So, what are the things to consider  if you plan to host a tailgate party? Here are some guide to help you out.

1.       Plan ahead. Party equates to good food. Like any other party, preparing a menu and a list of the items you need will help to be sure that everything is loaded before leaving home. Choice of food can be as simple as hot dogs, hamburgers, or BBQ. Its also nice to add some side dishes and desserts. Don’t forget to have a cooler full of various drinks.

2.       Bring in must-have tailgating gears. As an outdoor event, it is important to have with you items such as BBQ grills, camp chairs, party blankets or tables. Also, trash bags, sun block, napkins, utensils, plates, glasses and ice could be some of the most essential tailgate items. Another essential tailgating gear is a first aid kit. Rain wears and flashlights can be brought as well.

3.       Arrive at least three hours early at the game site. This way, you can find the perfect parking spot. A good place would be in a grassy area and at the end of a line.Stay at least one hour after the game.

4.       Wear your favorite team colors or tailgate gear. Some people prefer to be dressed in their favorite football gears as a sign of identity or merely for fun. Others decorate their tents, campers, or cars with logs and flags to be easily spotted by friends.

Spelling is a very important aspect of writing the test that many students overlook.It important to be consistent in his essay. This applies to many things, such as the spelling of words (some people switch between the American and Australian English / United Kingdom), the spelling and capitalization of words. For example, should, if the Australian English / English to do your test. You can not “recognize” and then “organize” the word. We need to “organize”. Even if the first letter of the “Church” is the first time, can not refer to him as “the church” later in his essay.

With topic sentences at the beginning of each new paragraph is essential to ensure that your essay is well organized and well structured. It also ensures that the essay flows logically and makes good reading. A topic sentence must do two things to discuss the new theme and shows how this new project will, if its argument to answer the question open to enter the open support.

Shark and oceanic research needs better public outreach. It’s a simple fact that the public is largely uninformed when it comes to raw data, current research and even methodology.

Science is not fun for the general public. But is is also the general public who can be moved to push for legislation, fund research, and to become aware of the current status of wildlife.

The great disconnect of our times.

So what’s with this site?

What you’re looking at is a perfect synthesis of research, video, and interactive research data for the general public. Bringing raw science into the living room, office, and iPads all across the country.

Kudos, we could use more of this. Especially like the tagging videos replete with real action and raw emotion set against a backdrop of science.

Looks like a winning Discovery Channel show to us, is there something in the wings?

I’m not a huge fan of Jaws related stuff.

But when it’s my buddies that do that kinda stuff, then it’s different.

This video is a tribute to Griffin.
It’s not the first time that someone sails from Maliko to Jaws. That’s actually how Kauli did it his first time. He told me:”it took me two hours to sail upwind, then I sailed there for three hours and then one more hour to sail downwind. After six hours sailing and that kind of emotions, I was completely exhausted when I got back…”

It took Griffin 1h 15min to sail upwind to Jaws. Which means either that he had stronger wind or that he sails upwind better than Kauli!
It doesn’t matter if he stayed cautiously on the shoulder. What I like is the spirit.
Great little video by Chris Murray.

The same day (Tuesday) another friend sailed Jaws for his first time. Taken from Jimmie Hepp’s FB gallery, this is Nick Warmuth.

This is a very nice presentation of Jaws paddle-in action.
What bugs me a bit is that my friend Marcio Freire has been surfing Jaws for years, but only now that the sponsored guys are doing it too, they get the media coverage. Oh well, that’s how it goes…

Chuck Patterson doesn’t surf Jaws. He skies it.

Allright, this is not Jaws.
As the comments (thanks!) pointed out, it’s someone called Corey at Margaret River and that is an amazingly big and beautiful wave. Taken from this gallery.

This one ain’t Jaws either, but it’s the thickest lip I’ve ever seen… we’re talking waves, you guys.
Taken from this gallery.

This one has nothing to do with windsurfing or surfing, but I ran into it and… I have to embed it!

Today I surfed 4 and a half hours straight. By far, my longest surfing session ever. One of my favorite breaks, 2 to 8 people, chest to head high with overhead sets, very clean.
From 8 to 12.30 I think I caught at least 30-35 waves…
Does anyone have a spare pair of shoulders?

