A day of anthology at Basse-Pointe on Saturday for the last day of Martinique Surf Pro! The best surfers in the world competed on the « pointoise » wave and the Barbadian Chelsea Tuach and the Italian Leonardo Fioravanti won this MSP 2018
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Back in February, Balaram Stack, Luke Davis, Jake Kelley, Nicola Lugo, Oliver Kurtz and Layne Stratton saw a swell with all-time potential festering off the coast of Caribbean Panama. They booked tickets with the hope of scoring Panama’s beachies and even Silverbacks-the mystic right slab.
It’s a sign of the times that seemingly all surf shops must now come equipped with a Slayer espresso machine operated by a pretentious barista. No longer contented to simply fondle a few handshapes and leave with a bar of wax, surfers—particularly urban-based surfers—also need an exotically sourced pour-over from a third-wave coffee purveyor and a selection of artisanal baked goods, while they scope out new surf crafts.
It’s clear that the needs of surfers have evolved quite a bit since the post-war years of Kivlin, Quigg and company, content to eat canned meats and retire to improvisational thatched-roof shelters after hours of riding waves on the North Shore. Today, it seems … More
A 10 minute flurry of moments that didn’t make it into the final cut of ‘The Seawolf’.
Surfing by Chippa Wilson, Pete Devries, Noah Cohen and Noah Wegrich