For two years, the crew of 3 Minute Gaps followed the world’s best mountain bike racers around the globe. Featuring Gee Atherton, Sam Hill, Aaron Gwin, Sam Blenkinsop, Brendan Fairclough, Greg Minnaar, Andrew Neethling, Danny Hart, Matti Lehikoinen, Ben Reid, Josh Bryceland.
The boys headed to South Africa with plans to take Pure Darkness to the next level. The result – Darkfest. Nico Vink, Clemens ‘C-Dawg’ Caudela and Sam Reynolds spent a month at the PD site refreshing the original step up and ‘small’ line, as well as building a new line (aka the twisty wizard). Nico and Clemens are the 2 most experienced builders in the scene, they killed it!! Andreu Lecondeguy, Cam Zink, Graham Aggasiz, Kurt Sorge, Adolf Silva, Kyle Jameson and Ethan Nel joined them (along with the media team of course) for 2 weeks of insane riding and good times!
Big-wave surfing has become ingrained in European surf culture — epitomized in 2011, when Garrett McNamara set a world record for surfing a 78-foot monster at Nazaré, Portugal. In light of Nazaré being added to the 2016/2017 Big Wave Tour, we explored other European big waves and the hazards surfers face tackling these vast mountains of water.
The rococo brilliance of a cresting wave that lures us in the larger it becomes is deceptive. You’re unlikely to be attacked by a shark, yet you’ve still got plenty of hazards (as ever when surfing big waves) in Europe … More