Freestyle Kitesurfing

After Sailing and shooting yeasterday at Sele i met up with a couple of my kitesurfing buddies at Sola beach. i had promised the guys a photoshoot. after they were finished with their kitesurfing lessons they hit the water and charged hard ! the lightning conditions were a bit challenging with the setting sun in front of us. i Also got a bit surprised with the speed they get in the rotating wakestyle tricks, difficult to follow up with the focus ! almost a bit like trying to keep focus on birds in flight ! i experimented a bit with BW and Sepia conversions in Postprocessing. turned out kind of cool i think ! Spent most of the day at the beach,what could be better !

Radical Action @ Sele !!

Cool day at Sele again ! Fully powered 5.3. the waves almost had some size tody,but they were a bit sloppy for some reason. maybe cause high tide. Still fun conditions !

Rock @ Grottene

Above two pictures is Rune E With Band

Patricks..

Royal Oil

AKKS had a kick off show at Grottene in the basement at Folken Yeasterday. 3 Local Bands were Playing. Royal oil opened,theyre really young,and havent developed their own style yet i guess. Next Act Patricks Played Loud Grungy/punky Hardrock that really impressed me. ithey could rival some of the more known bands in that genre ! Last act out were Rune Eilertsen with band. More mellow rock than the previous two bands. had to leave after a cuple of tracks though. Folken/Grottene have just opened after the Summer, and theres a few things happening there in the near future. Theres also a music festival staring here in stavanger in the next few days,NU Music ! definitively worth checking out some of the bands !

Kings Of The Fjord !

Drove over to the East Coast this weekend,since there was a forecast for Surf i brought my gear and spent a few hours at larkollen Saturday and Sunday. Its kind of the main venue for the Oslo Sailors and its a cool spot ! theres flat water on the inside and a wide fjord further out for freeriding. theres a couple of wave breaks and even a semi mythical offshore reef that gets sideshore conditions in the deepest of automn lows..

Sunday evening were spent at Rockefeller watching my old heroes Dinosaur Jr ! a really cool concert,and Rockefellers audience have probably never before been exposed to more loud fuzz guitar and "traktorbass".. my ears are still not working properly !

Salmon Fishing !

Surfless weekend, so i decided to try one of the local Salmon rivers. Bjerkreimselva were kind to the fishers and a lot of Salmon was pulled up ! i only got one small, but this river houses up to 30 pounders so you can get some big fish here ! its a really beautiful and easy to acess/fish river as well. not too expensive to get a fishing licence either.

Theres even a chance of wind this evening,hmm not sure if im up for it tough..

BigBang @ Folken

BigBang played Stavanger again last night. They must like it here i think its their third visit here in a year ! Maybe its because the leader Øystein Greni likes to surf ? the gig was a student party thats part of Fadder 09. a kind of get to know each other week, that seems to involve some binge drinking.. the athmosphere were really happy !

They used a lot of smoke on stage, which i find to be bad news for photos,but it was fun beeing there with the camera again !

Sideshore at Sele !

Erik throws a forward !

Erik is usually seen lurking around the point hunting waves with his evo 62 and 3.7. I was on a 5.3 today.. eriks biggest sail is a 4.7 !

Sondre is a competent sailor. He always goes big ! he does competetive racing as well

Sele gave us the usual mix of quite strong winds and small waves today. i went from underpowered to fully powered on my 5.3. I was out with my new (used) Goya 90 L 08 today. i have used the board for a couple of sessions on im quite pleased. it has a tad more float than my old 85L which helps in slow transitions and schlogging. it gets on the plane fast and feels a bit faster and lively than my stolen Da Curve 85 06. often here the waves are small and you have to use the wind and boardspeed to get some speed in the turns. i try to approach the waves going downwind with speed on these smaller days. i had some problems with railtripping doing so today, but im not sure if its the boards fault though __;)

anyway i hope it will be a good solutions a my big wave board. will use this board for travelling to DTL spots as Maui/chile. Hopefully it will hit Hawaiian waters this November !