This episode of Behind the Curtain heads to Kirra on the Gold Coast of Queensland (Australia) where pro-surfer Mick Fanning, and many other great tuberiders, call home. We meet local surf filmer Craig Halstead and get an insight into why Kirra is one of the key barrel locations featured in the soon to be released surf film, “iON the Barrel presented by Carlton Dry.”
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First episode : Who is Leonoardo?
We meet 16 year-old Italian surfer, Leonardo Fioravanti, one of the best junior surfers in the world and has the personality to match. He has travelled the world surfing perfect waves, speaks four languages fluently,…
11 times ASP World Champion and surfing legend Kelly Slater paddles alone in Nazare during the Peniche Rip Curl Pro waiting period.
In October 2005, Liz Clark sailed out of the Santa Barbara harbor. She was alone and she was going to sail around the world. Almost two years later, not long after she crossed the Pacific in her Cal 40, Swell, I had the good fortune of climbing aboard with Liz to adventure through some remote islands in French Polynesia. We scored legitimately perfect waves with nobody around, caught dinner off the side of the boat and were gifted black pearls by locals. It was, in fact, paradise — coconuts and all. Two weeks later I … More