Official site of pro wakeboarder Collin Harrington.Tumblr (3.0; @collinharrington)http://blog.collinharrington.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo6_500.jpg"/><br/> Stockton Beach, Australia<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo4_500.jpg"/><br/> Stockton Beach, Australia<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo5_500.jpg"/><br/> The truck is done!!!<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo7_500.jpg"/><br/> As far as the truck made it.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo8_500.jpg"/><br/> Broken down with a view.<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo14_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Collin Harrington<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Jeff Weatherall<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/> The "Dungeon"<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo10_500.jpg"/><br/> Dungeon Lake<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2bskiT45A1qb3jkmo9_500.jpg"/><br/> The "Dungeon"<br/><br/> <p>     Australia part:1</p> <p>      I decided this winter that no matter what I was going to find a way to Australia. 100,000 skymiles later and bags full of cameras, surfboards, skateboards and wakeboards, I was on my way to Sydney airport. I showed up with literally no plan. I had let a few friends know I was arriving in February on Facebook and that was it. I rented the cheapest car I could find and purchased a local phone. I made a few calls and Jeff Weatherall happened to be at Penrith Cable park and hour away. He said “ditch the rental, we’ll shred the cable today and tomorow morning and then a friend and I are driving to the Gold Coast and camping and surfing for three days along the way, just come with us.” So that was the plan. I returned the rental keys and waited for my ride. Things always seem to work better for me by not planning ahead and just rolling with whatever happens. The great thing about this trip is that I had no obligations, I was just simply there to have fun and document it. </p> <p>We rode Penrith Cable that night and the next morning. Its a great cable if you even happen to be around there. Afterwards we packed the truck with everything you could need. Food, Surfboards, wakeboards, skateboards and a dirt bike and headed off to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_Beach" title="Stockton Beach" target="_blank">Stockton beach</a>. It was about a two hour drive and its known for its big dunes that people go 4 wheeling and dirtbiking on. About a 20 minute drive down the beach we stopped to enjoy the beach for a bit. There is a big old ship grounded in the surf right there that we stopped to check out. When we stopped I noticed steam coming out of the engine hood. Sure enough we were overheating and spewing out coolant. So we waited for it to cool down and drove into the dunes into harder sand. Overheated again. Waited one more time filled it up with water and overheated 2 minutes later again. Now we think we have a problem. This time the car wouldnt start anymore and it was getting dark. None of us are qualified mechanics by anymeans, but we poked our head around as if looking at it extra hard was going to fix it. We ended up getting towed off the dunes at 10pm. We couldnt believe that a land cruiser towed us up, over and through these dunes. </p> <p>Fortunatley, the Iacconi family, Tony Iacconi is a younger wakeboarder, has a big plot of land close by with a GoRide cable system and a little Dungeon looking caravan to sleep in. This caravan looked like something out of a horror movie. Its in the middle of nowhere, the door was open creaking back and forth and had no power. So we did our best not to think about the giant spiders and snakes living in this thing and somehow fell asleep.</p> <p>The following day we simply rode the cable all to ourselves and had the car taken to the Nissan dealership. Of course they couldnt figure out the problem and it was yet another night in the Dungeon. We walked an hour down the road to a small airport to rent a car and just happened to run into the Iacconis whom were just getting back from the Gold Coast. They ended up taking us out in their boat, fed us, and let us stay at their house for the night. Finally the next morning Nissan called and said the engine was completely blown and would have to be replaced for $16,000. No worries, warranty will cover it……except for that Nautique had a chip in it which apparently voids the warranty. This was Jeffs first month working for Nautique and had already blown up a truck. Oops. For the record though he was not driving it through soft sand and working the truck hard. I think it was a previous issue.</p> <p>So back to the airport we went and flew up to the Gold Coast. It was Valentines day as well. Definitely an interesting start to my Australia journey. None the less though everything was working out.  - Collin</p> <p>end part:1</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/20910613193http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/20910613193Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:29:00 -0400chphotos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5z4qvTfD1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Stay classy America! I’ll be back in a month.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/17362274407http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/17362274407Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:24:26 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35007747" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>A few months ago I helped film a TV show for the Travel Channel. It really made think outside of my usual shooting habits and really got my brain thinking in a different creative way. Ever since then, I have been experimenting with different skit ideas.  Here is my latest greatest one yet. </p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/15985446396http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/15985446396Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:23:37 -0500chvideos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwxqu6sm71qb3jkmo3_500.jpg"/><br/> The Great Wall<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwxqu6sm71qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Yes there are a lot of stairs.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwxqu6sm71qb3jkmo2_500.jpg"/><br/> The wall goes on forever<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwxqu6sm71qb3jkmo4_500.jpg"/><br/> it keeps going and going and going...<br/><br/> <div> <p>China part 3</p> <p>As soon as I found out I was going to China my first thought was, I gotta see the great wall. After doing some research I realized that it was half way across China from the place we were going. Bear had the same thought so we decided to play tourist and fly to Beijing to check the great wall off our list. Its a pretty amazing thing to see. You cant really fathom how big it is until you get there. If you ever get the chance to see, dont pass it up. But let me warn you, walking those steps is no joke!!!!!</p> </div>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14914504145http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14914504145Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:08:00 -0500chphotos<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/34162318?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Here is a little GoPro montage of clips I gathered from around the world this summer.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14807833550http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14807833550Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:27:00 -0500chvideos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwcc8vWlh1qb3jkmo7_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Yes, we ate scorpions.