Real redemption

Against all odds, it happened today. I was able to get some rides and actually have fun. I made most of the waves I went for (tho…

Good waves are bad news

By all accounts, today was as good as it gets at our break. How discouraging for me, to have good waves! The better the waves, th…

Redemption session (sort of)

I had to have some redemption today, since it's been over a month since I did anything resembling surfing. And I did get some…

Struggling

Looked out the window. Saw waves. No brainwork was necessary: go surfing. There should have been brainwork. The guy I saw out the…

Waves, but no surfing

Today was my first time in the water since Thanksgiving. I think it's the longest I've been out since I started surfing y…

Tana Umaga tells it like it is

Sports autobiographies, and rugby versions especially, come and go at a great rate of knots in New Zealand but one that has m…

Stewart leaves no stone unturned

Sir Jackie Stewart has been a survivor, when many of his closest friends among the motor racing fraternity were not. It has …

New Zealand's 1937 tour of England (Part 3)

1937 (Part Three) Lack of consistent play was the difference The New Zealanders, having completed their tour of England, were put…

New Zealand's 1937 tour of England (Part Two)

1937 (Part Two) A win over England slips through New Zealand 's fingers Part Two: A win over England slips through New Ze…

New Zealand's 1937 tour of England

1937 (Part One) A tour undone by selection inadequacies Lynn McConnell looks, in three parts, at New Zealand 's 1937 crick…

My blogosphere

Today I got some more evidence that people around here are reading, or at least aware of, this blog. I don't think they'r…

Thanksgiving swell

Thanksgiving and the day before brought bigger waves than we've seen in a long long time. Both days some, not all, waves were…