Swell Saturdays: US Open of Surfing Highlight Video | Skate Ramp Airs @ Huntington Beach, CA To be brutally honest, the US Open of Surfing is often kind of a lowlight. There usually isn’t much swell and you find the best surfers in the world surfing very average everyday summer SoCal conditions. This year, the conditions were still ‘everyday’, but there was swell. Many set waves were head high and had the classic skate ramp form […] Surf SwellBrains | July 27, 2013 1 Comment
Kelly Slater on Brian Gumbel’s Real Sports (HBO Sports) Kelly Slater is Earth’s best surfer and he’s from Florida which has some of the world’s worst surf. Anyone who surfs wants to get into his head a bit more and figure out how he became who he is. I know I do. I’m such a kook that I bought his board and his fins last year just in case […] Surf SwellBrains | July 22, 2013 3 Comments
Swell Saturdays: Roxy Girls Surf the World’s Best Artificial Wave The perfect artificial wave has been a dream since surfing first came to California in 1907. In it’s actualization, it’s been hit and miss. Mostly miss. Wavegarden in Northern Spain has come the closest to making a great, rip-able wave. The form of the wave is there, it’s just a touch small. If they could make this exact same wave […] Surf SwellBrains | July 20, 2013 1 Comment
Shark Proof Wetsuit SAMS (Shark Attack Mitigation Systems) has reportedly come up with 2 wetsuit designs that will keep sharks off ya when you’re surfing. Sounds good to us. How do they work? They have 2 designs. One design warns the shark that you are there via bright black and white strips, the other goes with blue camouflage that hides your existence. The […] Surf SwellBrains | July 19, 2013 2 Comments
Swell Saturdays: Patagonia Athletes Charging in Big Cloudbreak, Fiji “Spring means the South Pacific starting to churn out swell, and Kohl Christensen and Dan Ross head to Fiji to score pumping Cloudbreak pits in the seventh episode of the Deep Water series. Other surfers include Aca Ravulo Lalabalavu, Gadiel Hottenstein and Patagonia kite ambassador Reo Stevens. For earlier episodes, see the Deep Water page here: deepwatersurf.com.” – Patagonia Fiji’s […] Surf SwellBrains | July 13, 2013 1 Comment
Glacier Wave Surfing in Alaska “It was the closest I’ve ever come to death. I wanted to go home after the first day” “I was up to my neck in water, looking up at this 90-meter tall glacier, waiting for the ice to break off and hoping that it’ll fall straight into the water — because if it falls flat you’ll be squashed under it.” […] Surf SwellBrains | July 12, 2013 3 Comments
River Surfing – Finding the Longest Rides in the World Surfing river waves has been around for a long time. Kayakers will tell you they’ve been catching waves in their play boats for years. But for most of us, the idea of surfing rivers on a surfboard is relatively new. But all over the world, often right in heart of urban areas like Montreal, Canada or Munich, Germany the sport […] Surf D’Arcy McLeish | July 10, 2013 5 Comments
“Surf the Ganges” India Photo Slide Show | Kings Beach, CA Tomorrow Night, July 10th Local Lake Tahoe professional photographer Ryan Salm will be showing off his best photos from his 2013 trip to the Ganges River in India during one of India’s largest holy festivals. Ryan and a few friends stand up paddleboarded down the Ganges River through this enormous festival and the images and stories they have are priceless. If you’ve never been […] Surf SwellBrains | July 9, 2013 1 Comment
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