What a week it has been! The waves have been super fun still so Tai Buddha, Fleni Maitua, Neil Purchase Jr. and myself hit the east coast to get some tunnel vision and find some ramps. We rocked up to Keramas on Friday and there were literally 25 cars in the car park. The lineup resembled Snapper when the Quikky Pro is on. Everyone was over it; even Jordy and his crew, who were in town filming for his upcoming movie flagged it. We checked a few little semi secret spots and ended up scoring this super fun left with no one out. It turned out to be an epic start to what was gonna be an even better weekend.

Adam Bennetts – Mxing it up on the decks and in the water. Pic Damea.

Jordy Smith – Red Bull gives you aerial prowess. Pic Damea.

Bud Freitas spraying off some. Pic Damea.

“What was that? Free Red Bull and vodka all night?
No way… I’m there for sure”

That was the response I got from everyone I told about Jordy’s Red Bull party that went down last Friday night. And why wouldn’t you go to a party that had an unlimited supply of Red Bull and Vodka? It wasn‘t that shitty Kratendang rip off syrup either, and bottles of Absolute vodka too. Ripping.

Because there was no surf for the next two days, everyone put their party hats on and went mad. The action went down at this club called Eikon. It’s kinda the new place to hang as Sky Garden is way too crowded these days. The set up is cool because it has this split-level with the DJ booth being over the bar. You can see all the action from behind the decks.

TB and Reni downstairs getting their dance on.

The two men behind the lens of Jordy’s new movie project: Rick Rifici and Kai Neville. They’re joined by Jordy’s costar Mitch Coleborn.

There were cameras going off left right and centre. Here’s Damea’s angle of me on the job behind me decks.

My view across from the DJ booth all night was a shirtless Jordy Smith.

The party was supposed to be a shit hat party. Somehow I was the only one wearing a shit hat.

We had one day off to recover then it was my pool party birthday bash on the Sunday. We hired the sickest two bedroom villa in Seminyak and had a hell Sunday session all day and into the night.

The Bali Buddha himself and Mark Mathews lining up for a glass of delicious punch. Buddha is my roommate for the next three months and he is one good tour guide. He knows where all the new waves are so heaps of the footage you will be seeing over the next few month will be nuts!

The waves picked up after a long weekend of partying and the boys hit the water again. The east coast was firing with Keramas and a few waves around there, as good as it gets. I was sitting in the warung at Keramas on one off the days and I was thinking to myself, ‘How good is this? It’s like watching a surf movie in real life’. Kerrzy and Lee Wilson were doing the most retarded airs while Jay Dizzle and Benji were throwing down the craziest carves. It was nuts!

For the next few months Gold Coast kid Adam Bennetts is gonna be living the dream in Bali. Surfing all day and DJing his nights away in the clubs of Kuta and Seminyak, Ads has also volunteered his services to ASL as Bali Blogger Boy, giving us the low down on what’s up in every Aussie surfer’s favourtite holiday isle. Here’s Bennetts’ Bali Blog One.

http://surfinglife.com.au/news/asl-news/4503-bennetts-bali-blog

Words: Dino Adrian
Photos: Jamie Scott

http://surfinglife.com.au/news/asl-news/4430-dinos-diary-part-1

West Aussie lad Dino Adrian has decided to bail the early West Oz winter and head for the surfer’s paradise that is the Mentawais. While holed up in heaven he figured he may as well keep us up to date on his doings, and will be filling the odd blog or two over the next coupla weeks. Turns out Dino’s also staying in about the only place you can park your boat and buy a beer, so as well as plenty of refreshments, he’ll be meeting plenty of crusty old salts while he’s at it. It’s a tough life, but somebody’s gotta do it. Here’s Dino’s Diary – Part One.

This is home for the next two weeks. Shithouse hey? On a tropical island in the middle of nowhere with a coupla china plates. And you couldn’t get better hosts, some of the best people I’ve met and there are waves all around us.

This is our bedroom. It’s a bar, the Monkey Bar. Every night crew from the boats come in to sink a few ales, so there’s not going to be much sleeping going down. The two lads behind the bar are absolute mad horses. The Bintangs going down out here are like angels pissing on your tongue. Oh yeah, take note of the rig too. If we get some swell, which is apparently arriving the next few days, I’ll be able to tick all boxes for the perfect Indo mission.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ywdznnkfkmy#1

Airing Monday, May 17 at 9:00 pm Eastern Time (6:00 pm Pacific Time) and telecast three additional times, Reef Week Kicks Off with pro surfer Jay “Bottle” Thompson on “The Daily Habit.”

It’s Reef Week on The Daily Habit and we kick off with Australian ripper and Reef Team rider Jay “Bottle” Thompson. Plus, our very own Jordan Morris and director James Cameron discuss a few ways to save the world. Jay “Bottle” Thompson’s sponsors include: Reef, Otis Eyewear, Simon Anderson and planetsports.com.

For decades the standard surf mag formula was to show our heros ripping in perfect surf at remote locations. These sponsored and stickered-up surfers are the shiny exterior of the machine that we know as just The Surfing Industry. But who are these people? Do they even surf?

We took a few of these vital cogs that work under the hoods of some of the surf industry’s shiniest cars to Sumatra to experience what their stickered up poster guys and gals get to do for a living.

http://www.surfinglife.com.au/news/asl-news/4169-sumatran-secret
http://www.surfinglife.com.au/news/asl-news/4208-sumatran-secret-ii

All photos Blainey