Florida Chunk

Well Ben and I had a chance to catch some little Florida chunky waves on the last morning he was here. I was definitely riding the wrong board for the waves but still managed to snag a couple good ones. Nice warm blue water, not a bad way to end the Thanksgiving weekend. Hope everyone's turkey day was a good one.

a sama thanksgiving in hatteras

a few samaniacs gathered together for turkey and some nice waves this past week in the outer banks. photos above are brennon and mitch. wish i had a better lens!! rock on sama friends!

Thanksgiving in Florida

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Here are a couple of pics from the fishing trip yesterday. We had a mahi and a shark on, but could get them in the boat. Oh well, good for them. They will live to swim another day in the big blue.

We had a great Turkey Day. Cooper and I scored St. Joe Wed. afternoon. It was shoulder high and pumping on the sand bar. As soon as I got to Florida Beau and I scored a nice head high ground swell. It was a blast. The waves have been a little small and chunky the today and yesterday, but I should pick up tomorrow. I have been surfing Beau's little 6'0"Anderson Physh. Pretty sweet board, it is a little rocket sled down the face of a wave. Hopefully we will get some pics tomorrow morning before I have to fly home. Stoked. SAMA rules!!!!

SALZBURG Glühweinopening

It was on the 17.11.2007 and not on the 04.02.2005!!!
We had a beautiful weekend up there!
Enjoyed the fresh snow, the glühwein and the kasnockn! The Boys did some cool jumps!

Real Men and Women, Real Neighborhoods, Real Football!

With a beautiful sunny Sunday here in West Michigan it was perfect for a little touch, or push to the ground football. Sispera, crashed and burned, Sarah almost blew out her knee, Marlow struggled to his feet several times, and I thought I ruined my ankle again. But, as luck would have it we all made it back to the house under our own power. Thanks to everyone for a great post game meal! What a blast! The pool table was in action after the sun went down, and another epic Sunday was in the books. Thanks again to everyone who came up and made it a great day. Let's do it again sometime soon!

More Pow!

Continuing to kill it in Zell am See!!! Dude, I want to fly over now!

Then they went to a rail jam at a castle near Kaprun. Followed by a battle of the bands until the wee hours of the morning. Check out the video on this site

www.backonboard.com

Austria is Alpine Heaven

Here is a few pics that were sent to me by Stoffi. He was obviously scoring! I am starting to really think we need a SAMA jet to fly around and hit all the epic conditions world wide. Here is part of his email that explains the session.

hello my snow-friends

aus you can see - austria got dumped on last week. we have not had so much snow this early in over 40 year. it is great.
yesterday we skinned up the mountain and had a great powder run down from there. tomorrow lifts are opening here for the
weekend. we are probably hiking up tomorrow at 6:30am so we can lay the first tracks before the tourists do it. you just gotta
do what you gotta do.

Samainians keep up the strong work around the globe!

Corpus Christi Tx

Hey ben & all who care,

I think it would be great to have a Yankee party down here. These rebels could use to be taught another lesson. Come in the spring time the water is not in the eighties yet (100 degree days in the summer with water temp close to 90 gets a little uncomfy for my nothern blood.)

and the jetties are very clear for some great spear fishin! Also there seems to be good surfin here year round. Usually the wind comes out of the south which makes the north side of the padre jettie nice and glassy. My address is 101 Skipper Ln., Corpus Christi Texas.

See ya soon

Travis

first skiing at our skiarea zauchensee

Austria, Salzburg

Atomic testing team ;)

owesome powder, waisthigh light powder, "steep" backcountry trails, first lines, beautifull weather, nice people, free skis and boots,...

Today it was one of my best days skiing ever! I would say better then montana! It was such a light powdersnow, we had a hard time to breath!

We tested some skiboots for my friend Friedi, he is working for Atomic! Today the Area opened so there were no people and first no lines at all! Awesome!!!

South Tx

Hope all is well in the northern state. Here is a little taste of the awsome texas fishing.

Bill #629 Pier / Structure Jumping

Samainains,

As you may have heard the State Senate passed the restricting pier jumping bill by a vote of 35-2. It still has to move to the house tourism committee, the house of Representatives, and eventually the governor. If you feel that this bill should not become a law then please take the time to cut and paste the below article. Send it to any of our representatives, the senators, and our governor. Just perform a quick google search for Michigan State reps. and senators. Most of their websites have quick contact links. They say 1 letter represents the views of 40,000 people, due to the fact, so few citizens are active in our democracy. This paragraph was submitted by Chris Madison, and I think it is a great one!

My wishes are to not let the bill #629, for restricting the jumping, diving or swimming form any pier or jetty structure in the Great Lakes, make it to law. I am a surfer on the Great Lakes and for better than 22yrs I have been using these piers as a safer platform to get to the waves we surf. These pier structures make it possible for us to surf in Michigan and have been a vital piece of our surfing culture around the Great Lakes from the moment it started. There is an industry that supports this activity here and without being able to surf off these piers will make it less accessible to a number of people. We have spent a lot of time on these structures and now they may be taken from us in that way. We are concerned.

Great Lakes Surfer,

Florida Camping

The southern based SAMA crew did a little Florida camping last weekend. It was really nice now that the weather has finally cooled off down here.

North Mo Rolls

We scored some nice lefts at North Muskegon Sunday. It was a great day, the lefts were peeling off the elbow about as good as I can remember. Super fun! I sure would like to hop on some of the right handers at C-street right now though. Here is a little shot Richard took from the jetty. It was kind of a closeout left so I went right on this musher. Can't wait for more surf this week. I am out for class tonight so no water action for me.

Thursday night is wine tasting night at the Grand in GH. We should get a group to go down there. We have a records day on Friday so I get to sleep in an extra hour and no kids. Let's head down there around 8pm. Who is in?

C Street, Ventura (surf cam)

Just a hello from California. Winter swell is showing up and the the getting is good, solid head high. Viva la Samanation!!!

Blue Wall Billards

Samainians!!

The SAMA down under billards lounge has arrived. Come over soon for some hot pool stickin action. Surf tomorrow afternoon, and then soup session at my house, followed by some pool shootin.....LET's do it!!

SAMA Sunday Soup Sessions!

Well Samaistas,

With the hours of darkness here for the winter season, it is time to gather at our humble abodes and enjoy the nutritious goodness of soup, and superb company of great friends for the soul. You are sure to leave a SAMA soup session feeling ready for another week on the job. Here was an epic Tortilla Soup cooked up by none other than the fabulous chef Ms. Lesa Vanlier! We watched a bunch of Barn Door Productions kite videos and chilled it up. Soups are simmered to perfection and served to rejuvinate your body and soul!! Why, because they are cooked by your friends! SAMA RULES!!