coast trip 2010

once again me rach and the to ugly ducklings ( ryan hunt & ryan lucus) head from rotorua for the buller fest 2010. We had a sweet trip down doing sum sick gainers off a bridge we found in picton then into lake rotoiti at the head of the buller river.

bradley

ryan lucus

buller fest was once again an amazing weekend of racing and partying, i got conned into going in a raft team for the nz raft team trials consisting of a time trial slalom and nasty 45minute head to head down a very low water run of the upper buller, we did end up winning which made all the hard work worth while.

The head to head boater x is always a really cool day with lots of people watching and partying the day away, i was really looking forward to defending my title as winner the last 2 years running but after a very long day came out 3rd after battling Sam for the lead and passing him then getting pushed onto the rock he and johan got past me but still stoked and a cool days racing.

Leaving the buller gorge and heading for the west coast is always a cool drive thinking of the sweet heli rides thanks to Bruce Dando and deep valleys filled with beautiful clear white water.

Hanging out in otaki

Me dan and harley went up to gundys to for the night last weekend, we packed up dans new as suzuki and harley rode my bike an headed for the hills but we didnt get far before the first damages. Harley was trying to pull wheels up the paddock on the way an fliped the bike and broke the mud gaurd which was pretty funny an he was ok. dans suzuki is a work of art with the starter not really working and both front brake pads falling out it was a mean funny trip.





saturday morrning going up mt thompsonwhat a poser,

the boys and jess, "at the boiler"

1 of the most amazing sunsets ive ever seen, gundys hut front step. kapiti island and the top of the south island in the back ground
Harley making dessert and dan sleeping

Wairoa race 2010

Well what a sweet weekend, finaly i came away with a win at he wairoa extreme race, it was a super sick day with johann organising it this year the time trial and head to head run on the same day, it ran suer smooth and had heaps of time through out the day. there was sum really good races this a few upsets by the younger guys who are looking really good these days and just smooth lines by the OGs jared kenny and john, but some how i held it together and never put a foot rong all day and made some money!!!! stoked!!

me and jared final






tryna keep the nose up

rota nats 2010

once again dan troy and nath came up an stayed the weekend of the rotary nats in auckland, the weather wasnt that great but we still got a few runs down the strip and just had an awsome time hanging out,me and dan

yoda, dan ,troy, and fellow racer

new year

me and rach had a really cool trip up the coromandal after new years heres a few photos




it was really windy

Rach has been trying to teach me how to use photoshop and i made this sweet photo!!

Well what a week its been boken backs an backflips

last friday ryan pete and my self week to check out a new creek flowing off the kaimais that a few of the boys have been trying to get on for awhile now an all the rain we had made it a great flow for our 1st D, we had a really good trip down for about an hour with some sick little drops and slids untill we came to a huge horizen line, thinking that i would just be a fast walk around with our boats untill closer inspection the massive slide really looked like a go so i walked up an jumped in my boat for the 1st D, i came off the lip little to right an hit a rock realy hard with my nose which started to spin me an theres no way i was going down the second half sideways so just kept spining an ran the last bit backwards which turned out really good.

ryan was up next with a line at the top that looked that same as mine but unlucky skiped off a ledge an landed real flat with a rock right under his arse an broke his back on impact, he came out of the rest of the slide sweet but was in huge pain at the bottom.

After leaving him in his boat for a while because we had no idea if its was broken or how badly finaly got him out an lay him down then i started the long walk out for help, after a long wait for rescue services trying to figure out how they wanted to get him out, an it being to dark for the choper to long line him out we straped him to a strecher an slowly 1 foot at a time pulled him up the 150meter slipery bank to where the farmer had his tractor an tralier to take him out to the ambo.
now hes all good, got a big brace on an can walk around sweet an take pictures of me doing these sweet backflips!!!

GET WELL SOON RYAN!!!!!!!!!good work phil!!!

And today ive been trying to hurt myself to doing some backflips so me an ryan can hang out an do nathing for the next few months but it didnt happen so i think ill have to go out an find a job, DAM!!!!!!

geting ready for the hits




this parts sceary
an this is more sceary
an this is the holy f@#k point
now time to stick it
trying to spot the landing
yeah boy an ride away, soooo stoked!!!!