Worth 4 hours of traffic

These are the photos from the end of a high speed pursuit on the 405 freeway when Trevor, Erica, and I drove up to Santa Barbara. The middle photo shows the woman looking at us as we passed by her, eerie.

The Pointer

Yesterday, Trevor, Erica, and I drove up to Santa Barbara to pick up Ericas new 9'4 Pointer from Ryan at Point Concept. It took us a little over 4 hours, sitting in LA traffic. We saw some pretty weird things; one of them was the end of a high speed chase that shut down the other side of the 405 freeway. Pretty rad. Anyways, here are a few photos of Erica picking her board up!

Erica and her birds

Erica and I went surfing a little while back with some of her birds. I asked the birds to fly over at this specific point in time to get a nice shot of Erica exiting the water.

Sooo high

Framed

Free fall

Project

These are the first three pages of a "Point Loma Surf Club" book that Erica and I worked on a couple month's back at school. It started because of a rainy weekend with nothing in particular to do. So, we went to Barnes and Noble and picked up a Moleskine notebook, got some tape, went through a couple hundred photos, and picked out our favorite ones! This is the first of several more projects to come...

Spine tinglingly good

Meet groucho

Where it begins

Erica's Greenough 9.75" 4A fin for her log! Preeeeetty.

Hey you... Yeah you!

Dear Readers (however few of you that you are),
I just want to express my gratitude for making this blog a fun experiment into a sort of documentation of me and my friends lives. Please appreciate it for what it is; a surf blog. I enjoy feedback and comments on your thoughts, please continue with conveying your opinions. Thanks again for everything!
-TPO

Run over

Lounge lizards

Rainbows suck...

"Dr. Rock Positano, director of the Non-surgical Foot and Ankle Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery, confirms Shroyer's findings. "With no real solid support underneath the foot, it loses its shock-absorbing capabilities. The lower leg, shin, knee, hip, and back are overworking." Dr. Jacqueline Sutera, doctor of podiatric medicine and surgery for the American Podiatric Medical Association, agrees with Shroyer as well. "Wearing flip-flops will shorten your stride, so your leg and foot muscles have to work harder," she says. "This causes the need for compensation--sometimes from your knees, hips, and back. This could be bad news for people with previous injury in these sensitive areas." In addition, Dr. Positano says certain pathological foot types (like high and flat arches) predispose people to foot and ankle issues, and that soft flip-flops with no support accentuate these mechanical deficiencies. Some short-term issues related to flip-flop use would be heel and arch pain, tendinitis, shin splints, sprains, splinters, cuts, and toe injuries. Long-term problems might be stress fractures, bunions, hammertoes, and neuromas..."
-Yahoo
Seriously? This is frightening Yahoo. Shoot, I can't remember the last time I wore real shoes... I guess I'll have to lose my rainbows for these stylish slippers

Instead of

30 minute break

Erica and I stopped by this quick little reef break by Ginas on the way back from Doheny on Sunday. It turned out to be really fun! Except for the thousands of people in the shoreline, I think I nearly ran over 15 children, Erica documented the occasion with some expired Fuji film.