Naked old swingers!!

Here is a few clips from the star of the trip from Simon Daly's camera. I have also just brought a new one so expect some clips of it soon.

In the mean time enjoy this, but just be warned it does show images of droopy old men!!

2ft onshore

So been in oz for over three months now and been pretty slack with blogging. Had a few days of pumping waves but its mostly been 2 ft and onshore lefts, dont get too jealous cotty! been shooting a couple days and filming a bit so expect a video soonish, heres a few photos to keep ya goin til then.

Aus and a little Vid

As some as you mite already know me and good friend Simon Daly are both going to Aus for the whole winter. I am going to leave on the 3rd of Nov and coming back whenever i want ha. I have been quiet on the blogging front over the last few months as i have been busy working for the first time ever.
Here is a little Video that I have made from a little surf at Croyde and Lynmouth on my summer sticks from JP. If you wanna go really fast wen its 1ft i would recommend a RX with 2 massive future fins with a smaller middle fin it may look wired but it flys.

Mentawai Surf Camp

Shot in the new wavelength from the analog surf team trip. super fun trip, stayed at Mentawai Surf Camp, we got hooked up by dave blackburn thanks mate was a sick place to stay. http://www.mentawai-surfcamp.com
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Funniest Vid ever

Here's a little vid a mate showed me one of the funniest drunk vids i think i have seen.

I will be writing a proper blog to let you know what i have been up to but in the mean time here's this.

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Coverage and New Sponsor

Couple bits of coverage from the last couple months. Buy the latest wavelength to read about my trip with the Analog team to the Mentawais! also a shot of the new stickers im now putting on my boards given to me by DC shoes.

Contest season

Nothing to report waves have been shit got comps coming up but here's a funny Video my mate showed me.

Enjoy

Mentawais

Went to the Mentawais last week couldn't of timed to worse if we tried. Not going to bore you with that shit so here a funny Vid of the Royal wedding instead.

Summer quiver

Been back from OZ for a few days and to be honest we have had better waves in the last few days at home than we did in most of the time in OZ. 

Heres a pic of my new summer/Indo quiver. I wish i could give everyone in England some of these small wave boards i have been getting as they totally change the way you look at summer waves. You can get the same amount of speed of a 2 foot wave as a 4ft one on a normal board. 

So basically if you want to have fun in the sea this summer get down to Redwood surfshop and orders yours!!!!

OZ Web 3

Hello there people of the web. Here is mine and Beau's last update from OZ before we make our main video with all of our good clips in. The last few weeks have been a bit hard for filming as we have had allot of rain and wind and not the best waves. Saying that we can't complain as the last few days has been pumping and we have been surfing our brains off. Anyway again probably no one has read this so i won't bore those of you who have.

Here's the Vid feel free to let me know what you think.

oz web 2

Hello there the last couple of weeks have been some of the best of my life probably. We have been getting some such good waves all over Noosa's coast and surfed one of the funnest beach breaks i have ever surfed on our own.

Here is a vid of those last few weeks we got kinda screwed over with our video camera as one of our batteries broke so now we only have one witch doesn't give us much time for filming.

Anyway no one has probable read this as there is a vid at the bottom ha. But if you have then i hope you enjoy it.

OZ

OZ has probable been the best place that i have visited in my traveling life the people are really friendly and the wave although not always perfect, are some of the most fun waves i have surfed. You can surf leg burning points or just simply drive to one of the hundreds of miles of beaches and surf some of the most ripable waves ever. Plus the pies are epic ha. I have heard that Britain had been pumping and although most people mite see this vid and think we have been getting shit waves and having to grovel a 2 foot beachy is equal to 4 foot day at home. I am always a bit gutted to miss out on waves at home no matter where i am, like most people im sure.
Anyways hope you enjoy the vid if you haven't already seen it and there will be new one out in the next week.

