Here’s a video I put together with the boys to welcome the rainy season. Most of it was shot in Bali this time around due to lack of a travel budget, excluding a sneaky afternoon session at Yoyo’s thanks to a little trip Mumsy paid for. Special thanks to Chris Bryan for the Phantom Cam water shots and Carlo Coral for stitching everything together. I hope you dig it. – Lee Wilson
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Big wave surfers are the most well trained athletes in the world. Riding water giants is, above all, an extreme physical challenge. How do they prepare their bodies for the powerful forces of Mother Nature?
It’s all in the brain, but you can’t be a big wave surfer without strengthening your body for the most difficult mind games. To paddle or not to paddle? Eddie would go, but … More
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The Nazaré Canyon is responsible for delivering the biggest surfable waves of all time. We took a dive into the abyss.
It was explored for the first time, in the early 20th century, by the Portuguese oceanographers of Missao Hidrografica. We’re talking about an undersea canyon, located off the coast of Nazaré, in Portugal.
With a maximum depth of … More
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Nov. 4, 2013 – Contest organizers have made the call to run the 2013 O’Neill Coldwater Classic invitational on Wednesday (11/6) and Thursday (11/7), the first two days of the four-day contest holding period, to take
advantage of the surf size and favorable conditions Official Forecaster Surfline has predicted. The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Specialty Event will see 16 unsponsored surfers battle for a $50,000 grand prize winner-takes-all yearlong sponsorship package. The heat draw will be determined in a random draw during opening festivities at the East Side Eatery in Santa Cruz on Tuesday (11/5) night.
According to the Surfline Forecast Team: … More
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