Tarragona

The blog has been slow in the last few days, that's becouse I'm spending a few days with the family in maynland Spain, I'll be back at Pozo Izquierdo next tuestay and the daily dose will be back to the blog.

Patagonia

Spectacular photographic work at Patagonia's online catalogue, visit highly recommended.

Final day at the Reef Hawaiian Pro

Right now (early morning in Hawaii, night at the Canary Islands) the final day of the Reef Hawaiian Pro is on, to watch the live webcast: www.triplecrownofsurfing.com

Good waves today at Haleiwa, while I was writting this, Joel Parkinson rode an amazing barrel for which he had a perfect score frome every one of the five judges.

Today at Pozo Izquierdo

One complete day of 2010 windsurfing rental equipment at Cutre, 35€.
Video camera 275€.
A girlfriend who films when you are sailing; priceless.

The Triple Crown is on

Waves are back to the North Shore of Oahu, and the Reef Hawaiian Pro is on right now.
To watch the live forecast: www.triplecrownofsurfing.com

Alana Blanchart wins Vans Hawaiian Pro

Three world champions and a 17 year old girl from the neighbour island of Kawai were competing in the final of the Vans Hawaiian Pro, and was the only Hawaiian, the younger and the only one without a world title, Alana Blanchart, who won the first event of the Triple Crown of Surfing.

WIndsurfer issue 03

Windsurfer International magazine issue 03 already online.

Ready for winter

Already at Cutre, the shop at Pozo Izquierdo, the 2010 wetsuits, Rip Curl, O'Neill, Quiksiliver, Roxy, Xcell and Mystic.

More waves

Looks like we are having good waves again this weekend, and could be really big for Monday and Tuesday.

Calendar

Already available the 2010 Reef calendar: www.reef.com/calendar/

Hawaii live

After six days with a flat ocean, today restarts the competition at Haleiwa.
To watch the Reef Hawaiian Pro live: www.triplecrownofsurfing.com

Tow-in session

Sunday afternoon, coming back from Galdar, a little bit disappointed after missing the best from the bodyboarding session at El Fronton, I saw from the road a jetsky on the face of a big wave at El Paso, so a decided to take a closer look.

Once I found a place with a good view of the line up and had all my gear ready to shoot, I saw from my long lens that the riders were my friends Dario Ojeda and Andres Martinez in what I think was their first tow session, and the waves were absolutely perfect for that.

To watch more photos from the session go to the PHOTO section.

Natural wonders

These photos don't make justice to what I could see and feel yesterday at El Fronton, at the North West corner of Gran Canaria. To have a reference of the size, you can take a look at my fiend Ruben Grimon website; he was taking photos the day before, a little bit smaller but more perfect (no wind), no takers yesterday, too wild.

Preview

Amazing Sunday at the north shore of Gran Canaria, El Fronton was a mutant monster from another planet, I'll hate myself for being late (tide was going down and conditions deteriorating when I arrived), but later on, when I was going back home, from the road I saw a jetsky approaching a big set at El Paso, so I decided to look closer, Dario and Andres were there enjoying some really nice ones.

Saturday at El Fronton

Every time I come to the northwest corner of Gran Canaria and El Fronton is breaking, I wonder why I don't come more often, because this wave is absolutely amazing, for sure one of the best waves of the world, I thing I'm not exaggerating if I say is one of the 5 best waves of the planet.
Today was far from epic, the left, which is the main wave, was barely breaking, but even it was not big, there were some nice righthanders.
The forecast for tomorrow looks really good, so I'm going to sleep; I'm waking up early tomorrow.

Mundaka

That was Mundaka a few weeks ago and looks like this weekend they could have good waves again.

Good surf for the weekend

Looks like we are having really good conditions for surfing in the north of the island this weekend, a good swell with light offshore winds.

Live from Hawaii

Not with the huge waves we always expect from Hawaii, but just started at Haleiwa the Reef Hawaiian Pro, the first of the six events of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.
To watch the live webcast: www.triplecrownofsurfing.com

Virtual Pozo Izquierdo

Looks like the guys from Google maps have been in Pozo Izquierdo, so as you can see in the pictures you can already do a virtual travel to one of the windiest towns in the world, Pozo Izquierdo.



In case you are not used to the 3D mode on Google maps, here you have an image with a small explanation, and if you want to "travel" to Pozo Izquierdo click HERE.

Womad

Today starts Womad, a long weekend of music, arts and dance in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, to know everything about the concerts, artists and other activities, go to: www.womad.org

Triple Crown of Surfing

On thursday starts the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, the perfect end of season for a year in surfing competition, during the 6 weeks in Hawaii will be decided the surfing world champion (male and female), who goes to the dream of the WCT and who goes down again for the battle of qualification in the WQS, and this year will be a total of a 1.000.000 $ prize money.

To follow the cometition minute by minute: www.triplecrownofsurfing.com

Anyway we will post the highlights of the day at the end of every day of competition.

Worked everywhere

Mosca Point

Pozo Izquierdo

Salinas de Pozo