The second installment of Kai Neville’s four-part Landscape Altered webisode. Landscape Altered documents the antics of surfers Mitch Coleborn, Clay Marzo, Jay Davies, Josh Kerr and Chippa Wilson as they punt their way around the Mentawai Islands, in the hope of landing the most spectacular aerial and the Kustom Air Strike winning prize of $50,000
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ASP World Tour leader Taj Burrow suffered a Round Three loss today at Praia da Villa, losing to South Africa’s Travis Logie in Round Three of the Billabong Pro Santa Catarina. The early round loss — his first since Portugal last year — leaves the door open for Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning and Jordy Smith to pounce
Slater looked solid on his pin tail while taking out Tanner Gudauskas. Though only a few solid waves came through during their late day match up, Slater made the most of his opportunities, surfing clean and fast  … Details
A 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and onto Durban’s South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand.At the end of the day, he’ll return his surfboard to a nearby community center and then curl up on a downtown sidewalk to sleep.
Wonder is among a dozen young black boys taking to the waves every day through a community group called Umthombo, which is coaching street kids in surfing and other sports to keep them off the street while providing counselling to find more lasting solutions to their problems … Details