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The Arica Chile Challenge will start tomorrow and its going to be a massive event! The trail alone is rumored to have 120 entrance which will run for 5 days. After that then the main event will run for another 4 days. This leaves only 1 lay day in the whole event. Fingers crossed there will be good waves for 9 days straight hahah.

Attached is a photo of Me getting interviewed by CNN Chile and training in Arica

Antofagasta is over and where off to Arica. The forecast is looking like a massive swell hitting over the new few days and will run into the beginning of the competition window. The first few days of the window will be the trails which will be interesting to watch with alot of good guys trying to qualify for the World Tour now. Ill check back in once we have settled in to our accom as im currently writing this on the floor of the Iquique airport terminal

I have arrived in Antofagasta in chile finally after a long tiring flight from home. I always forget how painful those long flights are and how annoying it is trying to get over the jetlag. Anyhow we’re finally here and we arrived late in the afternoon and not know where we were staying we decided to head to where the comp site is to try and find our place. Luckily we stumbled across is pretty quick and found out early in the morning that we were really close to the wave.

The comp started yesterday with the early rounds being run. waves have been ok with 3 maybe 4ft waves and offshore mornings. Antofagasta doesnt seem like clockwork with the winds going onshore mid mornings unlike Arica where its close to 12 every day.

We will be surfing late morning tomorrow so hopefully the winds are good for a while and the swell jacking a little.

Photo: www.owenphoto.com.au

The first few times flicking through the mag i didn’t even notice. Then i received a FB comment from Photog Andy Lawrence that he had done a little piece on my on his blog with a shot from the new riptide issue that he had shot. Check out his Blog HERE

hahah love getting burnt… thanks!

To say sorry, I thought id throw up some pics for you to see. Two shots from Hawaii, both shot by Nathan Tyack from this season and unfortunately neither were run. At this stage we’ve had a little break in Comps with the Port Mac Festival of bodyboarding starting this weekend. If your in the area there will be a huge amount going on all week with Teams Challenge, Aussie Pro tour, Mens World Qualifying tour, Dk World tour and Womans World Tour. So come down and check it out!

It’s the first weeks of Autumn now and we’ve been greeted by the first good swell of the year which was a treat. Solid swell and all day good winds which are almost out of season still was what we had for the last 4 days and it’s been good to surf some breaks that havent broken in a few months at least. The best part about it was it was good waves at home and everywhere was good so it didnt mean that there was much of a crowd. Also to get waves like this a few weeks before the box event was a real good warm up to the second World Tour event for the year.

Here’s a framie of an average one as the best ones hopefully get a run in the mags if all goes well…

Framie thanks to Marty Keys

Wow that was an amazing event! That Pipe comp will go down in history i think as one of the best events in years. It was Probably some of the most perfect big heavy pipe ive seen and to have it run right at the peak of the swell was amazing. I got to surf the morning of the best day before the event then surfed my heat in the afternoon. It was also amazing to see the level of surfing as there was heats where people were getting knocked out event though they had scored a 9 and a 7!