Deep South

I just got back from the deep south, truly amazing place down there, a little bit cooler than the tropical north island but worth enduring the cold for some quality surf. I’ve never really worn booties before, so to be head to toe in hood, 5 mill suit, gloves and booties was a new and challenging experience for me. The first few surfs I was struggling to paddle out the back or catch waves, I wasn’t used to having the extra weight and restriction of all that rubber, but after a few surfs I got in to the groove of things and managed to get to my feet a couple of times.







I got to surf with a couple of my mates down there, Natty Parsons and Maz Quinn. Natty was absolutely frothing, catching 100 waves a surf and trying massive punts every wave, he’s almost got these crazy flip roll things down.  Maz was his usual self, pretty much just bangin it or throwin down big larry laybacks. Was great to have some guys to go surfing with who are pretty much full on shred-dogs.







We did so much driving it was ridiculous. One day there was no surf in Dunedin so I thought it’d be a fantastic idea to drive to the west coast for a surf check; wasn’t really that fantastic of an idea in hindsight although we did get to see some pretty amazing scenery. A 7-hour drive revealed that yes; it was indeed flat on the west coast, so it was back to the east. The West Coast of the south island is amazing, it’s like a whole other country down there; long shingle beaches, seaside snow covered mountains and there’s practically no one there, I think it’s about 1 person per every 1000 square km’s or something ridiculous. I was pretty fortunate to have my spaceship camper as there were a couple of times stuck in the middle of nowhere with no place to stay.  It was quite refreshing to be a tourist in my home country, stopping every few minutes to take a photo of a waterfall or some awesome sight. I’d definitely go down there again and check that place out a little more extensively, 1 day didn’t really cut it.







I’ve only got a few weeks left to film for this Innersection thing, I guess that’s plenty of time if the elements align and the waves get good. The last week’s been pretty full on though, it’s almost as if New Zealand’s falling apart with gale force winds, flooding and a huge earthquake. Not very nice times for a lot of New Zealanders at the moment, hopefully some good stuff will happen soon to balance out all the badness.










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Luke Cederman is one of NZ's most dynamic surfers. Concentrating on his free surfing, Luke recently won a place in Taylor Steele’s latest surf movie and will spend this year traveling and filming.