Filming - surf style
Yesterday, we went out with O'Neill to film a short segment on river surfing for their promotional purposes. For this, the best place is the Lachines. its Big, and its powerfull and its fun.

Its also no joke on a surfboard. out hee I wear a life Jacket and helmet all the time, and I've been pulled down for up to 40 seconds before - certainly long enough to start thinking about things.

But, lets disperse with the worries of surfing the lachines.... after all, we had 2 jet ski's and 2 jet boats for safety and for the film crew, and so off we went.

The crew consisted of Jean Louis (left), Sam Cote, Guilhome Larouche, Andreanne Dumas and myself.

Its our first time out there this year, so we had to get everything ready, including the ski ropes, the sled for the Jet Ski (thanks to Karl from Adrenaline for coming out to help) and of course, getting the boat that JL, Norm and Jaques bachand built this winter - a 18ft mahogany boat designed for the lachines, and transporting kayaks and surfboards for filming. Super slick. Carbon fibre gunnels and dash... ferrari red... wow. It's cool.
PM Roy and JL Bachand before putting on.
The Boat - she's beautiful. And the 65 hps jet engine - well, thats pretty neat. We never lacked any power at all out there.
Jean Louis towing into Right sides of Big Joe
Andreanne getting ready to drop in from JL's jet boat.
Testing the new Gath Gedi helmet... I really like it a lot. Its supposed to hit the market any day now.
Warming up on the right side of Big Joe.
Sam Cote had a cool run on Big Joe's right side as well... lots of fun to watch.
Time top head over to the pit. The pit was pretty hard to surf - really fast and washed out with a super small face that was uneven and ondulating, but after all, thats were the action is, right!
Olivier Languedoc came out to make sure we didn't drown Andreanne. We did try... ;-)
Of course, the day would not be complete without taking the jet boat for a spin.