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KELLY SLATER BREAKS FOOT FREESURFING AT J-BAY Posted July 18, 2017 Magicseaweed “You ever folded your entire foot backward?” Kelly Slater posts to Instagram after doing some serious damage to his foot while free surfing at J-Bay. The champ was prepping for his upcoming round 3 heat in the WSL comp this morning. He pulled […]
MAKE AND BREAK AT SPICY MEXPIPE Posted July 14, 2017 Magicseaweed Puerto Escondido continues to pump. Over the course of July 8-10, a solid south swell rifled into Playa Zicatela, with some of the world’s elite big wave surfers on tap as Mexpipe served up prime beef. Your cast here, Fransico Porcella, Greg Long, Coco […]
THE FIVE MOST CROWDED WAVES IN THE WORLD Posted July 11, 2017 Magicseaweed Crowds. No one likes them. They are the reason we wake up early, surf past sunset, and travel halfway across the world to do the same thing we do at home. These days, just about everyone surfs—from the 10-year-old grom to the […]
Big Wave Hellman Jamie Mitchell Taken to the Hospital After a Bad Accident in Puerto Escondido Jamie Mitchell center takes his surfboard to the chest and survives what could have otherwise been very serious. Surrounded by Greg Long and Coco Nogalas, his spirit is high and he will have a full recovery. FB- Jamie Mitchell Posted […]
KOA ROTHMAN HIT IN HEAD BY SURFBOARD IN FRIGHTENING WIPEOUT, SWALLOWS HIS BROKEN TEETH Posted July 7, 2017 Surfer Koa Rothman says that he’s lucky to be alive after a bailed 10-foot board hit the side of his head while he surfed a remote Southern Hemi outer reef during a recent Surfline project. An […]
WSL Big Wave Awards Recent Submissions 2017/18 Plenty of ongoing action in South Africa, here’s Frank Solomon leaning into a nice Sunset left in Cape Town. Photo by Grant Scholtz. Isn’t this what we all want? Jeremy Johnson with some empty glassiness last week at Sunset in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Grant Scholtz. […]
WELCOME TO REEF ROAD, NIC VON RUPP’S IMMERSIVE EXPLORATION OF INNERMOST SATISFACTION By Magicseaweed Posted July 4, 2017 “It’s about people like us who wander into the wild. We were over the whole me, me, me talk, I’m not that interesting,” said Nic of trying to do something a little different. “We chose a girl […]
FROM SKELETON BAY TO SUPERTUBES Posted July 1, 2017 SCORING NAMIBIA AND J-BAY IN THE SAME WEEK DURING JUNE’S SOUTH AFRICAN SUPERSTORM BY ALAN VAN GYSEN Surfer It’s every surfer’s dream to score one of the world’s best lefts and one of the world’s best rights, back to back, in the same week. And there […]
TOM BUTLERS HUGE NAZARE WIPEOUT – THINK BIGGER Posted July 1, 2017 Carvemag.com Tom Butlers farking scary story of his Nazare wipeout during his WSL Big Wave Tour event. “Pushing for an invite into a Big Wave World Tour event was lots of fun and was my goal for about 2 years. Being part of […]
BRAZILIANS SAVE AUSSIE SURFERS LIFE AT DESERT POINT Posted June 30, 2017 Carvemag This one photo sums up the seriousness of Nathan’s situation. A huge effort by three Brazilians saved his life. At Desert Point on June 16 things went very wrong for Nathan Bartlett. Luckily some quick thinking and CPR skills from three Brazilians […]
Kelly Slater Encounters Great White While Surfing Lowers June 30, 2017 Stabmag Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. You see a threatening figure in the water, how do you react? By turning and making yourself scarce, or rolling the dice and sitting tight? A while back we ran […]
Stories: From dry-reef Chopes to stuck in a cave at Pipe Posted June 29, 2017 Surfersvillage Interview Strider Wasilewski, Dave Prodan, Leonardo Fioravanti, Anthony Walsh and Kyllian Guerin share their experiences Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 29 June 2017 – Surfing is wonderful. It kicks us in the ass and gets us out of our comfort zone. […]