Lord of Water Go Pro!

Story of Action Surfing

Chapter 7 Go Pro!

Me and Jimmy set up the Go Pro cameras on the front of our surfboards and had been cracking some serious footage.

I was paddling out after catching one of the nice inbetweenies and Jimmy was just setting himself up deep into a huge left hand barrel. 

I know that Jimmy’s camera was set for record and I set mine to a rapid time lapse to grab the full sequence. Jimmy took a long slow bottom turn and then relaxed into a lovely slow stall as the whole weight of the wave dropped over his head. It opened up fully as Jimmy sat there, charging right through the middle of a classic North End Barrel. 

I paddled as deep as I could straight into him and then took a duck dive at the very latest split second as the camera sunk into the pristine water and the fins on Jimmy’s board sliced just overhead.

I knew that this would be a classic. Putting both timelines together with the video and then carefully placed time lapse shots of Jimmy sitting right in the middle of a perfect water barrel. I think this is gonna be a nice one to put up on the channel.

“That was sweet!” I said to Jimmy as he paddled back out and pulled up beside me. 

“Yeh Mate!” said Jimmy. "We have got some awesome footage today. We gonna spent a few hours at the computer tonight bro.”

Me and Jimmy as usual pushed on until we could hardly see a thing with the efflorescence starting to sparkle in the water and the sun long gone. The tops of the sand was starting to chill as we walked back up to our gear. The sand underneath still warm from an awesome summer’s day.

Behind us the waves continued to pour into the coast with the white outline showing the perfection peeling left and right across the beach.

“Hey, I think I caught it on camera Shane.” Jimmy said as we dried off and wrapped up our gear.

“Caught what Jimmy?” I answered.

“I caught on camera how you open up the water mate. I am sure that I’m not seeing things buddy. But let’s see if the camera caught it when we get back to the laptop.”

“Maybe I am seeing things!” Jimmy snickered.

We both laughed and talked on and on replaying the serious freestyle session that we just finished on yet another perfect North End day.

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