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June, 2006
Air Flair
Aerial 360’s are so this year. Seriously, all of us here in the office are doing them all the time. Nowadays, if you want to be taken seriously as an all-round ripper, towing into 100ft Belharra and backdooring triple overhead tube sections at Mundaka switch still aren’t enough to really cut it with the best – you need to have a pretty sharp aerial attack too.
Posted on June 29, 2006 @ 4:32 PM
Josh Ward
Not really one for encounters of the coloured jersey, Josh Ward prefers to spend his time free-surfing for photos, or lifeguarding at Chapel Porth near his home in St Agnes, Cornwall. ‘I work the summer season here to save up,’ Josh explains, ‘And then it’s off to warmer climes in the autumn.’
Posted on June 22, 2006 @ 4:52 PM
Eurojem: El Quemao
The bottom at Quemao is an urchin super colony; evil black spiky things literally cover the reef, so try to stay off it. Also, there’s a crew of gnarly local ju-jitsu bodyboarders who train at the gym overlooking El Quemao and absolutely charge the place.
Posted on June 16, 2006 @ 4:36 PM
Blackwater I and II (also named May Dayz)
Two Teahupoo action/documentaries. Blackwater will get you stuck to your sofa and make you feel lucky to be there, safe. Mindblowing history of infamous Tahitian break. May Dayz is all about those two epic days in May 2005.
Posted on June 14, 2006 @ 11:12 AM
Hugues Oyarzabal
Originating from the frontier town of Biriatou, Hugues learned to surf at the nearby beach of Hendaye, and soon developed a taste for all types of waves, “I’m always looking to try different things. I hate the idea of having a surf routine. For example, I’ll surf a single fin at Lafiténia one day, boost airs at a beachbreak another, or take a gun and go to Guéthary or somewhere. I like mixing it up.”
Posted on June 10, 2006 @ 4:55 PM
Passion Pop
The best of Billabong’s red hot new Aussie generation (Wade Goodall, Luke Dorrington, Laurie Towner, Bede Durbidge, Shaun Cansdell) and South African ripper Jordy Smith put on a display of rad contemporary surfing.
Posted on June 10, 2006 @ 3:47 PM
Options, DVD Mag Vol. 1.
A very intelligent, new and original way of doing a magazine. The footage is really good - no 16mm arty stuff, but just pure hardcore action. Australia’s finest (Fanning, Parko, Dingo as well as hottest upcomers Shaun Cansdell, Josh Kerr, Jay Thompson, Ryan Hipwood, Luke Dorrington, Jay Phillips, etc.) at the best spots (Kirra, Snapper, The Box, North Point, the North Shore). What you would expect from a really good magazine.
Posted on June 08, 2006 @ 11:14 AM
Turn Retrosexual
OK, so you grew yourself a beard and learned to strum a few chords on the axe. You bought some vintage jeans, cool retro tee’s and stuff. You probably got hold of an old Super 8 cine camera and started ‘documenting life’.
Posted on June 06, 2006 @ 2:52 PM
All-Season Quiver
Gabriel Davies leads a pretty charmed life. He’s got a nice house with novelist wife Lauren about a two-minute drive from the ocean on the golf course in Seignosse, south west France, and when he’s not surfing or hanging out with Kelly Slater on the North Shore or in France, he’s probably towing in to big peaks outside Estagnots or hollow lefts in Ireland, or running his successful surf coaching venture, Surf Solutions. Gabe talked us through some of his current quiver favourites.