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Surfing Legend Greg ‘Da Bull’ Noll, 84, Passed Away at his Home in California Yesterday

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  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Noll Surfboards (@nollsurfboards) Surfing legend Greg “Da Bull” Noll passed away peacefully yesterday. He was 84. According to an Instagram post from his son’s surf company, Noll Surfboards, Greg died of natural causes. Related: El Salvador’s Top Surfer Dead At 22 After Being Struck By Lightning Noll was one […]

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SwellBrains | June 29, 2021
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VIDEO: Miguel Tudela Surfs Monstrous Sea-Eating Waves

“This Would Have Been The Wave Of The Decade, Easily.” -Michael Ciaramella of stabmag.com (original source) The demon-breath spits coming out of these massive tubes would vaporize a weaker man, yet Tudela sends them with amplitude. As Ciaramella says: “Miguel Tudela has tiger blood.”

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Elliot Levey | June 5, 2020
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New ‘World Record’ Wave Surfed in Nazare?

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Ian Chandler | December 21, 2018
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Anthony ‘Tazy’ Tashnick BIG WAVE Surfing Mavericks, CA

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Ryan Hollow | December 21, 2018
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Huge Ocean Swell Sets “Remarkable” World Record

The World Meteorological Organization has recently recorded the largest ocean swell ever measured by buoy in the North Atlantic Ocean. The swell was 19 meters (62.3 ft), and occurred between the U.K. and Iceland during a strong cold front passing through the region on February 4th, 2013. The swell was measured by the K5 buoy, a tool that is no secret to Scottish surfers and […]

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Sergei Poljak | December 15, 2016
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VIDEO: Big Wave Surfing on Skis

As skiers, we’ve probably all thought of it…Places we wish we could ski but due to technology at the time period are unable to.  For example, the Valhalla Forest Segment, or even simply wanting to ski a line but your gear isn’t good enough to get you there.  Luckily that wasn’t the case for Chuck Patterson.  After watching Mike Douglas […]

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Keenan Grady | May 27, 2016
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SnowBrains Asks Skier Chuck Patterson: “Will Wave-Skiing Catch On?”

Learn all about Chuck Patterson’s wave skiing experience in this video The folks here at SnowBrains have been friends with Chuck Patterson for a long time.  He’s an absolute athletic beast.  Chuck has spent big chunks of his life in Tahoe, but the ocean is where his heart is.  Chucks’s been a professional skier, snowboarder, kite surfer, wind surfer, regular […]

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