Andrew Cotton

Showing posts with label swimming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swimming. Show all posts

Friday, 1 March 2013

Winter Retrospective

Atlantic Winter Retrospective from Mikey @ Show 'n Tell Media on Vimeo.


‘There will always be another big swell’ is what I tell myself when I miss big waves the same as I tell myself ‘you can’t be everywhere at once’ when I make a bad call concluding in me missing the best or biggest waves. I find myself getting so wrapped up and focused on the Atlantic winter swells I can’t see the wood for the trees so to speak, I need and want to make the most of every swell as I won’t have the luxury of jetting half way across the world in the summer to get my fix. It doesn’t help living in Devon either, because there’s definitely no big waves here so it’s great to leave but always greater to come home to my family.
So this is my Atlantic winter retrospective and a few of the waves I surfed from a few key sessions. It was a pretty epic winter for me and the first real time I’ve spent chasing big swells out of Ireland with a lot of time put in at Nazare, a session at Belharra as well as the old faithful Mullaghmore and a big wave paddle comp at Punta Galea in the Basque Country. Hope you like it.

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Would've, could've, should've.



Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve. I hate saying that to myself, Often than not it’s about surfing, watching back footage, over analysing situations or just sofa surfing whilst watching clips of other surfers on the internet, but not always. It can be about a situation which I just didn’t think fast enough or didn’t have the balls to confront when I had my chance. Doesn’t mean anything though really as the simple fact is I didn’t, the moments already gone and in some cases didn’t even happen, nothing can be changed unless I bump into Doc Brown next time I’m in Tesco’s, which unfortunately is pretty unlikely.
I did my first ever triathlon at the weekend, I don’t really compete much at sports, I hate team games and I find it hard to enter things I know I really have no hope in winning but putting that aside I did get really into it. Problem is now I just have that feeling that I could’ve done things differently, should’ve gone harder and overall I would’ve done better. I didn’t.
Maybe next time I will, kind of looking forward to it already.