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Little Friday morning update. Here’s this morning’s weather map. Nice, I really dig north swells.

And this is the NW buoy readings: already 11 feet, 12 sec from 30 degrees (I like this direction even better!). I’m going to go surf a couple of hours now (7am) and then I have a lovely 4 hours shift of work.
I’ll clock off at 2pm exactly when the low tide will be at the bottom… I like when the stars line up like this. If that front on Oahu doesn’t do weird things with the wind, I can see some more surfing in my future.

I have never heard of the place, and the images feature a graphic expose of commercial animal processing.

Nothing more.

In the U.S. and Europe animal processing has long since been sanitized behind industrial fortresses that bring whole animals in one end and spit out boxes of product out the other.

Westerners are, simply put, largely divorced from our food chain.

Japan’s food processing is still in many ways very Asian, where the public is invited to see or admire freshness, and purity of product. Unlike western values that feature stamped on dates, Asian cultures like to see and be engaged with their food sources. It’s how they do food.

It’s a cultural difference that Japan is being overwhelmingly attacked for. Their public display of food and food processing exploited by dozens of western based conservation groups.

I am struck by the efforts of so many conservation groups who are rabid in their individual assessment of Japans and China’s food chain. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and it’s loon fringe being the worst of the lot, having their own reality television show with regular on screen quotes by western “vegans” who alternately decry whale harvests while demonising Japan in the process.

For Japan, reeling from multi-pronged attacks on tuna, sharks, whales, and dolphins, not to mention five or six species of fish, I find myself asking “where does Japan go from here?”.

The ugly issues with all of this Japan focus on food, and one not being discussed, is that this entire effort is an overwhelming western effort. These are western faces demanding Japanese people change what they eat.

Really?

For any conservation effort to be successful you need the ability to reverse positions and see your conservation opponents view. Right now Japan is under siege by a western generated cacophony of what might be viewed as culinary imperialism. A lot of how Japan harvests food is repugnant to western eyes long since divorced from the blood and gore.

A quick look, and by no means an in depth one, over the last two months of western media hits against Japan reveals a disorganized patchwork of many conservation agendas:

Shark fishing in Japan – a messy, blood-spattered business

New video reveals dolphin hunt just as brutal as ever

Birch Bay resident sets sail to stop dolphin slaughter

Whale wars: Boat claims ram attempt

Food giant Princes accused of selling endangered tuna on the High Street

It’s quite a storm of protest and one I fear will just have Japan hunker down and play turtle without getting any concessions to sustainable harvests, which at the end of the day would be a big win.

Without a doubt there are some serious issues with species loss and rampant over harvest of animals – worldwide. But this focus on Asians by westerners, I fear, will ultimately backfire under a counter, and western conservation driven, nationalistic blow back.

How long can westerners keep up their demands on what Asians can and cannot put into their mouths?

How long will the Japanese stand for this growing patchwork of food based conservation agendas and increasingly shrill conservation noise?

How does Japan change, when it seems every week a new food source is identified and a new western conservation group, using in-your-face conservation tactics and media hits gleaned from other groups, goes on the attack?

I am all for conservation, but is not time that individual groups look up from their pet projects in Japan and Asia to take a larger view of how this growing group effort to conserve wildlife is being perceived in Asia?

We all want to see change but this recent trend to “Jump on Japan” does not leave any room for compromise, nor does it allow Japan and Japanese people to assess their own inalienable rights to choose what they consider a food source or not.

Another look at this issue from Da Shark.

Another look with RTSea Blog.

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Patric Douglas CEO
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The wind was the famous Maui’s N2N (nuking to nothing). Thank God (a very particular god named Jeff Henderson), I had the best sail on the planet to handle those conditions: a 4.7 Superfreak.
It still goes in the lulls and it still generates enough power when I pump it (a 4.5 would not be quite enough). And you can still hang on it when it’s blowing like stink (a 5.0 would be unconfortable).
I love my 4.7. It’s the best sail I’ve ever had. Period.
Here it is in a photo at Hookipa a couple of months ago.

PS. Thanks to a reader that emailed me this link, I found out:
- that I’m not alone
- how to spell bah humbug.

