jueves, 31 de mayo de 2012

Into the Ocean

Good morning!! :)

Since I bought my new camera I was thinking on doing a video similar to this, a video where I could show how great is just to be in the water :)...





Have a great weekend!! :)

MaRíA :)

miércoles, 30 de mayo de 2012

Summer 2012 New Board! :)

Hi!!! I am soooooo happpyyy!!!! :) I got a few days ago my brand-new board for this summer competitions :)!!! :) It is again a 5'11'', this is my "all kind of waves" board :)!!! I cannot wait to get into the water with it!! Thank you soooo much Gilito for this boardd!!!!!!! :)

However, before getting it in the water I had to decide the grip, which was not an easy decision... :) hehe

Right after picking it up! :)

These are the two grips I had...


    


I finally went for the red one, although I liked a lot the blue one too, but most of my lattest grips had been blue too and I wanted a change! :)


Have a great day!!!

MaRíA

lunes, 28 de mayo de 2012

Seville from an Skateboard

Hi all :)!

this post is a bit different from the previous ones, it has not surf nor skateboarding on it :). However, it has been recorded while I was skating. A friend of mine is leaving Seville and I wanted to do something for her before she left, so she won´t forget this beautiful city (because although it has not beach, Seville is actually a gorgeous city :)).

This is my first "long" video and making videos like this is when you realize how hard this is, I mean, making a good video... You have ideas in your mind, they look perfect there, but even if you are able to record something similar to what you thought, it does not look as good as before anymore... I am also still getting to know my go-pro and some of the shots are not good enough (they are taken from too far, others for too long...), but it is good to see this, because you learn doing these things :)

Here you have some single shots from the video showing the different things I wanted to reflect on it

Seville is the only place I've ever been where you can find shops which only sell "abanicos", where there are more flamenca customs shops than any other type...


where there are more horsecars than taxis...


Where everyone has a common perfect friend "El Tío de Cruzcampo" ;)


Where it is impossible to see if the city is more beautiful during the day...


or at night...


Where you can take a shower while you are having a beer :)


Where the flowers have beautiful colors during the whole year...




Where the Giralda is watching all of us


Where you can find women on their flamenca customs from April to June non-stop hehe :)


And last, but not less, one of the cities where you can see one of the most beautiful sunsets :) 


Here you have the video, sorry because of the non-fixed shots, but remember I recorded it while I was skating and it is really hard to keep the camara straight :)



It takes a long time to make something like this (even a simple and not that well edited one like this one), but it takes a long time to think about what you want to record, to go and do it, to get different sun lights, to edit it, to re-edit, to go again and record whatever you had left, to select the music (in this case I just used one song I like and one song my friend likes), and put everything together... I really appretiate more now the work of the cameras :)! 

However, I think it is even harder when you really want to do a good thing because it is for a friend and you want the video to be "good enough". Wish you the best in your new life Kika! :)

hope you like it!! have a great Monday!

MaRíA




jueves, 24 de mayo de 2012

Surfing breakout ;)

Yesterday I could wait no more and right after work I took my car and headed to El Palmar to go surfing :).

When I got there and saw the waves everything stopped... the sun shining, offshore winds and waves, waves everywhere... I was sooooo haaaaappy I started smiling and did not stop till I went to bed :)

Getting ready!! :)


I was in the water for like 3:30 hours non-stop. I just loved it... it is great to feel yourself sorrounded by water :)

Thanks Gilito for this board!!!! It goes so good under my feet!!! :)


Gorgeous sunset :)!


Have a great Friday!!

MaRíA

miércoles, 23 de mayo de 2012

Orrua - 2011

Last year at Orrua I had one the greatest final of the year. It was not because I won, actually I did not, Garazi did, but the final was against Leticia Canales (2011 Spanish Champion), Garazi Sánchez (the best Spanish junior, at least for me) and Mirka Martín (many times Spanish Champion). The waves were really good, I did catch a few good ones, but I did not do my best and I ended 3rd that time.

