RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Bronte pigs, winners are grinners! © Global Surftag

Hi All,

Long time no blog. I’ve been having way too much fun to sit down and write but I did find a little time so here we go …

Christmas and the New Year at home is all about summer and chillin’ out. The weather is all-time, waves not so good but I was happy to forget about surfing for a while.

Christmas with the family and New Year’s Eve was great but my fun was New Year’s Day, I had a dress-up ping pong cocktail party for those of my friends who could back up after a big New Year’s Eve.

First to arrive was Clouse (Jarred Howse) and the bloody marys started from there. After hours of different cocktails the ping pong started up, and I could go into the ding dong battles of epic proportion but I lost first round and was back on the couch crying into my bloody mary so I’m not giving anyone else glory. (Sorry Bruns, u did smash us all).

After the New Year I was off on holiday to Thailand! Yep, no waves there either and I didn’t mind. Still had a sore knee so was perfect to rest and sink a few more cocktails. Some amazing places there and the food was all time. Tried so hard to not put on weight but came home a little over fighting weight, hahaha.

The elephant that helped me propose.

I also proposed to my girlfriend, which was the highlight of the trip. She never saw it coming and thankfully said “YES”.

Home now and time to get ready for the start of the tour, the feet are getting itchy to surf my brains out which is great. Got the competitive juices flowing with the state Surftag team bout and, yes, The Bronte Blue Ducks took it out.

If you want to know exactly how we got our name “The Blue Ducks” check the site next week when I take you on a tour of my home beach. © Global Surftag

Such a fun event — we had to surf the trials and ended up winning the whole thing, not only that, we won every heat!!!

Well, I’m done. I never look at my computer this long. My eyes are getting weird!

Seeya on the Goldie,

- Whits

HAWAII & HOME

This is Otto laughing at Dayyan because he has beached himself. Beached as.

G’day Mateys,

First of all, Happy Australia Day to all my fellow Aussies out there on the web.

There hasn’t been many blogs getting posted over the festive season due to the fact everyone has just been
having too much fun to leave the beach or their mates’ bbq to go and sit on a laptop … even for 2 mins Well that’s my excuse anyway.

So now that we are back into the swing of things I managed to grab a few photos out of my iphoto library and throw a couple words down with them. You might find them amusing … or you might not.

It’s a compilation of shots from Hawaii and home – two of my favourite places;

Otto again, getting a photo with Bottle’s big poster at the Haleiwa Reef Pro.

Me and Steddy; shuffleboard cowboys.

Haha, this shot is hilarious, two long-neck giraffes on the MAI TAIs. As you can see by the colour of mine, I substituted the rum for extra tequila (my favourite).

It’s worth flying to Hawaii just to go to Turtle Bay and play shuffleboard. Tommy and Clouse would agree. Even though they’re not that good at it

Glen Hall’s Bucks Night. A few minutes after this shot, his shorts got ditched and he spent the rest of the night cruising around in just his fiance’s wedding day panties, haha funny night.

Parko – Triple Crown Champ: It’d be hard to even imagine how good this would have felt. I’d say pretty damn good judging by the smile on his head! Ben, Sam and me with him straight after he’d won. With his 10 grand watch.

Ben tattooing Mick. You can check out the whole ordeal on the Rip Curl website.

Back home for Chrissy with friends after pretty much six full months on the road.

We were down the beach with the kids every afternoon for the first week of 2009. We even dragged mattresses down and slept at Angourie point on the full moon. So much fun. Left to Right; Bob, Carrier, Nav, Ben and me – plus the kids – Jimmy, Zeah, Taiig, Jaspur and Jesse.

Me, Baddy and Carrier at Spooks point – New Year’s Eve … The wedding of two of my best friends Nav and Jacinta Fox

Me and Laurie get a photo with “Nulla”. Spooks point – last day of 2008.

Backio Day: Everyone comes home and catches up for a big arvo of drinking and celebration down the beach. That’s red wine in my hand and eyeballs, not sure why … sick fun though, yeeeewww.

Anyway hope you have an unreal year. Stay safe, have fun and enjoy the now.
especially you Otto

- D Ross

WET SEASON

Cars almost got washed away and the motorbikes pulled some sick floaters.

Welcome to the New Year!!! Shit, 2009 already!!! Well, I’m still in Bali and there have been some fun waves around the last two weeks but in the last couple of days it’s been raining, and when I say raining, I mean raining!!! Bali pretty much flooded yesterday. It’s the rainy season up here so people are used to it this time of year.

Betet ties the knot.

One of my good friends up here, Betet, got married the other day. It’s pretty funny how the local guy getting married almost has as much make-up as the women. I had a great time and he put on a great show with a band and lots of beer and wine. Great night.

Miky in Bali.

Quiksilver have had a couple of new store openings lately and we had a life-size banner made up so you could get a picture with your favourite Quiksilver team rider. Here’s me and the French legend his self, Miky Picon.

Teeing off at Nusa Dua.

I’ve been playing a bit of golf lately, and the other day Quiksilver took on the local Coca Cola team in a golf game. Really fun, with a couple of crazy rules.

The lads looking mighty refreshed after a couple of gallons of sour mash whiskey.

Both teams had to drink a bottle of JD before the half way mark, heavy if you’re not a big JD drinker like me. Nevertheless, the Quiksilver team came out on top and won the very interesting trophy.

The trophy is now in safe hands.

Until next blog,

Take it easy,

Jake the Snake

ICE, ICE, BABY

ICE, ICE, BABY

Pretty simple really … No waves, so went to the snow for some family fun …

Don’t worry, you can stop no problem. © thegoodsbrothers.com

Dork. © thegoodsbrothers.com

Peace,

Damo.