Surf Europe continues to bravely stave off the financial crisis with generous quantitive easing of the Caribbean economy. Having filled their boots on wickedly good right point (you know the one), the chaps (Ouvre, Ildefonse & shooter Laurel) are now resting by Dimitri’s gates in St Barths, getting some family vibes going and mustering up some energy so that Blacknuts can go mad this weekend out on the town. Here’s the spot where Dimitri learned to surf, still fun, still faithful, still familiar. Everybody loves home, don’t they?

Snow is falling right now outside the window of the SE love shack in SW France. Meanwhile, the Caribbean is hot, sunny and wavey. French surfers Naum ‘Blacknuts’ Ildefonse and Dimitri Ouvre are over there right now with SE shooter Alex Laurel, and it turns out they made a good call. “That was one of the best days of my life,” gushed Naum about yesterday’s exploits, a day spent trading endless freight train right pits with Dimitri at this sand point in the middle of nowhere, with not another soul on the beach besides the lads. “I’m still tripping out on how f*cking good that day was… unreal.” With the wind coming up the lads hopped on a private jet back to Dimitri’s place in St Bart’s to regroup, where we caught up with Naum via skype, in bed spooning Laurel. Hey, what goes on tour… etc

With the virtual surfing world’s knickers on fire with reports of slashing cuts at Quiksilver USA, our source has confirmed an official statement from Quik EU boss Pierre Agnes at a meeting held today, “There will be no immediate cuts to our teams in Europe.”

Despite twitty remarks from J Flo (construction job offer in Oz) and in line with Tiago’s indignation at reports that he was also for the chop, it seems the Quiksilver Europe team will be riding with large red snowcapped mountain and cresting wave logos on their boards for some time yet.

On that note, Aritz and Timo are making their way back from scoring a wicked run of thick swells and offshore winds in Ireland. Stay tuned for more.

Did you watch the Mav’s webcast yesterday? Did ya???

I tried to, but cracked the shits when it didn’t work and watched Countryfile instead. Anyhows, here Dimitri O and a signature fs air reverse at a Hossegor left as a Monday morning MANoeuvre. He’s done em before and he’ll do em again.