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The first round of the 2012 British Longboard National Championships was held at Woolacombe Beach in North Devon over the weekend of the 21st and 22 nd April. The event was sponsored by Cook Island, Old Guy’s Rule with the event being supported by the National Trust, the BLU’s Environmental Partners.
Conditions on the Saturday were a crumbly 2ft and onshore, while not the best, it didn’t stop the 60 plus competitors producing some outstanding performances. Sunday produced … More
Maddy and Chloe find perfect peeling waves at Natadola Beach in Fiji
On August 27, 2011, the Billabong Pro Tahiti event on surfing’s World Tour was placed on hold due to a massive swell bearing down on the famed big-wave spot, Teahupoo. With forecasts calling for unprecedented surf, some of the greatest surfers in the world descended on the island to be in the water, despite a “Code Red” called by the Tahitian Coast Guard, which sought to keep everyone on shore. See the historic day through the eyes of two surfers — the young gun Laurie Towner and the veteran Dylan Longbottom — as they catch some of the biggest, most dangerous surf ever recorded, much of it captured with the super slow motion Phantom Camera for never-before-seen imagery.