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The Five Most Barrelled Surfers in the World Surfing is a subjective sport, shaped by things like style, technique and choice of equipment. It would be pretty pointless to try to compare the rides of a traditional logger, a modern high-performance surfer and a bodysurfer, since they all do different things on different types of […]
THE INDO FULL MOON MYTH From elderly fishermen plying the reef passes of Nias to local kids riding planks with nails for fins in Maluku and western surfers in the bars and clubs of Bali, there’s a single myth which binds traditional Indonesian culture with modern surfing. One which states that Indo sees its […]
Bucket List: April in the South Pacific The equinox has come and gone, which means, that depending on which hemisphere you are in, winter/summer is over and spring/fall has arrived. April is historically when the South Pacific begins to wake up, so if you could be anywhere in the world right now, Polynesia wouldn’t be […]
Great Swell of ‘17 makes Santa Cruz surfing history SANTA CRUZ – Every decade or so, a swell rocks the California coast with such size and ferocity that it leaves a mark on surfing history — January 1953, December 1969, January 1983, January 1998, November 2001 — and now, perhaps, January 2017. Read […]
WSL Big Wave Awards 2017 Australia’s Shanan Worrall is Nominated for Tube of the Year for this thick slab at The Right captured by Jamie Scott Images. Read More
“I’m never content with normal”- Andrew Cotton My guest for episode two of the Looking Sideways podcast is British big wave surfer Andrew Cotton, a man who routinely charges the world’s biggest and scariest waves, and who tends to make a lot of headlines in the UK – in particular as ‘the surfing plumber’. Read More
Alex Gray and his American Airlines Recent Baggage Claim of Unacceptable Handling View on Instagram @ktla5news is covering my #americanairlinesbreakssurfboards story at 9:30 am PST. Thank you @markmester for continuing awareness in hopes of a positive answer to an unfair excess baggage policy and unacceptable handling. Also thank you to everyone for your comments […]
Watch this Dramatic Rescue of a Fallen Big Wave Surfer BIG UGLY: SURFING (AND SURVIVING) NAZARÉ See dramatic footage of a daring rescue attempt of a fallen big wave surfer in Nazaré, Portugal. By Andrew Bisharat PUBLISHED MARCH 10, 2017 In late February, the best big wave surfers in the world caught wind of a […]
Eric Akiskalian is leading a new global water patrol and safety program Above: Eric Akiskalian navigates the heavy beach break of North Canyon in Nazare, Portugal while assisting Garrett McNamara / Photo: Jorge ‘Jesus’ Leal April 3, 2017 Green Collar Technologies Professional big wave surfer, Eric Akiskalian is leading a new global water patrol and […]
Garrett McNamara calls Mavericks wave one on the ‘biggest wipeouts’ of all time “It was one of the biggest wipeouts of all time.”- Garrett McNamara On January 7, big wave legend Garrett McNamara paddled onto a 50-foot-monster at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, California, and took a drop that he nearly didn’t make it back […]
Kohl Christensen Interview Kohl Christensen is 33; he’s been a professional surfer since he was 31, which is unusual in surfing today. Traditionally, young surfers dreaming about going pro would do something more like this: start surfing at age 5, and for 20 more years continue a regimented routine of surf, compete, travel, until they […]
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