Features

Billabong XXL Wipeout of the Year category

12 / 04 / 2010

Later this week the Billabong XXL Awards will be decided in a fancy theatre in Anaheim, Southern California. It’s a glitzy affair and alot of fun but for some of these guys it’s one of the primary ways they can earn recognition, some decent cash ($50,000 for Ride of the Year Award) and some mass [...]

Ibiza SUP Chill Festival

4 / 09 / 2009

The first edition of the IBIZA SUP CHILL FESTIVAL will take place on the last weeekend of September. An event created for all the people interested in nature and Stand Up Paddle Surf. Within the festival, Sunset Point SUP Resort (official SUP center in Ibiza) along with the Federación Española de Surf organizes the 1st [...]

Surf Reports and Surf Forecasts

18 / 08 / 2009

It gets to that time of day when you’ve just been away from the beach for too long and you want to get a good surf in.
Check out mpora.com/surf-reports first before you drop your hard earned cash or before you jump in your car to the coast. It contains over 2,000 spots across the globe [...]

Welcome to the Rob Machado Experience

3 / 06 / 2009

Feel like playing? Click on this link – Dragon Game – to get involved.
Dragon proudly presents a project all about slowing down and exploring the life and times of one of the most iconic surfers on the planet- Rob Machado. From starting out as a young professional surfer pushing progression, to putting the soul back [...]

Review of Powers of Three

18 / 05 / 2009

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The Relentless Powers of Three surf documentary follows pro surfers Tom Lowe, Fergal Smith and fearless photographer Mickey Smith on their quest to tackle Irelands biggest and most dangerous waves.
Tom and Fergal followed closely by the lens of Mickey Smith have made it their mission to ride these waves, some of which have [...]

Surfing: The Manual, Advanced

20 / 03 / 2009

Surfing: The Manual, Advanced

Jim Kempton
Wavefinder Publishing

This is a tricky one. I’m not convinced that this book is necessary. How many surfers in or nearing the ‘advanced’ category of ability, are likely to use a ‘how-to’ book to polish their skills? This one covers everything, from oceanography to training to how to duckdive, do a [...]

One Track Mind

20 / 03 / 2009

One Track Mind

Woodshed Films
Chris Malloy

A study of success and the pursuit of competitive excellence through the words of some of surfing’s most titled icons and assorted pretenders. At the start of this film, Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew, Tom Curren and Kelly Slater represent the alpha-gene competitive strand running though modern surfing, connected, but each [...]

One Winter Story

20 / 03 / 2009

One Winter Story

By Sally Lundburg and Elizabeth Pepin
A review of this excellent film on the journey of big-wave surfer Sarah Gerhardt is long overdue, so … apologies for that. Gerhardt’s an extraordinary woman who braved years of rips and currents to become the first woman to surf macking Mavericks, back in 1999. As this [...]

Breath

20 / 03 / 2009

by Tim Winton
Published by Picador

Reviewed by Sam Bleakley and Alan Bleakley

There is little in the way of relaxation in this taut novella. It’s like a stretched rubber band about to snap. Compared with the natural elements, the characters are small, barely sketched. Two boys, Pikelet and Loonie, grow up in a backwater in Western Australia, [...]

New York Surf Film Festival

20 / 03 / 2009

New York Film Festival

No one would have minded if the surf was crap – this being New York – but it fired throughout the three-day event, which felt like a blessing upon this festival’s inaugural year. I was there as a judge, but surf duties had downtime priority, and though I missed Day One, I [...]