Sundays are the Best.....

Here's to goin to church, being good, doing well by others and giving thanks and praise....

Like i said, i'm goin surfing and nature is a good church to worship in...
So blessed to see my family this week and skate with the nephews and shoot with dad and grandma...
enjoy this sunset and be blessed...

Kind words to help me go on further!

Yep I know i have posted that Pato Baton lyrics but it's true...
my friend Mikey Ortiz plays bass for the band... i find that AWESOME....
real cool man...

anywho... Here are portraits of Derek from Raw Helmet on a borrowed piano...
The pianist was bummed Derek was sooo good. ahahah...
then the night continued!!! hahaha..
SO, the videos are on my DWF blog.... go check em live... well, recorded live..

I am updating this blog early cause surf is goin to start gettin sick.. gonna blast it all day...
so you get an bonus early...
thanks for checkin in .....

You received a note fromJohn Adams today:
Thank you for your efforts and donations to their chapter. The "impomptu art show" was timely and well attended. The Coastal Bend chapter will use your donation to help defray the costs associated with oil spill training of our members. 


This is from one of my buddies on the internet blastin:

I don't even need to see it or to know who got hooked up to be jazzed on Mr. Steele and everything he continues to do for the lonestar state.

a true Texas legand in every sense of the word and a close personal friend of mine.

Jon,
You prob dont know me. I am just wondering what board that is in the picture. Looks fun
-Mike

Jon Steele July 31 at 12:51pm
yeah brohog!!! I ride Nation MFG. boards... here is the link to his blog! Ryan use to shape for Infinity surfboards and then branched out to do his own trip... It is a 5'6 Dfin Twin.. Its pulled in tail allows for modern tricks and turns and airs as well as down the line stuff like an old fish.... its all the rage for sure!! let me know and we can get ya hooked up on em...

ryan is the man
http://nationmfg.blogspot.com/

photo by Daniel Franks at Weasel Reef

Bread Bowl and more

Great day at Bread Bowl yesturday... Sector 9 is the best....
:)
Dustin and Brock contemplate tricks.. Wiggins gets a check out in ESM magazine and some corned beef tacos at Mollys....

Life, your mind, and good feelings with friends!!!

Make sure you are doin all of them....
more to come... life is happening
Greyson and Christian were skating together.... stoked..
photos by eric kurzbard....

Babylon...

babylon shall fall...
driving back from Wyoming...

Family first!!!!!

SO i was blessed to drive out to Wyoming.. My aunt and uncles place is amazing... I will post the wedding photos soon...
Just exhausted... gotta teach skating tomorrow and surf lessons....
Here are the boys at the Jackson Hole skate park... I love the one on the left (Luke) Judas Priest stance!!! hahah...
Ben is Pumped!!!!! he learned how to rock to fakie on a good transition.... it is so amazing to see a kids face when the do a trick for themselves....


Self gratification at its finest....

a chip munk eats my cake... the back yard view... elm tress and a bug...

The Bar shot is where the movie "Any which Way But Loose" was filmed.... It starred Clint Eastwood, his usually suspects and an Orangatan (monkey.) .... they got drunk and punched people out....

Right Turn Clyde....

River Surfin and MORE!!

Just ran into a cool cat named Max!
Max has been travling a bunch and works at the Hotel I am staying at..
I feel that if you are good person, good people come into your life...
well after chatting for a bit i learned that there are WAVES on the Snake river!!!?
WHAT ? Surfable waves? HELL yeah!!!
It seems my friend Alex Grey has surfed them before and there are a few youtubes out there about it...
Stoke is where you find it!!!

Here is a look into Max's world....
Max's World

A tad hungover from the party with my sisters wedding group gave me some time to hang out with my nephew Mark...
I took him to Dairy Queen as my Grandfather Steele use to take me to DQ when I was a grom....
We had a good time and it was nice to watch some ducks and fish on the lake...

Travelin!!!

An old girlfriend gave me a box set of Tom Petty cause she use to be a manager for him...
There is a song called "travelin" in it..... I listen to it when i am on the road and like it....
:)
Well i'm traveling traveling baby.....
Here are some beautiful shots from Utah, Idaho and Wyoming while the window is open, the music loud and really enjoying AMERICA!!!

