You’d think a country as surf-crazy as New Zealand would have come up with this tasty bit of marketing, but no, it was the Brits. British surfing apparel company Finisterre has just started using wool in its clothes and had a rather ingenious idea about spreading the word.
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When most surf photographers shoot empty waves, they focus on the prosaic–the wave’s potential for surfing or its typical and obvious beauty…the barrel, the corduroy stacked up to the horizon, the molten glass backlit at sunset. You know–post cards. They rarely dig deeper, into the elements, the molecular, the composition of components. But not so [...]
In the wake of injuries to 13 onlookers during Saturday’s Mavericks big-wave contest, local authorities are considering closing off the event to spectators, a local newspaper reports. Mavericks beach, Pillar Point, and bluffs and cliffs could be restricted, San Mateo County Supervisor Rich Gordon told Half Moon Bay Review. This year’s event saw the biggest [...]
A 38-year-old kite surfer named Stephen Schafer was killed yesterday off the beach near Stuart, Florida, when a group of sharks surrounded and then attacked him. Shark experts speculated the pack was comprised of juvenile great whites.>>>
The mysto Bodysurf zine from Oz is back with issue 4–60-some pages of the intertidal, ultra-smiling, wave-breaking, sand-dredging margin between land and sea. Like all margins, it makes you think about borders and which side you fall upon, though with this particular line you smear all over like a Sharpie on watercolor paper and so the idea of drawing a line in the sand and setting up a flag on one side or the other is just silly. And so is this meandering, meatball-fueled keyboard improvisation that passes for a post. Enough words, scribe, and let them check out the pix!>>>
A couple months ago, I came across the video of Small Black’s “Despicable Dogs”. It revolves around a late 40s, 50-something surfer named Matt, the uncle of band member Josh Kolenik, and I can’t get it out of my head. Or I should say, I can’t get him out of my head.>>>
Coming Home: The Elemental Rush of Bodysurfing
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Saltwater in the nose, sand in the butt crack, an abrasion across the ribs, a glimmer of light and then a rush of liquid filling the ears…body surfing is the most elemental of all the rides. Salt and water back into salt water, limbed fish returning home. Nothing but energy and matter finding energy where it matters: In a dredging pit on a beach somewhere…CONTINUE>
While on Sao Tomé, a small island off the west coast of Africa, Surfer Magazine editor Sam George met a kindred surfing spirit in an 11-year-old boy. Sam came home, but he never forgot the little grom. Six years went by. Sam left Surfer and had success as the co-writer of Riding Giants. But something went missing in his relationship to the sport that had nurtured him since he first paddled out some 40 years before, so he decided to go back, back to Africa to try to find the young African in which he saw so much of himself…CONTINUE>
There’s wave skiing and there’s wave skiing. The former has been around for awhile and would more appropriately called wave sledding or luging, because you sit as you ride. But the latter truly is skiing–and it’s sick. Mike Douglas and Cody Townsend spent the last year incubating their idea to take the best of snow into the best of water, and this footage from their recent trip to Maui is the result…CONTINUE>
It’s been a big-wave couple of weeks in Hawaii and so it’s been a big-wave kinda week around here, too. Maya Gabeira has been notching the bar increasingly higher for women’s tow-in, including this thick-lipped slab at Teahupoo in Tahiti. Maya, you might remember, is credited with the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman and recently was named one of National Geographic Adventure’s Adventurers of the Year. Her frontside barrel is a candidate for the Billabong XXL Ride of the Year. Not sure it stacks up against some of the beasts the boys have saddled, but it sure is purty. And it ain’t small..CONTINUE>
If you see enough big-wave surfing clips, after a while the sense of magnitude can fade, but every so long one comes along that reminds you: this is one of the wildest things you can do, period…CONTINUE>
It’s A Big Big Big Big Big Week In Surfing
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Boom! That was the sound of the biggest week in surfing in years—and it’s not about to end. On Monday, legendary tow-in spot Jaws on Maui saw the biggest, cleanest surf in a decade. On Tuesday, Greg Long won the Eddie Aikau big-wave event at Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu in massive waves 25 years to the day after the first Eddie was held. Today, Steph Gilmore locked up her third world championship in a row by winning the Billabong Pro Maui (also for the third consecutive time). Also today, the Billabong Pipe Masters was postponed because the surf was too big…CONTINUE>
Depending on who’s doing the talking and how deep their musical reference points go, Jake Shimabukuro is described as either “the Jimi Hendrix of ukulele” or “the Eddie Van Halen of ukulele”. It’s a simple way to wrap your head around the magic that transpires between Shimabukuro and this small, four-string instrument–and a lot stronger sell than “guy alone on stage with ukulele”. But it doesn’t do Jake justice.
Living analog in a digital world has its own rewards. Jack Brull shoots surfing with all manner of reductionist methods, the most lyrical of which might be the pinhole. His simple, seemingly timeless images are a reminder that a big lens and fancy camera might help capture surfing action, but all it takes to share stoke is vision and something that will gather light.
Hurley paid winners of the two big men’s surfing contests it sponsored this year $100,000 each. It paid the woman who won $4,500, then upped it to $10,000 at the last minute. Funny, but that doesn’t seem right.
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