Returning from fish market in Catania, Sicily with a big chunk of tuna steak
Showing posts with label surfing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surfing. Show all posts
Sicily Surfing and More...
Surfboard and Board Bag Type Guide
I've just returned from another Portugal trip. This time I was finally able to check out Nazare. It was 25-30ft swell at 15seconds. Huge! But the wind was too strong and surfing was not possible. Still....it was quite a mother natures spectacle. Here are a few photos that I've made from those giant waves.
Besides that - I have finally finished my ultimate surfboard type guide. If you have ever wondered what is a Shortboard (Thruster, Quad, Bonzer), Step Up Board, Step Down Board, Hybrid, Egg, Fish (Hybrid Fish, Lis Fish), Longboard (Mal) (Log), Mini-mal (Mini Malibu), Funboard,Mini Gun / Semi Gun, Gun, Rhino Chaser, Tow Board, Aerial Board, Alaia, Planing Hull and Mini Simmons, Softboard and Softtop, Surfmat, Kneeboard, Paipo Board, Bodyboard (Boogieboard), (Hydro)Foil Surfboard, Skimboard... this is the article to ckeck out.
And if you are going on a trip you will also want to check out packing tips and a guide to surfboard bags. Which features to look for and stuff like that... Here it is.
Sorry for posting so much surfing related stuff lately but this is whats going on in my life and at the end I enjoy working on my action sports blog the most from all websites.
Surfing again
This one is not technology, internet or mobile phone related, but I love it. It's surfing. Here are a few pics from my recent surf trip to Spain.
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| Basque conutry |
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| Anglet |
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| Waves telling the continent to move |
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| Capbreton (for more pics from my surf trips go here (Philippines) or here for Bali trip ) |
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| France, not only beachbreaks |
Action Sports Blog Resurection
That was a long long pause between my last post and this one. Lots of things have happened, like breaking up with my long time girlfriend and dealing with that shit. That was hard. It took my mind of internet things for quite a while. Then came the Google SERP and algorithm updates that kicked some of my sites into their shins and made me rethink things, made me lost my motivation and then get it back again. It's hard to go from alsom 100$ a day back to 20$. But on the other hand it's true a have been very passive and lazy in the last 1-2 years when it comes to my sites. Most of the time was spent checking earnings and stats. Which is fun but doesn't help build or rank sites.
Anyway... the recent changes are leading kind of away from sniper - one mini niche - one keyword sites. Fortunately I have expanded most of my sites to target many keywords. So even mini sites were not do or die dependent on one keyword.
For instance if you get 80% of your traffic from your main keyword and your site drops - you are screwed. If you get 30% from your main keyword and 70% from all other long tail versions of it and related keywords then a drop in the main keyword doesn't hit you that hard.
And what I have found out is that sites with lots of content, lots of different content have a better ratio between main keyword and all the other long tail keywords. More power to bigger number of keywords and less to the main one. This is good.
Also - I decided to return to sites that I enjoy making. And this are action sport sites or better that one surfing snowboarding and other alternative sports blog that was the first site that I ever put up. It has been 3 years since my last post on that blog and the traffic has been CONSTANT the whole time. During all the ups and downs and algo changes that site remained static. The CTR sucks, at least there are some affiliate sales...nothing to be really excited about but it's what a really enjoy to write about and I've been pumping out posts in the last few days. And I've moved this blog from Joomla to WP. Sorry Joomla but you suck. You are just too much of a pain in the ass to maintain. Otherwise a cool, simple and powerful CMS but I don't want to take a vacation everytime a Joomla upgrade comes out, SEF URL's change and stuff like that.
So now I have only one Joomla site left. I'm really sorry that I didn't put all my sites on wordpress. Some ore running on other simpler scripts but at least they are light, simple and not updated. Unlike Joomla. Sound funny but this is a good thing :).
Anyway... blog has a semi new template that I like - Pagelines, and some new posts about mountainbiking and surfing. And about a stupid thing called wavejet and about Travis Rice new snowboard movie - The Art Of Flight. And I have included some links to in throughout this post so feel free to click them and check it out :).
Anyway... the recent changes are leading kind of away from sniper - one mini niche - one keyword sites. Fortunately I have expanded most of my sites to target many keywords. So even mini sites were not do or die dependent on one keyword.
For instance if you get 80% of your traffic from your main keyword and your site drops - you are screwed. If you get 30% from your main keyword and 70% from all other long tail versions of it and related keywords then a drop in the main keyword doesn't hit you that hard.
And what I have found out is that sites with lots of content, lots of different content have a better ratio between main keyword and all the other long tail keywords. More power to bigger number of keywords and less to the main one. This is good.
Also - I decided to return to sites that I enjoy making. And this are action sport sites or better that one surfing snowboarding and other alternative sports blog that was the first site that I ever put up. It has been 3 years since my last post on that blog and the traffic has been CONSTANT the whole time. During all the ups and downs and algo changes that site remained static. The CTR sucks, at least there are some affiliate sales...nothing to be really excited about but it's what a really enjoy to write about and I've been pumping out posts in the last few days. And I've moved this blog from Joomla to WP. Sorry Joomla but you suck. You are just too much of a pain in the ass to maintain. Otherwise a cool, simple and powerful CMS but I don't want to take a vacation everytime a Joomla upgrade comes out, SEF URL's change and stuff like that.
