In order to chase a swell one has to be willing to sacrifice everything. This last swell at Cloubreak was worth every sacrifice in the world to me. Although not as big as the infamous Volcom Fiji Pro swell, it stacked up equally in other ways. Gallery Kelly Slater, Joel Parkinson and Alex Gray…
Rockaway Beach has got a fun little wave today — three- to four-foot and mostly clean. The Atlantic is a little warmer than it should be in mid June. When the air warms up a bit this afternoon you can probably trunk it. But realistically, high tide is this evening at 5:45, which means it […]
Located 525 nautical miles off the coast of Ecuador sits the Galapagos Islands. Like Hawaii, it’s volcanic in origin. And like Hawaii, there’s some pretty good surf there. But unlike Hawaii, there aren’t many surfers. Boasting a population of just 25,000 people — whereas Waikiki’s population is about…
The best surfing Lowers has historically been the most progressive, but sometimes when pushing the performance level the experimentation with equipment falls by the wayside. But lately that’s changing as more surfers are opening up their minds to the potential of designs like the Mini Simmons and wider,…
Photo Showdown A gallery of images taken by the finalists of the 2012 Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown. Gallery It may have been during the World Ski and Snowboard Festival, but it was a surf photographer who swept the Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown in Whistler, BC, on Thursday night….
Day 1 The Box freesurf Day 3 Day 4 At a lot of contests around the planet you often see the competitors sneak off for a warm up surf before their heat. Usually it’s a quick wave or two to get the blood running, feel out a board, and get the wax between their toes […]
Adam Melling, the name doesn’t carry the cache that say Joel Parkinson or Taj Burrow does, or even Bede Durbidge for that matter, but truth be told, he’s just as dangerous as the lot of them, maybe more so. Without garnering much fanfare, and little to no media hype, the quiet Lennox Head local has […]
COOLANGATTA/QLD (26th February, 2012): Eight VEGEMITE SurfGroms were living the dream on the Gold Coast today as VIP guests to the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast.
The solid 8-foot Christmas swell that hit Australia’s Gold Coast was a welcome relief for wave-starved surfers suffering from tiny Southern Hemisphere summer conditions. Snapper Rocks, Kirra, and Burleigh pumped for the first time in months. But while surfers reveled in the conditions, organizers…
It’s been hot, but there have been moments of relief. Australia’s kind of like that. The talent showed up around Coolengatta early, before the Breaka Burrleigh Pro, and there were a few sessions over the hill at D-Bah and even Kirra had a couple waves. Gallery In two weeks time the surf world’s…