Nathalie Vigia dreams of driving her classic Volkswagen Type 2 through Central America. Fourteen years ago, Nathalie got in love with the Volkswagen surf van while visiting Australia. She saw people cruising around and chasing waves with surfboards on top of the vehicle. When she finally bought a green Volkswagen Type 2, Nathalie named her […]
No matter where you live, or where you move to in the search for big, juicy waves, there will be days when the surf… well, just isn’t up. On these days, a surfer has a choice to make. Do you sit out the day in a vague haze of depression, watching videos and compulsively checking surf […]
Ricardo dos Santos lived 24 years doing what he loved most. Surfing. From Australia to the United States, surfers, friends, fans and sports enthusiasts are still recovering from a state of shock and profound sadness. Ricardinho, the Brazilian surfer from Praia da Guarda do Embaú, was not an average surfer. He excelled in surfing, and […]
Ricardo dos Santos has passed away at 24 years of age. The Brazilian pro surfer suffered a cardiac arrest after four consecutive surgeries. The surfing world is mourning the death of Ricardo dos Santos, a talented wave rider shot by drug addicts in Praia da Guarda do Embaú, a beach located in Palhoca, Santa Catarina, […]
The Peahi Challenge 2015 will get underway on the 22nd January, in Maui, Hawaii. It’s the second event of the Northern Hemisphere season and the third of the 2014/2015 season. The Big Wave Tour (BWT) has raised the green flag. The Peahi Challenge is expecting giant waves as a projected 30-to-40-foot swell prepares to hit […]
It might sound rhetorical. After all, like any athlete, a surfer becomes shaped over time by the continual use and strengthening of certain muscles required to surf in the first place. A “surfer’s body”, therefore, can only be obtained by actually learning to surf, right? Well, yes, technically; a lot of bodily reshaping goes on […]
The 10th anniversary of Taj’s Small Fries, held in Yallingup, Western Australia, crowned six champions. The future stars of Australian surfing showed their skills in the punchy three-foot peaks on offer at Shallows, just north of Taj Burrow’s home. In the Boys 16 & Under division, Kael Walsh used his smooth backhand turns to lock […]
The Brazilian pro surfer Ricardo dos Santos is battling for his life after being shot three times by two men, in Praia da Guarda do Embaú, near Palhoca, in Brazil. Dos Santos suffered three shots in the chest and lungs at 8:50am, while he was making home improvements with his grandfather and two workers. Apparently, […]
Mason Ho claimed the 2015 Da Hui Backdoor Shootout In Memory of Duke Kahanamoku, held at Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii. After three rounds of amazing tube rides, only the best wave masters got their checks. The early rounds were surfed in perfect eight-foot Pipeline. Multiple perfect ten scores were thrown across the leaderboard. The Da Hui […]
Everything changes in 50 years, and the “History of Surfing in Queensland” is a splendid documentary that captures the essence of wave riding from the early surf clubs to the world title races. Riding wood planks at Snapper Rocks, with perfect waves pumping down the line, and no one in the line-up. The scene was […]