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blowhard
Since 26 Dec 2005
2027 Posts
Windward
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so The "Bong-A-Thon"
is no more? 
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bradak
Since 04 Nov 2007
3 Posts
Vancouver, Canada
New Member
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| Mon Jan 26, 09 4:38 pm |
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Hey Mark! Where's my photo credit?  I almost double posted them. Look forward to seeing more of your board cam shots.
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boardrider
Since 05 Apr 2006
1034 Posts
Ventura, CA
XTreme Poster
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| Mon Jan 26, 09 5:00 pm |
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| Sounds like a great time guys - Thx for posting up the photos
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Mark
Since 20 Jun 2005
3678 Posts
I need my fix because I'm a
Naishaholic
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| Mon Jan 26, 09 5:07 pm |
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| bradak wrote: | | Hey Mark! Where's my photo credit? I almost double posted them. Look forward to seeing more of your board cam shots. |
 Burning bush photo credits go to Bradak. 
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shymac
Since 20 Jul 2005
919 Posts
Home Valley, Wa.
Bigfoot
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| Mon Jan 26, 09 7:32 pm |
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Photos of yesterdays last day event and todays surf trip.
Since its about 8:30 "Baja midnight" and pretty much dead since the events over, i'm just gonna dump a ton of photos and drink a beer.
hope everyone is nice and toasty back home.... HHAHAHhahAHH
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| Slingshot and these bros pretty much dominated the event. |
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| Dave likes his BALLENA. |
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| Light as hell, Sunday... |
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| eye catcher. |
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shymac
Since 20 Jul 2005
919 Posts
Home Valley, Wa.
Bigfoot
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shymac
Since 20 Jul 2005
919 Posts
Home Valley, Wa.
Bigfoot
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shymac
Since 20 Jul 2005
919 Posts
Home Valley, Wa.
Bigfoot
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cynbad
Since 29 Jan 2008
17 Posts
La Ventana MX
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| Mon Jan 26, 09 7:57 pm |
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2009 La Ventana SUP winners! Local LV ladie's Cynbad (1st), Michele (3rd), and HR local Tonia (2nd)!
2009 La ventana Arroyo Golf winner Poul Schiebel (Caution kites) and Baja Boardriders kent Forrest.
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Tony
Since 28 Aug 2006
940 Posts
Portland
Opinionated
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| Mon Jan 26, 09 11:56 pm |
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| pdxmonkeyboy wrote: | Burning bush was one of the highlights of the trip. not because it involved kiting in warm water, drinking cheap beer, or just stumbeling around Mexico without a care in the world - there was something bigger about it.
On the second night in LV people were telling us that the burning bush party was going to be in full effect. Staged way down the beach in a secluded area, unbeknownst to us, the full time gypsy community of LV had been working for weeks to put on a full boar party. So we park way to far from the event to avoid getting lost in the desert and walk down the beach with tired legs towards a huge pipe spewing flames about 50 feet in the sky. Upon arrival there were people everywhere and all manner of things on fire. Cactus flaming on the beach, fish made out of palm leafs waiting silently to be torched, wild shirtless people dragging around huge propane torches and piles of smoldering artifacts that were already sacrificed.
Amidst the burning pires and fire dancers you could look up and stare at a display of stars that you could never achieve in close proximity to the city. Huge bursts of random flames would illuminate the crowds and from the shadows would emerge the welcoming faces of friends from the gorge and strangers with smiles on their faces. In an amazing display of hospitality, some very well educated mexicans from LaPaz that I befriended gave me their last cold beer. Later on in the parking lot a conversation in tortured spanish ended up with an invite to a 15 year olds birthday party going on in town from two LV locals who looked like they walked right off the page of a Cormac Macarthy book; hunched shoulders, dried skin, and dusty cowboy hats.
There were lots of laughs and drinks for all. In the end, the towering dried fish was set ablaze and people scattered for cover from the heat and falling ash.
As I was riding home in the back of some SanFrancisco kiter's car, jammed on top of mountains of kiting gear, leaning on another guy who was completely passed out as the driver was doing four wheel drifts down the dirt road; I looked out the window at the stars. At that very moment, I couldn't help thinking that the burning bush was more than just people getting drunk and burning shit, it was a celebration of a common interest, an acknowledgment that there are soo many ways to live ones live and willfully break away from the stale pigeon holes that people unwittingly drift into. It was a very definitive place in time and the faces and memories of that night are gratefully etched in my memory with the fleeting permanence of huge flames bursting into the sky. My heartfelt thanks to all those individuals who made it happen I brought much more home from the event than a cool t-shirt. |
Hey Brian, your boss called me - he wants you to report back to work asap...
Welcome back...!
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airtime
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| Tue Jan 27, 09 6:36 am |
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Thanks for bringing all the goods south of the boarder!!!
Checked out the surfboards and the RPM, on a no wind day unfortunately, then had to head back south. Can't wait to take them for a ride. What difference will I feel in the 5'11" surf board compared to the 2008? Shape seems somewhat similar - except quad of course. I do have to say that jumping the 5'11" is awesome - the board feels so light in the air, or course it shreds the waves as well.
I really prefer the surfboard (twin tip is good too), what's the better matchup for the surfboard - RPM or REV
Where is the surf spot?
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Mark
Since 20 Jun 2005
3678 Posts
I need my fix because I'm a
Naishaholic
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| Tue Jan 27, 09 11:27 am SCORE |
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Haggen carries Salsa Huichol Picante (mexican crack) mmmmmm goood.
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Sol-flyer
Since 21 Mar 2006
1280 Posts
Dude, where's my Bus?
Otto Mann
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| Tue Jan 27, 09 8:23 pm |
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Ventana kicks ass!
What a fun time, I didnt get a whole lot of kiting in, but it sure was fun getting down there and having some warm non-wetsuit action.
Dimitri finds a pleasant suprise.... 
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| watch out for Neil hutchinson....Eric Reinstra almost gets a golden shower |
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| Dimitri "bribing' the judges |
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| Shawn richman sporting the hyperflex neoprene jacket. |
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| Sunrise Ventana style |
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| Jesse gives the bunny ears ...doh |
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wytcap
Since 10 Mar 2005
203 Posts
NW oregon
Stoked
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| Tue Jan 27, 09 9:25 pm |
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Again it went went by to fast, 52 weeks to go till next year!!!
And to come back to snow Yuk!
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shymac
Since 20 Jul 2005
919 Posts
Home Valley, Wa.
Bigfoot
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| Tue Jan 27, 09 10:55 pm |
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The wind is back! Sweet...
Last day for demos. Downwinder to light house and beyond. Super good dinner, and drinks at Pablo's. Fo sure i'm beat...
Photo update: Day 9. Jan 27. 2009.
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bustingbladder
Since 12 Jul 2006
387 Posts
Seattle
Obsessed
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| Tue Jan 27, 09 10:57 pm |
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| Looks like Big G is styl'n it for you Slingshot boys! Up side let the man go through!
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shymac
Since 20 Jul 2005
919 Posts
Home Valley, Wa.
Bigfoot
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