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Manly dedicated as World Surfing Reserve

17 / 03 / 2012

Manly, Australia. March 10th 2012 – Legendary world surfing champion Kelly Slater accompanied the Governor of New South Wales, Australia, Professor Marie Bashir, at a beachfront ceremony at Manly Beach that formally dedicated the Manly-Freshwater World Surfing Reserve, the first such reserve in Australia – and the third of its type in the world.
“Australia has [...]

A surf journalism internship … in Bali?

6 / 03 / 2012

Wow, if you want to learn the ropes of old and new media, if you don’t mind making coffee or interviewing pro surfers, and if you have a soft spot for surfing perfect, barreling waves … you may want to check this out.

Surftime Magazine Announces 2012 Internship Program
Bali, Indonesia, March, 2012
Surftime Magazine, Indonesia’s new leading [...]

Biggest Pipe Masters ever – Perrow wins

11 / 12 / 2011

It was an epic event, no hype required. A 12-15 swell arrived for the first day of the waiting period, out of the NW, the perfect direction for Pipe. Up to this point there hadn’t yet been a Pipe swell, so even the locals had nerves to get rid of, and the reef had plenty [...]

Harry and the gang – 1929

5 / 12 / 2011

From the Museum of British Surfing:

Lewis Rosenberg – standing proud c1929
Added to the surf history archives on Jun 30, 2011
Around 1929 Lewis Rosenberg and a group of friends saw a newsreel showing Australians surfing standing up on their surfboards – it was a moment of inspiration that changed their lives.
This close-knit group of Jewish immigrants, [...]

TED2: A non-surfer’s key to everything

25 / 11 / 2011

TED1: A surfer’s theory of everything

25 / 11 / 2011

From a 2008 TED talk, still worth trying to get your head around, here’s surfer and physicist Garrett Lisi attempting to explain his controversial model of the universe that just might answer all the big questions.

51kg of cocaine found in Basque-bound surfboards

16 / 11 / 2011

Less than a month after Basque police busted a drugs-ring importing cocaine to Bilbao in the form of Manolo Blahnik designer shoes, another operation has uncovered a similar plan.
This time the traffickers, three Italian men, smuggled 51 kilos of cocaine to Bilbao’s Loiu airport hidden inside surfboards.
Nine surfboards were seized in total and the three [...]

Help the EOS go online

11 / 11 / 2011

EOS = The Encyclopedia of Surfing, a massive and brilliantly constructed book by Matt Warshaw that came out in 2003.
Warshaw, a former editor of Surfer magazine, has seen the writing on the wall when it comes printed paper, so now he’s putting the whole EOS online. To do this in one dimension would be a [...]

The Tsunami at Sea and from the Air

25 / 03 / 2011

This is what the tsunami looked like to crew on the bridge of a Japanese coastguard vessel.
Hard to tell the scale but you get an idea of how big this wave is by a) how long the ship travels ‘uphill’, and b) the noises being made by the crew as they come over the crest.

This [...]

Sion Milosky RIP

17 / 03 / 2011

Sion Milosky 1976-2011
While we battle to get a handle on the mega tragedy in Japan, this news of a single death in the worldwide surfing family still really hurts.
Sion Milosky, Hawaiian big-wave super-charger, husband and father of two young daughters, and a man flying high on a well-deserved upward trajectory in the surfing world, died [...]