Life in Devon

This will be my last blog before i leave sunny Devon for my adventures down under. It has been a good winter but i am ready to say bye to the cold for a little bit now. I will be blogging when i am away and will be regularly putting up pics and little vids. Also we are hoping to make a DVD out of all the footage so watch out for that one. Anyway heres a bit of coverage i got in this months wavelength you should have already seen it as all of you should be religious buyers of this mag,  also a random pic of a dead fox that was roaming around the area. Not quit the exmoor beast but it aw well.
Over and out

Busy little bee

Here's a some art me and a good friend Beau just did on my new Jp surfboard.
What you think???

Few clips

Here is a little vid made up of some clips from a recent trip to Portugal with Joel Gray and another few from a rainy day at Lynmouth.
                                                              
          

Hello Again

Gotta have some coffee cake when your at Lynmouth 

Its been a bit of a crazy time the last week or two as we have finally got the sort of waves that we should over the winter. It's been my first winter here in three years and i have been pleasantly surprised. In December i was thinking how the fuck do people surf in the winter but i have been in a 4,3 this whole time and i can still surf for at least 2 hours. That doesn't mean that i want to stay here every year and i am not going to cancel my flight to OZ yet.

As most of you have been well aware of it has been the week for Lynmouth and it has been pumping with everything from small on shore short punchy little waves to 4ft light off shore perfection and having some real leg burners.

I have been suffering from a knee injury for the last 4 months and i am pleased to report that i am on the home strait. It has taken way to long and at one point i didn't think it was ever going to get better, but with some encouraging words from my physio and having my friend Beau in the same boat I can do more than just cutbacks when i am in the sea. My advise to anyone with an injury like this is not to go for stupid Thursday nights out in Barnstaple as I have been finding out. When you wake up from a night out it feels like someone has been repeatedly kicking you square in the knee and just to get it back to the stage it was at on thursday morning takes about a week.

Busy Busy Busy!!

Hello people I thought i would give you a little update on the last 3 weeks of my life which has included crashing my car, going to Portugal and getting really ill.

If you can remember about 3 weeks ago we had a night and morning of a full down poor of snow. I had been going to the gym with my friend Beau Bromham every day for  about a week and a half and was really getting involved. As i looked outside it was all white but the roads looked reasonably clear so i started setting of to georgeham it was getting a bit sketchy as i got about half way. I got to the bottom of the hill tried to get up it and failed. I was going to park at the bottom and walk up but thought i would hit it at a bit more speed and i will make it up fine. Anyway to cut a long story short i built up a bit more speed and tried to get a bit of a run up to it. There is a corner to get round as well anyway i took the corner to wide and slid into a curb braking the wishbone on my car and leaving me in the middle of the hill. I went up to the local garage and they pulled me up the hill to the car park, i said thanks then he said do you want a bill or pay by cash FUCKER i guess nothing is free anymore well trust me this will come back round on you thats for sure.

A few days later i went to Portugal on an air camp with Joel Gray from Surfsolutions which started of as a bit of a mission as we got as far as getting on the plain then it got canceled and we had to all get of again. We where flying with easyjet who where amazing and put us up in a hotel for the night all food in. When we finally got to Portugal we got picked up from the guys we where staying with and taken to the accommodation. The whole week was run really well and we got to surf our brains out which was a long time over due for me for sure. We had one of Britain's top freestyle snowboard coach on the trip with us and it was so interesting to see how much extra rotation they can get from there airs just from there different body positions. The waves that we got weren't very good for a normal surf trip but as this trip was just concentrating on airs they where perfect about 3ft and onsure. The weird thing is that before i went on the trip i was thinking i was ruling on my land rate of airs but as you will be able to see on the vid that will be released at the start of the new year i couldn't land a thing it sucked i blame it on the fact that the air sections and just to good for landing airs every time i would go to big and fall. Greg Martin also joined the team on this trip shooting for Wavelength mag and now thats one thing that i thing i am alright at GETTING SHOTS. See with shots you can go as big as you want and as long as you have your feet on your board it will be a shot. Anyway that issue is coming out in March and will be there 200th issue so make sure you buy 2 copies.

