Waves on wednesday

It looks like it's on for a south east swell on wednesday boys...who's in!???
FINALLY...peace from the rat

Update from norway....

Here´s some pics... Jacob is the blond one, Samuel is the dark one. They rock. Surfs up!









All pictures!

Our prayers go to Rat and his mother

(Johan)Ratman left for France today. His mother is really sick with lung cancer, and he´s gone there to take care of her. Since I just lost my father (he was only 58 yrs old) from a cardiac arrest, I really feel for the Rat. Remember, love and honour your parents every day, tomorrow it may be too late. Pray for surf!

We missed 3 days of surf

(RAT) After watching the weather sights for the last 3 days I decided to write in that there was surf on wed arvo, all of thurs and pretty much all of friday...None of us could go this week, which would really be the first time in 3 years that the timing was wrong for all of us..shit..now i'm depressed.
I had so much work that i worked till 6.30 on friday night from 7am..at least it's over now..pray for some swell next week..

A pleasant evenings surf!

(Rat) After watching the internet sights all day I packed the car and made a last minute 240km dash to the coast with frexi and andrew
What a smart decision that turned out to be because we arrived to PERFECT 3-5ft tubes crunching and rolling down the point..sad that it was only andrew and me out..hahahahaha...frexi had just lasered his eyes so he couldn't surf but he attemted to take a few photo's of us with my crappy little 5mpix camera.. it didn't go too well but he got a couple of ok shots and here's some of them
I'd say that yesterday's surf ranks in the top 4 surfs i have had in sweden..it was pumping actually with power and form and i got a few really nice little cover-ups..pray for more surf..RAT

Frexi finds a new spot!! 'GOLDEN'

(Update from RAT)
Our legend friend Freddie 'Frexi' Jansson has uncovered and surfed a new spot..On Sunday 17th Frexi surfed a new left hand point that works in big North East swell when our other North east spot maxes out and gets out of control..We won't give it's real name, (naturally), but we can temporarily name it 'GOLDEN'................
Frexi's words to me were...
"We have found a new golden spot! It is better than any other wave we have in our area! We surfed 150-200m long lefts off a point today and they were 10 times better than the other spot we have in the same conditions..the wave gets better and better the bigger it gets and never maxes out.It's a really easy paddle out 'cause you just paddle out around the shoulder..it was unreal! It's an even better wave than the wave we surf in southerly conditions!"
Not many photo's got taken that turned out very good but I'll put in a couple as a taste for the future.

MOoohahahahaha, what a great session!

Yesterday was really good. Jay just came back from the states and had presents for all of us. We hung out for a few minutes at Grants job, and then everyone went back home to pack up their shit for a surf trip.

We left at around five and had a great trip discussing the finer things in life, like star wars, bad drivers and boobs.

We arrived at NVS and it was all sunny and beautiful. Jay put on his wetsuit backwards, and I (Johan) jumped off the wrong rock and got slammed in to the cliffs. Grant kooked out on 3 consecutive waves and Andrew´s soul is full of poop. Then we just started catching really good rides and had the time of our life.

We stopped at a gasstation on our way back and had a feast.

Unfortunately no one brought a camera, but then again, no one of us would have stayed on the beach long enough to use it..

Peace

Dads, sons and a dog: Norway at it´s best

Well we got it as good as it can get in Norway this summer.....
I was invited to run the surf school for Torkild and Anne, the people who own the house on the beach in Hoddevik.
The surf in Norway had been small for ages before the week I was going to go with my 7 year old son Sam..I asked johan if he'd like to tag along with his 5 year old son Jakob and he naturally jumped on the opportunity to get a week of free accomodation and food ...and of course..SURF...
We took off at 8pm on the saturday night with the kids in the back, the dvd on play, and after 11hrs of driving in pleasant 'light all night' driving conditions we arrived the next day to double overhead offshore pumping barrells!!!
We scored big time because it had been flat for ages there... and it went flat after we left.

It was pumping for basically the whole week and on the last 2 days it got over 30 degs on the beach and the gulf stream pushed a nice warm current along the coast which meant that, even though it was smaller, we could surf in boardies without any problems..quite bizarre really, the thought that you can actually surf in boardies in Norway..hahaha
Both Jakob and Sam were powering on the surfboards all week..Sam was paddling onto whitewater and standing up all by himself after 2 days...!!! Jakob is a couple of years younger than Sam so he was a little more hesitant but that will come as he gets a bit older..
There were skateboards there and perfect roads to learn on so the kids went off on them, there was child-minding so the kids had heaps of really fun activities to do so we parents got a break now and then and there was, of course the surf.
Johan and I had a couple of really EPIC evening sessions and the pictures taken by professional photographer Thomas Bickhardt show some of the size we got..his name is on the photo's he took..hope you don't mind I put them in Thomas!!??!!

We met an Aussie called Seamus from Wollongong who had scored the sales rights 'Ocean and Earth' for Norway and went on a midnight's surf session with him..It was really really good surf that we pulled up to in the 4-5ft solid rang..no evidence though cause there wasn't any photo's taken..when we saw the surf we just threw our wetties on and ran to the surf laughing our guts out..hahaha
We drank beers with the crew every night in the boathouse and a few nights got pretty rowdy..hahaha..
I had surf lessons every day between 1 and 4pm and taught about 30 people how to surf ! 25 of them stood up and surfed in on the whitewater in the first lesson..I thought that was pretty good so it was a real rush to watch them learn so quickly.
All in all it was a fantastic trip and I can't wait to go back again..Thanks to Torkild and Anne for all their hospitality...RAT

Johan bottom turning on a solid one a little floater by me Torkild (owner of the house)on his WaimeaBay gun got piles and piles of waves
Kittil (a Hoddevik local)bottom turns on a clean one


Above is an ozzie called Seamus doing a really nice reo. He is the Ocean and Earth rep in norway.We had a classic surf with him at midnight one night,(it was light all night!!)
Under, is me doing a roundhouse cutty and a couple of shots of me lining one up.
Johan and Anne in the infamous boathouse on a 35 deg sunny afternoon in beautiful hoddevik, must be one of the most spectacularly beautiful places I have ever been to.
Under this photo is the white 'surf house' in the background.

Sam stoked with his new board and wetty!Torkild attacking the food in the kitchen
Johan refuelling for the night surf sessions and extra curricular activities..hahahaJakob showing off his skateboarding scars
Sam hangin loose
2 surf school students scoffing out
The master and the apprentice

An afternoons ale in the boathouse on a stinkin' hot day and under that is Johan doing paddle and balance training with Jakob
What did we do last night???!!! hahaha
Will do it all again real soon..until the next time..stay cool..RATMAN