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September, 2006
Groms Surf
You’re 15 and you wanna know how good you are on a world level? Do you want your little brother to rock the top ranks in a few years? This is your vid. Top groms from Hawaii & USA, not a great wave variety and a lot of burgers and small waves, but still a cool video for your lil’ bro.
Posted on September 28, 2006 @ 4:04 PM
Sol Sirens
A bunch of beautiful ladies hit the road and travel the world surfing some of its best spots. You might have heard of Daize Shayne and Cassia Meador, but other than that most of the surfers are lesser-known. Not really that strong on action, it’s more of a girl’s travel documentary than a surf vid. But if you like checking out girls in bikinis jumping off boats, paddling out etc, this should do the job.
Posted on September 23, 2006 @ 4:00 PM
Jean-Jacques Billard
Getting here: I started surfing when I was 12 in Rio de Janeiro. My mum’s Brazilian and my dad’s French. My mum used to surf so that’s how I got into it. Then my parents split up and I came to France with my mum in 1996. Initially we moved to Paris but I hated it there and the following year I moved back to Brazil to live with my dad for a year.
Posted on September 23, 2006 @ 12:33 PM
Alan Stokes’ Mixtape
Alan Stokes shares a little bit of his aural pleasure...
Posted on September 17, 2006 @ 3:46 PM
Eurojem: The Peak, Bundoran, Ireland
Situated 100 yards offshore from the town centre of Bundoran in Donegal Bay, the Peak is also one of the most visible and accessible waves in Ireland. Bundoran is one of Ireland’s most popular tourist resorts, with a small local population that swells dramatically on weekends and in summer.
Posted on September 14, 2006 @ 12:42 PM
Nicolau von Rupp
This may all sound a bit familiar, a young German goofyfoot from Portugal, sponsored by Quiksilver, causing a stir in the Juniors… Nicolau von Rupp’s story so far sounds remarkably similar to a certain M. Lipke’s. He’s another one of those Euro golden boys, whose parents of mixed nationalities moved to a warm, wavey part of the Continent to breed rippers.
Posted on September 12, 2006 @ 3:58 PM
THE DREAM TOUR
The greatest season in pro surfing history, including Fanning’s comeback victory at Snapper, Kelly’s magic at Chopes, ‘Perfect Storm’ conditions in Fiji, close calls at J-Bay and Trestles, epic France and an emotional climax at Pipeline. Plus mental free-surfing between events, Slats’ 7th title.
Posted on September 12, 2006 @ 3:54 PM
First of Many
There’s a little spot up the coast that we know about that always comes alive at this time of the year. There’s a tiny bay next to a bigger bay. Separating the two bays is a big rock out to sea with a few smaller rocks on the inside and then a gap.
Posted on September 12, 2006 @ 3:17 PM
Dodging the Horns
The last days of Warren Bolster were marked by a flurry of energy and ideas. Calls to editors. Book projects. Photo concepts. A trip to Puerto Escondido. He was riding an artistic high. At the same time, they were filled with pain and anxiety. He’d been rear-ended in his car by another vehicle, aggravating injuries that had plagued him for years. He was broke. Depressed. In pain. “I’m so very poor and worse,” he wrote in a late email to his former Surfer Magazine boss and current Surfers Journal publisher Steve Pezman shortly before his death. “Lowest in 40 years. Sad, very sad. I’ll send you an ear or something.”
Posted on September 10, 2006 @ 9:31 AM
POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE
Surf the islands (Tahiti, Indonesia, Hawaii) with Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, Jamie O’Brien, Dean Morrisson, Mick Fanning, CJ Hobgood, red hot Balinese locals plus a handful of other worldclass surfers in worldclass spots.