“Now, where was I?” Jim Beam’s ‘The Break’ winner Squizza comes at ya from Mexico and Europe.

Now where was I? Well, much has changed since my last little venture to Europe, I am currently writing this beside one of the four pools in my hotel in Mazatlan Mexico. It’s late afternoon, and still about 30 degrees outside. The Quiksilver Clasico Mazatlan starts tomorrow the 1st of June. I’m totally sun and salt drenched from my 5 days of warming up surfing around the area of beautiful Mazatlan. They call it the ‘unfound’ land of the lefts. Yep, I can see that. There are so many left points here it’s crazy, and if you ask the locals what Playa Cameron (the left point that the competition is at) is like? They will all say it’s the shittest out of about 10 points. It’s a funny wave, it really has no face and very little hittable lip, but yet somehow you always find yourself struggling to get around sections. Well, I guess it’s a level playing field. I can hardly complain – the water over here is 29 degrees. It’s only a little change from Thurso Scotland a refreshing 7 degrees. We will see what the next couple of days has in store for me.

Sunset at Mazatlan.

After my event in Thurso, Scotland I had a 4 star event in La Sauzaie, Bretignoulles Sur Mer, France called the Protest Vendee Pro. Another funny little wave that one. I’ve ridden Quad fin boards in Australia for two years, never touched a thruster in that time and I’ve never had a complaint about them. I’ve won a number of events in NSW over the past two years on them and have felt really solid on them. I don’t know what it was in France but they just didn’t work? Every turn I did, I did off the back of the wave, and it showed in my scores. So back to the drawing board, all my boards here in Mazatlan are either thrusters or have a 5 fin set up and it’s working.

One of those ‘stand still a statue’, blokes having his lunch break on the stairs up to the ‘Montmartre.

After getting knocked out in France early, I did the sightseeing thing in Paris. Chris Salisbury jumped on board and we cruised around Paris. We ended up being in Paris for ANZAC day and found a Cafe OZ at lunchtime. Well you can guess what happened next. Drinking became our strong point for the afternoon. An absolute cracker of an afternoon I must say. Many times that afternoon I had to pinch myself, being in Paris for ANZAC Day was awesome. 2UP and the whole deal, was almost like being back in Oz.

I’m the sort of person that doesn’t really get fussed about sights and things I would rather check out the things that are off the beaten track, but I felt almost obliged to go and check them out in Paris as everyone would ask, “Did you check out the Eiffel Tower? Did you look at Notre Dame? Etc”. I actually blew out more at the amount of people who were at these places. The Eiffel Tower had so many lines, all of which were about five people deep and about 500 meters long. All waiting to pay money and battle the crowd. Not this tourist. I looked at Chris and at the same time he looked at me and we both knew what each other was thinking, you want to bail? “Yep lets go”.

That’s a little bit more of my experience so far. There is so much to tell, but my fingers hurt. “buenas tardes amigo, una Pina Colada, por favor”

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Nick Squiers AKA ‘Squizza’

Pics: By Nick thanks to Sanyo

Video: Below is a Nick Squiers surf reel by TINEZMEDIA

NICHOLAS SQUIERS TINEZMEDIA SURF REEL from Tinezmedia on Vimeo.

Note: Squizza is a nickname given to Nick by Tracks staff. If you wish to refer to him by this name in person you do so at your own risk. Tracks got caught up yelling “Squizza!” at live webcasts when cheering for the lad from Wollongong during his heats and it stuck… “Go Squizza!”