What Friends Are For

Some of my favorite things in the universe include:
1)Norcal left barrels
2)Shooting artsy pretentious photos
3)Getting photo-slut shots of me surfing
4)Beating Sander at any competitive endeavor, which always hilariously makes him even more bitter than he normally is.

Today I had the rare pleasure of accomplishing all these favorite things in one millisecond.

The surf was pretty bad, so I figured it was a good day to try out the GoPro tailmount (a concept I had shamelessly stolen from Sander - see here)

Surfing with the camera on the tail was actually easier than having it on the nose. But I encountered a major problem with spray, meaning almost all my photos came out looking like this, at best:


However, I did luck into a few hook-ups, including this ultra-clean toilet squat on my first wave:


And this somewhat spray-marred barrel on my last wave:




I sent Sander some of the shots a couple minutes ago and his reaction was predictable, competitive, classic, Sander: "You Bastard! You stole my idea and got a barrel shot before I did! Argh! First the French and now you!"

Almost as good as beating Sander in backgammon.