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.