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwcc8vWlh1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Bear in his happy place.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwcc8vWlh1qb3jkmo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Another crazy street corner<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwcc8vWlh1qb3jkmo5_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> A man and his panda hat<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwcc8vWlh1qb3jkmo6_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> A man and his donkey.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwcc8vWlh1qb3jkmo8_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Bear doing what he does.<br/><br/> <p>China part 2</p> <p>Bear is a funny person to travel with. He starts shooting portraits of people with his film cams and old polaroids and somehow makes people go into a frenzy. They get so into that people start crowding around him. Its funny however when they go to look at the photo and realize that its not a digital camera and they cant see their photo instantly. It was a lot of fun going somewhere that we were the obvious tourist. </p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14900525108http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14900525108Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:26:00 -0500chphotos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwbezhswy1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Dinner<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwbezhswy1qb3jkmo3_500.jpg"/><br/> interesting<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwbezhswy1qb3jkmo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwbezhswy1qb3jkmo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwbezhswy1qb3jkmo7_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>China part 1</p> <p>Bryan Soderlind and I were apart of an amazing trip to China to surf the Silver Dragon Tidal Bore. Afterwards Bryan and I flew to Shanghai and Beijing to simply be tourist and see what China is really all about. </p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14899526693http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14899526693Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:06:00 -0500chphotos<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/33753735" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>I decided i wanted to make something different than my usual wake edit so i decided to make a skit. This concept was decided in the morning and we went straight out and shot it in about 2 hours. It was my first time trying to make an old black and white silent movie type edit. </p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14914856657http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14914856657Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:11:00 -0500chvideos<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/33792054" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Here is a fun edit I did with the Obscura wakeskate team at our Liquid Force team shoot this year. </p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14350500174http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/14350500174Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:55:00 -0500chvideos<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29501448?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=c9ff23" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Here is a 2012 Liquid Force teaser hot off the press.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/10698190880http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/10698190880Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:59:00 -0400chvideos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpsqza4ZEA1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I shot a Day In The Life video with Danny Hampson one day. That night we sat on his dock and did some fishing and I ended up catching the biggest large mouth bass i’ve ever caught.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/8808540061http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/8808540061Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:57:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo4793NHr71qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Stay glassy Clear Lake . Be back in a week.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/7451735217http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/7451735217Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:15:03 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmsxyeEvhd1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Heading to Amsterdam.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/6534865758http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/6534865758Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:46:07 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgtgx3k1Dk1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Heading to Costa Rica. Adios amigos. Pura Vida!</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/3362536710http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/3362536710Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:15:02 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgpsimPaXi1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Not a bad morning for filming.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/3326943161http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/3326943161Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:35:02 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19451246" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Unfortunately injuries are just a part of being an athlete. I’ve had a few knee surgeries and decided to document the process to show just how bad it is.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/3065237749http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/3065237749Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:44:00 -0500chvideos<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/18962931" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>When i’m recovering from an injury I still like to stay busy. Even if I cant surf, I still like to go to the beach. This is a quick edit with Alek Parker that we made for O’neill eyewear.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2845416681http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2845416681Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:09:00 -0500chvideos<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le08r3Le4p1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Great way to end Christmas day.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2461459001http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2461459001Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:20:52 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le02qptxRH1qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Not a bad Christmas day.</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2460378167http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2460378167Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:11:02 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldzjnynmu81qb3jkmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Merry Christmas from the Caribbean</p>http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2457406708http://blog.collinharrington.com/post/2457406708Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:19:04 -0500