Wetsuit fitting..

It's always good to buy a properly fitting wetsuit or get one custom made.

The kind folks at Snugg have posted a handy measuring guide on their website, which apparently has been very popular:

How to Measure from Malcolm Ball on Vimeo.

Club tropicana

South wales x spot

Firing on a clean swell. Noone in..its a pretty shallow reef and I plan to tame it soon :)

Modern Collective - The Second Visions

If this trailer doesn't make you want to go surfing and dive off mid air, whilst trying to attempt a ridiculous 'rodeo flip bamboozle' then nothing will!

Modern Collective - The Second Visions from Poor Specimen on Vimeo.

Wave rock

It's been a stonker of a winter here in Cymru so far.

This is our first flat spell in weeks and the jet stream has been kind providing us with our fair share of offshore winds for a change ('bout bloody time!)

I seem to remember saying something similar last winter but I think this one has gone one better.

The snowdrops and daffodils might be popping up but it's still bloody cold in the water but not as cold as I thought it would be after the 'heavy' snow falls of Dec/Jan when we had up to 4" of snow ;)

This week is shaping up nicely and Thursday and Friday are looking good to go so the gull might have to take leave and hit some Gower reef.

A decent surf over reef is long overdue and 'team saga' are pining for my presence 'out back' to inspire them on to greater things! ;)

The weekend was flat although Scarweather Banks had some white water all weekend and Saturday had a small wave at Rest Bay at low tide - around a foot but it looked surfable on a mal.

Anyway I've discovered a secret spot where you can actually pull in and get barrelled on the flat days. Our own S. Wales version of 'wave rock'. The lip actually resembles Teahupoo.

Strictly speaking it's a forehand wave but what the heck!



My wife pleaded with me not to attempt it but....inspired by Welsh forward - Andy Powell's golf buggy antics, I took off, pulled in and back doored the god damn peak!





Gull