Billabong XXL

I finally made it into the Billabong XXL movie...check out the dude in the green trunks...see (1:08:50)

Jordy in South Africa

This is my favorite short clip out there at the moment! This vid gets my psyked to surf every time I see it! yewwwww

I love you Stu

Hey Prof Strother, I thought it would be easier if I entered 10 extra credit assignments in one blog. Here ya go :)


Feb 2 86/100

Had a fun skate sesh at the Daurate skate park with Cory and Nick. I'm trying to work on my disaster slide. As you can imagine it has been quite disastrous. LOL



gnarly air

Feb 10 (87/100)

Went to bear mountain for some snowboarding. My mate from Australia has been out visiting and has never been in the snow so we had to take him boarding! He was a natural.  It's also been a few years since I'v made my presence know on the slopes of CA. Today I made sure to make my presence known. Let's just say it wasnt pretty
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Jake and his Fosters. He coudnt stop laughing at the fact that it doesnt exist in Aus

Feb 20 (88/100)

Got a shot of me shredding the gnar

Wudup wave

Feb 27 (89/100)

     Made a surf movie...see previos blog entry

March 3 (90/100)

Took out people from the surf class as well as other APU surfers who wanted to learn and put on a surf clinc for them at Huntington!

626 Shredders T-Shirt

March 10 (91/100)
Watched a new surf flick about traveling on $0  The whole movie was filmed over 7 days and is about 2 surfers (Cyrus Sutton and Ryan Burch) who decide to take a "staycation" in their own backyard and travel the San Diego coast by foot and skateboard. They bring with them nothing but some camping gear, their surfboards and a few ingenious ways to make money to buy food. They surf some of my favorite spots in SD including Blacks and my home wave, Seaside. The movie just makes you want to stop being lazy and to get off your feet and do something adventerous. Here's the trailer...



March 17 (92/100)
Went and watched a surf contest at Seaside Reef with a few friends

March 27 (93/100)
Went to my local surf shop Surf Ride and hung with the boys. I love you guys!

Surf Ride logo

March 30 (94/100)

I went down to San Diego to talk with my shaper Mark Wisdom about possibly getting a new board. He's a rad guy who left his original job that made him over $300,000 a few years ago to become a surf board shaper. I love getting boards from him. Its great being able to talk to your shaper face to face. It's great surfing with him as well so he can see my style and thus make a board that can help me progress faster....I really dont think that last sentence made any sense  haha

April 14 (95/100)

I'v been working on shaping my own board. My friend Nick Springer has been giving me a helpong hand so thank you bro. This is the first board I have ever shaped so to call it a masterpeice might be a little over the top but I love it none the less. I just finished painting it and glassing it yesterday. All I need to do now is to glass on some fins and she'll be ready to "hit the waves". Its a 5'6 x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 Mini Simmons

"The Pistol"

Turkeymelt.com

My favorite surfer, Alex Gray, just posted this on his facebook. "Since I am hosting the Billabong XXL Awards 2012, I figured you and a friend should come with me! In order to win 2 free tickets, all you have to do is take a photo of you eating a turkeymelt in a fun place. Person having the most fun wins! Come hang, and party with me" So I thought..."I'd like to party with Alex" and went out on a mission to accomplish this challeng. I sent in this entry riding my trustee shark in a banana suit....

-Eat a sandwich, in the barrel, on a shark in a banana suit. Check

85/100

Strands

Just got back from Kauai last night and heard there was a little swell running. Paddled out at Strands with a few friends and scored it! I love coming home after a fun trip only to find more good waves!

84/100 

Chillin With Laird

Today was just plain epic! It started out with catching up with an old friend (Skyler) who I used to lifeguard with in Solana Beach who recently moved out here to Kaui. We surfed a crap beachie on the east side with howling on shores but I still had a blast. We then went out to dinner with my buddies uncle and auntie at the Blue Snapper on the North Shore of Kaui. We ended up eating next to the gorgeous surfer chic, Alana Blanchard. Then after that we cruised over to the worlds gnarliest big wave tow in surfer, Laird Hamilton's house, since Ian's aunt lives next door to him. As we knocked on Lairds door, all I could picture was some massive, superhuman answering. As we waited patiently, we finally saw a big head pop up on the couch. He was only wearing trunks. It looked like tree trunks had been attached to where his limbs would be. As he marched to the door! I kinda was trippin thinkin like, " I hope he's cool with us interrupting", "I hope he doesn't break my hand". He was actually really rad. Really cool and personable but super super intense. We talked a bit about the surf and what types of food he eats to stay fit. I had to keep reminding myself "Goodness gracious, I am talkin to THE man THE Laird Hamilton."

