My boy D-Phil hit a rough patch today a he was diagnosed with appendicitis we visited him in the Arica hospital tonight to give him some moral support before he was operated on. We brought him his Ipod and I let him make some phone calls back home before he went under the knife. It [...]

Small waves and thick crowds forced a rest day for me. Lots of surf on tap next week and the contest should start this weekend. Here’s a shot of me freesurfing and a cool angle of me on the stage in Peru check the crowd…..

Check out the difference in thickness between my board and Tamega’s board. Pretty extreme….but cool as some how both work well for us respectively.

Living the Arica lifestyle today. Woke up went to el gringo and surfed with all the locals and competitors practicing for tommorrow. Then went to eat a huge crip meal for 1700 pesos which is about $3.00 after lunch we went to the ACC check in and press conference which was pretty cool. Had a [...]

It’s been a long day traveling to Arica chile. We left our amazing house in Santa Maria Peru and missioned to Lima to have a last dinner and drinks with our Peruvian friends. We then headed over to the airport for an very early flight at 440 am. I slept in the airport for [...]

Today we had the final day of the Peruvian inka challenge. The waves were fun 3-4 foot and bowly. I won which was epic. It was my first IBA event win since pipe in 2007. It felt great I had some great heats. My heat with Dave Winchester was one of my favorites [...]

Surfed my first two heats today in some challenging conditions. Had some good waves though. I will surf tomorrow in the quarters man on man with an on fire Dave Winchester.
We should have some good waves again and it will be a good day.
Some big upsets went down today Dave hubbard ben player andre botha [...]

Hit up the contest early with the boys. Waves were solid 4-8 foot closing out an very challenging I did not surf today but David hubbard and andre Botha advanced but David Phillips and jacob romero lost out in tough conditions.
We had a meeting with the mayor of the town and we took more pictures [...]

We had a busy day in Peru today
Woke up early went to surf before the contest started. Found out we don’t surf till Friday or sat then drove to Lima to have lunch at La Mar an epic epic resturants here. Then went and did a coaching clinic at the local beaches. After that [...]

We hit up the contest beach early today. Some good waves and lots of guys practicing. The big swell is coming tomorrow and the contest trials start too at san Pedro. Here is a photo of me riding today courtesy of
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We also got to enjoy more amazing peruvian cuisine and it is awesome as [...]