Wow ratty i would have never guessed it was snowing............. Cutts
Friday, August 27, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
We Finally Scored
On Wednesday, Woodsy and I got in the car again and drove the mandatory 2hrs to the surf after checking the prognosis. Heath was in France surfing, Jay and Johan had to work so Woodsy and I had to do the 2hr trip as partners in crime.. ;-)
We weren't disappointed. We arrived to 4-5ft lefts 100m long lefts with just one guy out when we arrived and a few more that turned up after a while but there were heaps of waves coming in so everyone got surf and Woodsy and I surfed for 5½ hrs. There were even a couple of sneaky barrells coming thru for those that were lucky and also on the ball!
I, being the 'short term memory loss king', took both my new digital video camera and my camera to work in the morning to charge them and forgot them when I left to drive to the surf ...duuuhhhhhh!!
The surf just got better and better and it was ashame that it got dark cause it got really good the last hour before dark..looks like autumn has started. thank god for that!
Now it looks like it's gunna be really good this week coming as well..this time we'll make sure we get some really good pics..will updaate soon! peace from da ratman
We weren't disappointed. We arrived to 4-5ft lefts 100m long lefts with just one guy out when we arrived and a few more that turned up after a while but there were heaps of waves coming in so everyone got surf and Woodsy and I surfed for 5½ hrs. There were even a couple of sneaky barrells coming thru for those that were lucky and also on the ball!
I, being the 'short term memory loss king', took both my new digital video camera and my camera to work in the morning to charge them and forgot them when I left to drive to the surf ...duuuhhhhhh!!
The surf just got better and better and it was ashame that it got dark cause it got really good the last hour before dark..looks like autumn has started. thank god for that!
Now it looks like it's gunna be really good this week coming as well..this time we'll make sure we get some really good pics..will updaate soon! peace from da ratman
Thursday, June 3, 2010
FLATTEST EVER
We have had the flattest ever start to any year this year..there hasn't been ONE surfable swell yet and we have normally surfed quite a bit by this time of year..
We went to Norway at the end of April and got a few nice sessions in but the weather was miserable so we didn't get any surf shots at all..
We are depressed and praying that something will come up for us to surf on soon, we normally go for our annual midnight sun surf so i hope we get one this year to uphold the tradition..DA RAT
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Euro championships
(Da rat)
Shit sorry guys, it's been a long long break for us..we've been tied up in family for a while but we are now on the boil again I promise. Alot has happened since I wrote last. In September last year (2009) I was appointed as Team Manger for the Swedish Surf Team..(haha some may say...but we went to Jersey in the Channel Islands and we KICKED ARSE!!) not just in the competition sense but also in the party sense!!
I arrived in Jersey with an ozzie 'swedish' team member Craig Shearer (alais sheepo from the gold coast) after drinking a 'few' beers on the plane and met a completely new group of people.(AKA. The Swedish Surf Team, 2-3 of them i knew from before)..Over a period of a week we became a team and showed the whole of Europe what the Swedes are made of..we had a ball both in and out of the water!!
The surf was tragically crap, unfortunately. If it had been good, the competition would have been over in a few days and the rounds of golf I had arranged with some of the other team managers from different countries would have been realised., and some really good surf sesssions would have been recorded by me..but not to be..
Instead we spent a week waiting in the foyer of the hotel for the organisers to ring us,(we were on standby), while the ½ft surf dribbled in. Sad really cause the day before we arrived the surf was cranking and the whole week we were there for the comp it was just pathetic to say it politely. Such is life!
We had some hilarious and triumphant and (sad times) though..In the Open division, (with 85 entrants),we kicked arse and against Europe's best surfers we had one guy landing at 13th place and another at 25th!..Not bad from a country with absolutely no funding or government backing! We also saw some of our best surfers knocked out it horrendous surf..I MEAN UNSURFABLE surf, when they really had a chance to go further..(some heats were so bad that the winner was the one who caught more than 1 wave!!!!!)
All in all Sweden posted it's BEST reult EVER in the euro championships.
