Usually, the "Friday Stoke" post is all about folks, other than me, doing awesome stuff and most often displayed as a video clip. Today is different.

I have ranted before about my distaste (or at the very least unease) with continually "whoring" myself in the name of self-promotion. Something I do realise is a necessary evil. I am my own business after all.

But I am super stoked to show you guys today my latest published article. It has been a very good run with articles for me over the last 4 months with 5 features published in some pretty wicked magazines. However the one with which I am most proud appears in this month's Wend Magazine out of the US.

A gnarly 7-pager, with a bit of everything about this year's walk across Iran. The photos that the guys at the mag chose from the bunch I sent through came out superbly. All shot with a pretty simple Sony Alpha A230 DSLR (and to be honest a good number on auto!). No matter they look ace!

But it is not just the look of the article, or even the way the words came together which make me so amped. It was the way in which Kyle and his team at Wend approached the task from their end. I had become a little too used to putting together a piece for publishing, emailing it off with a bunch of photos, collecting my money and running for the hills! That is not how it works at Wend Mag. They actually give a toss about what goes into their magazine and make sure only the best makes the cut. Back and forth, with edits and re-writes, ideas thrown about from myself and Kyle, till finally we came up with something they were stoked about.

I have a nice shiny PDF of the entire article which I am sorely tempted to put up here for your reading pleasure, but you know what? I reckon that might be doing Kyle and Wend Magazine a bit of a dis-service. Never fear though! You can get a sneak preview of the article here. Better still you can subscribe to the digital edition of the magazine here, for FREE! Hard to beat that! (Just saw I also scored a double-page photo spread in the mag as well, with a shot of the Persian Gulf at the end of my walk. Check out page 4-5. Sweet!)

Nice surf here yesterday. Clean, 1m and sun shining. Not looking so hot for the weekend (waves that is), but hey can't win em' all! Enjoy yours!