Alek Parker's Blog

TALKIN FISHY

Alek Parker — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:04:54 +0000

WHERE TO PUT YOUR VOLUME AND CURVES ON A FISH!!!

Board Blog on Surfline.com features a little tid bit into the history and proper design of a fish… I love my Twin Fins… They bring me endless good times to every shred sesh I choose to ride one of them in. This is a cool write up and they chose a shot of me on my beloved Timmy Patterson Twin Fin Retro fish to show case the article on the home page… The writting is by Rusty himself but I don’t care what anybody says Timmy Patterson makes the best Fishes out there… But I could never leave out the amazingly Innovative yet classic stylings of Fred Grosskreutz. He recently made me one of his personal models and it is one of the coolest and craziest boards I have ridden… Bottom line you don’t have to be some “Trippy Hippy Rasta” type dude to have a blasty on any type of retro type fish shred stick… Just grab one and try it and I promise you will be hooked…

SPECTACULAR SHOT GUN HEAT ENTRY!!!

Alek Parker — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:29:45 +0000

BEST ENTRY INTO A CONTEST OF MY LIFE… THANKS SWEET WATER PRO!!! CHECK OUT THE BEER TOSS…

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I LOST BUT I WON!!!

AIR SICKNESS!!!

Alek Parker — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:47:09 +0000

MATT PRUETT Defines surfings finer points and puts a end to every miss labeled aerial maneuver us surfers transformed from half pipes to waves… Matt put in his time and really did the research needed while giving credit to the foundation of aerial surfing, Skateboarding… Plus I have a sequence in here of a Backside Mute Grab that I am super stoked on… Check the Slow Mask face flying high… Click on the pic to the left for direct link to article…

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WEEKEND AT BENNIE’S ON EASTERNSURF.COM

Alek Parker — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:20:41 +0000

EasternSurf.com has really stepped up the game in East Coast surf coverage… I have heard from many mouths how much everyone is loving their new site and it isn’t hard to see why… This is a photo feature from this past weekend in Wrightsville Beach N.C. Home of Benny Bourgeois during the Reef Sweet Water Pro and the Spectacular Adventures DVD WORLD PREMIERE… Check it out!!! there are some amazing pics from the lenses of the ESM staff photogs Mez and Gamma… Make sure you click on Benny when he pops up on the left side of the pic for an awesome quick video clip…

Click on the little pic up on the top left to get to the feature…

NEW AND IMPROVED SPECTACULAR ADVENTURES MOVIE TRAILER

Alek Parker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:10:23 +0000

Spectacular Adventures! is the 2009 release of the past 12 months of shredding and good timing all stuffed into one DVD and digital download. Look for the movie to be coming out this August and check back here until then for updates and throwaway footage as we piece the project together!

Spectacular Adventures! Trailer from Spectad on Vimeo.

Featuring Ben Bourgeois, Asher Nolan, Cory Lopez, Gabe Kling, Alek Parker, Zander Morton, Brian Toth, Dylan Graves, Shea Lopez, Peter Mendia, Brendan Buckley, Michael Dunphy, Sam Hammer, Mike Gleason, and Alejandro Moreda

Shot on the East Coast, Galapagos Islands, Panama, Caribbean, West Indies, East Coast, Central America, and further!

SUPERSPECTACULARADVENTURES.COM ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF ALEKPARKER.COM

Alek Parker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:56:10 +0000

First, the Hobgoods, then Ben Bourgeois, Fred Pattachia, Gabe Kling and the Gudangs. Now it’s Alek Parkers turn. Not talking about qualifying for the ‘CT or winning an NSSA championship, it’s just another drop in the bucket of blog-world. Alek Parker is a lover of technology so it’s a surprise that it’s taken him so long to get with the prosurfersname.com/blog program. Hell – he’s had atwitter and a vimeo for a while now, it was just a matter of time.

So here it is, Alek Parker’s blog, bookmark it, make it your home page, email it to all your friends. Alek’s got a little more skills than the Goods when it comes to editing (storytelling, not humoring cause those guys are hilarious) and while he might not have a filmer as competent as Dion’sfollowing him around all the time getting footage to edit, he makes up for it by filming himself. Alot. Right now, I’m digging his post about TAP airlines being so shredder friendly – you should definitely check it out (LikeBitchin). All in all, Alek is a funny dude who knows how to press record and for the amount of traveling and adventuring this guy does it’s sure to not disappoint.

THANKS SUPER SPECTACULAR ADVENTURES for spreading the word of my new found blogging endeavors…

SURFERMAG.COM FEATURES SPECTACULAR PANAMA TRIP VIDEO

Alek Parker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:22:11 +0000

SURFERMAG.COM recently posted a video that Jerry Ricciotti edited together from our latest Spectacular Adventure to Panama… Just a little rough teaser that I don’t think was supposed to leave his Vimeo page, but oh well, we are super stoked they put it right up on their homepage… Enjoy, I know we did…

SPECTACULAR ADVENTURE TO PANAMA..

Alek Parker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:04:09 +0000

When you think of a boat trip you never think about 12 surfers… But when your putting together a spectacular adventure that is exactly what you are thinking about… Jerry Ricciotti put this boat trip together to the Lost Coast of Panama with 12 of the top East Coast surfers, 2 video guys and 2 Transworld Surf staff photogs… This Adventure is the last trip for the well awaited Spectacular Adventures DVD coming August 2009… Spectacular Adventures is going to be by far the best East Coast surf movie of 2009… But yes, there are a million things that could go wrong with a crew that big, but when it is 12 surfers from the East Coast , there are nothing but Good Times, Smooth Sailing and a whole lot of Beer drinking ahead of you… Brian Toth’s birthday was no exception to the beer drinking, as you can clearly see in this pic…

There were “Man Bear Pigs” and “Gorilla BullSharks”

And Seth Learned how to surf…

Overall this one one of the best trips I have ever been on with the best crew I have been a part of… If the the Spectacular adventures DVD portrays even a fraction of the amount of fun we had on this trip and every other trip throughout the movie, this is going to be the best East Coast movie this year…

Transworld Surf put this slide show up on their website of the trip…

SPECTACULAR ADVENTURES DVD TRAILER

Alek Parker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:09:06 +0000

Spectacular Adventures DVD from Spectad on Vimeo.

SPECTACULAR ADVENTURES DVD TRAILER

Alek Parker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:06:22 +0000

Spectacular Adventures! is the 2009 release of the past 12 months of shredding and good timing all stuffed into one DVD and digital download. Look for the movie to be coming out this August and check back to www.superspectacularadventures.com until then for updates and throwaway footage as we piece the project together!

Spectacular Adventures DVD from Spectad on Vimeo.

Featuring Ben Bourgeois, Asher Nolan, Cory Lopez, Gabe Kling, Alek Parker, Zander Morton, Brian Toth, Dylan Graves, Shea Lopez, Peter Mendia, Brendan Buckley, Michael Dunphy, Sam Hammer, Mike Gleason, and Alejandro Moreda