Video Surfing Boarding – PIRATE SURF PARADISE – Video and Music by Quinn Haber. Pipeline footage from Dec. 2008. Waves were 10 foot with 13 foot sets, consistent and uncrowded. A session like that will make you levitate
The finalists for this year’s Red Bull Junior Surf Masters Final presented by Mick Fanning were decided in clean contestable surf at North Cronulla today, with just ten of the 24 qualifiers advancing into the main event tomorrow.
Attended by 2009 ASP World Champion Mick Fanning (Tweed Heads, NSW), the trials saw determined performances from Australia’s top emerging junior surfers with Tamaroa McComb (Coolangatta, QLD), Noah Lane (Rainbow Beach, QLD), Ty Watson (Currorong, NSW), Dane Atchison (Copacabana, NSW), Cooper Chapman (North Narrabeen, NSW), David Vlug (NSW), Mitch Crews (QLD), Brett Burcher, Sam Lendrum (Nords Wharf, NSW) and Jake Sylvester (Coolangatta, QLD) advancing into the main event… Details
WITH a fringe of blond hair sticking out from beneath his hoodie, 19-year-old Nate Johnstone looks like he should be carving through the waves at his home break at Mona Vale, on Sydney’s northern beaches, rather than carving up snow in the half-pipe.
But Johnstone’s path from Sydney led not to the ocean but to the mountains and he has emerged as Australia’s hottest male snowboarding prospect just in time for February’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
His father’s best mate lured the family to the snow when he was a child and Johnstone never left, at least in his mind.
He learned to ride a snowboard at 10, not long after the discipline made its Olympic debut in Nagano in 1998, and was quickly identified as an outstanding prospect.
Surfing Thailand is a totally different vibe to most places. Below I will give you the closest experience on how to plan your surf trip, what to expect and not to expect.
Surfing Thailand is a totally different vibe to most places. Below I will give you the closest experience on how to plan your surf trip and what to expect and not to expect.