On the last night I had prearranged a karaoke night at one of the local pubs and took the team on a surprise mission..It was hilarious and apart from the odd 'terrible but hilarious' attempts to sing there was some REAL talent in the crew..One guy sand 'whole lotta love' from led Zeppelin and just slamdunked it good..we found out later he's the lead singer of a popular band in Malmö..nobody knew..hahaha..We had also linked up with the Irish surf team and they came along as well and the whole pub was just goin ARF.. it ws a huge night and really good fun.
during the week, on one of the many flat days, we hired the local flowrider and had a ball together as well..
The whole trip was a flop surfwise but a great time and many new friends were made and good times had.
Peace from team captain rat!
Shit sorry guys, it's been a long long break for us..we've been tied up in family for a while but we are now on the boil again I promise. Alot has happened since I wrote last. In September last year (2009) I was appointed as Team Manger for the Swedish Surf Team..(haha some may say...but we went to Jersey in the Channel Islands and we KICKED ARSE!!) not just in the competition sense but also in the party sense!!
I arrived in Jersey with an ozzie 'swedish' team member Craig Shearer (alais sheepo from the gold coast) after drinking a 'few' beers on the plane and met a completely new group of people.(AKA. The Swedish Surf Team, 2-3 of them i knew from before)..Over a period of a week we became a team and showed the whole of Europe what the Swedes are made of..we had a ball both in and out of the water!!
The surf was tragically crap, unfortunately. If it had been good, the competition would have been over in a few days and the rounds of golf I had arranged with some of the other team managers from different countries would have been realised., and some really good surf sesssions would have been recorded by me..but not to be..
Instead we spent a week waiting in the foyer of the hotel for the organisers to ring us,(we were on standby), while the ½ft surf dribbled in. Sad really cause the day before we arrived the surf was cranking and the whole week we were there for the comp it was just pathetic to say it politely. Such is life!
We had some hilarious and triumphant and (sad times) though..In the Open division, (with 85 entrants),we kicked arse and against Europe's best surfers we had one guy landing at 13th place and another at 25th!..Not bad from a country with absolutely no funding or government backing! We also saw some of our best surfers knocked out it horrendous surf..I MEAN UNSURFABLE surf, when they really had a chance to go further..(some heats were so bad that the winner was the one who caught more than 1 wave!!!!!)
All in all Sweden posted it's BEST reult EVER in the euro championships.
On the last night I had prearranged a karaoke night at one of the local pubs and took the team on a surprise mission..It was hilarious and apart from the odd 'terrible but hilarious' attempts to sing there was some REAL talent in the crew..One guy sand 'whole lotta love' from led Zeppelin and just slamdunked it good..we found out later he's the lead singer of a popular band in Malmö..nobody knew..hahaha..We had also linked up with the Irish surf team and they came along as well and the whole pub was just goin ARF.. it ws a huge night and really good fun.
during the week, on one of the many flat days, we hired the local flowrider and had a ball together as well..
The whole trip was a flop surfwise but a great time and many new friends were made and good times had.
Peace from team captain rat!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Xmas and a happy new year to you all
in october the rat went to jersey in the channel islands and was the team manager for the swedish surf team...a full story with pics is coming soon!
both sweden and norway have delivered good surf again this year and it looks like boxing day is going to produce the goods in sweden..it's gunna be -6 and snowing though and 3-4 degs in the water...brrrrr,,,,
The midnight runners will soon be back in action again with our blog and we hope that 2010 brings you all heaps of surf and good weather!!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Nice!
Last week we finally got the first taste of autumn when we got a nice (but not super big) surf..
It was solid enough and there were a few really long rides to be had..We checked out one spot first before deciding to hit another place and we were rewarded with solid lefts prealing off..nice..Kojak,me Heath and Woodsy made the journey and it was worth it..no pics cause it was pissing down rain but memories are good i guess..hope to get some pics up for you's soon..peace..DA RAT
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Finally it's starting again..sorry about the lack of posts this summer but the surf has been crap and I have been renovating at home..and since no-one else hardly ever writes anything on here it's been as dry as a desert for a while on the blog side!!
Luckily the surf has come alive again and we are lookin forward to a few nice ones...yes..norrland gets good and we hope we get some good stuff tomorrow..wish us luck and i'll try to get a few pics up after..peace and ...yaaaahhhhoooooooooooooo..(da rat)
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