Hossegor Perfect Offshore
2007-06-18 04:33:29
An offshore hand applies the texture you love, ruffles the glass to give it dimension, and sculpts the arching overhang to perfection. Hossegor, France.
Photo: Al Mackinnon
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, Offshore
Haitian Reef Voodoo
2007-06-25 04:02:51
Icah Wilmot turns shallow-water speed into Haitian reef voodoo.
Photo: JS Callahan
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Australia Perfect Surf
2007-07-02 04:19:58
The surfer’s path: righteous, narcissistic, heroic, indulgent, and sometimes… downright bloody perfect. Dean Brady, Victoria, Australia
.
Photo: Miagunya
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Chairman of the Board - Surf Soundtrack
2007-07-12 09:08:11
Never mind the Beach Boys, Dick Dale or the sand stomping legends of the surf guitar. Chairman
Of The Board
is a compilation of rare surf soundtracks all but lost to the genre that created it.
Boasting tracks from some of the most iconic surf films from the 1960’s and 70’s, Surf Soundtrack
s includes many of the ‘golden era’ surfing moments from Crystal Voyager, The Endless Summer, Innermost Limits Of Pure Fun, Morning Of The Earth, Evolution & Super Session. Surfing is full of ‘golden eras’ and the one between 1964 - 1974 was a time when film directors immersed in the surfing culture, commissioned original music for their cinematic creations.
From 60s beats to funky stoner rock, a psychedelic pulse breathed energy into a giant screen sized tube ride and surfers had a soundtrack that beautifully reflected the barefoot roots of their lifestyle.
Over 30 years has passed since this golden era. Unfortunately many of these surf soundtracks have fallen between the gaps
King Island Surf
2007-07-16 04:51:59
Derek Hynd - a man of uncanny foresight who saw the power of the fish far, far before the masses - makes the right choice at the right time. Matha’s, King Island
, Oz.
Photo: Sean Davey
Golden Morning Surf
2007-07-23 05:47:23
A golden morning of the earth, witnessed by a solo soul. 5.30am at Cabo, Baja.
Photo: Adam Warmington
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, Morning
Australia Surf Beast
2007-08-07 08:24:28
A southern ocean crystal voyager finally lurches to a glorious end of its journey, just in time for sunrise. King Island, Australia
.
Photo: Sean Davey
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Padang Padang - Surf Perfection in Bali
2007-08-13 06:54:00
Dave Rastovich mining for emeralds, Padang Padang, Bali. Tough job, but he makes it look easy.
Photo: Jason Childs
With its dramatic scenery of high-rising limestone cliffs overlooking a turquoise ocean of pumping barrels, Padang Padang was voted one of the world’s top-ten waves.
Padang in two words: power and fear. It’s one of the most dangerous and hollowest wave in Bali - Indonesia. The final bowl is an obligatory tube. In short: Tube at the take-off, then speed, speed, speed and the ledgey final tube section.
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Culver City Dub Collective Debut Album
2007-08-28 05:50:57
Dos, the debut full-length album from the Culver City Dub Collective
, unites an all-star cast in a captivating blend of Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Cuban rhythms and West Coast bossa beats. It’s an intoxicating breeze that rattles the brain in all the right places, a simmering soundtrack to a thousand road trips and hazy summer afternoons.
The album features stunning appearances from such luminaries as Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Money Mark, Studio One vocalist Winston Jarret, and Bedouin Soundclash singer Jay Malinowski. Despite the group’s amorphous nature, the Culver City Dub Collective (CCDC) is ultimately assembled, produced and creatively grounded by two individuals: drummer/songwriter Adam Topol and guitarist/engineer Franchot Tone.
Together, the two boundwed over albums by bossa kings like Tom Jobim and João Gilberto, Bristol minimalists Massive Attack, dub prophets King Tubby and Sir Coxsone Dodd, and indie-funk home taper Luther Russell. With a vision in place and a stu
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Surf Music Blog Presents New Design
2007-08-27 09:46:54
As you can tell the site has under gone a site re-design. Changes to the blog include a navigation bar on the top, a popular articles section in the sidebar, new colors and it comes wider and with more white space.
