Byron Bay, something about the name, and everyone who’s been there will always long to go back. It’s the eastern most point in Australia, on the northern part of the New South Wales (NSW) coast. Known for it’s beautiful geography, great surf, artists and hippies. Home to The Pass, one of the most beautiful…
Photo Showdown A gallery of images taken by the finalists of the 2012 Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown. Gallery It may have been during the World Ski and Snowboard Festival, but it was a surf photographer who swept the Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown in Whistler, BC, on Thursday night….
I will admit this little video rings pretty close to home for me. Last week, Conor Willem, 20, a local shredder here on Long Beach Island, New Jersey and two-time ESA East Coast Mens champ, ran LBI Winter Warriors. Commercial fishermen, busboys, teachers, and carpenters gathered for this grassroots…
Day 1 The Box freesurf Day 3 Day 4 At a lot of contests around the planet you often see the competitors sneak off for a warm up surf before their heat. Usually it’s a quick wave or two to get the blood running, feel out a board, and get the wax between their toes […]
Adam Melling, the name doesn’t carry the cache that say Joel Parkinson or Taj Burrow does, or even Bede Durbidge for that matter, but truth be told, he’s just as dangerous as the lot of them, maybe more so. Without garnering much fanfare, and little to no media hype, the quiet Lennox Head local has […]
Ezekiel Lau is a warrior: Literally. The 18-year-old, who is affectionately called “Zeke,” is a senior at Kamehameha Schools and its mascot is the Warriors. In addition, his middle name — bestowed by his great-grandfather — is “Kekoamaikalanimai,” which translates to “warrior from the heavens.” He…
The solid 8-foot Christmas swell that hit Australia’s Gold Coast was a welcome relief for wave-starved surfers suffering from tiny Southern Hemisphere summer conditions. Snapper Rocks, Kirra, and Burleigh pumped for the first time in months. But while surfers reveled in the conditions, organizers…
Puerto Rico? Nobody thinks about the Caribbean until those frosty fronts come swinging out of Canada in December.
La Jolla’s Windansea beach is hallowed ground in the surf realm. The sport took root here in the forties, with surfers like Peter Parkin, Bob Simmons, and Woody Ekstrom. The next generation made their presence known at Waimea, Sunset, and Pipeline.
In the immortal words of Kelly Slater, “It is the morning of the final.” Told in a scene from his 1991 film “Black and White,” a bright eyed and bushy tailed teen Slater wakes up and mumbles the sentence that would launch the greatest career in pro surfing history. I wonder if he’s saying that […]