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May 9th, 2012

Injured Kelly Slater Gets Shacked At Burleigh Heads

Despite pulling out of the Billabong Rio Pro this week due to a heel injury, Kelly Slater was on the Gold Coast getting barreled the last few days at Burleigh Heads.  

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April 23rd, 2012

Wilko Freak

If you’re not already you should definitely be following Matt Wilkinson’s blog Out2Brunch.com.

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April 4th, 2012

Rip Curl Pro Bells Day 2 Highlights and Photos

Another day completed of the second stop on the 2012 ASP World Tour. Once again I missed out on most of the live action since it’s right around when I leave work so if you’re like me this post will…

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April 3rd, 2012

Taj’s Pre Bells Freesurf

As with most all the contests, the pros usually show up to the event area a week or so before the start and get some free surfing in. Here’s Taj Burrow doing exactly that.

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April 3rd, 2012

Rip Curl Pro Bells Day 1 Highlights and Photos

Day 1 of Bells is in the books. In clean 3 to 4 foot surf the women were in the water first and ran through the entire first round.  The men got it started later in the day and made…

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April 2nd, 2012

Rip Curl Pro Bells is Live

It’s already tomorrow in Australia which means it’s the first day of the waiting period for the 2012 Rip Curl Pro Bells. As per the 7am call it looks like the women will be first in the water to kick…

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April 2nd, 2012

Quiksilver’s Byron Bay Holiday Apartments

Quiksilver’s cruel April Fools joke about building an underwater hotel in Torquay, Victoria, Australia was extremely disappointing (yeah I fell for it), but it’s not actually too far from the truth. No, just to clear up rumors, Quiksilver is NOT…

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March 30th, 2012

Rip Curl Pro Bells Heat Match-Ups

The waiting period for the 2012 Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach in Australia runs from April 3rd to April 14th. The forecasts are already starting to show some significant swell on the horizon which means that this year could be one…

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March 28th, 2012

R.I.P. Michael Peterson

Legendary Australian surfer, who was once known as the best surfer in the world, sadly passed away today at the age of 59 due to a heart attack.

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March 19th, 2012

Walking The Cow

Duncan McNicol, Warren Smith and Rangi Ormond get a little surf in at the Wreck in Byron Bay Australia. The song selection and the effect filter gives this video that artsy feel like something you would find on Dane Reynolds’ site.

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March 19th, 2012

Taj Burrow Summer Solstice

Taj Burrow at home in Western Australia at 300 frames per second you say? Yes, please.

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March 16th, 2012

Three Days with Mitch Coleborn

Mitch Coleborn doing his thing at home in Australia.

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March 12th, 2012

The Underwater Project

Other than surfing and bodysurfing one of my favorite things about being in the ocean is doing duckdives and swimming around underwater. Australian photographer Mark Tipple set out to capture amazing moments that happen underwater and created The Underwater Project. Most all…

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March 12th, 2012

Brett Simpson and the Hobgoods in Australia

With most of the world’s best over in Australia for the first two events of the 2012 ASP World Tour there’s a decent amount of down time between the Snapper and Bells events. What better to do with downtime then…

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March 6th, 2012

Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast Final Recap

The first official world tour event of the year finished off with a surprising twist to an otherwise uneventful contest. Snapper’s crumbly, mushy conditions last week hardly made for a great show and after three lay days, the contest finally…

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November 16th, 2011

Wipeout Wednesday XXL Edition

Bradley Norris of Perth, Western Australia gets worked at “The Right”. This video is in the running for the Verizon Wipeout of the Year in the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards.

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November 3rd, 2011

Massive Shipstern Bluff

This wave is insane and the guys who charge it are even more insane. It’s cold. It’s heavy. It’s mean. And, it’s unpredictable. This video from October 26th does a real good job of capturing all these things and showing…

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August 25th, 2011

Green Machine

Australian filmmaker Simon Treweek got some good footage of Mikey Brennan at Shipsterns Bluff and put together this cool little edit.

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June 15th, 2011

LastNameFirst: Wizards of Oz

Brothers Alex and Koa Smith have started their own blog called LastNameFirst.tv and it’s pretty solid. Here’s a little clip they put together of an epic day of shacks somewhere in Australia.

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May 11th, 2011

One Day… One Slay… Part 3

The third part to the One Day… One Slay… mini series by Nicholas Damen is here. The first 2 videos were great but this one might be my favorite. Jack Lynch does some fluid longboarding over some smooth jazz type music….

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