So now I have only one Joomla site left. I'm really sorry that I didn't put all my sites on wordpress. Some ore running on other simpler scripts but at least they are light, simple and not updated. Unlike Joomla. Sound funny but this is a good thing :).
Anyway... blog has a semi new template that I like - Pagelines, and some new posts about mountainbiking and surfing. And about a stupid thing called wavejet and about Travis Rice new snowboard movie - The Art Of Flight. And I have included some links to in throughout this post so feel free to click them and check it out :).
Wetsuit questions...
Since the wetsuit megastore website has been up they get a lot of wetsuit related questions. Guys over there are pretty cool and they answer every one of them..well if the know the answer :). To help them out these are the questions they answered so far.
So if you want to know something about wetsuits, drop by their website and look around.
Cheers
So if you want to know something about wetsuits, drop by their website and look around.
Cheers
Anastasia Ashley
Well, if you ask me, she is not that hot, but she makes all that up the in department of surfing abilities. Anastasia Ashley is a great surfer and that is hot. More than all the "Sexiest vegetarian alive" and FHM model thingies. I don't know why, but surf clothing makes girls cute and the fact that they really surf makes them even cuter.
The question here is, do you really want to be labeled as hot if you are an aspiring young surfer. It doesn't hurt of course. Why did former world champion Lisa Andersen sky rocket womens surfing, just because she won a world title or two? Well she was not the first. But she was the one that looked great on posters, commercials and that is when womens surfing got interesting.
Just be careful not to go down the Ana Kurnikova road :). Go Anastasia Ashley :)!
The question here is, do you really want to be labeled as hot if you are an aspiring young surfer. It doesn't hurt of course. Why did former world champion Lisa Andersen sky rocket womens surfing, just because she won a world title or two? Well she was not the first. But she was the one that looked great on posters, commercials and that is when womens surfing got interesting.
Just be careful not to go down the Ana Kurnikova road :). Go Anastasia Ashley :)!
Double Decade
So you are a snowboarder. No, actually it doesn't matter. Any so called alternative sport will do. Even other sports can do just fine. Probably things like chess don't qualify but... OK, stop and tell what's up?
Sports are for kids. Because kids can learn faster and if you want to be any good at any sport you must start early on. So early that you do most of the falling while you are still close to the ground - when you are small. Something about gravity meets concrete. Mix in more elastic bones, faster healing of your bruises and the fact that: "You won't be able to see the scar by the time you get married." This are just some things that disappear when you are older.
If you are good, if you are really good and train hard you will reach your performance peak sometimes in your twenties, by the time you are 27 or 28 you are already experienced veteran or even worse - a legend :). Sometimes (like surfing, basketball, hockey... some sports) you can squeeze in an additional decade of word cup performance... but only if you are once in a 50 years wonder kid.
If you are not a professional athlete and lets face it, most of us are not, then by the time you are 25 people around you start spiting out innocent remarks like... is he still snowboarding.... wouldn't it be time to take life more seriously... isn't surfing for kids... etc.
Now surfing is lucky because it's old enough that you have people of all ages in the lineup. But snowboarding is still quite young by surfing standards and old snowboarders are like snow in the desert. This is why we must give all the respect to Mack Dawg. Double Decade! That mean two times one decade. That means two times ten years. That means 20 years. Yep, it's 20 years since the release of first Mack Dawgs snowboard movie and the movie that celebrates this fact is titles Double Decade. Check the trailer and wait for it until the fall.
double decade Trailer Mack dawg from Niller on Vimeo.
Sports are for kids. Because kids can learn faster and if you want to be any good at any sport you must start early on. So early that you do most of the falling while you are still close to the ground - when you are small. Something about gravity meets concrete. Mix in more elastic bones, faster healing of your bruises and the fact that: "You won't be able to see the scar by the time you get married." This are just some things that disappear when you are older.
If you are good, if you are really good and train hard you will reach your performance peak sometimes in your twenties, by the time you are 27 or 28 you are already experienced veteran or even worse - a legend :). Sometimes (like surfing, basketball, hockey... some sports) you can squeeze in an additional decade of word cup performance... but only if you are once in a 50 years wonder kid.
If you are not a professional athlete and lets face it, most of us are not, then by the time you are 25 people around you start spiting out innocent remarks like... is he still snowboarding.... wouldn't it be time to take life more seriously... isn't surfing for kids... etc.
Now surfing is lucky because it's old enough that you have people of all ages in the lineup. But snowboarding is still quite young by surfing standards and old snowboarders are like snow in the desert. This is why we must give all the respect to Mack Dawg. Double Decade! That mean two times one decade. That means two times ten years. That means 20 years. Yep, it's 20 years since the release of first Mack Dawgs snowboard movie and the movie that celebrates this fact is titles Double Decade. Check the trailer and wait for it until the fall.
double decade Trailer Mack dawg from Niller on Vimeo.
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