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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, [...]

Surfing and Sharks – coming soon

30 / 11 / 2011

Here is the official trailer for the documentary film Surfing and Sharks which will have its World Premiere on December 15th at Wavescape Film Festival in Captetown.

SURFING AND SHARKS TRAILER from SURFINGANDSHARKS on Vimeo.

Join SAS now – free organic Tee

28 / 11 / 2011

This just in from our Surfers Against Sewage brethren:
JOIN SAS OR BUY A GIFT MEMBERSHIP & GET A FREE T-SHIRT

We’re giving away a free organic t-shirt to everyone that joins SAS quoting the offer code in the Terms and Conditions, whether it’s a membership for yourself or a Christmas Gift Membership for friends or family!
Gift [...]

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.

Wave pool wrangle: Kelly Slater responds

23 / 11 / 2011

Yesterday we ran an excerpt and link to an article published on swellnet.com about two artificial wave pool concepts already under development that apparently conflict. On one side is Australian surfboard maker Greg Webber, and on the is Kelly Slater, 11-time world champ and the man behind the Kelly Slater Wave Pool company.
Today, Kelly decided [...]

The new Mundaka Challenge kicks off in 2012

22 / 11 / 2011

2012 BILLABONG MUNDAKA CHALLENGE
The inaugural Billabong Mundaka Challenge is set to bring back the world”s best tuberiders to Mundaka, one of the world”s best waves. A three-month waiting period starting from 15th January 2012 has been put in place to ensure the one-day event will score flawless conditions and a minimum wave size of 6 [...]

Kelly Slater’s wave pool … or is it? Greg Webber v KS.

18 / 11 / 2011

Here’s a follow-up to a story we ran a couple of weeks ago about Kelly Slater’s wave pool. Turns out, it isn’t necessarily his.
KS and his team have recently had some trouble getting the circular wave pool design approved by the US Patent office because long-time Australian surfboard designer and entrepreneur, Greg Weber had actually [...]

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 [...]