little ones at the beach

a fun outing had by all down at island beach state park.
good waves and good weather.

A Pleasant Surprise

here is the trailer for kyle pahlow's film,

can't wait to see the whole thing.
all shot in jersey, makes it look pretty great.

http://apleasantsurprisefilm.com/

Martha's Vineyard

ESSC traveled to Martha's Vineyard last weekend to attend the island's annual film festival.
While there we planned on shooting some footage for a short film which involved me surfing in a business suit with a briefcase. This was not quite accomplished. I did make some feeble attempts but the conditions were not allowing it, very small waves in very shallow water. We at least were able to get the shots we needed for the film.

Everyone I met there was extremely friendly and welcoming, treating me like an old friend. All in all the trip was a great success.

hawaiian times

essc (represented by me) was recently on the island of oahu.
there was much relaxing and surfing done.
also, a fair amount of work seeing as that was my reason for being there.

locations worked:
ihilani beach resort
aloha stadium

more importantly....

locations surfed:
white plains/ewa beach
rest camp in waianae
makaha
kaiser's in waikiki
backyards on the north shore

it was a pretty great trip all around.
not a bad place to be in the middle of winter.

member photo party time

here are the member photos, cards soon to follow.

even though it wasn't a real meeting, it was the first time that the essc was just about fully represented.

surf club band

the club band had it's first get together last week and was quite successful, fun as hell too.
there were some tunes worked out that will be pretty great once finished.

members of the band are: jamie wilson, greg pavlovcak and matt lyons.
we still don't have an official name but we're working on it.
any suggestions would be helpful.

essc had it's first ever unofficial outing.

it took place on new years day, Y2K9 in east hampton, new york.
members representing were matt lyons and aaron ritz.

air and water temps were both cold as hell. something like 21 air and 40 water. and the waves weren't too good either. was quite enjoyable though.

it's considered the first outing simply because there were two members present, holy shit.

the part of this story that was left out before is what happened before we even got in the water.
we thought we'd try a different beach instead of the one in front of the house where we were staying, which had a steep drop into the water causing pretty close breaking waves and getting worse as the tide was coming in.
so we heading east toward montauk.
the first turnoff we saw, we took. it was a state park with a beach access road.
normally we would have seen what this road was like but because of the snow and wind, the road took on a deceiving appearance. it looked solid and inviting.
the snow covered over the deep, deep ruts that were there. plus, the fact that the road was sand, something my car can't really handle.
so, about thirty feet from the parking lot we got stuck pretty good.
just tires spinning. we could now see that the road was nothing but soft sand.
the more we tried to get out the deeper the ruts got.
we decided to call AAA as we knew there was nothing we could do.
we waited 2 hours for them.
when they arrived they informed me it was considered a rescue instead of a simple tow which was gonna cost $250. our rescuer told us as soon as we left the main road and got on a beach access road we were fucked. so he drug us out and politely escorted us to an atm.
we decided to just go surf in front of the house, something we should have done in the first place.
i was reminded of something i already knew, don't drive on roads your car can't handle.
it was a memorable way to start the new year. a costly, but memorable one.