Surf movies are going arty. Globe’s latest adventure in the short film hype features everything you wouldn’t expect in a cinematographic story about surfing. Call 10 Russian top models, add a yellow Lamborghini, mix up with the sands of the desert and get “Electric Blue Heaven”, a conceptual surf film starring Dion Agius in the […]
Connor O’Leary has taken the first ever international pro surfing event in South Korea, the Murasaki Quiksilver Jeju Open of Surfing. The contest took place at Jungmun Beach in Jeju Island, in 2-foot (1 meter) waves with sunny skies. The young Australian from Cronulla Beach defeated former elite ASP World Championship Tour surfer Nathan Hedge. […]
Abbie Girl and Ricochet are the winners of the 7th annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition, held in the sands of San Diego. More than 50 dogs participated in a unique Southern California surf competition, in which K9 specialists compete in 10-minute heats along with their best human friends. The surf dog competition […]
Nike is under heavy fire as the “Don’t Do It” campaign threatens to spread through the web and into the real world of action sports goods. The group of activists wants to halt the way surf and skate consumers are being used in this wide market. The “Don’t Do It Foundation” has been created to […]
How do we know our surf stance? Surfing beginners have been asking this question for decades and the answer is always the same. If someone pushed you from behind which foot would you put in front? If “right” is the answer, then you’re welcome into the extraordinary world of goofy-footers. Nature creates more regular-foot surfers […]
Jeff Spencer, one of the standout surfing icons of the 1980s, has been found dead at West Cliff Drive, in Santa Cruz, California. The 49-year-old surfer known for his switch-stance skills lived a troubled life of alcohol and drug abuse and wasn’t able to fully recover. Raised by his grandmother after his father died in […]
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 […]
The average wave lasts six second. The rest of the day is spent getting there. Meet the spirit of “Here & Now”, the lastest surf movie by renowned filmmaker Taylor Steele and newcomer Nathan Myers. “Here & Now” was shot in one day. More than 25 filmmakers and surfers worked in cooperative mode to document […]
Rob Machado and Joel Parkinson have been confirmed in the 2012 Molokai-2-Oahu Paddleboard World Championships (M2O), the 32-mile race across the infamous Ka’iwi channel, also known as the Channel of Bones, between the islands of Molokai and Oahu. The iconic paddleboarding event registration has closed early. Having sold out for five consecutive years, the 2012 […]
The Hurley Surfing Australia High Performance Centre (HPC) has been officially opened at Casuarina, New South Wales. The $4 million investment funded by the Federal Government is the world’s first facility dedicated to the development of elite surfers and coaches. The two-level centre of excellence will boast state of the art education facilities, equipment and […]