As a youngster this Movement staffer spent most Januarys on the North Shore of Hawaii. It was there, in a white house atop the hill of Waimea that I came to meet a British/ South African bodyboarder known as Shaggy. He was dating a girl staying at the Waimea house and came by with Maui Woowee occasionally. It was here that a decade long friendship started. 

In all that time Shaggy has travelled the world, meeting many of you people out there in Balinese nightclubs, Cornwall cafes and South Coast line-ups. The man gets around. So it was Mexico that we found Shaggy this week, naked in a bin on Facebook, posted by close friend Luke Birch. We thought these antics of a travelling writer would be interesting so we hit Shaggy for some words. He thought he should do something instead of boozing and surfing all day and will be posting some hits right here. 

Episode One.

Yeah Movement, this is the first of many happenings in Puerto Escondido. The hotel is pretty quiet tonight because 6 of the Newcastle boys have rented a car and driven three hours into the mountains to go and eat magic mushies and trip out for the night up there.

Brander and Coops are going out for "a" drink.  Hopefully they will come home drunk with stories to tell or some for of alcohol related injury. Today was my first day of doing exercise in a few days. It's as small as Dee Why beach in the middle of Summer right now.

To start the day off was a stand up surf, then a 3km run, followed by 30mins boxing then for a couple hours of tennis in the afternoon, it must have been in the high 30's. It was 5-5 in the second set and a tie break was called due to the heat and we'd run out of water, Clive and I won for the record defeating Birch and Cooper 6-1 6-5.. To make it a whole hand of activities I did an hour and a half of yoga. Oh yeah and there was a group decision that Glen Thurston doesn't have the record for most lengths done at the hotel pool because he got rescued from the bottom of the pool by the owner of the hotel, Clive.

There isn't much news to report on, Monday night took it out of everyone, me including me. There'll be stories from two different groups.

SHAGGY