-Met a pro surfer   

74/100

Tunnels for Days

I'm absolutely FROTHING brah!! Today was a gem! For the past few days, Iv been crusin on Kauai, HI. My buddy Ian came over yesterday so all we've been doing is surfing and well surfing. Today got off to a slow start since we've been trying to find all the different surf spots here. And I love searching for new secret surf spots. Anyway, we headed down to a place called "Tunnels", which is known for its tunnel like barrels as well as being the place Bethany Hamilton lost her arm to a shark..... Either way, I don't think Tunnels was the right word for the place today. It shoud've been called Caverns! It was 3-4 Hawaiian style, so 6-10ft if your from the mainland. I swear I saw soo many people get stand up barrels today, a rodeo clown wouldn't have known what to do! The place was exactly like G-land; glassy, crystal blue water, and hollow as all get out! All the local Kaui boys were freaking out it, so I knew it was going. I couldn't believe what I was surfing let alone watching! I thought I had died and gone to heaven! After the 1/2 mile paddle back in we headed over to the N. Side of Hanalei Bay to surf "Hideaways". The place was fun and just a little over head high. We caught a few sick ones before being hassled by some kook who tried to fight me after dropping in on me! KOOK! When we came in, there was a massive sea turtle just chillin on the beach. I'm pretty sure he was Crush from Nemo since he looked over 500yrs!

-Surfed in another state
-Drove to the beach

63/100

Wedge Carnage

Here's a little video from the past. I dont know what gets into me sometimes but I just go and do random sh*t that isnt very bright. This was one of those cases. Rafting at The Wedge....why not?

Wedge Carnage from David Lee Scales on Vimeo.

Cardiff

Cardiff Reef. Mostly a longboarders wave, but can occasionally turn on. Its mostly a right but with a negative low tide a left will appear. This wave is called Suckouts, as it will suck off the reef and turn into a hollow barrel. Cardiff has been compared to the Super Bank in Australia when its on. Today. It was on. I rode my friends 5'10 which could barely float me. I surfed suckouts which is more of a faster wave since my board wouldn't be able to handle the mushy rights. I surfed there only for a little as the wave soon became over run by too many guys. You can usually count on things like this happening when you live in So Cal so we moved south where good 'ol Gergoes was awaiting. No one was out since every wave was a close out but I decided to give it a go to get away form the crowd. I scored a screaming little barrel. I was frothing! I didn't make it out, but I could care less. The vision inside the barrel a.k.a. "the womb" is a priceless sight and will continue to keep me coming back for more! I was STOKED! 51/100

Broken Boards at Redondo

Got up early this morning to surf Redondo in LA with Ian, Cory and Riley. The drive is about an hour since we all go to college in Azusa, CA (just east of downtown Los Angeles). Waves weren't off the chain or anything but there were a couple solid makers. My bud Riley got sucked over the falls on one wave, and snapped his board in half. Too bad it was on a borrowed board. About 10 minutes later Cory pulled into the wave of the day and got munched in the barrel. He also snapped his board in half. On our way back to the car, Ian dropped his board. It just wasn't the day to own a surfboard I guess. 41/100

San Diego Surf Sesh

Had a sick surf this am with my buds, Ian, Cory and Colin. We surfed my home break Seaside in San Diego. It was a solid 4-6ft with the occasional 7 footer. We shared the lineup with two of the worlds best surfers (also two of my favorites), Damien Hobgood and Taylor Knox along with Kelly Slater's personal photographer, Steve Sherman. After our surf we talked a bit with Taylor Knox in the parkinglot and then headed down the road to get Acai Bowls. Yewwwwww! 31/100

Here's a lil vid from this am's surf. Edited by: Ian Blair

El Porto Pumps

Today was prime! With a predicted 6-8ft occ. 10 WNW swell for south Los Angeles beaches, El Porto was going to be the call. EL Porto is know for its heaving barrels, babes, and smoke stacks. Today, the barrels came out to play (that sounded quite stupid I realize). As we pulled into the parking lot, I just about lost it. I was seriously going mental! Photographers lined the beach, guys were coming in with broken boards, and I...well, I forgot my leash so I had to run up the street and fanatically look for a surf shop. Once I solved that problem, I scrambled back to the beach where I took a few quick snapshots of the surf and a short video of my buddy Riley prepping for some sever beatings (which were soon to follow). Out of the 5 buddies that I paddled out with only one other one made it out. Some of them tried several times but weren't able to find a rip current to pull them out. After 20 minutes of taking some of the heaviest waves I had been out in CA over the past couple of years I finally made it out. As the sets rolled in I knew I had brought the wrong board (mine is 5'10) and I'm 6'3. Ammeture mistake. One canyon set came in out of no where (El Porto has an underwater canyon which funnels any swell onto this break doubling the size of any normal set) and I barely made it over. The wave looked like something at Pipe. It was massive! The guy behind me wasn't so lucky. After waiting patiently for 30mins for a make able wave, one finally came in. I was able to get two off the top turns in before the massive wall of water exploded inches behind me. My buddies were over waiting on the beach and wanted me to come in so we packed our bags and ended up surfing again at Redondo Beach. The waves were half the size so probably around 5 ft, but I still caught a couple fun ones. 21/100

-I drove to the beach (extra mile assignment)

Georges

I cruised on down to San Diego with a few buds last night to crash at my pad. We woke at the butt crack of dawn and paddled out at Seaside. As the sun rised, so did the local surf rats and it became way too crowded, so we moved on down the beach to a spot called Georges. Georges is more of a hollow, fast beach break, but with the tide running around 5ft, it was quite mushy. I somehow got on a nice 5 footer and was able to do a combination of maneuvers. I got at least 6 solid cutbacks and snaps on this one wave. I was stoked! It was defiantly the longest wave I've EVER had out there! 10/100