We’ve tested the theme extensively to make sure everything worked. However, there is always the possibility that something got passed me. Please check out the new home and tell me what you think. If you spot any errors, please let me know as well. I’m a big boy, you can tell me…
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, Presents
Perfect Surf Session
2007-08-29 12:19:14
The addictive cycle that is the perfect session: paddle out, wait, get pitted, paddle out, wait, get pitted. This surf photo looks so great I can’t stop looking…
Photo: Andrew Shield
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Triangular Surf Point
2007-09-17 09:16:54
This one got away!! No worries, there’ll be another coming along soon.
Photo: Jason Murray
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Billabong XXL - The Ride Of The Year
2007-09-12 06:30:06
Andrew Marr mountaineering at Dungeons. This wave won him second place in Billabong XXL ‘The Ride Of The Year’ 2006/7.
Photo: Al Mackinnon
Get more info on Billabong XXL Awards, and check this video of the monster tube awards nominees.
Blue Stingrays - Surf Music from the 90’s
2007-09-07 15:44:05
The Blue Stingrays were a 90’s band that played surf rock, with some country and western mixed elements, all with a very cool Hawaiian atmosphere. The band was composed of the members of The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty’s backup band, who took a short break from their work with Petty to record one album, Surf-N-Burn.
It’s heartbreaking to realize how few people have heard of the Blue Stingrays, much less know the names of the group members. The CD’s cover photo, the liner notes, even including Side 1 and Side 2 for the song titles, all remind me of those great surf instrumental albums of the early sixties. You can almost hear the sound of the needle dropping onto the vinyl as the party sounds fade in, followed by the opening notes of “Monsoon.”
The appropriately named “Echo Park” is drenched in reverb, and sounds as fresh today as when it was first recorded. Covering “Goldfinger” was no doubt a tip of the hat to the Ventures, w
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Canadian Island Surf Delights
2007-09-03 05:22:36
Sublime sights sometimes reward long hikes through dense rain forest. Canadian
island delights.
Photo: Chris Burkard
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Small Granites - Australia - Solid Rock Surfing
2007-09-25 17:57:17
King Island, located 90 km northwest of Tasmania, is composed mainly of folded essentially unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks with some amphibolite-facies metamorphic rocks, all of which have a northerly strike.
King Kelly, pondering the potential. Small
Granites, King Island, Australia
.
Photo: Sean Davey
It’s not always easy to find time to get away on a vacation, get to a Caribbean villa rental that gives you the comfort of home on a beautiful tropical island, and see this beautiful waves breaking loudly in the reef.
With the vacation season on us there’s no reason not to take some time for yourself and your family and relax on a beautiful tropical island. I can’t think of a better way to spend my summer vacation than on a pristine island in a beautiful Caribbean villa.
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, Surfing
Durban South Africa Surf
2007-09-24 06:18:54
Durban, or Surf City, as it is often called, is the centre of the surf industry in South
Africa
. Pioneered by old surfing legends such as Tony Heard, Leith and Derek Jardine, Shorty Bronkhorst, Ant Van Der Heuwel and Baron Stander, Durban was the place to be in the late 40s and early 50s, when the rest of South Africa was fast asleep, when it came to surfing anyway.
Durban probably has the highest proportion of surfers in the country, and therefore the highest number of shapers, surf shops, clothing and equipment factories. The main surfing beaches of the city are also insanely crowded when there are waves. Durban is the third biggest city in the country, and is in the middle of a lush sub-tropical zone.
It as a vibrant nightlife and there is plenty to see and do during the day, when you are not surfing.
Duncan Scott in a Durban delight.
Photo: Al Mackinnon
Ben Harper Lifeline Album Review
2007-10-02 11:32:55
Ben Harper
is one of the few surviving “traditionalists” in todays musical landscape. Even though Harper is a child of the eighties and nineties his music has always been a throwback to the decades before that.
