South Bay, welcome Jonas Nakas: Lake Michigan Longboarder

Lake Michigan longboarder and friend Jonas Nakas came up to the South Bay today.  It looked about as inviting as the dreaded Huntington shuffle (the nearest beach to where he is based now, he is no longer doing the twice-as-monotonous Lake Michigan shuffle!).  As I told him I wanted to shoot some photos--he has very few shots of himself--he made the trek.  We switched off with the longboard and the housing (he is a photographer himself).  Unfortunately for the egoist in me, his training throughout high school in the waves of Lake Michigan--more or less like the local-wind-driven, short period waves of today, he said--made him a much better subject than myself.  Enjoy the fruits of our labor.  Surfer: Jonas Nakas / Photographer: Marcus Bockman

 

frontside fade

  backside bottom turn

 cross step #1

 cross step #2

 single-fin-first takeoff

 getting close to the nose

 trim spot

gulls

--FIN--

SOUTH BAY BOARDRIDERS CLUB VIDEO

Something I'm very proud of is a new video I produced about the South Bay Boardriders Club for Patch.com online news!  Patch.com is a series of local news sites that I freelance for.  Pick your site to view the video on below:

http://hermosabeach.patch.com/articles/boardriders-club-looks-for-winters-biggest-wave
http://redondobeach.patch.com/articles/boardriders-club-looks-for-winters-biggest-wave-2

Have a good one everyone!  Photos coming soon (possibly later today) from a recent off-season Wedge swell, shot from out in the water.  Photos were taken by Mr. Kim Magin and I!

Manhattan Beach Locals on Patch.com (Manhattan Beach)

Hi, thanks to the shredding bodyboarding and surfing locals out at Manhattan Beach Pier's north side who shared some of their surfing with the camera a few days back.  If you lucked out and made my editor's cut, your surfing can now be found on Patch.com, an online news network site that I frequently freelance for.  LINK:

http://manhattanbeach.patch.com/articles/scenic-body-boarding-in-manhattan-beach#photo-4629654

Additional photos from that session up soon!  8x10" prints are available on demand from the Patch.com article session for $20.00 a piece, plus shipping.  Want a larger size?  Let me know and we'll work something out!

MB PIER WATER SHOTS--coming soon!

Hi all--my good friend Kim Magin and I traded off with a white waterproof housing yesterday at the Manhattan Beach Pier on the South side of the pier.  I haven't had the time to put them up the resulting shots but I will soon!  Thanks for your patience, all of you that asked about the blog in the water.

Always, ALWAYS, A-L-W-A-Y-S...

...bring your tool kit with you when you bring a waterproof housing to the beach.  Otherwise, you might end up with a housing that you cannot open to turn the camera back on during one of the most beautiful sunsets you have ever seen (followed by a mockingly-long, brilliant afterglow dusk)

Just maybe.

Not that I would know anything about this.  Oh no--it's not like that happened to me today.