summer can come cause spring was sick!

wow!
time's flying by these days! how is it mid june already?
my life's been a rollercoaster this year! after costa rica and nicaragua i spent quite some time just bumming around in germany, had an amazing time back home in augsburg, got a bit of play in and did a sick trip to corsica (check kanumagazin.de). big thanks to felix hunziger from steep'n wild for saving my ass by giving me riot demos! without him i would've been sitting dry for the spring!
well, after that i headed off for my summer residency. i flew into canada in early may and showed up just in time for some buseater action. it's been over a month now, i've had a few more of those big wave sessions, been surfing high tension on the gatineau, partied, instructed, rafted. and did a little roadtrip out to new york and vermont. no boating BUT i picked up new boats!
yep, i switched this year!
riot has been great over the last years, they've supported me so much! i still think that they have great designs and i hope that they recover well!
however, options came up, and after paddling daniels nemesis for a bit i tried fluid kayaks.
and here i am, two brand spankin new babies with me, nemesis m and solo l. thanks go out to david arnaud and celliers krueger, thanks for all the patience til it actually went down! i didn't get the solo out yet, but the nemesis is really amazing! considering the size of it i was surprised by it's combination of good speed, ridiculous bounce and serious edges. the first rides on buseater were straight up crazy compared to the big astro.
after getting used to it i could get more pop out of combo moves, launch bigger, carve faster. up to the point where it opened up triple combos for me! so i'm pumped to take it out on all those different waves we will have over the summer.
now i just need a new video camera... don't drop cameras out of three meters on rocks. doh!
apart from that things are still the same. thanks to kober paddles for that sweet scorpion neutral bent, awesome blade!
and to artistic sportswear for supplying everything else! head to toe river gear.
anyways, her are a few shots from this spring...

fernando torres on the edge
iron ring, ottawa

flashback
photo by caley mulholland

combos in pics? hard.
halfway through a flash forward to back stab

dave nieuwenhuis showcasing some local expertise!

finally getting those airscrews straight!
photo by daniel inskip

iron ring again
photo fernando torres

big bus.
photo emre bosut

getting used to the edges...

thanks to everyone who provided the photos! i'll try to not slack off as much as usual and keep those updates going. with a few motivated photographers around it should be a good summer for that!

peace out,
sven