We load up from Newcastle and head for Glencoe national DH champs, before visiting Scotland’s best riding scene -The East Coast and some semi secret trails.
Kyle Thiermann talks about his go-to cold water surf trip essentials.
“Anything is possible.” That’s what Cliff Kapono learned from Larry Bertlemann when Kapono was growing up on the Big Island of Hawaii, discovering his influences and laying the groundwork for his own approach in the water.
For Kapono, Bertlemann was style incarnate, but just as important as his approach to surfing was, the fact that he was a Hawaiian defining radical surfing at the time was of equal importance. While most surfers Kapono’s age looked to modern reference points like Kelly Slater and the Momentum Generation, Kapono found a deeper inspiration in the history of Hawaiian surfing, and in characters like Bertlemann, who showed him that there was truly no limit to what he could do in the water.
Kapono has applied Bertlemann’s “Anything is possible” philosophy to more than just surfing, seeking excellence not only in the lineup, but in higher education, which lead to Kapono attaining a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, earlier this year.
2018 French National Championships Downhill Finals was a wet and wild affair! Gaetan Vige taking the win in the men’s field and Fiona Ourdouille in the womens.