A short film portrait of William Finnegan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction novel “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” has launched online. The film, titled “William Finnegan – Barbarian Days,” features an excerpt from the best-selling novel, together with stunning visuals of Byron Bay surfers and coastline. It is narrated by William Finnegan and features former US surfing […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that “To be great is to be misunderstood.” Meet Kalani Lattanzi, a 25-year-old with Brazilian blood. He swims with fins into 30-40-foot waves. Then he bodysurfs, bodyboards or uses a bodysurf handplane to save his own life. Or he surfs them. It’s the combo that makes him a waterman. He bridges sports […]
Greg Webber announced the creation of two patented wave shaping designs that promise a new approach to utilizing ocean swells. The Australian wave pool developer created V-wall (movable seawall) and V-reef (floating reef), two solutions that will help improve the quality of waves at natural surf breaks. V-wall is a pair of hollow concrete walls […]
“You’re not done until you’re bleeding.” The sentence sums up pretty well what went on at this year’s Tamarack Takeover, in Carlsbad, California. If you catch a couple of waves, run over a few kids and manage to escape uninjured, then you may consider yourself a lucky guy. The first Tamarack Takeover of the 2019 […]
Nicolas Marusa and Janina Zeitler have taken out the 2019 Jochen Schweizer Arena Pro, in Munich, Germany. After a successful debut year, the Rapid Surf League returns for a second season of static wave riding. The event ran the “cut-to-call” format, a competitive system that ensures that each heat is filled with high-end maneuvers and […]
They’ve been surfing for over three decades and making music together for 25 years. And yet, they sound like they have never ridden a wave. Meet Urbanature, an instrumental electronic indie band that strangely doesn’t allow chords to ride the waves that break near their private studio. Francisco, João, Luis, and Nuno have all met in the […]
The publisher says it is the “mother of all surf guides.” And he’s undoubtedly telling the truth. “The World Stormrider Surf Guide” is a 445-page book with the largest collection of surf break information ever compiled in one volume. It all started in the late 1980s, when a group of surf explorers, publishers and writers […]
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Conner Coffin had a day to remember at The Box, in Western Australia, during the 2019 Margaret River Pro. The Californian surfer was surfing his Round 3 heat against Jesse Mendes when something unexpected took over the lineup. Coffin took off on a perfect right-hand wave, pulled in for the barrel and was suddenly dropped […]