Happy Father’s Day DAD!!! HAHA! Sorry for pulling this prank on you. I love you Dad! Please don’t try this. It was done in a safe enclosed area. I hope you had a great Father’s day with your Dad! Dad is always there no matter what. Thank you for protecting me against those bullies!
It won’t get any more pure – cliff diving directly off the cliff face is the motto in Portugal. São Miguel is the third of nine stops for the men in 2016, the second for the women. The cliff diving elite returned to this phenomenal volcanic archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to celebrate the World Series’ most pure venue. The crater walls of an almost perfectly round islet in the Azores archipelago some 1,400km west of the Portuguese mainland were the natural playground for the cliff diving elite during the season’s third stop. From spots called ‘snakehead’ and ‘kitchen’ the brave athletes dived directly off the cliff to hit the water at speeds of more than 85km/h only three seconds later. Only the more difficult dives of round 3 and 4 were executed on the platform due to the high degree of difficulty. An integral part of this prestigious series of competitions, the islet offshore from São Miguel hosted the 14 male and 9 female athletes for the fifth consecutive time this weekend.
It was Gary Hunt (GBR) who could defend his last year’s victory at the Azores. Andy Jones (USA) claimed the second place and Jonathan Paredes (MEX) completed the podium. In the women’s competition it was once again Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) who took first place in front of Lysanne Richard (CAN) in second and Ginger Huber (USA) in third.
It’s been called Mad Monday. Mega. Massive. Whatever. Though it wasn’t quite as mind-blowing as the June 2012 swell that sidelined the world tour and gave the big-wave elite a full day of prime air time, May 23 was still a day for the Cloudbreak history books. But not for all the best reasons.
You may recall that the day opened up with the near-drowning of big-wave ironman, Aaron Gold. The incident shook up Greg Long, Mark Healey, Francisco Porcella, and the other men who’d shown up for a piece of 20-foot Cloudbreak, but, as Gold would have expected, it didn’t stop them from regrouping and going. Lucky for us, filmer Jaiden Maclean was there with his drone, zipping the line-up all day.
There’s a certain sense of trepidation when being part of skate trips that involve things like jungle skatespots and skating central reservations in rivers of traffic, mopeds, monkeys and more. But when you hand select a crew with rippers such as Jimmy Cao, Alex Lawton and Dennis Durrant, Czech champ Maxim Habanec and English ATV Daryl Dominguez… there’s no shortage of epic adventure to be had. Follow the crew as they travel from South to North Vietnam in search of misadventure and new street spots ripe for shredding.