I’ve been shooting photo’s with Billy Morris for the last 10 years. He’s always ripping into me about never doing airs. Im terrible at doing airs but i don’t let billy know that. I always just use the excuse that i don’t want too snap my boards hahah. Any way billy was ripping into me …

You can do more turns on one wave out snapper than you can in a week of surfing in sydney!

This is the wave that won me the Biggest Slab award last night. Click here for the full sequence http://chasingchalk.com/2009/06/26/biggest-barrel-of-my-life/

Photo : Chris Bryan Be tough to find 2 better blokes to be onstage with! Im nursing a massive hangover but celebration hangovers are always way easier too deal with. Laurie Towner – Biggest Wave $20,000 Doug Young – Biggest Paddle In $5000 Me – Biggest Slab $5000 yeeeeeeeeeeeeew!

This is Richie Vass (Middle) and KidMac (Right). It was so good to have two of my best mates around while the comp was on. We had a couple Sunset beers after the final then Jamie threw a crazy party at his house later that night.

Photo: Carey It might be true that no one remembers second let alone third. But i wont for get how much fun i had in this event. 5 heats at pumping pipe with only 3 other guys in the water was like a dream!

Photo: Tim Jones I got more floggings than i did barrels today. Luckily i did enough to keep getting through. Semis tmrw, hopefully backdoors on!