To finish off my week in Portugal i got ill on the last day i blame Stu Campbell who had been ill or week with the flu and as i had been sharing a room with him i am holding him 100% responsible. As the week has progressed i have got slowly better and today went to the gym for the first time. I won't lie to you and say i was fighting fit there was defiantly quite allot of cough brakes and i was out of breath within the first 2 mins on the cycle machine but it was a good change from sitting on the sofa playing XBox, obviously we did that after ha but thats just standard of any normal day.

If you have read this you have obviously read it i hope it wasn't to boring and i will update again as soon as i can.

I this is a link to an interview that i did in this weeks Journal http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/surfing/Baker-takes-air-training-camp/article-3007847-detail/article.html
Heres a link to the trailer of the Air Camp Vid http://vimeo.com/17724669

Still out of the sea

I have been out of the sea for a month now and it hasn't been as bad as i thought.I have been to see Annie Mac in Bristol witch i would recommend to anyone, worked a bit with my mum gardening, been to the gym 6 days a week and the best out the sea activity Xbox. I am going to Portugal on the 4th of December for an air trip with joel Gray from surfsolutions so hopefully my knee will be strong enough to do a couple of chop hops.  Anyway even though i have been out the sea here is a bit of coverage i have recently got in the mags just a shame it came after my recent Analog sponsorship.

Newcastle

I recently went up to the Newcastle in the North East for a BPSA comp with Stuart Campbell and Tom Rossiter  from Distorted surf. It was such a good trip scoring really good waves around the comp
days, I had a shocker in the comp but heres a couple of shot from my semi final heat when my fin ripped a hole in my wetsuit.

Step by step board sprays

Here are some new boards that i got of JP. I was going to keep them blank but as we had a few flat days i decided to give them a bit of color.

I have chosen to only spray one quarter of both of these boards as i think to much colour can be over powering but still have a good effect on a blank board.

Ingredients

Masking tape

Car spray

Newspaper

Black permanent marker

Car Lacquer

Step by Step on how to spray a board:

1. Design on a piece of A4 paper what sort of design you want, it helps if you colour them in so you can see what colours look good and where.
2. Use masking tape and newspaper to cover all of the bits that you don't want to be sprayed. Making sure the masking tape is pressed down so that the paint doesn't seep under it, also lay newspaper under it so no paint goes on the floor. (like the time when i sprayed my mums decking! oops. sorry mum!)Make sure that the rails are covered as you don't want any leaking onto them either.
3. Spray about 20 cm away from the board using a sweeping motion to get an even spray.
4. Wait till the paint is completely dry before pealing of as it will ruin the pray.
5. When using 2 or more colours, cover the pieces that you have previously sprayed to avoid the colours mixing. Trying not to mask the already sprayed pieces as it can peel some off.
6. Once that is dry you can peel the rest of the masking tape off. you should now have neat and tidy lines. 
7. Get a ruler and a black permanent marker and neatly go around all of the edges to make them stand out and to look more defined.
8. After this you are ready to lacquer. Hold the can about 30 cm away and lightly spray. You will probably need 2-3 coats. 

I would recommend using an old board to spray first as it can take a few to get them right.

Remember it is important to think about your deck grip when choosing your colours as it looks a lot better if they are colour co-ordinated.

I personally think that sprayed boards look a lot better in the winter especially because it can make a dark and gloomy photo look nice.

The reasons for me spraying my boards.

It is very important to me to have matching wetsuits and boards because as my media coverage expands it is an easy way of putting a stamp on my surfing and feel that colours are a good way of showing this. The perfect example is Kelly Slater. now when ever i see a white wetsuit it reminds me of him and ultimately his main sponsor quicksilver. I believe its one thing being given cloths, boards, and wetsuits etc but how you use them to advertise the company using them is essential, and thats how i intend to use the equipment and gear given from my current sponsors.