It’s a dance never before imagined. These massive predators — lions of this oceanic food chain — swimming on the Atlantic’s surface by night and by day, sinking blindly to its inky depths, so far down no light could ever reach them, no creature could ever be seen.

And it’s a winter ritual that has scientists amazed.

“Nobody had any idea they were doing this,” Steve Campana, head of the Dartmouth-based shark research team that made the discovery, said in a recent interview.

“We found that all of these sharks are leaving Canadian waters in the late fall and when they swim out, they inevitably run into the Gulf Stream, this giant current of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean. Within a day or two of hitting the Gulf Stream, every single blue shark started this wild diving behaviour whereby they would spend the night up in the surface waters — in the top 30 or 50 feet (nine or 15 metres) — and every day they would spend down in incredible depths, as far as a kilometre below the surface.

Complete Story.

It’s the best team we had since the glorious times in which Maradona played in Napoli. It’s such a pleasure to watch them that I’m starting to put alarm clocks at 4am to watch the game online (when it’s not on FSC, in which case I’ll record it).
The are actually second in the rankings and I don’t care if they’ll win or not… they’re making us dream, that’s for sure!

That’s why I thought about doing something to show my support from this remote island. So I drew their logo on my lovely white Superfreak (try do that with any other sail…).
I did it on the downwind side (when riding a wave), because that’s the side that would show when Jimmie Hepp takes his photos from the rocks.

The plan worked beautifully!

BTW, sailing with a broken pinky is no big deal! I guess not all bones in the foot have the same importance…

The making of.

Here’s the link to Jimmie’s FB gallery of that day. These are the photos I took, instead.

Yet another bikini of the collection.

Brother Glenn is leaving today. I warmly wish him to be back soon.

Still some size in the sets. Luke.

Junko rips.

Kai K speedy bottom turn.

and powerful top turn.

Mark’s contorsion.

Cookie is sailing sharp.

Headless loving hugging couple 1.

Headless loving hugging couple 2.

Not as glorious as the one in the previous post, but still a sick aerial from Luke.

Tiffany.

Sean.

Dunno this guy.

This is to thank the provider of the V.I.P. vantage point from where I shot yesterday. It was like shooting from a starship and I could keep my foot elevated…

Junko rips. There should be a bumper sticker that says that!

I’m on the waiting list to try that board.

Kai bailing out. Oh, I’m supposed to try a bunch of Simmer boards too…

Federico. I like this shot because it shows the reality of the conditions that my closeup radical moves don’t really show. Waves are sectiony (very west). The wind is veeery offshore (check Elena’s direction on the outside) and very gusty and patchy (she’s in a gust and 10 yards in front of her there’s a big lull). Not particularly easy and quite physically demanding, you guys.

Nonetheless, not having to go to a wedding today, someone is happy to go back to the usual 5 hours straight routine of sailing.

Allright, the good news is that I’m back in the water. The bad news is that I have to go back to work too! So no more extended photo shoots anymore. Fortunately Jimmie is on the rocks and Franky will be back soon.
Oh, I just finished editing my last gopro video. I’ll let you guys know when it goes online.

PS. Volcom pro at Pipeline is live online.

It was very refreshing when compared to the average pros only super high performance 99% of the rest of the surf movies.
Here’s some interesting quotes from it:

I see the finances of this present world just holding kids back of being what they really wanna be, because it’s basically financially impossible to just be a free spirit, almost.

You can live it though, if you really think about it. If it’s really something you wanna do, you can do anything you want in this world actually.

And what I say to anybody that wants to do something that’s going to allow them to be free is: stay focused.

Do whatever it takes to keep your focus there and don’t let anyone else tell you different, because if you believe it, you’ll feel it and you’ll do it.

There’s a lot of stuff that goes on but… just keep it happy and simple.

Very inspiring. To the point that, after watching it, I thought once again that I should do a movie too.
Right, like that Oahu movie that I never did… movies take way too much time, they’re not for me.
But wait a moment, didn’t I start to edit that Oahu movie?
I went looking for it and I actually did found it. So I slapped it on youtube… nobody would have seen it on my hard disk! Highly doubt I will ever finish it, but in the meantime… enjoy!

PS. The first ASP event of the season is on at Snapper Rocks.