To everyone that is following my blogs this will be my final blog unless I can ever be bothered to use this ever again. I have really enjoyed being able to blog about anything I want to. I'm still annoyed at myself as I didn't get to finish restoring the surfboard!! But hopefully I will
one day have the time to fully finish it and be able to surf it.I hope everyone has been able to enjoy the journey as much as I have. I have been able to express myself in a different way and been able to talk to fellow students that I would not normally talk to. I guess this will be the last time everyone hears from me.
Thanks for following and commenting on my blog for the last five weeks.

Last night I decided to train down at rookie colts as my thumb is getting better. I was still so self conscious so I went down to the trainers and got it taped up. There was only about 15 of us at training as not everyone can make it to every training.Even though everyone takes the training serious we still have fun and muck around with each other. It was good to spend some time with mates that I would normally play footy against. The training wasn't hard at all but we all still had to keep concentrated throughout the whole training.
This will probably be my second last blog as I have been doing this for an englsh assignment and we have to do ten blog entrys over the last fivce weeks.

Today after school I have footy but I don't really know if I should train as I hurt my thumb on Sunday. As the days go on Its starting to heal. I guess everything will just take time. But i shouldn't blame my self that this has happened its just was meant to be. After getting my letter yesterday about getting into the all stars belt up team and being able to represent the school in something really made my day. I can't wait for the function I have been invited to but I have to go in my school uniform. Hopefully i know someone that will be there as i will probably be surrounded by all public school students are bogans. I'm hoping that this will hope me get further in life with footy. Footy has really kept me afloat with life at the moment and I know footy will always keep me content with life. I'm starting to get excited for finals only two weeks away but I know I will have to play my best footy no matter what. I quess I'll post another blog soon.

Well today finally a Tuesday when I would normally been down the oval doing Ausick coaching has now ended as of last week. So this was one of my only week days that I would be left with free time. When I got home I thought to my self can I really be bothered to go down to the shed and get started on the board? NO, was my answer but now I look back and regret not doing it as I feel so ashamed of myself for not even trying to make time and sacrifice something of mine to just spend some time with my dad and I will always think to myself wow what an idiot I was putting my-self in front of someone else. It was just so selfish of me. Hopefully one day I will be able to finally get started on the surfboard and fully restore it. I'm sorry to everyone who wanted to follow on my progress of the surfboard but maybe in the future you will be able to know what really happens to the board.

On Saturday morning finally when i had some spare time i decided to go for a surf. Instead of starting to restore the surfboard i just wanted to go spend some time with mates out in the water. When waking up at 6am on a Saturday morning is not a good start to a weekend as i was already tired from the day before. But once i got down there i was itching out of my skin to get out there and get a few waves. I decided to take out one of my newer boards which is very short and has just been unveiled to surfing culture. At the start i was finding it quite difficult but i finally got the hang of it and ended up getting a little barrel. One of the good moments when surfing out there with my mates was when i pulled in to a barrel and they were paddling on the shoulder of the wave and the were hooting me the whole way!! So hopefully this week i would be able to finally get started on my old Mal.

Instead of trying to find time to restore my surfboard I have been playing footy and been caught up in stupid homework and assignments!!! I have had enough of all this I work I'm contemplating about quitting tee and doing non-tee but I know I will become lazier than I already am. I just want to have the weekend when I can just relax and get away from everything. Maybe I just need to go on a holiday to relax and come back down to earth. I think this is because haven't been for a surf before school to get me chilled out before having to deal with all the stress especially from my English teacher Miss Talbot not really she is pretty chilled wish all teachers were like that!!!
I'm hoping that everything will boil over soon and then being able to spend some time away from school with my girlfriend and mates and live life to the fullest and with a smile not like when I'm at school being told what to do and have rules and guidelines to follow.
All this stress is building up when I had to get up at 6am to finish my human bio assignment which was soo hard as I barely got any sleep as I was txting all night which was my fault but oh well thats life I'll just have to deal with everything and not get to worked up over this its just stress I will be fine and be back to my normal self.
Ill post another blog soon.
xx

These are just some photos of me surfing!

the top one is of me surfing down at Denmark and the other photo is at Geraldton where i came 2nd in the competition.

Sorry its been a while but i haven't really done much on the restoration of my board. I just haven't had enough time to really get started which is very annoying!! I'm starting to have second thoughts about the board as i might just quit and leave it for my dad as he has more spare time than me!

Sorry if everyone wanted to hear what was going to happen but oh well thats life and i might have to get my dad to do it for me but ill still keep everyone informed with the progress of the board.

hey

i have finally found my board its not in the best of conditions as the nose of the board has had the fibreglass torn off it:(
i got it on Wednesday night and it didn't look to bad but when i got home and looked at it carefully i could tell it had been sitting under a house for the last few years with the build up of dirt on the deck.
I'm hopefully going to start restoring the board in the next few days so ill have to keep you updated on my progress.

ill hopefully upload a few photos of the boards progress or myself surfing on an old Mal in the coming weeks.

I've been looking for an old Mal for the last 2 years! the board has to be pre 1969. i want to find one as i would then be able to surf it in competitions. these boards are very rare as they are soo old and are generally found in peoples sheds or even under their houses. these boards are very different to the modern long board as they are thicker different shape and can be quite narrow! when i finally get my hands on one i want to restore the board in my spare time.



in between these blogs i will be trying to surf as much as i can. this weekend i have a competition at isolates just south of Cottesloe beach. i don't think the competition will commence as the forecast is not looking good with onshore winds:( .i was looking forward to this as i haven't surfed as much as i would have liked as i have been busy with various hobbies.

restore these boards are quite difficult as i don't have much experience with fibre glassing but i guess i will just slowly learn and get the hang of it as my dad will help me as he shapes surfboards for himself and me during his spare time.

hopefully i will be able to achieve this goal of restoring a surfboard and be able to ride it successfully in the future.

i shall keep you all updated on my progress of finding the board i want to restore.