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Waves For Water – Sandy Relief

Alex Dick-Read — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:02:10 +0000

Here are a few ways to help out victims of Hurricane Sandy.
To help those in the USA, Haiti, Jamaica or Cuba, the Red Cross is always a solid bet.
In the US, particularly in New Jersey, surf-based group Waves for Water is really getting stuck in.
In all the above there are still people without shelter, food, power, medical assistance etc. If you can help out, please do …

Groundswell

Alex Dick-Read — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:32:07 +0000

Trailer for an upcoming film focusing on the insane tar sands oil pipeline threatening British Columbia’s raw wilderness coast.
If you happen to have an election coming up – do us all a favour, please: don’t vote for the Big Business Fundamentalists. They have a million clever ways of convincing us that, e.g. up is in fact down, hot is actually cold and caring about this stuff is a bad/damaging/uncool thing. They make it sound ‘inevitable’ or ‘essential’ to our well-being and the well-being of millions of human beings and animals, etc etc etc.
Don’t. Be. Distracted.
The fact is, Earth just can’t afford to lose anymore places like this. Thanks to Patagonia and Woodshed for bringing this t our attention.

Historic Fiji – all-time Volcom Contest

Alex Dick-Read — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:01:28 +0000

Kelly Slater won the Volcom Fiji Pro in Fiji yesterday, in 6-8ft perfect Cloudbreak.
But that’s not the half of it. The giant swell forecast all week arrived bang on time for the mid-rounds of the event on Friday. 15-20ft mega-bombs running down the reef like some otherworld mixture of Teahupoo, G-Land and a Wilbur Kookermayer cartoon.
After running two heats in the morning organizers put the even on hold thanks to a devil wind chopping up the faces. Eventually, they called it off. There was just no way they could send the tour guys out there when it was so big, but so dangerous.
No matter, the big-wave crew had turned up with their 10ft guns and Volcom left the webcast running while Greg Long, Mark Healey, Ramon Navarro and others paddled around looking for makeable nuggets.
Less than an hour after the decision was made to cancel, guess what? Mother Nature changed her mood. The wind cleaned up a little. The waves got even bigger by several degrees. And the big wave dudes, plus some of the ballsier world tour pros, had a truly historic session.
Some flack has flown about the decision to cancel instead of sending the tour guys out there, but Volcom insist they made the decision in full consultation with the surfers and safety teams, all of whom said it didn’t look doable. How were they to know it would clean up and become a session for the history books?
Doesn’t matter. It happened. Ramon Navarro got the wave of the day – or was it Reef MacIntosh, or John John Florence, or Mark Healey, Twiggy, Greg Long, or one of the other 30 or so out there giving it a once-in-a-lifetime dig?
And when the contest resumed at Restaurants the next day, even that looked pretty epic. Tack on a finals day back at very solid Cloudbreak in clean smooth barrels, with Kelly Slater beating the youngest guy on tour, Gabriel Medina, in the final – and the whole package is most certainly worth a watch.
No one’s done a complete event wrap-up edit yet, so meantime, here’s bunch of highlights, starting the epic Day 3 freesurf.

Excerpts by Dane Reynolds

Alex Dick-Read — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:48:10 +0000

The enigmatic Venturan released this film-nugget this week to school us.
They’re saying he’s the best surfer in the world, and watching this you can see why.
Spontaneity, power and perfect execution like surfing has never seen.

Keith Malloy Wavegarden

Alex Dick-Read — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:56:22 +0000

Fresh Patagonia shenanigans …

Keith Malloy Wavegarden from Patagonia Surf Europe on Vimeo.

Through the Whiskey Barrel

Alex Dick-Read — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:40:20 +0000

A film about surfing in Scotland
By Allyn Harper

Through The Whisky Barrel – Trailer from Allyn Harper on Vimeo.

Through The Whisky Barrel is the much anticipated debut film by Allyn Harper. An innovate film providing an insight into the history and the culture that surrounds surfing in Scotland. The film showcases an array of epic waves which are unleashed onto the undulating Scottish coastline, whilst telling the stories of Scottish surfing’s pioneers and the waves, which form their cold water playground. The film aims bring the surfing community in Scotland together and raise funds for the Scottish Surf Federation. Soundtrack provided by the incredible British rock band 65DaysofStatic.

The film features surfing from many homegrown Scottish surfers aswell as international surfers including John John Florence, Sunny Garcia, Mason Ho, Brian Toth, Chris Ward, Dayyan Neve, Anthony Walsh, Brent Dorrington, Morgan Faulkner and many more.

Yannick Le Toquin

Alex Dick-Read — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:38:13 +0000

A short film about occasional Surfer’s Path contributor, Yannick Le Toquin from the series “People from the Ocean” by Sen No Sen.

People from the ocean // Yannick Le Toquin from dolly on Vimeo.

Some Craig Anderson Moments

Alex Dick-Read — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:28:40 +0000

Highly watchable footage of truly stunning surfing.

One Last Shoot – Endless Winter’s New Year message

Alex Dick-Read — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:35:30 +0000

A word of thanks and a short photo gallery from the makers of the ongoing series, Endless Winter – A Very British Surf Movie.

Surfing the Wild East

Alex Dick-Read — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:28:40 +0000

Crowd-sourcing.
This could be the first People’s Surf Movie.
Definitely the first to chart the Black Sea’s surf potential.
Original stuff.
Nice.