I am currently down in Puerto Rico shooting for a new project I am working on with Carmen Vicari… I’ve had this idea for a while now, but it took some time for everything to line up and start the production… In a nutshell, my goal is to make a video web series documenting the life of a cold front as it brings harsh weather and epic surf from West to East across the country and Caribbean… Pacific to the Atlantic and down to the Caribbean, we want to give a very indepth look at these weather systems and the local surfers of the locations that these storms effect the most… With the giant swells that have been rocking the coast of California and Baja to the snow covered barrels of the Northeast and down to the beautifuly pristine Northwest swells of the Caribbean, this project will be as action-packed as it is interesting…
New T. Patterson board (5′3″ Rising Sun), first session… Got my box of boards shipped to Florida from California, grabbed the one I wanted to ride the most, threw some paint on it and a swell came in the next day… Timmy Patterson told me I had to use the MR Twin fin set up with this board. From what I experienced this board is the fastest, most versatile, 5′3″ I have ever surf board ridden on… I figured it would be good for smaller waves, but when I was able to test it out on some fun over head Florida ground swell, it over achieved every expectation I had for for it…
After experimenting with different styles of surfing crafts these past couple months, my first 5 board quiver from Timmy Patterson in 2010 came out as the most diverse group of boards I have got in one order… Every board is extremely different and equally amazing… I’m probably the most excited I have ever been when it comes to getting new boards… As I ride each board I’m working on putting together some video clips of each different board… I have a trip to P.R. this week, so I should have some clips of these new boards to post… Keep checking back for new video posts on my new shred sticks!!!
The Bahamas are one of my favorite places in the world. Surf+Fishing+Warm sunshine = Exactly where I want to be… So when Mikey DeTemple asked if I would go on a trip to a remote island in the South Bahamas to shoot for his new movie, I jumped at the opportunity… Nick LaVecchia Came along to shoot photos for Surfers Journal. Nick is a big part in a extremely kickass website called 
Mikey DeTemple had this board shaped after watching our friend Tin shred on his door like surfboard… Tin’s board was a bit bigger so Mikey scaled it down a notch and made it 5′1″… I, personally, had some faith in the strange shape and outline after trying a wave or two on Tin’s a while back… This is our first try on the board as we are taking turns behind the video camera…
CALIFORNIA FRONT
Last week took Carmen Vicari and I to California to catch one of the many Kick Ass swells from one of the many cold fronts California has endured this winter… This was the second trip for my latest video project documenting the Winter Cold Fronts. My goal was to fly out and capture how Timmy Reyes forecasts these storms and goes to all lengths to catch the best surf during the winter at home. To say the least, we got exactly what we were looking for and more. The surf was better then we could ask for, Timmy was as fired up as I thought he would be and the footage of the mission to find surf was right on point with what we were looking for. Here are a few screen shots form a photo feature that Surfline.com posted of the swell… If each trip is as good as the first two, this documentary could turn out better then I pictured it. Stay tuned for more updates as the project unfolds…
