Over a year ago, Robbie Maddison made his dream of riding his dirtbike on the ocean a reality. Since then, he’s spent his time perfecting his bike and working towards a bigger goal: riding some of the biggest waves in the world. We set out to the legendary “Killers” break off of Isla Todo Santos to ride with Robbie as he attempted to catch 30+ foot waves.
This was a pretty gnarly video. It’s amazing what the guys can accomplish with a few days of good waves. A couple of noteworthy moments are the kick flip attempts montage; that was the beginning of a challenge to land one re-entry, Blair’s backside 3’s re-entry were some of the first that he had landed and Rothe’s bigspin starting at 1:01: he started that wave by dropping switch and doing a switch bigspin on the sand and carrying the speed for that one.
Regrettably I missed the first part of the ride and I still remember it 5 years later as one of the sickest combos I’ve seen.
The 2014 DB Skimboards Pro/AM took place on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Dash Point, in Federal Way, Washington. To the surprise of no one Isaac Thomas took the pro division win again with his brother Josiah Thomas taking first in the amateur division. Bree Staab won the women’s division and Reed Shumpert won the amateur division.
We went down to the frigid waters of South Australia last weekend for the Sun Zapper Knights Beach Pro presented by the Alexandrina Council. With what was looking like an armageddon like storm front hitting on Sunday morning the call was made to run the entire event on the Saturday.
Kicking things off early in clean 3 foot left wedges the pro men’s took to the water. Early standouts included local legends Jasper Ashmoore, Marshall Watson alongside the usual Kyle Ward, Lachlan Cramsie and Liam Lucas. In the end Lachlan Cramsie battled the rainstorm in the final and took the win over an impressive Liam Lucas.
With that win, Lachlan Cramsie secured enough overall points to charge ahead of his 2017 rival Kyle Ward and take the 2017 ABA Title for his second time round.