Just in time for the holidays, the 2012 Miss Reef calendar is here. This post isn’t so much a promotion for the new calendar as it is an excuse to show off the 3 minute promotional video along with showing 20 or so photos, both featuring some of the lovely Miss Reef women. More
According to Tracks Magazine, Mick Fanning won’t be competing at the last event of the 2011 ASP World Tour which is the highly anticipated Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons. Unlike most of the world’s top surfers, Fanning still hasn’t traveled to Hawaii for the winter surf season and is still at home in New South Wales, Australia. The reason for Mick’s withdrawal is an apparent neck injury. More
Another year of surfing, filming, editing, and voting has taken place in Taylor Steele’s Innersection project. Now that all the final sections are locked in, it’s time to for the premiere. Last year, New York was lucky enough to host the world premiere of Innersection. Unfortunately for us, this year’s world premiere will be in Hawaii. Not to worry because New York has two screenings happening this week. More
Instagram, have you heard of it? Probably. If not, it’s simple. Instagram is an app for your phone that allows you to take a photo, add some artsy looking filters, and upload it to the internet. Pro surfers, photographers, writers, everyone and anyone is using it these days and some of the photos are pretty rad. Some of them, not all of them. Of course, you can get on Instagram and follow a ton of people and have to deal with seeing the not-so-rad photos, but why not let me do that work for you? Every couple of days I’ll round up what I think are the better photos of the bunch and compile them all into one post for your viewing pleasure. Instagram Stoke. This is the first one, enjoy. More
There won’t be any waiting to find out when and where all 11 stops of the 2012 ASP World Tour will be because the full schedule was released yesterday. There are some changes from the past year. Most notably, the addition of the Volcom Pro Fiji, the absences of a Rip Curl Pro Search event, and….the Quiksilver Pro New York 2012. More
When surfer, writer, and once editor of SURFER Magazine, Matt Warshaw wrote the Encyclopedia of Surfing in 2003, the internet was nowhere near what it is today so publishing it in book form made total sense – and that’s what he did. Jump almost ten years later to today and the physical book is becoming obsolete. The internet is huge and it’s become very easy for almost anyone to create and read all sorts of content online. Instead of letting the Encyclopedia of Surfing become just another dust collector on someone’s bookshelf, Matt has set out to totally digitize EOS and make it available on the web. With the help of the rest of the internet the project is in full swing and I was able to ask Matt some questions about the whole thing. More
The current official world record for largest wave ever surfed is held by Mike Parsons who tackled a 77 foot wave at Cortes Bank back in 2008. Hawaiian big wave surfer, Garrett McNamara is looking to take that record from Parsons with, what is said to be, a 90 foot wave he rode last week in Portugal. Videos below. More
Just because it’s November it doesn’t mean that Hurricane Season is over. Although activity during this time of year is rare there are still 22 days before the season ends. Last week we saw a pretty heavy nor’easter roll through the area which is usual for this time of year. The storm did quite a lot of damage in the Northeast but it also brought some real good waves. This week we’ve got the 18th named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Sean, making his way up the Atlantic. More
