If you ask yourself what's going on in the pic on top of this post, it's just snow at Venice Beach, nothing special! It's sunday, the day before Labor Day in America and it should be a huge sunday for Venice. Supergirls-Contest was just about to make a stop here, directly at the beach near my hostel. So of course I went there, to check out the "skills" of Americas Funsport Ladies! When I came there I couldn't believe what I saw there, these weirdos really brought snow to the beach to let the snowboard rail contest happen! That's sick, that's America!
I watched the first two qulification runs, each 20 minutes and I gotta say, "hat down" for the girls!:-) They showed a lot of sweet railrides to the crowd. And the best thing: the DJ! He played some really cool songs for them, especially when he turned on Pennywise' Bro Hymn! I've just attached some of the shots I did with my sweet 40D beneath this paragraph so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. (I love the 2nd one - haha - fooled yourself girl!)
You should check out my Flickr Account to see some more shots of the sweet Snowboard-Ladies! There even was one German rider, but I could barely understand her name, cause the hyper-cool host of the show pronounced it like she was a girl from Texas or some other place in hell. Unfortunately she got hurt real bad at her knee after a landing a perfect one.
After the second quali heat I went over to the skateboarders who where preparing for their big show. And there she was!!! My first LOVE of Cali!!! It took whole four days to find her;-) but check it out.
Black hairs, beautiful face and skateboardskills "by where your shoes get pulled of"(hehe!). Her name was....ah...lets name her Ashley!;-) So yes, where exactly have I stoped.... At the skatboarders, yes, they've been practising some tricks for their finals, which I didn't want to wait for cause the californian sun got hotter and hotter...
So I went back to the hostel, ate pasta with tomato salad and checked the pics I've taken before. I'm really really happy with my Canon 40D, she's my baby, doing good pics and today was the first day I've done sequence shooting which also rules as hell! After watching another Episode of Nitro Circus, I decided to go down to the beach and swim for the first time in the sea. Even without a wetsuit the water is very warm, lets say Gobos Wiener would be a lot longer than in the Flappach, just to give you a clue:-) I swam out trough the waves, which is actually hard work, and waited to catch some for bodysurfing. That rules man! And it works, another thing I'm lucky with my musclepacked body, I even beat one fat guy with his body board! Yeah man!:-)
After again catching the last sunny moments at the beach I went to the mexican store, getting some zucchini, paprika, diet coke and ice cold non-fizzy water (which are my new loved drinks). So I cooked some pretty tasty vegetablepasta and ate it in front another episode of Nitro Circus. If you haven't checked it out yet, go for it! That was my fourth day, I'm getting used to a pretty good life here!
At the end, again another ride, one of the thousand sweet ones here. This is for you Gregory, I'm not pretty sure, but I think we talked about exactly that one yesterday.
See you buds! Tomorrow: Santa Monica
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