Consequences.....

be aware of your sourroundings.... been a long day....
surf slam... yea starts like that... then barrells and some airs... fun , real fun......
take your lumps....

but my point being....
a kid was saved by a lifeguard as he was sucked into this rip tide....I was stuck in one for 10 minutes today.
why would you let your child in the water when its six foot....
check this nice bottom turn out.....

OOOHHHH Apple cinamon pancakes for lunch...? Thanks neighbor!

Second session was tiring after running into this group of local shredders Raw Helmet band members, my old roomate hayden and the gang... stoked to see those kids..

The reasson i am doubling up is i will be traveling all day tomorrow starting early... thanks for checkin in...
;)

For Those Who CAN!!

thanks to Cliff Schlabach and Roxanne for donating their Aloha spirit so that others may live happily!!!

Thanks to all the volunteers and Mike Boyd and GScott for the imagery..
here is a link to a story about some truly amazing surfers and their friends..
Link: http://espn.go.com/action/surfing/blog/_/post/5394294

Update asap...

I havent been shuffling photos today... Up early for a surf out front.... stood next to a wall of water and rode away clean...
fun... fell on the next wave and that was the barrell of the day..

haha.. mother nature is funny like that... Hard to surf today but saw a lot of pretty barrels...
Ran into Dibi Fletcher as she was working out this morning. Always a pleasure to chat with her.

Lots of Drama around the new apartment (not caused by me) but will be taken care of tomorrow as the OC sheriff will be serving the neighbor a 3 day eviction notice....yowza.. woohoo... haha
besides that ... our beach house is EPIC!! I love it and the sun just came out as i wrote this....

Port Aransas

Port Aransas has become a really good longboard wave in the past couple of years.... slopey take off to inside bowl...
good stuff.. here is an unnamed surfer in Port A for Hurricane Alex....
Doin an edit for ESPN... enjoy.....

More Gulf than you can imagine

Not oil related this time thank GoD!!!
but our Gulf friends in VeraCruz... Here is a short story in the NEW SURFERS' Journal that we did about this spot..
Good time s and great trip.. I wish the editor had let me focus more on the people I went with and who we met as opposed to just the waves....
HUGE thanks to Frank and Nathan Floyd, Steven Hill for puttin the fire under everyone to go, Gabe, Jarred and JAN Bernad..
Good times and great travels..

Like a Rainbow in the Dark!

YEAH of course some DIO is fitting for this photo... I should have run to the beach to shoot this but didnt want to get my new camera soaked if the sky opened up..... BUT this is the view from my window at my desk... to the right you can see signal hill and camp pendleton hill when clear....
This storm was very welcome to cool off the day.. with some great pink colors and a couple rumbles of thunder and some rain, I was stoked to end the day this way.....

thanks for the light show mother nature.... keep em coming, you do great work!!!

Camp continues!!!

Camp is AWESOME and i LOVE working with the kids....
TODAY WAS HOT!!! really hot..... i got some sun stroke but resting now...
Just been goin nonstop all week... good times...
Swam a few of my surf lesson out to a pod of Dolphins yesturday.. It was glassy, and clear, the pod of about 10 or so large dolphins swam around and some just surfaced and chilled....it was pretty much AWESOME and i wish i had a camera.. It truly blew all of the visiting surfers minds...They had no idea.....
cool stuff.....
So I feel i am getting better at teaching and working with groms..... there will always be one or two that are over it or not want to learn...I am tryin to do better by them and figure it out.... here is a shot of a grom who ran outta steam and was pretty much over it...hahah... little bugger was doin better by the end of the day... stoked!!

Busy!!!

No one listens to Turtle!!!
I told ya I was busy... hahah. i got a gaggle of kids in camp and then straight off to surf camp... whew....
Name Tags for EVERYONE!!!!! Skate Camp starts at 9:30 am be ready to SHHRRREEEEEEED!!!
photo by Kurzbard

Pretty fancy!

SO i shot the Waterman's Ball... thanks for the work.. here is Robert Kennedy, Kelly Slater talks about Al Merrick, Tom Curren thanks his mom in the front row and Shaun Thompson talks about surfing the Central Coast...
Perry Ferrel embraces Paul Naude