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Facing Your Fears…
Something that has truly domesticated the human race
How 2 Shoot A Water Shot And Line-up Shot
with Timo and Alex Laurel
ROTARY CLUB
How to do grab-rail roundhouse cutbacks like Jeremy Flores.
Summer Jobs
Eight employment avenues worth exploring this summer if your broke ass wants to stay wet.
The Simple Way to Better Surfing
Why do you surf? Take a minute to answer this properly. You are now half way to improving because you know what your driving force is. Now, what do you want out of reading this? You now have purpose, something you should paddle out with every day.
Small Nail, Big Hammer
Guess what? Not every radical surfer in the world is built like a 12-year-old ballerina. Peter Mendia is one such robustly built human who knows that good surfing can be as much about throwing down powerfully executed basics as lofty aeronautics. Perhaps it might not be overly presumptuous of us to suggest that you too might be somewhat more likely to be attempting a big clean face turn next session yourself than launching some kind of flip that hasn’t been named yet? Read on.
Roof Dance
Gony Zubizarreta’s forehand floater re-entry... The floater re-entry is a good move to have in your locker for several reasons. They feel good, they look good, they’re not as hard to do as Kerr-upt Flips or BS Alley-oops, they can make for great watershots and give all important versatility to your surfing. Not as risky as a full on lip detonation, you can still carry your speed through the move, land right in the pocket and go straight into another.
Signing Off
It can be like being in a 24-hour petty station late at night trying to decide between the Snickers, Mars, Twix, Lion Bar or Boost… and then suddenly the Toffee Crisp comes into the equation. Not easy.
Controlled Pumping
Maybe you’re planning a mission to Indo this summer, maybe Mundaka in the autumn. Wherever you’re going, so long as tube time remains surfing’s Holy Grail, good pumping skills will always separate the men from the boys. Eric Rebiere takes you through this encounter with a Nokanduis bomb.
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.
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’.
Join the Fins-Free Club
There are loads of variations of this turn, in fact the very best surfers can do several of em in a row and vary each one slightly each time. The important part is busting those fins out of the top of the lip, your message to surfers in the line-up is, ‘Say Hi to these guys.’
Irie Roundhouse Carve
Trends come and go in surfing, some moves might be en vogue for a few seasons, then fall out of favour as board designs, fashions and surfers themselves change. The roundhouse carve does not fall into this category. Get this right, and you’ll have universal respect no matter where or when you pull it, no matter what your craft. The roundhouse carve is a basic human essential like food, clothing, shelter and good lovin’. You’ll start doing your first forehand cutbacks shortly after learning to bottom turn and pump down the line, and if you put enough practice in, you’ll be jammin’ irie roundhouses just like Appas in no time.
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