April 13th, 2020

Somewhere in Nicaragua

Got out there around mid morning. Just in time to see Nacho scratching for this gurgler!!!

Kev with his signature moves and his current signature Nicaraguan color twin fin. You don’t just start doing moves like this without a little time and patience in the water.

Always stoked to see Josh back and in his happy place. Not a drop of water out of place too!

Chacoyo, much like the entire rest of us are pretty much just taking it day by day, week by week with a lot of down time from work. Here he is working on his forearm carves.

My mystery barrel surfer of the day and, no, I don’t think unless you were one of the 4 people out surfing at this time, I don’t you’ll even be able to guess who this is. I’ll give you a really big hint tho…. He hasn’t surfed a regular standard thruster shortboard in YEARS!!!!

I’ve been seeing so many posting all over the internet of how clear the skys are everywhere right now with the lack of everyone driving and fossil fuel plants not spewing their toxic sh!t into the atmosphere. I’ve never seen Kevin more clearly too, but his constitution has always left a zero carbon footprint. The only footprint (or foot impressions rather) he leaves are on the deck of his surfboards from landing such big boosts!

Elvin exemplifying the correct way to surf this spot. Under the lip…. way back and under the lip! Enjoy the view my friend!

One thing you have to keep in mind that you may not be able to tell just from these photos, is that it’s super low tide and really drained out. D-man, thinking of his strategy for his duck dive in only a few feet of water on a really round thick and otherwise heavy closeout.

Today (at least early on) was a scorcher. I mean really really hot! I’m on not even going to say the whole cliche “shade” comment here. But I will however say that Josh isn’t a shady guy… he’s actually quite the opposite. He’s a solid young man who’s ground his teeth at this particular surf spot; and he’s showing how well he’s put in his time here.

His younger brother John, has been doing the same here. And if there’s one thing you have to understand about the the surfing life is that you can never ever get better if you never step out of your comfort zone. John’s come a long long way with his surfing and you’d be fooled if you think this is a wipeout caused by mistiming or lack of pop up ability. We all eat sh!t from time to time. But it’s what makes us stronger!

Kev’s no stranger to taking the PC beatdowns. In fact, he’s got some pretty gnarly scars and has had his fair share of stitches to prove it…

What separates him from your average surfer ins’t just his insane unique and solid style. It’s driving right into something like this without one second of hesitation or doubt. Yeah, it ended up being a closeout, but if you look close enough… he’s got an extra surfboard trailing behind with his balls on it! Jajaja

Whoever came up with the saying, there’s no looking back obviously wasn’t a surfer!!!

Alright, so the reason for my tardiness for todays report was mostly due to my greediness. I could have went and had the post up in time for all of your to have a ham sandwich, but I rolled the dice and was really really hoping for round two in the afternoon.

Although it wasn’t anything like the earlier session, there were about quadruple the amount of people and as you can see by Rutci’s face here, everyone was having a good time!

Ryan “Steezy” Cook with this super stylish cutty. And that’s about all there was to be had in the afternoon. A lot of cutbacks, turns and basically anything you could do on a wave aside from getting a nice big barrel.

Here’s Philipo’s best attempt. I will say that it was really super weird because when I got down to the beach, the winds were blowing hard from the North-North West. Basically onshore, but howling from the Los Perros direction. As many of you know, that’s not a direction that’s very common here at all.

So with that, there was also a ton of humidity and the air was filled with lots and lots of moisture. Cesar doesn’t care if it’s onshore, humid, rain or shine.

When it’s time for his afternoon surf, he’s going no matter what! I’m glad too, because he’s my homie and I always like seeing him out there doing moves like this!!!

Alight, well I guess this would be a good time to share with you all who my mystery surfer was earlier. D-man, AKA Mr Derek Thomas OFFICIAL!!! He’s officially killing it on this wave, and yes folks, he’s not on his trademark twinny either!Ok amigos, thanks for stopping by for your Monday dose of Nica-Land goodness! I think it’s gonna rain tonight. It will be our first real rain if it does come. It’s incredibly humid, so I sure hope it releases all that water onto the land to cleanse this beautiful place! See you out there mañana ~(*** quick little ED-note Update…. It just started puring rain right as I just finished my report!!!!) Yewwwwwwww!!!!