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Pat, me and Eva 12 x 4' on 1' off rest after 4, 3'. All of them...1' at 70%, 1' at 90%, 1' at 70% and last minute at 90% Good hard workout with some tempo changes!

My turn to paddle and the wind was trying to give me something. Did a nice little 10km with 6 km of swells and a sweet 13.8 km average time. Nice and mellow, easy to connect and surf...super day.

Pat had a great demo day(sold 3 Mako Elites) and downwind race. He came 2nd to Steve Woods and then Noah rounded out the medals for Team Ocean Paddlesports..then the drive home...usually SF to Costa Mesa is 7 hours pulling the trailer..but the nasty freeway was closed for repairs????at 12 [...]

ok..Pat, Correy, Noah and Reece off to Northern Cal for the Wavechaser downwind race and demo day. I decided to turn off the TV and go for a long paddle...only a month till surfski champs...so NAC to Newport Pier and back. 22.5 km. not hard, but time in the boat.

Patrick competed Friday and Saturday at the Lifeguard Nationals in Manhatten Beach. Highlights include him winning the stacked age group surf ski (Mitch Kahn and Rob Pelkey) and winning also his heat to make the surfski open finals. He ended up coming home and not racing the finals in the [...]

Congratulations HAYDEN!!! 4th place C boys paddleboard and woohoo.... 5th place C boys Iron man! And thats after racing and winning the Distance Swim at HSBJGs before going up to LA. Gotta get some of that energy. You rock and your only 11!!

Alan of the North, Pat, Eva and I all did some course work sprints. 1 x 2000m, 1 x 1000m and 1 x 500m had to paddle a quick one.....all at 90%. 3 minutes rest.

Saturday night was an Interntaional(Aussies still hanging around) Surf Festival in Torrance and I was invited to be part of a womens taplin relay team(surfski, swim, paddleboard). Reece brought his night vison goggles (classic 9 year old) and Hayden brought his fins and never left the water even to watch [...]

Yea, Eva is back..sick too long! 12 x 1' on 1' off and 12 x 30" on 30" off, 90% 5 minutes rest between sets.

Tired to do a good 13 km downwind on my lifeguard spec ski to get more used to it for the USLA Nationals in a week. The 7 knot breeze turned into a nothing slog for over an hour. Had a good hard push trying to get the ski to [...]

Ok so now we are all keen to do the USA lifeguard nationals after the weekend soooo we went down to Hungtinton Beach with the spec skis and did 8 x jump in starts out for 200 meters...surf in, and 2 x 2000 m. Awesome to get in the ocean [...]

Super fun weekend spent on the beach. Friday was the Junior lifeguard regionals where Hayden (11) went to compete for Huntington State Beach. He had a fantasitic day, getting 2nd place in the C age group boys paddleboard. It came down to a sprint off the wave and he was [...]

We have these in stock, fiberglass lay up for $2700. For an independant review check out www.surfski.info. We will be updatinig our surfski page with photos soon. Patrick and I and a few others have tried this double and its fantastic.

Alone today so went for hard work on the course. 3 x 2000m rest 3' wind and current opposites. Times slow, but work out good.

A super fun event that we have not been to in over 5 years. Last minute we decided to go and race in the surf. The Aussie team was here from Victoria for the Whale and Sheild yearly event with LA County. The first event in the morning is the [...]

Beautiful light breeze with some small white caps today..perfect for a quick downwind. Paddled up and walked across the pennisula by myselft and then out the surf (small but a strong shore dumper). I managed to time it perfectly into the peak of the curl and smack...punched right through, but [...]

Too many kids/camps/beach/business/relatives/popsicles/pool/fireworks/and fires for Patrick. Not enough sleep/time/babysitters/energy....but life is sooo good.

great paddle, same at Pats yesterday. slight breeze, small swell...59:50 for 13km..ok time too.

Steve, Noah, KC, Pat and I went yesterday afternoon for a blowing 15 knot downwind..only the beaches were black ball so we had to go upwind first. I lasted for about 15 minutes and said no thanks and headed back down for a fast, but short ride. GPS showed 24 [...]

Since we can't keep paddles in stock, we decided to look for something somewhere else while we wait for our container to ship..We found Jantex. Used by Lewis Laughlin at Molokai, this beautifully made, light, stiff mid wing is something special. Photos and details to come..but check out the Jantex [...]

World Cup South Africa, Hank comes first with Clint and Dawid 2nd and 3rd...Fenn Mako Elites...woohoo. 6 out of the Top 10 on Fenns..again and again and again. Congrats to Alexa too for winning the womens division on a Fenn. Huge downwind, flat or in between, Fenn is the winners [...]

Ok 1 hour of pilates and I still can't move properly. 14 km the next day, today...broke the session up into a 4 km and 4 x 1km and some ocean time..good job Eva and thanks for the pilaties and crippling me for a couple of days.