Some pics sent through from Iain Platt

So i've just left Hawaii, just landed in LAX , 3 hrs here then off to Washington, then onto Johannesburg and finally onto Durban. Obviously, for me, my year didn't turn out the way I planned at the beginning result wise, but I still had a bloody fun year, waves weren't the best, we pretty much got skunked a lot this year on the CT, but it was really good to finish the year off in pumping waves at pipe. And one massive congrats to Mick for claiming his 2nd Word Title, big ups to him for pulling that off! SO i guess I'm back on the QS grind next year, which is fine cause I learnt a lot this year and hopefully that will pay off in 2010... And also want to send a shout out to Greg Emslie, thanks for all the good times, great inspiration and helping me out so much on tour, good luck with your next chapter, sure you won't be missing those 18 hr flights and layovers... ENjoy the retirement from pro surfing!

Anyways, I'm off to have a fun few weeks at home with the family before it all starts up again next year. Enjoy your Christmas and New Year and here's to a cracker 2010!

Peace

Davey

So I've been on the North Shore now for about 5 days, had our first proper day at Pipe since I've been here and probably in the last month too. Some pretty solid ones, hard to get the right ones but good to be out there again and in some sizey waves.
Sunset event just finished today too with Parko taking the honors from Sunny, Travis was just confirmed to be on next year's WCT so big up to him for getting back on after a year back on the QS.

But what we have on our hands at the moment is the perfect storm just about to hit the islands!!! They're calling this next swell that hits tomorrow to be HUGE, 40 -50 ft, Eddie going to run, they closing down Kam highway, things are going to get gnarly here, probably going to have to stock up on some items from foodland to make sure we're good for the next few days. It's definitely going to be interesting to see what happens, just heard now that the bouy reading is the largest ever recorded in history!!!!!!! Heavy days boys and girls!!!!!

Will report back in a few days to let you know of the carnage to the North Shore!

Holding down the fort here...

Davey

Off to the Rock on Monday, doing the trip over with Mr Emslie, probably going to work out at about 42 hrs of traveling to get there, well it is exactly half way around the world for us. Probably going to take around 7 boards with me over there, and with the new one's I'm picking up there from Bushman and the one's I already have in Hawaii from last year, I really should be ok for boards this year...

Been home now for almost a month and we have not had anything decent as far as swell goes here in Durban, been a few fun bowls but nothing great. Really looking forward to getting some good waves this year, hopefully the CT can finish off the season with a bang...

Flying up to Johannesburg early on Monday morning before I fly out that evening for Hawaii to do a video interview for this Christian Youth Conference they going to be having while I'm on the rock. Really looking forward to doing it, should be good!
Will try post some stuff from that side, hopefully get some clips or pics to put on this blog and maybe a story or two....
Anyways, have fun, enjoy and rock on!

Peace

Davey

New Design

Just picked these two boards up from Bilt last week, pretty stoked on the design , Mandla ( the Sprayer) , did on them , bit of the SA flag influence there. Going to probably rock this new design for a while....

Did a pretty funny shoot yesterday for the Bombsurf, and then ended up going to the launch of revamped Classic Eyes in Gateway Shopping Mall in Durban. They're one of Oakley's biggest accounts and Chris ( the owner ) is a super keen surfer , so it was a pretty fun evening, new store is sick and apparently the coffee there is crazy good, going to have to have a little tester I reckon.

Got a little over two weeks left in SA until I leave for the rock, been training pretty hard for it since I been home, had Simon Nicholson helping me with some coaching and been making some adjustments to my boards after this last leg in Europe. Pretty much , just super keen and hungry and excited at the moment and it feels good!

Hopefully there's a bit of swell on it's way here, would be good to get a bit of size under my belt before I arrive in Hawaii.
Anyways, rock on and live large!

Davey

Sequence from Supertubes, Portugal shot by Greg Pearson

I know it's been a while since my last post, a bit has happened. Did a 2 week stint in Portugal for the final leg of our European invasion on the World Tour. Supertubes came to life and there were some serious waves on hand. But I'm back home now, feels really good to be back with the family in my own bed after 2 and a half months on the road. But that's part of the job! I've got about 3 weeks until I head off to the island of Oahu, Hawaii for the final event of the World Tour at the Banzai Pipeline! Probably the most prestigious of all events on tour, the one that everyone wants to win!

So it's all about getting the right training in now before I jet off, get the lungs ready for some possible beat downs, get the confidence up to push myself just that much more, it's an El Nino year so there could be some serious swells for this season. They've actually already had some serious waves hit the North Shore this winter and November has only just started!

If anything interesting happens while I'm home, will post it on the blog. Hopefully I can get some waves while I'm home cause I've actually had no waves at all this year. Missed all the swells that have hit Durban and when I've been on the road for events, we've pretty much had bad waves all year round too. So if you know of any good waves around, let me know!

Peace out

Davey