WTF.

I now introduce to you;
The “BOAT CROC” – Pleasure at the back, contraception at the front.

Home Alone 2

Photo – Toby B

I’ve been at home for about a month and a half now, except for the 2 week trip I did up to Cairns and I’ve got to say I’m pretty much done with it! haha.
I needed to come home after travelling the whole first half of the year and using up all my visa time in Europe. Now I’m here and it was cool for the first week or two, but sitting home alone while my girlfriend mum and dad are all in Europe isn’t exactly a hoot. It’s kinda like Home Alone 2 at my house except I’m that creepy dude setting booby traps for myself all over the place.

It’s funny when you look back at how at one point you were feeling really stoked to come back home and then after you’re home a while you wonder just exactly what you were thinking… Nothings changed, everyone is doing the same shit (reminds me of this song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m30uQqf_m6k ). All the people who were on the road to no-where are still on the road to no-where and all the other people are still just chipping away at what ever it was that they were doing when you first left. Only now those people get a bitter taste in their mouths at the very sight of your face because they constantly see all your photos and updates on FB of you skylarking while their meant to be working… Everyone that you run into pretty much knows exactly what you have been doing, whilst you haven’t got the faintest idea what they have been doing, because frankly you couldn’t really give a toss about what happened at their work last week or at some terrible bar that everyone goes to because there isn’t any other choice.

Life as a proffesional traveller is pretty sweet and is not to be taken for granted. A trip home every now and again is a nessisary evil in order to inflict on you the mundane reality of common day to day dweling. If you travel alot lot like me, revel in your ability to take in things that many people will simply never see or get to do and remember that you could always be in a much worse situation than you are currently in.
If you aren’t a traveller and you are one of the bitter folk I speak of, my advice to you is to DO SOMETHING. Travelling is no where near as hard, scary or as expensive as you or many other people manke it out to be. Take a short cheap trip somewhere close (thailand, bali etc.) get a feel for what it’s like and get on the bandwagon. You haven’t lived until you have travelled!

Next week I will be gliding back to Europe and back to my very causal job as a world tour judge. I hope it all goes smoothly but even if it doesn’t I will try and focus on the positives of being abroad and living life to the fullest!
For the record I guess I’m actually on the road to nowhere as well, except I’m doing it the long way.

I wish everyone traveling around out there good luck and keep at it!

Alex.

“Cooked” – Part One – Cairns

Jun13

Recently I did a little trip to Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia. The wind wasn’t the best but the sliders at cable were fresh. Check it out to get the gist of what went on!

Defacing a timeless classic.

May5

I came across this video through one of my friends and I have to say it’s not what I thought it would be, however this chick is insanely talented and I really like the end result. Check it out.

Tarifa 2013 – Part Two – Slinging the strings.

May1

This is something like what you could expect if you were to stay two days in tarifa. Both days weren’t particularly amazing and both were fairly gusty and around the same strength. One day was from the Pointe direction and the other from the usually gustier and stronger Levante. The flat water spots whilst I was there were mega crowded with kooks and people teaching everywhere and it didn’t interest me one bit to try and deal with that for a slice of mildly flat water. So it was off to the ramp/surf spots for me. I was on the 11m C4 at all 3 spots and whilst looking pretty fun on film all 3 spots proved very difficult haha.
In the end though when you film you just have to go and get it done when you can and I guess this little vid is testament to that.
Hopefully you guys enjoy it.

Tarifa 2013 – Part One -Tarifan cuisine

May1

You can’t go to Tarifa (or any place for that matter) and not sample some local cuisine (of all sorts haha). So this is a little video I made of what a typical dinner might be in the small spanish town of Tarifa. I kept this edit seperate from my kite edit because like many people I hate when some clown makes a 6min video with about 30seconds of riding in there somewhere and expects you to watch him talking for half of it and all the other bullshit in-between… So you can thank me later.

Snow-kiting in Poland

May1

Earlier this year I got the chance to try snow-kiting for the first time. Karolinas dad Piotr took me to a frozen lake near Warsaw to try it out. I haven’t really snowboarded before and it was my first time using my new 2013 C4 so I was interested to see what it would be like. To be honest it wasn’t really that hard to ride around, probably easier than on the water if anything, but it deffinetly gave me even more respect for the guys who are actually throwing down some legit stuff on the snow. Just the conditions, cold, wind, etc are pretty hard to deal with and I can’t really imagine myself trying wakestyle kind of stuff off the snow. Anyway it was a pretty fun time and it made me want to get to the slopes to give snowboarding a decent shot!