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Kelly Slater & Andy Irons at Kandui in the Mentawai

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:13:00 +0000

Photo Wars

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:20:00 +0000

Since the donkeypatrol returned from Indo, most of us have barely seen a photo collection of barrel photos, strong turns and/or solid lip maneuvers (with the exception of Shea’s insane video – great work). Based on the below pictures, I’m prepared to award Brantley with the best photos of the trip title. If you think you got better photos, lets see them. We wanna see identifiable people getting barreled, huge sprays or solid lip maneuvers (all provided compliments of Brantley).

Indo Video

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:16:00 +0000

Yo Donkey’s I spent my Fri. night throwing together a small Indo video, it’s not much, didn’t have alot of surf footage to work with.. But it will at least bring us back for a moment and make you feel good… Enjoy…

Guto Amorim Barreled – Shout Out To D.P.

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:25:00 +0000

Guto under the donkey patrol monument at Kandui

Guto Amorim of Brazil, one of our surf guides from Kandui Resort is the webcast announcer for the Hangloose Santa Catarina Pro, ASP stop #10 of the WCT. He gave a shout out to the donkey patrol during the webcast this morning, and as a return gesture… Here is a tribute to Guto.

Our trip to the mentawais would not have been the same without Guto and our ventures to Nokandui, Rifles, and Pistols aka “the last resort”.

Here is sick sequence of Guto at Nokandui.

I will upload the heat video with his shout out to DP later if it is available on the hangloose website.

Anna Misses the Donkey Patrol

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:37:00 +0000

DUDE, I totally miss Indo!

Smythe — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:42:00 +0000

What can I say?! I miss drinking 89 Bintangs, spraying Shea, jockeying the Brazilians, Anthony’s long talks with the Viper and his “justifications” for dropping in on everyone, Ear Muff’s (then again….na), Guto’s pure stoke for barrels and lack of time in the kitchen, Wedo – the most stoked dog on the planet, sketchy boat rides with spilling fuel, lit cigarettes and a handle of Jack D’s finest, Ryan Seacrest’s amp for going big, Carlsberg “the local beer”, 1 for 1 happy hours, nightclubs where the next tallest person is 4 feet shorter, the “speedboat” and its effervescent fumes, jellyfish larvae, no shoes for 11 days, and last, but certainly not least, especially to you goofy footers, BENG-BENG!

Fuel up the jet, I am ready to go back……………………..Stay tuned for announcement on the 2008 Donkey Competition. I could be a “changing of the guard” moment!

I Miss E-Bay

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:17:00 +0000

Donkey Gang

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:01:00 +0000

GOOD TIMES!!!!

Sometimes I wish I surfed goofyfoot

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:19:00 +0000

Mentawai Surfing trip – 15 days until departure

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:53:00 +0000

In 15 days we will be departing to the airport and the Donkey indo surfing journey will begin.

24 hours of flying to Kuala Lumpur the capital of Malaysia via Malaysia Air for most and Singapore Airlines / Hawaiian Airlines for a few others, 2 days enjoying KL, a 2 hour private reservation for the wave pool at Sunway Lagoon, no doubt a few hours of antics at the swim up bar at our hotel in KL, a short 1 hour flight to Padang Indonesia followed by a day of rest and body/equipment prep. 1 puddle jump buddy holly plane flight out to the islands, followed by a 2 hour boat ride to the resort. Thats allot of travel time, considering the actual surfing part of the trip is just getting started..

11 days at kandui resort and surfing the playgrounds region of the mentawais, considered by many to be the best concentration of surf breaks in the world. Our island resort is located within a stones throw of 25 world class waves all of which we access via our exclusive fleet of 6 boats used to ferry us from one uncrowded barrel to the next. Oh… and did I mention we are shooting a movie too? Yeah a movie, in 1080 HD.

The Crew:
The Smythe, Gaykley, Steinmart, The Capitan aka The Erwinator aka Muffin Tops, Bivers aka BE-LO, Tivers aka TAI-BO, The Dude aka Boner, Shegas, Lagbehind aka The Viper, Kama aka little bit aka 80 pound, The Flyin Hawaiian.