Harper has throughout his career shown a high esteem for the Blues and Soul men of the past. The homages to the likes of Robert Johnson and Otis Redding were often well visible on the surface. Not only on his own records but also in the collaborations he has chosen.
At the end of a nine month European tour, Ben Harper
& the Innocent Criminals went to a studio in Paris and completed their new album, Lifeline
, in just seven days. The result: a soulful masterpiece with beautifully direct lyrics and undeniable grooves. No computers used. Just straight up good music.
It’s no surprise that most bands today don’t record albums live, straight to tape, in one room, no Pro Tools, no auto-tune. There are only a handful of modern artists that can pull it of
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Surfing Giant Ocean Mountains
2007-10-01 16:05:45
Greg Long moonlights as a rider of giant ocean mountains, but he’s not bad at his day job either: digging his rails deep and carving whatever comes along.
Photo: Jason Murray
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, Ocean
Morocco Surfing Spots
2007-10-12 06:19:38
Some surfers talk all the time about the giant waves of Hawaii, while others dream about the tubes of Tahiti or perfect waves of Fiji. But for most of them these destinations remain inaccessible. They are simply exotic places in a surfing magazine. In Morocco
, you find not only superb waves that you can surf all year long but also a magnificent back country that you can explore after your watery exploits and a local population famous for the warm welcome it accords its visitors.
Photo: Jason Murray
Morocco with its 3500 kilometers of coastline offers the surfer a dazzling array of opportunities. On its Atlantic side, rocky bottoms alternate with sand ones, reef breaks with beach breaks for those already initiated in the art of surfing. Although Americans and Australians were the surfers who brought he sport to Morocco in the 1970’s now it is the European Surfer along with his Moroccan counterpart who is indulging his passion for the wave. In the last few years, the popularity
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Slackstone - Into the Blue Sparkle. Quality Surf Music
2007-10-08 05:50:38
If you’re a fan of surf music in the same vein as the Aqua Velvets, Dick Dale, Los Strait Jackets, and the Ventures, you’ll absolutely LOVE this Slackstone - Into the Blue Sparkle
Album. With twangy, reverb-drenched Fenders accompanied by smart basslines, and drumming that …, this is one superb surf band.
At various times throughout rock history, waves of surf bands have crashed onto the shores, and Slacktone is widely considered by instrumental aficionados to be among the very best of the third wave, the era from 1994 to the present. Its members — guitarist Dave Wronski, bassist Sam Bolle and drummer Dusty Watson — are virtuosos on their instruments. All have decades of surf under their feet — either traditionally, via Dick Dale’s backing band, or through the surf-punk route in outfits such as Agent Orange.
These guys are middleaged surf veterans who really know their stuff. Together, united under the reverb, they have contributed sacred melodies suc
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, Music
Ben Dunn discover the Mentawais
2007-10-17 17:30:15
Ben Dunn, a few weeks before his WCT debut went to the Mentawais for the opportunity to sharpen his tube skills, thousands of miles from the nearest surfer.
Photo: Warbrick
Solitaire Wave
2007-10-23 06:35:30
Far offshore, somewhere close to nowhere, a royal blue cathedral arcs, unridden but far from unappreciated.
Photo: Jason Murray
Freedom to dive into deep blue sea
Freedom to live my life as me, I feel free…
Free to be just me, peace and harmony,
Everybody singing freedom.
Freedom
Freedom
Just the birds, the fish and the sea…
Freedom to dive into deep blue sea.
© Beau Young (surfer, singer/songwriter, 2001 World Longboard Champ)
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Ben Dunn deep in the tube - Mentawais
2007-11-06 06:42:56
Ben Dunn keeps one eye on some non-submerged coral spikes next to the landing Maybes lip, and other on the large bald photographer flying past his melon in the tube. All part off day’s work in the world’s most remote surf zone, the Mentawais.
