Just a quick one for all those as addicted to the snow as I am...FREEBORD!! its like a skateboard but it drifts like a snowboard. Look it up on youtube but I think it will be the next big thing for all those chasing that winter high in summer. I'll be getting one once the snow stops falling!

You may not have heard of him..........

I just want to give a shout out to a man who has been greyed out in the worlds history books.

His name was Nikola Tesla. He was one of the most important scientists and inventors of the modern age, a man who "shed light on the world". After his demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents"( one of the most spectacular public scientific demonstartions in history), he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers in the world. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture, but due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist (his thoughts on futeristic weapons are actually a bit scary). Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86 (The conspiacy surrounding his journals following his death could fill volumes of suspense novels).

So that is just my thoughts on one of historys great inventors, look him up and just think of what we have now because of him!

New Sports

In all generations across all sports there are new trends and sub sports. Windsurfing spawned kite surfing, Skiing thankfully spawned snowboarding and surfing, well it gave birth to aborted fetus named bodyboarding but hey we all make mistakes. I like to embrace a lot of the new directions that these sports take but I just want to comment on the resistance to these infant sports. A recent off shoot from surfing is Stand Up Paddle Boarding. A large amount of surfers see this new sport as being a blight on their sport and will hurl abuse at anyone doing it. But why?

Doing something new, challenging your brain, is what keeps us young both phsically and mentally. There is nothing more draining than doing the same thing everyday and its limiting as well. I took up SUP not long ago and it has meant that I spend a lot more time in and on the water. Those onshore messy days when I used to stay home are some of the funnest days I have ever surfed now. Why would you limit yourself when there is so much fun to be had?