Tony Hawk once said that “skateboarding is an art form, a lifestyle, and a sport.” Maybe it’s even more than that. Perhaps it already is a current of thought. Skateboarding is one of the most popular action sports in the world, with over 11 million active participants. The first skateboards were built in the late […]
Meet Martin Kawaler, an Australian musician who decided to start recording ocean sounds to help to cope with tinnitus pain. The 35-year-old from St Kilda, an inner-city beachside suburb of the metropolitan area of Melbourne, runs a platform called Oceanscapes available at oceanscapesaudio.com. Kawaler released several albums of these recordings on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon. […]
The World Surf League (WSL) decided to postpone or cancel all events, at all levels of competition, through the end of June. “Where and when we will run this year is still very much an open question, but we will continue to work with governments, world health authorities, and our local communities on returning to […]
Byron Bay filmmaker Darius Devas released a stunning ocean video portrait in response to the current Covid-19 pandemic. “Ocean Medicine” combines two of the Australian’s passions – filming the ocean and mental health. The project was inspired by Devas’ response to the Covid-19 crisis and the national lockdown that followed.
Are you spending too much time sitting in an office desk? Are you feeling lazy and bored on your couch at home with nothing else to do? Let’s keep those muscles ready for the next surf session. Gyms are closed, waves aren’t pumping, you’re still recovering from an injury, and too much desk time is […]
Surfing therapy dog Ricochet has joined forces with Pawsitive Teams to provide virtual canine therapy to doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers, and first responders on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pawsitive Teams is a service and therapy dog program founded in San Diego in 1997. The partnership between Ricochet and the organization directly […]
Keala Kennelly was one of the first female surfers to ride the most dangerous waves on the planet. She has been spotted taking on the biggest and heaviest mountains of moving water at Jaws/Peahi, Teahupoo, Mavericks, Puerto Escondido, and Nazaré. The fearless Hawaiian is also the first woman to win a trophy in an open-gender […]
Surfline is an online surf forecasting service founded in 1985 by Southern California surfers Jerry Arnold, Craig Masuoka, and David Wilk. The trio kicked off their business with a pay-per-call telephone surf report before the brand evolved into a digital surf report and forecasting tool with live stream cameras. In the early days, Surfline employed […]
A Swiss company launched a new hydrofoil equipped with sensors and powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The iUP is an equipment designed to make foiling easier than classic surfing and accessible to all. Taarola, the company behind this innovative hydrofoil, compares the iUP to the revolution operated by drones in the surfing world, a few […]
A swell is a series of mechanical or surface gravity waves generated by distant weather systems that propagate thousands of miles across oceans and seas. It’s a succession of massive and crestless waves characterized by a narrow range of long wavelengths. Ocean swells are often generated in mid-latitude depressions regions between 30 degrees and 60 […]