I hate Bodyboarding

Ok wait, Im not telling the truth at all when I say that, but, bodyboarding does have a debt to settle with each and every die hard supporters of the sport. The debt that I speak of is sleep!

Yes, with the Box contest underway in Australia, we will be watching it during the early hours of the morning, when we South Africans Should be sleeping, in order to support the cause. In South Africa the web cast will be going live at 01:30 in the morning and by the time the contest is over we will all be suffering from heavy jet lag.

But who cares? The whole experience is so worth it that I don't mind doing it for a week straight. You can lay the long night shifts on me thick as long as the waves are good and the boys are flying out of bowls every minute.

In 4hours and 20 minutes I will be in bed, with my laptop perched next to me and my Internet going through megabytes like Bob Marley through bongs, watching the best riders in the world battle it out for 1st place at the Box. Who's coming with me man?

for the live feed got to IBAworldtour.com

Drought....

About ten minutes ago the worst possible thought dawned upon me. I was innocently browsing through the various surf report websites and, like a brick to the head, it hit me. We are going through a drought!

Now don't get me wrong, I am not talking about a drought were all the lovely flowers dry up and people of the affected areas have to bath in a bucket. no, I'm talking about a particular drought that plagues the surfing communities like the black death. No waves!

According to the forecast we will not be enjoying an adrenaline filled surf for at least the next week and the mere thought of that depresses me. One might be able to get small waves at the various beaches that are known to be swell magnets but the predictions are not to good. The best bet is to hit the water on Saturday as the weather man predicts a 50% chance of an 8.5ft swell, traveling in a South West direction with intervals of 15 seconds, which is a good ground swell. The wind will be Blowing in a South Easterly direction, which is offshore for the majority of waves in the Mother City, but like I say there is only a 50% chance of those predictions being correct.

Whatever you decide to do to fill that gap inside you that is usually reserved for nose drips, big airs and deep pits, make sure it can keep you busy for a while because the next swell will only be arriving in a little over a week!

Oh wait! how about some salt in that wound! Enjoy this clip of super sick Shark Island when it went off last week!

The Box Pro

Just as the Ecstasy of the Pipline Pro was departing from my body, I was starting to feel weak and bored with life but then, like a blow dealt by the mighty fit of Rocky Balboa, I realised that soon would be the next stop on the IBA GSS calendar which got me very excited. Why?, you ask, well the next stop on the world tour happens to be at one of the most epic waves around, in fact, the wave that will be throwing bodyboarders metres into the air is considered one of the best waves for a bodyboarder to ride, in the world.

Yes its the Box Pro which will be taking place in Margret River, Australia, and promises to be a banger. The window period for the contest will open on the 26th of this month, which is in a couple of days, and will continue until the 4th of April. If last years contest is anything to go buy then you dont want to miss any of the intense bodyboarding that will be going down.
Last year we saw the Box local, Ryan Hardy dominate the contest by tasking home a 1st place in the event but does he have what it takes to defend his title?
For more information visit IBA.com or stay tuned to Frozen Ocean

a very stupid love story!!!

(Photo: Caerus)

We all heard about the massive swell that beat the crap out of the East Coast of South Africa right? what? you havnt! Well then let me explain to you what happend.

There was once a cool breeze called Irene and she was happy until last week when she found out that her boyfriend had been blowing kisses to a hot breeze that lay over the indian ocean. This caused Irene to grow insanely angry and she then decided to confront Hot wind that lay over the sea. Upon confronting her, the two winds fell into a ferocious battle that caused them to become entangled and grow in size at a drastic rate. Irene had, eventually, defeated the hot breeze but as she did not realise how much energy she was exerting in the proccess, had developed into a monster of a storm as the anger still loomed within her. She was spinning out of control and was heading for the coast of Africa. She had no way of stopping and collided with the East Coast of South Africa bringing with her an army of huge swells that washed every inch of the coast line with thick, merky foam.

Well thats kind of what happend, but who cares about Irenes love life? As Bodyboarders we hope that Irene finds her boyfriends other "squeezes" so that swell like this will coat our coast again.
Anyway, KZN boogers and surfers alike scored such good waves this past week and although we, Cape Town, got the "sloppy seconds", Irene was a love story that we are not going to forget anytime soon.