Happy Birthday Guys

Summer time

Just needed to bring up this pic. Kaili and me had a blast of a time in the summer. me waiting to get the thesis started and him on his summer breaks. The whole July we were working out together. The average daily workout plan: -2k swim in the lake/-2hrs pumping in the gym big time /-hitting the court for some ballin' till dark...happy days, man.

Rip Curl Wetties

Meanwhile

There is not much to report about these days. Therefore I just hit you guys with some random stuff. Recently, I came across these both items. An awesome Jordan Ad:

and this outstanding beauty:


haha, und der Sven Väth beim tschicken, oida, der is echt der Coolste, hahaha

The trip

I met Cyp (my class mate from UWS) in Paris, where I had a 10h stop over before flying to Sao Paulo. We got so pissed and I easily burned 100€ for beer.



Sao Paulo is huge. Like, massive. 11mio people.

Ana e Thi
Next day we took the board to drive to Santos and Guaruja. Nice weather and some beautiful smooth breaking waves. And I really was impressed about ocean there. It was so clean, considering that Sao Paulo is 45min drive away and Santos is a big city with a huge industrial habor.



In Maresias we saw some big big waves. The guys were out with jet skis. Really impressive.




The jungle there was beautiful and seemed untouched from human hand. Sometimes it felt like being in the middle of the rain forest.




In Rio de Janeiro, we chilled out at the beach, went surfing at praia de Prainha, visited all the famous places and just enjoyed the atmosphere of this outstanding and wonderful city.

Copacabana

Rosinha

Pão de Açúcar


Corcovado

In Brazil

Unreal, this is all I can say. I am here since almost a week now and still don´t really get it. The first two days, I got to know São Paulo a bit better - loved it straight away. There is so much life in the streets and everything seems to be restless and in motion. People are at the streets 24hrs and go out and have a good time.
Then we went to Santos and further to Guarujá. The beaches are soo nice here. And everybody is so chilled out. I got some beautiful waves - had really good/smooth surfs. And the water, so warm.
Pics are gonna come soon.

Happy days.

By the way

...I am back in cold Germany since a while. Yeah, kinda settled in a bit. My love for the ocean is still (and will be forever) too strong, though. It feels like I am running dry, step by step. I miss Maroubra and every tiny thing that is connected to it.
But fortunately I have my very good mates here, who do everything they can to distract me. And most fortunate I got the chance to visit Brazil. Means I'll have a trip down there from beginning till end of April.

I let you guys know everything about the trip-

The pics below are from the cross country skiing session my very good mate Borsti and me did the other day. We've been to our local mountains ('Oberhof' in the 'Thüringer Wald'), roughly 1h drive by car away from my place. Got into the nature a bit, which was really good for my body and soul.

Konne is here

yeah, Konne is getting some time out from all his hustling in Germany. Switch off your mind, Bro', relax and enjoy yourself.




At the Waratahs Game in the Sydney Football Stadium with Konne and Felix #2
LET'S GO BOYS


At Iain's former work place: Kingscross Hotel.

John Shore

Guys, John Shore is the greatest hero ever existing. Maroubra's one and only. Like, from back in the good old days. This guy, my friends, surfed waves when cyclones were reshaping entire shore lines. When the ocean turned into a merciless beast, devouring too many poor souls who dared to challenge it. RIP

We are his young blood, the Marine Corp., keeping up his spirit.

AUSTRALIA DAY

Rock'n Roll people

Surf trip to Garie Beach

The other day, we were heading to Garie Beach in the Royal National Park. It is a 45min car drive south of Sydney.
4 boards on top of Harry's good old Ford
Handsome Iain (bloody british :)) caught while hustling to get in that damn wettie


Garie Beach, we had awesome crystal waves, about 4 to 5 ft with - happy days! (Don't know what that odd green thing is doing in the picture)

The crew

NYE

I was pretty much working the whole night in my bloody restaurant, which made me having to watch the fireworks from a rather bad spot and continuing working lateron till 2am in the night. On the other hand though, we were allowed to get free drinks, which I took as an opportunity to get pissed haha...

When I got home around 5am, we straight went to the beach to watch the sun rise the first time in the year. I took my board of course. So, as the only person out there, it gave me the priviledge of becoming the first person ever who rode waves at Maroubra Beach in 2009 - what a honor ey!





Chilling at the pool the whole day.




Leifu our cat wasn't missing. Couching for a delicious piece of meat. +++REST IN PEACE NOW, MY ONE AND ONLY BELOVED CAT+++


Eventually, this beautiful day had to be finished at a beautiful place - our beach.


Alex and Tita drinking their brazilian herbs




The pictures been made by my friend Henrique+++http://hfanti.wordpress.com/+++

XMAS in Maroubra

We had an awesome xmas under the Australian sun. Here the big day is on the 25th though. Everybody got excited in the morning and after a nice surf we popped the first beers (and didn't stop til 2am next morning).
Then we threw on the BBQ and chucked on some juicy steaks.




After heaps of food and beers we were heading to the beach.






Back in the house it was time to unwrap the presents and drink more.


Chilling out at the pool. by this time nobody wanted to jump in (I wonder why) - check out the healthy color


And back to the beach again - can't help it haha. A surf life guards nightmare. 3 totally pissed retards swimming in the rip far away from the flag area - having a lot of fun



BBQ again


HAPPY DAYS