Yesterday Txente de la Caba (thanks by the way) uploaded some pictures from that final and I have selected a few of them to share them with you.

Garazi


 Leti


Mirka


myself :)





Garazi won this championship after being out of the water for 3 months because of a knee injury... she surfed awesome this final!!

Nice day!

MaRíA

martes, 22 de mayo de 2012

GoPro - Skating Test

Hi :)!!!

As you already know we went skating last saturday and I recorded a video to test my gopro. It was really really fun!!! recording it, editing it, watching it... everything... I hope you like it!! :)


I had a special guest for this occasion (as you will see in the video :)).




have a great day!!!!

MaRíA

domingo, 20 de mayo de 2012

Weekend around :)

Hi everyone!!! This weekend's been a different one. It is one of the few weekends I have spent without going into the water, and it's kind of weird, not bad, but weird...

After all day going around the city we went to the movies yesterday night :) to watch "The avengers" (great movie by the way)


We got some popcorns (small bucket hahahah) and a coke, a movie would not be a movie with this small things hehe :)


I enjoyed it a lot, although it has to be said that I love Marvel Comics and all the movies they have done. I think Hulk is the sweetiest heroe of this group hahahahha.... being serious, he might not be the sweetiest, but he is the coolest!!! and in this movie also the funniest, when he hits Thor right after getting rid off more than 1000 bad guys by himself... hahaha hilarious!!! :)


Then today (Sunday) we decided to go skating for a while and we had a great time!! :)


trying new turns :) and having fun!


;)



great place to have a break! :)


hope you enjoyed ur weekend as much as i did mine! :)

have a nice day!

MaRíA



miércoles, 16 de mayo de 2012

Back to the beginning... BeachVolley!

Hi everyone!!! This week I have started playing beachvolley again!!! :) I am really happy/excited, it's been a long time since I last played and now that I have started again I've realized how much I missed it!!! :)


I met the people from a beachvolley club close to my house the other day and they are great and really really funny :)

Playing at 35 degrees is not an easy thing, but I hope I will get used to it! :)


Get ready Miguel, Pilar, Eleneizer, Marioze and company, I am going to kick your asses this summer!!!! :)

Nice day!!

MaRíA

lunes, 14 de mayo de 2012

Secret spot in Portugal

hahaha, if you opened this just to know where the secret spot was, sorry, but it was a joke!!! jajaja and if it wasn't I wouldn't tell! :) hehe

This weekend I decided to go to Portugal to have some surfing there :). It was a great decision, because I had so much fun with Rita and Gema, and we also had some really fun waves :)... We went to Amado and, although it is in Portugal, you couldn't tell... everyone speaking spanish we are "re-conquering" portugal jajajaja



Rita driving Gema's van... she looks so small to be driving such a truck!! hahahhaa


sunset... no words...


I couldn't take pictures at night, but i have never seen so many stars in the sky... it was one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen!!!

nice Monday!

María

miércoles, 9 de mayo de 2012

Moonrocks - Bali

While I was in Bali I went to visit one of the Moonrocks shops there :) It looks great, and they have great clothes there!




New moon-rocks logo shirts :) and more clothes... :)





    


Thanks Alain for everything! hope 2 see u soon (better again in Bali hahaha) ;)

If you are in Bali you should go and take a look (you will also find them in San Sebastián :))!!!

have a great Wednesday!

MaRíA

lunes, 7 de mayo de 2012

pupurrí from Sumbawa :)

I still have many pictures I really like from my trip to Bali, but I do not know how to label them. I have decided to just put them together so you can enjoy them :)

 Our Airbus A380 hahaha 

While we were waiting for our plane we met Lee Ann Curren, the daughter (and great surfer herself) from one of the most stylish surfers in the world, Tom Curren :)



Aman Gati hotel :)




Great views ;)






el kioskiyo de las chuches jaja :)


;)




have a great Monday!!

MaRíA