Straight from the depths of skimboarding in New Zealand, I feel there isn’t two people more qualified to discuss this topic.
The past is very simple to speak on seeing we were the two who first started making boards. As much as I would love to fill you in with all the talk, that would defeat the purpose of the Podcast.
Check the video below
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My love affair with skimboarding is set to continue. As for next months podcast I feel a surfing related one is in order.
Great Barrier Island lies in the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-east of central Auckland. With an area of 285 square kilometres (110 sq mi) it is the sixth-largest island of New Zealand and fourth-largest in the main chain. Its highest point, Mount Hobson, is 621 metres (2,037 ft) above sea level.The local authority is the Auckland Council.
The island was initially exploited for its minerals and kauri trees and saw only limited agriculture. In 2013, it was inhabited by 939 people, mostly living from farming and tourism. The majority of the diverse environments (around 60% of the total area) is administered as nature reserve by the Department Of Conservation. In 2009 the island atmosphere was described as being “life in New Zealand many decades back”, not without some positive emphasis.
Those couple of paragraphs were provided by Wikipedia, here is may take on this wonderful place.
“The Barrier” is located in plain site for a few part of the coast from Auckland north. While it’s merely just a blip on the horizon for most people, to some it’s home, to us it’s an outdoor adventure paradise. Unlimited activities range from the many walks/hikes, camping, fishing, spearfishing, surfing and skimboarding. Basically whatever you want to do you can do it here!
This blog post is about my latest aerial video but I just want to reinforce my love of the place! We’ve been several times now to skimboard, surf, get burgers (yes you read that right) and most of all, live. This year was the best year yet and here is the aerial stimulation I know you’ve been craving
I would love to plan a trip there just to shoot but with so many of my own interests I kind of spend the time tripping over myself trying to fit it all in.
Here’s a couple of images that hopefully speak for themselves
I have already made a few posts on here so if you’re keen to see what happened on the trip in more detail then find it on this blog post here. If you enjoyed this then please feel free to share it to those who may also enjoy it.
I can’t wait to get back, those cliffs at Medlands definitely need to be reshot on sunrise!
Having returned from one of my favourite places and getting stuck in to the editing, all the daily vlogs are now live from the trip!
This took countless hours with over 165gb of footage to sift through. I can now safely say I have seen every video clip of that. I would love to say one day in particular stands out but there isn’t one.
Anyway we’ll kick it off with the first day where we landed on the island and got settled in.
Day 2 we’ll say was “moving day”. Time to make a plan, hit the water and check out those views!
Day 3 was my birthday. The BIG 30 (gulp). I celebrated it with a lot of rad people!
Day 4 was MT Hobson day and the best winching day. Too much fun!
Day 5 was rest day… Sort of
Day 6 we were back on the winch and we big Adam farewell on his next adventure
Day 7 was my least favourite simply because we had to go home!
It’s good to be home but I can’t wait to go back. Thanks again to those who made the trip what it was!
I pride myself in being productive, hard working and motivated. I turn 30 in two weeks, which I’m not looking forward to. In fact I haven’t, since I was about 27.
I sort of know why, I sort of don’t.
I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on life lately and really trying to work out what it is, I want to do. I know I want to deal with hard working, motivated and above all… Passionate people. Passion is everything to me. I consider myself passionate, probably a little too passion filled.
Unlike most people I genuinely do feel I know what I want but here’s the cliffhanger……
I’m working far too slowly in order to get there.
Everyone knows the saying “Time flies when you’re having fun” and boyyy, I have a lot of fun but it’s time. Time to pull finger. Pull all of them, at once.
The last week, like always has been action packed. Saturday was spent winching and diving as seen below
Sunday was dive day (again) and I had a shocker. Over the span of about half a hour I shot and lost my best fish ever, got tangled in my line and almost drown, then lost my gun. Was a fun day anyway
I also just dropped this super fun Game Of Skim we filmed a few weeks ago
Shooting nice pictures of nice things is on my list on finger pulling actions. I’ve been out on the Golf Course again and just have to sort a couple more images so here’s a little snippet
Why? Well a few reasons but one was a small little breakdown with some of my printing gear on both Thursday and Friday. Friday it ground to a halt completely so here I am writing about something that isn’t really relevant. Late.
The week was work filled but the weekend was spent at a Skim Jam organised by one of my team riders, Josh Worsley at Cheltenham. The days action is below.
Sunday was a real beauty spent in the water catching a feed then up the coast at Waipu Glow Worms and taking snaps around Mangawhai
We’ll finish this weeks post off with my highlight. I dropped a video recap of the the shark experience at Leigh from couple of weeks ago! Peep the video for a documentary style slice of fun
So that’s it, I’m back on track. I’ve got something very exciting to show you soon!
