Hiking up the Red Bull Rampage site is a feat in itself, the cliffs are steeps and the steeps are cliffs. The footings are loose and it’s easy to become solely focused on a sense of self preservation, but when you stop to catch your breath and look around, things come into perspective quickly. You start to see the tiny figures in the distance, dwarfed by the sheer size of the cliffs and camouflaged by the layers of dust they have become covered with as they try to mould the landscape. The silhouettes of pickaxe swinging workers that line the ridges against the hot sun are reminiscent of chain gangs, but with one major difference, these people have volunteered for these hours of manual labour. Friends, teammates, parents, siblings and girlfriends all have … Pictures and more
Surfing – Sally Fitzgibbon says the sport has transformed from lifestyle to elite fitness regime
GORGEOUS, tanned and extremely talented, life must be a breeze for surf champ Sally Fitzgibbons.
Exciting, fast paced and fun, yes, but it is anything but easy.
Like Gold Coasters Joel Parkinson, the reigning champion, and Mick Fanning, this year’s tour leader and a two-time world champion, Fitzgibbons has shattered the perception of professional surfing as a lifestyle sport.
The 22-year-old was a champion runner who won gold at a junior Olympics and has also represented her state and country at touch footy and soccer and insists … More
For the past six decades, paddlers have annually challenged the unpredictable and often-treacherous waters of the Kaiwi Channel, which separates Molokai and Oahu, to compete in the Molokai Hoe Molokai-to-Oahu outrigger canoe race, considered the world championship of outrigger canoe paddling for men.
Hoe is pronounced “ho-eh,” without a glottal stop. It’s the Hawaiian word for “paddle,” or “the act of paddling.”
The Molokai Hoe attracts teams from Hawaii and around the world—more than 1,000 paddlers in all—taking their single-hulled canoes on the 41-mile journey across one of the most challenging sea passages in the Islands .. More
A few Newport Summer sessions and hangouts with Ford Archbold.