Surfer, cinematographer, and positive living enthusiast Leah Dawson gets you at “aloha.” An ambassador for the Keep a Breast Foundation and Non-Toxic Revolution, Dawson is also a two-time Pipeline Women’s Pro Longboard champion and former U.S. longboard champion. A wanderer at heart, Dawson calls the world home but spends six months of every year on [...]
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Usually when these things happen, it’s because someone’s had too much beer and is tipsily returning it to the ocean, but in Brett Archibald’s case it was seasickness that did him in. The 50-year-old South African was on a surf trip in the Mentawai Islands when he became violently ill from rough waters. Some time [...]
Sometimes the wrong decision turns out to be the right decision. Pete Devries was surfing in the warm waters of Morocco when he got word that back home, Vancouver Island, was going to be pumping. The forecast called for peaking the day before his return, so he mulled over leaving Africa early. But, you know. [...]
Every surfer remembers his first surfboard. It goes along with memories of his first wave, first time standing up on the board, first surf trip, and the time spent with friends during these experiences. With all these memories there usually is a story (or two), so of course I thought I should share with you [...]
Anything that gets people moving their bodies is good, right, except perhaps being chased by grizzlies or running from a tsunami? So, nobody should cast stones at the busy folks who don’t live near the ocean but want some semblance of surf fitness, right? Right? Right. That’s what I keep telling myself. But seeing the [...]
The operative word in climate change is CHANGE — that’s why global weirding is a better descriptor than global warming. And one of the areas that’s expected to change is in wave height: a new study by an international group of scientists led by Australian climate researcher Mark Hemer predicts that wind waves are expected [...]
Seea surf apparel is bringing a new and slightly unconventional style to women’s bathing suits and wetsuits — it’s not quite the anti-Roxy, but certainly isn’t afraid of cloudy days, black neoprene, and covering up, while still remaining feminine and holding onto its own iconoclastic look. No matter what you’re looking for — sweet longboarding, [...]
Some wildlife encounters you simply don’t expect to survive. Last year, on the day before Halloween, Scott Stephens was gleaming at his good luck. Winds at Humboldt Bay in Northern California were offshore and grooming the waves, which were peaking all along the beach with some extra oomph from the high tide. Stephens nabbed four [...]
GREG LONG CROWNED BIG WAVE WORLD CHAMPION The fourth season of the Big Wave World Tour has come to a close, and Greg Long has been crowned world champion. Long didn’t smoke the field at each contest, but he was always at or near the top and that consistency saw him sitting nearly 1,000 points [...]
Nobody should go to Iceland to surf. Rephrase that: Nobody should go to Iceland JUST to surf. It’s a lesson that filmmaker James Aiken learned the cool way: He started out in one direction — surfing — and came out in another. His short film Nor∂ur (Almost Arctic) captures the beauty of Iceland’s Westfjords with [...]
In the not too distant future, the Billabong XXL contest will select the best big wave heroics under a category called Billabong Girls XXL Performance Award. Among the contenders are Paige Alms, age 23, and Keala Kennelly, age 34. Last year in June, the Swatch Girls Pro France was won by 19-year-old Courtney Conlogue, and [...]
Do you really need to hear any more than “Roxy in the Maldives” to launch this video? Didn’t think so. But for those three holdouts, here’s a little more: Roxy sent some of its surf team to the paradise that is the Maldives and scored on waves and footage. There’s some beautiful over/under photography, including [...]
Despite his bluster about not caring whether he drowns (this, from a man with three children), surf photographer Russell Ord is to be admired for his determination to create images that transcend the ordinary. Ord found himself in a slump, dissatisfied with the photos he was shooting, and has set himself on a course to [...]
On January 28, remarkable photo and video footage appeared that showed 45-year-old Hawaiian Garrett McNamara sliding down a mammoth peak at Nazaré, Portugal. That wave, and the others that crashed into Nazaré that day, was generated by a barocyclonic low that swept across the Atlantic and focused powerful swells into Nazaré’s deep submarine canyon. Within [...]
The Daily Bike, May 24, 2013
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The Daily Bike: Les Granges du Galibier, Giro d’Italia 2013
