SURFBOARDING has been a popular water sport in Cherating beach near Kuantan for many years.
The extreme sport attracts scores of teenagers to surf and ride the waves on a surfboard displaying their skills in balancing while manoeuvring within the waves.
In Cherating, the competition for body surfing was usually held during the monsoon season due to the strong waves and wind.
It’s a time when red flags are hung to warn visitors to stay away from the sea, but ironically, it’s the best time for the bodysurfers to take on the waves…. More info
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Cape Town, South Africa – Like a predator stalking his prey, Patrick Davids’s eyes rarely stray from the choppy green sea, and his radio is always at the ready.
While the assortment of sunbathers, swimmers, and surfers may not know his name, they know what he does and that one day they may owe him their lives.
Mr. Davids, or “Rasta” as he is better known, is a shark spotter who helped set up one of the world’s only shark-monitoring units along beaches in Cape Town, South Africa.
From a cramped beach hut, Davids has helped build up a network of full-time shark spotters on nine beaches, watching over one of the world’s most shark-infested shorelines.
Nearly seven years ago, the former …Â More info
Benjamin Sanchis looks like an ant on the face of the 60ft wave at Belharra in the Bay of Biscay.
Frozen in time, the picture shows the lip of the wave lurching forward threatening to crush the Frenchman with hundreds of tons of water.
But the 29-year-old professional surfer managed to avoid wiping-out and could earn a place in the history books for the ride.
The photo has won him a nomination for this year’s Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards – a contest normally dominated by locations in the Pacific Ocean.
The wave, which breaks over an offshore reef near …Â More info
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For years, the act of filming a surf movie has existed as a formulaic enterprise: record professional surfers in the world’s most coveted surfing lineups, add up-tempo soundtrack, maybe splice in some lifestyle b-roll, throw a ubiquitous and unnecessary release party, roll credits.
With little exception, the surf film as an artistic property has stood idly by while the genre has been co-opted by those with the belief that a surf film should serve more as an inducement to go surfing than a work of art.
The recent release of an independently produced Australian surf film, “Musica Surfica,†however, attempts to remedy that principle.
The film follows the collaboration of legendary surfer, writer and thinker Derek Hynd with world-renowned Australian classical musician Richard Tognetti, who is the artistic director …Â More info