Photo: David Sparkes
Stephanie Gilmore Surfs Too Good
2007-11-09 07:59:03
Born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales in 1988, Stephanie
Gilmore first surf board was a 5′9 Local Knowledge bought from a second hand furniture shop. She learned to surf at 9 or 10 at Kingscliff, then with improvement moved up to the legendary points at Snapper Rocks and Greenmount.
Stephanie Gilmore is the most talked about athlete in women’s surfing. Still a teenager and a first-year rookie on the ASP World Tour, Steph has already done more than most of us can dream…
‘Steph surfs too good for her own good,’ observed Curren. ‘She surfs like a guy,’ observed everyone else. Weeks later, Steph went on to ring the Bell and slide into no1 spot on the Women’s WCT, her rookie season.
Photo: Warbrick
Petition to stop British Airways Surfboards Ban
2007-11-07 05:57:51
The British
Surfing Association has launched an online petition to reverse the British Airways
decision to ban the carriage of surfboards in their flights.
This decision will force many surfers around the world to use other airlines in their journey for the perfect wave.
Surfers are urged to take the following steps to help us lobby British Airways to reverse their decision:
1) Sign the online petition to stop BA surfboards ban;
2) If you have a Facebook account, join the Facebook British Airways Surfboard Ban group;
3) Register a complaint with BA directly;
4) Encourage all other surfers to follow these steps.
This online petition means that people all over the world can add their support to this campaign and can add their personal comments about the issue. Please take action now!
Morocco Surf Sun and Cool Beaches
2007-11-15 05:38:08
Be prepared for this winter season! Morocco
fires in the winter months. Its point breaks are something to behold and mostly uncrowded. Security is a bit of concern so it’s best to have a companion, also they can share the driving as you head down further south to find so many secret and even unsurfed spots.
Greg Long performs his morning duties inside a beautifully-designed Moroccan temple.
Photo: Jason Murray
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Surfing Movie Step Into Liquid
2007-12-01 12:19:06
This documentary directed by Dana Brown smashes any preconceptions that the surfing community mostly comprises buff blondes and hardbodies. Zigzagging from the waters off Ireland to Da Nang in Vietnam and Oahu’s ripping North Shore, Step into Liquid
profiles the diverse and fascinating characters who have devoted their lives to catching the perfect wave.
Step into Liquid captures some of the most extreme sports adventures I’ve ever seen on DVD. The 66 foot waves in one section alone explores the incredible power of the ocean, harnessed by a surfboard and an extremely talented surfer.
“In 2003, at a spot on Maui called Jaws, a surfer rode the largest wave so far - 70 feet. Meanwhile, the search is on as elite surfers around the world attempt to be the first to ride a 100-foot wave!” ~Drew Kampion, Waves
Step into Liquid is a wild and exhilarating experience that will leave you longing for the beach and thinking about grab a surfboard, even if you never tried
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Surfing Giant Waves in Chile
2007-12-02 12:34:57
Waves like the foothills of the Andes - Chile size and thunder in the afternoon. The biggest day of the year in Punta de Lobos. Ramon Navarro on the wave, Cristian Merelo on the ski - just two surfers out and 100 surfers on land.
Photo: Alfredo Escobar
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, Waves
Surfing Christmas: 12 Yule Tide Classics
2007-12-20 11:20:48
If you are sick and tired of the age old Christmas
classics, and you like that groovy guitar rock sound of the 50’s and 60’s you will find this Christmas alternative very refreshing.
This Wave Benders compilation includes 12 wave-pounding and rockin’ Christmas Classics
performed with 50’s and 60’s vintage guitars and amps. You will also dig the sound of strings, theremin and some excellent percussion sounds from the glockenspiel and wave drum.
Join the Wave Benders in this groovy & rockin’ musical Christmas smorgasboard. It’s a fun and high energy alternative to the solemn traditional Christmas classics. Surfing
Christmas: 12 Yule Tide Classics.
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