that moved! Finally a set was in sight, only made visible by its height and wavelength as it ran along the pier. I slowly started to accelerate. Jacob was yelling "Faster, faster"! So just before I ran out of pier and smashed into the trigger happy onlookers, I gave him a final boost. I braked hard; craned my neck to my right and saw Jacob pump down the line and bash the little closeout. The crowd was going mental.

Jacob was so amped on the plan working out he started trying out Acid Airs. The pier is about 2-3m above the wave crest so timing was everything. Jacob had to run alongside the incoming wave, matching its speed and then jump at the precise moment so that he landed the air and could continue riding the wave. He became so good at it by evening that he was thinking of mixing other moves into his airs. We'll see what next time produces.

Action Shot of how it all went down!

The result!

Overdue

"lookout" bottom turn.

So a couple weeks ago i mentioned i was at the best wave in South Africa here's some shots i promised you! Try to not get too jealous!
Images "Dennis Grove"

Jordan on a dredger!

Beyrick De Vries

Me Inside Perfection!

blackberry line up shot!

The price i paid!

Here some other shots of waves i been getting!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Shooting the Curl!

Riding the barrel in surfing is like the pocket rockets of poker,
like the try in rugby and like the check mate in chess!
its pretty much incomparable to any feeling I've experienced before, and only a small percentage of us
humans are lucky enough to experience it!

Rooi Els in the Boland has some potential to deliver the odd shack!
picture: Jason Colborn

I'm pretty sure you guys can tell by the wedgie perfection where this shot was taken.
picture: Jason Colborn

collage of photos taken by Alice Steele
shes got a prett awesome blog go check it out : http://www.alicesteele.blogspot.com/

But there are also a lot of amazing things in life that are incomparable to barrels, not that ones better than the other, they are completely different things and give you completely different feelings in completely different amazing ways! People and places can make your heart pound like a 6 feet stand up Curl. The above photo deminstrates happyness in a different way to surfing!