SPY Ski team rider Wiley Miller and the Level 1 Productions team were all set to shred in Russia this season but last minute changes landed the crew in Champery, Switzerland. In between fondue and hot chocolate breaks the crew managed to get some killer footy to capture the two week excursion. So grab a cup of Swiss Miss and check out Wiley’s segment!
Let me tell you a little story about how your glasses saved my right eye!
Here is the story of my Trons and what I do with them.
I have the green trons you guys made in 2008 or 07 whatever it was, they are my favorite glasses and I rock them everywhere, I’m a 19 year old San Diego native so they’re always with me from the beaches to the desert up to the snow!
Whatever I’m doin these glasses come along for the ride, and I get more compliments on them than you can imagine.
I wear them while:
With the ladies
At the beach
Eating lobster in Norfolk VA
With the blues brothers
Tearin up the mud
But on Veterans Day of 2009 I wore them shooting in the desert.
On one particular shot, I placed my face to close to the scope and the recoil of the gun sent the scope pretty much a million miles an hour into my face! Which hurt pretty damn bad, however I was wearing my Trons and they absorbed most of the blow and it was a hell of a blow at that. My forehead got busted open as you can see,
It doesn’t look big but it was pretty damn deep and I waited too long to go to the doctors so they wouldn’t stitch it, but if I hadn’t been wearing my Trons, there is a good chance the I would have seriously messed up my eyeball real bad. They stopped the scope from blasting my actual eyeball. I just wanna thank you guys!! For making such bomb ass glasses! They didn’t shatter, break or send shrapnel into my eye. I love the durability and I’m never gonna stop wearing Spys!
Only problem is my favorite glasses got scratched where the scope hit, but hey they I still like em.
I noticed this on your website and I will personally attest to your “premium quality”!
Spy Optic, Inc. designs, develops and sells premium eyewear products for the youth lifestyle market within action sports, fashion, music, and entertainment sectors. Spy’s principal products, sunglasses and goggles, target the action sports market, including surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, motorsports, and wakeboarding and skiing. Spy’s innovative proprietary products utilize high-quality materials, handcrafted manufacturing processes and engineered optical lens technology to convey premium quality, contemporary style, and progressive design.
Just thought I should tell you guys what your glasses have done for me!
Thanks again for making such good quality glasses, they literally saved my eye w/o them I could be blind today!
Your glasses kick ass! (and they can withstand a recoil from a Remington 700, firing a 30-06)
Spy Hawaii 09 is a series of video that reveals our time spent during the Vans Triple Crown. We are shooting our 2010 Spring Summer marketing images along with collecting video assets of our team riders.
The Reef surf contest is up and running again. John Florence and Clay Marzo are unfortunately eliminated but Torrey Meister advances out his heat today.
This piece is the 5th shoot using The Spy Hawaiian Bombshell winner Hannah Kealia May.
To see more Spy surf team videos click on Vimeo or You Tube.
Spy Hawaii 09 is a series of video that reveals our time spent during the Vans Triple Crown. We are shooting our 2010 Spring Summer marketing images along with collecting video assets of our team riders.
This piece is the 4th shoot using Alana Blanchard, Erika Steiner and Spy Hawaiian Bombshell model winner Hannah Kealia May.
To see more Spy surf team videos click on Vimeo or You Tube.
Spy Hawaii 09 is a series of video that reveals our time spent during the Vans Triple Crown. We are shooting our 2010 Spring Summer marketing images along with collecting video assets of our team riders.
This piece is the 3rd shoot using Benny B, Clay Marzo and Kanoa. This also includes Torrey Meister’s Reef Hawaiian Pro heat and Alana Blanchard winning the 1st leg of the women’s Triple Crown.
To see more Spy surf team videos click on Vimeo or You Tube.
The 1st stop of the Triple Crown is the Reef Hawaiian Pro. Along with the Men’s 6 star prime WQS event there was a non-rated specialty women’s surf event. Because there were only 2 women’s events going into Hawaii this event was put in there to make the women’s Triple Crown complete.
