Kia Ora everyone!!
Hope everyone's been nailing some secret squirrelly autumn sessions!
I bet you all have. I was lucky enough to score a few tubes myself around home but unfortunately can't tell you where.

I've been in the United States for about 10 days, surfing with some of the best surfers in the world, all gearing up for the contest at Trestles. It was such an awesome vibe until my heat came. I got caught in seaweed, my legs turned to jelly and my mind fluctuated like a long period forecast. I lost.
For 40 minutes I dwelled until I remembered there is more to my life than contests.

"That's it I'm outta here!!" I thought. Haha "FLIGHT AGENT!!! ON THE PHONE NOW!!!"

We have two weeks break in between contests so instead of going home, I'm planning a trip somewhere close by with a few of my boys. It's going to be siiiiick!

Then we'll be filling up that shaker with rock salt and grinding away in Saquarema for another PRIME WQS.

Some of my friends say I was supposed to be a brazilian, calling me Raoni at times, so in that case, I'm looking forward to going home to my brrruuuvvvaaaasss!!

By the way, if you didn't know already, I've just started my own website. I'm going to be posting on it regularly, wherever I am around the world.

BEWARE! Its not a blog about winning contests! Yet I hope there will be some updates on there in the near future about myself winning contests haha.
But I basically just wanna share my life and experiences with whoever cares really!

Check it, if you wanna but don't tell anyone SSSHHHHHHH!
CHUR, RICARDO

Richard Christie is one of NZ's top surfers and finished 2011 in 43rd place on the ASP World Rankings. Ricardo will be writing regular updates for S2 throughout 2012 as he attempts to qualify for the 2013 world tour.