Here is the video

Hi there!

here you have now the video from the trip to Galicia, enjoy it! :)

Team Oakley meets Galicia from Mar Gruesa on Vimeo.

MaRíA

Bites from Galicia with the Oakley Team

Hi everyone!!!

you better get some minutes to check this out, the first bites of the trip we did a few months ago with the Oakley team!!! Thanks Sergio Villabla (WE Photo Agency) for the pictures!! :)

check the whole resume here  http://www.margruesa.com/team-oakley-meets-galicia/

nice day!

MaRíA

Starts are not always great

Hi there!!

Last weekend I went to have some good surfing with two friends :) I got there really excited and wanting to do it well. However, things do not always turn out as we would like to. In these cases, we just have to "keep smiling" :)

All moments shared with your friends are good moments :)

nice day!

MaRíA

A long way to a long right :)

Hi everyone! Last Sunday we went on a trip looking for a wave many people had told me about and that I had never surfed before. Rita was the person in charge of the trip and although we finally found the place I do not know if I am going to trust her anymore when she tells me "it takes 10 minutes walking to get there" hahahaa

However, it was all worth it and we had a great day!! :) here you have the video showing the trekking we had to do to get to the beach!!! haha

Have a great day!!

MaRíA

The lucky one??

Hi!

Many of my friends usually tell me how lucky I am that I've travelled all around the world, seen many beautiful places, etc...

Nevertheless, this week I've not felted like that at all... seeing gorgeous pictures from friends all around the world and wishing I were there, but I wasn't!

(thanks Elena for this pic :))

Meanwhile I've been stuck!! stuck in my office, stuck in a city sorrounded by cars and smoke, stuck in a tiny flat... 

However, today is Fridayyyy!!!!!! and I am starting to feel lucky again 'cause my boyfriend is coming to visit and we are going to the beach for the weekend!!! yuhhuuu!!!!! :) It seems like it is going to rain this weekend, but I do not care at all!!! :) I just want to see the ocean and enjoy it!! :)

have a great weekend u all!!! and feel lucky yourselves, because there is always something that can make you feel the luckiest in the world! :)

MaRíA

Backstage

Hi,

as promised, here you have the video from the "backstage life" of a surf contest :)

No waves in the video, just "hanging out bits"

have a great start of the week!

MaRíA

Weekend bites

Hi there!

As you all now last weekend I participated in a contest surfing in Tarifa. The waves during the week had been great all around the south coast of Spain, however during the weekend strong south wings started to blow and the waves were kind of a mess.

Love this picture from Lucas! :)

After thinking for a while what to do, we decided to joint the competition and at least spend the day at the beach trying to catch something :)

The contest started for us with small fast waves and really strong winds. In my first heat I had Marina Alabau (London Olimpics Gold Medal in Windsurf!!!). It was really hard to find waves, but I finally managed to catch two waves that allowed me to do two ok turns.

Now it was the turn of the guys, and we decided to spend sometime around watching them and hanging out at the bar :)

After a lunch break, the organizers decided to run the semi-finals and finals of the girls. The conditions were really tough for the final and Julia (the youngest) had a really hard time to get to the peak, finally she could get there and although most of the heat was already past, she did a last effort a catch a few waves. Good work girl!

My first left of the final :)

 

I was luckier than her and did not have that many troubles to get to the peak. I caught a left which let me do two turns and after that I focused on catching one of those rights I had been seing all day breaking, but that were really hard to catch because of the currents. When there were 5 minutes left a really clean right came and I caught it, surfing my best wave of the contest in the final!! :) 

We did not know how we had finished till that night during the dinner the organizers had prepared for us. Two massive paellas for all of us!! :) 

 Finally, the moment came and this is how everything ended ;)

 Because we did not have to surf on Sunday we decided to go celebrate :) Mojitos for everyone!!! it was "happy hour"!!! :)

We caught the best wave of the weekend at a bar! :)

On Sunday it was hard to wake up (actually I don't even know if Elena did wake up jajajja). Before leaving, Teresa decided to have a snack for breakfast!! hahaha

In our way home we stopped in a few beaches just to take a look at them, and I have to say they were gorgeous!!! :) I really have to come back some other time!! :)

the girls! :)

"Pequeña Lulú"

I had a great time, thanks Teresa, Rita, Julia, Elena, Pilar, Polo for all the laughs we had, and the organizers for doing this great contest!!! :)

pd: wait for the video... :) it is under "edition" :)

have a great day!

MaRíA

Chocolate Waves

Hi!!

how was your weekend?? hope you had a great one! :) mine was really great, although I will talk more about that in the next post. Here I wanted to show you how my 1st of November was.

7:00 am in the morning my alarm rang and everything started there... take a walk to my car with my surfboard, drive for an hour, surf for 3 hours, lunch with friends, surf for another 3 hours and back to home again :)

Take a look at the video of the start of the day!! :)

It takes a while till one reaches it's purpose but  it is always worth it! :)

have a great start of the week!!

MaRíA