The surf in Haleiwa was below the Hawaiian standards of good surf but to most the surf still very rippable. All of the top rated women surfers from the WCT there along with some of the top rated Hawaiian surfers.
Alana has had tough year with things not going her way in competitive surfing until now. She aggressively attacked every heat and surfed with the energy of someone who was very hungry for a win and did not want to lose.
Her break came in the quarter finals when she was sitting in 3rd place and not advancing with seconds left in the heat, when 2 Australian surfers crossed paths and a double interference was called allowing Alana to make the heat.
Alana took advantage of that break which would eventually give her the win for the 1st Triple Crown leg held at Haleiwa.
Keale views his girlfriend before her heat
Alana coming to her family and friends before going to battle
How do you get to the beach? You know you are doing well when you have your own model car to get to the beach.
That spec on the wave is Alana getting a heat winning score of 7.3
Holt, the dad, cheering for Alana. (far left looking right)
If you knw anything about womens surfing this was not an easy final. The current World Champ and past World Champ is in there.
Pre final wax up
This smile is filled with so much joy and its shared by everyone that was there even her competitors.
With the surf up the North Shore is full of energy. The contest is on and the surf spots are filled with surfers, even the road on Kam Hwy is congested with traffic as everyone is hurrying to get to their destination. We had a day filled with filming Torry Meister and Clay Marzo during their heats at the Reef Pro as well as shooting Dean Morrison in our small garage turned studio. You have to be here to experience it and to fully understand how chaotic this place can be when the surf is up. We had another successful day of getting the job done. Here are some quick pics of our day on Wed.
Torrey Meister with his game face on
Torrey Meister in yellow just before his heat
Torrey's father Mike is up there to see his son rip. He's under the letters "on"
Kanoa enjoying the day of class. Who wouldn't enjoy a field trip to Hawaii.
Me and my shadow, "live through our lens"
A lot of prep work goes into each shoot. These are some of the neccesities.
Cameras-lights-ready!
The crew
The style
The star. Dean Morrison in the wht tee
Being behind a camera and all eyes on you can be nerve racking. Sometimes you need to take the edge off. Only when your 21 of course!
Dean in "showtime" mode
Style
Tim capturing it in motion
Live through our lens
Part of Kaona's school was seeing the behind the scene stuff. Kanoa shot the images from Dean behind the scene shoot. Here is his signature to his work. Grade A+ Good job Kanoa!
Clay after his exciting heat win. Clay loves to win but what Clay really loves, is to surf.
In physics, for every positive force there is a negitive force. Clay won and dominated that heat. To Clay this the negative force that was caused by the positive force. Regardless, Mike from Surfline was there hear what Clay had to say about the heat
A long day of schooling can wipe you out. Kanoa lights out!
After setting up all day and into the night on Sunday and Monday, Tuesday was “Showtime”! Here are some images of our set up process as well as our 1st two athletes Mike Losness and Torrey Meister. Enjoy!
The North Shore landmark
Reef using Mike Losness's artisitic talent for the contest site
The drive down Hwy 99 into Haleiwa
Still flat
Local creatures
Work time
tools
Setting up the studio
though we would show you our 2010 marketing... right. :)
tight shoting quaters
The crew shot by Kanoa's view
Live Through Our Lens
the aloha spirit
a good night
To see more Spy surf team videos click on Vimeo or You Tube.
Yesterday Spy met up with Hawaiian Bombshell Winner Hannah to enjoy some delicious ahi in Honolulu & congratulate her in person…Spy presented Hannah with a congratulatory plaque for being chosen to participate in the up coming Spy photo shoot.
Hannah is set to start shooting this Saturday at Log Cabins along with Spy surfers, Alana Blanchard and Erika Steiner.
After dropping Hannah off <so she could rock out at The Fray concert in Honolulu>, the sun decided to do some amazing things on the way out to the North Shore….
