Boring,..... flat...boring......

There hasn't been a post in ages for a couple of reasons mainly because there just hasn't been much surf action in the south since, two I've been up the walls with college work procrastination had been the name of the game for a while but reality has bit me in the ass over the last 3 or 4 weeks. But also the Project 52 I had borrowed from Willy McCarthy and Mark Barry in Munster Dive was returned and now I'm playboat less until I start getting paid for the summer but before I gave the Project back I made one last little trip to Lahinch on the 5th of April with a couple of board surfing friends. We met the tide almost fully in and but it was still a good day. 

While out on the surf I bumped into John McCarthy of Lahinch Surf School and AIB tv ad fame. John is the current senior Irish surfing champion and European surfing championships bronze medal winner. He hails from County Waterford and has featured in a couple of Irish surfing videos including Al & Cottys DVD "Driven" and more recently in Joel Conroys directed surfing movie "Waveriders" which is make the rounds of Irish cinemas now. I asked him if he wouldn't mind answering a few questions about big wave board surfing and what his opinions are of kayakers in the surf. I'll stick up the questions and answers in my next post. 

On the same note I went to see Waveriders at the cinema about 3 weeks ago now. I've plenty of surfing DVDs at home and I was wondering what made this so special that it made it to the cinema but I have to say well done to all involved it was a brilliant film. It's informative, exciting and the most stunning photography of Irish surfing I've seen to date and all on the big cinema screen it really was very very good, go see it!

I'm off to on holidays as soon as the projects are all in and then hopefully back for a summers beach guarding so hopefully I'll be back in a boat soon and kayak surfing again soon and despite all the "predictions/forecasts" of a coming good summer hopefully there will be plenty of rain for the rivers too!

later

mike