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You know the feeling. Someone sends the moral compass of the universe spinning like a top and your sense of outrage kicks in. Problem is, there’s never a good bridge around when you need one. This little clip has been floating about the internets for a while, and it’s always good to pull up when [...]
It’s funny, our expectations. The surfing world is abuzz with Pat Gudauskas’s big-time move in the Billabong Pro Tahiti yesterday. In the waning minutes of his heat, Gudauskas need to score at least 7.83 (out of 10) to pass Chris Davidson. He busted out a rodeo flip, the first ever nailed at the world tour [...]
By any measure, the Red Bull Illume Image Quest brought together an extraordinary collection of sports images, with extraordinary efforts on the part of both photographers and athletes. Winners were announced yesterday in the dining hall of Trinity College in Dublin, which you know better as the dining hall in the Harry Potter movies. The [...]
Teahupoo hasn’t shown its fangs yet for the Billabong Pro Tahiti surfing contest, but it finally bared a little gum and the contest got back underway in four- to five-foot surf, with top draws surviving round two. Points leader Jordy Smith crushed it with a powerful aerial on his first wave and knocked off C.J. [...]
Ben Knight is my hero. Not only is he a gifted storyteller and filmmaker, he’s wryly put the perfect punctuation on this gorgeous time lapse of a moonrise. Time lapses have become the mixtapes of 2010: They require just a little bit of effort, can leave you looking brilliant, and everybody’s making them. But you [...]
Munich isn’t happy playing 9th fiddle to Copenhagen in the race for greatest percentage of commuters on bikes. No sirree. If 20 percent of the commuters in any major America city rode to work by bicycle, it would herald nothing less than a revolution. But over there, you know…over there in Euroland, they act as [...]
Some days you eat the bear and some days you eat shit. Mountain bike endos, snow snakes for skiers, blown heelsides that lead to rag dolling snowboarders, even the odd root that trips up the trail runner…it’s just a matter of time. If you’re a surfer, though, the fickle nature of waves, especially big ones, [...]
It an assumption among writers–let’s be honest and call it a pretension–that a good writer can spin a great story out of almost anything. John McPhee comes to mind–who knew reading about a bark canoe could keep you up at night? The same can be said of filmmakers. But filmmakers, at least in the adventure [...]
In May 2003, Aron Ralston was canyoneering alone in Blue John Canyon in Robbers Roost, Utah, when a boulder shifted and pinned his right arm to the wall. Deep in a slot canyon and unable to call for help, and not having told anyone where he’d be, Ralston spent five days with almost no food [...]
Most of Mickey Smith’s work as a surf photographer leaves you unprepared for “The Dark Side of the Lens.” His images are typically bright, cheery, sharp–the epitome of what the surf industry wants to see and is willing to buy. But this film breaks transcendent ground. It’s dark, moody, ethereal–a fantastically stylized world of black [...]
Just two weeks ago, Ed Stafford became the first person to walk from the source of the Amazon River to the sea–it took him 859 days to cover an ungodly amount of terrain. Along the way, in the words of my colleague Matt Power, he crossed “a landscape largely populated by anacondas, jaguars, vampire bats, [...]
It’s too early to crown Jordy Smith surfing’s world champion, but not too early to start thinking about it. Nearly midway through the professional season and on the eve of the high-profile Billabong Pro Tahiti at Teahupoo, one of the world’s gnarliest big waves, the South African leads two former world champions, Taj Burrow and [...]
This morning an email arrived from a friend that said, “Use this other address for any text only emails; it is through our satellite phone and cannot handle any big files. I will be out of internet connection for a couple of days as we will be crossing the Tyrrenean Sea to Sardinia.” Man, that’s [...]
San Onofre State Beach in South Orange County, California, is the most popular surfing beach in the country, a wide and gentle stretch of consistent but non-threatening rollers, and it was one of the breaks where the sport first took root on the Mainland more than 80 years ago. Generations of surfers have ridden their [...]
Summer, glorious summer! It’s the time of year when even the sky doesn’t seem to have limits, and the planet itself strains toward the sun. Am I tanning evenly? With days that stretch past bed time and the bucolic of the evening, there appears to be nothing we can’t do during summer–and so we do [...]
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Okay, you gram-shaving bike weenies. You can appreciate the new Garmin Edge 800 GPS cycling computer like a set of titanium chainring bolts: The 800 is smaller and lighter than the popular 705, but its 2.6-inch screen is larger. It also has a color touchscreen – Garmin’s first – and the ability to display 1:24,000 ... keep reading
