I just caught this story on Rag Trader talking about Billabong’s latest purchase. The guys on the Gold Coast have taken SDS and Jetty Surf from the General Pants Group. There’s no word on the …
Taylor Steele’s Rad Corona Film
Here’s a feel good clip to finish the day… Taylor Steele’s put together this rad video taken down the west coast of Mexico in a beat-up 1976 Winnebago. The film was shot for Corona and is just plain amazing. Chris Searle from …
Is Kelly Slater The Worlds Greatest Athlete?
Chris Mauro over at Yahoo7’s US site has got a rad editorial asking the very valid question, is Kelly Slater the worlds greatest athlete? After his win at Trestles on Saturday, almost 20 years to the day since Slats took out his first win, Mauro argues that he is. The article …
Etnies ‘A Day In The Life’ With Eric Ericson
Etnies have put together a rad little series of clips called ‘A Day In The Life’ featuring Eric Ericson. This is the first with the next two coming over the next few weeks. They’re made to show off a couple of the new styles Etnies are doing and be entertaining, …
Julian Wilson’s Oakley Dispatch Launch Party
Oakley held a party on the Gold Coast last Sunday for the launch of Julian Wilson’s version of the Dispatch. 400 people packed the venue for the unveiling – the new model features artwork by Wilson’s mum and the interchangeable icons on the side. Looks like …
Julian Wilson’s ‘Scratching the Surface’ Premiere Photos!
Last night was the Australian premiere in Sydney of Julian Wilson’s new film, Scratching the Surface. It was sponsored by Red Bull and held at Sunstudios. Tomo at Lifewithoutandy was kind enough to shoot through a few photos from what looked like a rad night. Check em out!
21st Century Digital Boy
One of the cooler things about surfing this year has been seeing Josh Kerr come into his own. You’d never have called him underrated – everyone knows how good he surfs – and with his own site, lotsa press and top billing on the Rusty team he’s sure not under the …
KS v AI All Over Again
If Andy and Kelly use their semi at the Billabong Pro to get all fired up for the rest of the year, it could be the best reason we’ve had so far to get back into the tour.
Stab Founder Sam McIntosh On Empire
Linc and Tim at Empire Ave have got an amazing feature together with the founder of Stab Magazine, Sam McIntosh. The article goes into the positive points of trying your own business, how Stab came about and the direction of the magazine. Despite all the …
Welcome To The Team Tim Fisher!
You might have seen last weeks wrap on Teahupoo by Tim Fisher but I just wanted to give him a quick shoutout and introduction. Tim was an amazing editor for ASL for quite a few issues and has been deep in surfing for decades… We met Tim through a mutual …
Bitch Slapped By A Great White
I found this video of standup paddle boarder Chuck Patterson on Transworld Surf. Chuck writes, “The day before I shot this video, I was SUP surfing with a couple friends and 2 sharks circled us for about 15 minutes. The next day I decided to go back out at around …
Teahupoo: Not Scary, Still Handing Guys Their Own Asses
If you looked only at the surf, you wouldn’t have thought the Billabong Pro, happening right now at Teahupoo in Tahiti, would end up being much of a contest…
Billabong Pro Tahiti – Day 9
A good day yesterday had everyone in good spirits for another big day of heats. However a lull late in the afternoon had heats being extended. That didn’t mean there wasn’t some excitement. Tour leader Jordy Smith went down to local Tahitian wildcard, Manoa Drollet …
NOW Analog Moving Picture Project
Here’s the teaser for NOW which is Analog’s latest Moving Picture Project. This one features Chippa Wilson, alongside Benny Godwin, Dion Agius, Warren Smith, Andrew Doheny and Thom Pringle. It was filmed, directed and edited by the talented Riley Blakeway. Check it out – Full film will be out later this …
UCSD Students To Create Ultimate Surfboard
A group of UC San Diego research students are on assignment to create the ultimate surf board. The four undergraduates from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UC San Diego outfitted a surfboard with eight sensors and an …
Dark Side Of The Lens
Energy drinks. They’re good for more than just mixing with vodka. Relentless Energy drink have some sort of short film competition series happening. The opening entry, a short film by Mickey Smith entitled ‘Dark Side Of The Lens’ is a refreshingly creative and poetic piece from a genre, “the webisode”, …
Stylewars And Tahiti On FuelTV
Just got to let you know that the good dudes at FuelTV are running daily highlights from Stylewars at 7.30pm each night and, when it goes, Tahiti will be live too. Also, I’ve just checked their schedule and they’re running the LFL games too – that’s the Lingerie Football League! …
Shaun White Wins Portland Dew Tour Stop
Shaun White has ended PLG’s (Pierre Luc Gannon) year long winning streak with a run he has long planned to put down in competition. After his first few runs were cut short by falls he pulled out all the stops on his final run which went: frontside fakie 540 to …
Dragon South Pacific’s Team In NZ
Jane and Brad are clearly running a tight ship at Dragon South Pacific… They got their whole team together for their annual conference in N.Z. and then had them up before dawn for personal training sessions. If I know anything about sales conferences, I know that they’re a good excuse …
Deus Canggu
In Bali surfing and motorbikes have always been fused together. In the early days surfers only access to remote breaks, other than on foot, was on 2 stroke trail bike. Today most surfers still get to the same breaks on two wheels. Trouble is, those two wheels are usually on …
Sideslippin’, Hot Dogs And Pine Logs
A couple Saturday’s ago a relaxed crew got together down at Pines in Shoreham, Victoria for the first Side Slippin, Hot Dogs and Pine Logs event. Jarred Osborn sent me in this clip he made of the festivities. The day kicked off with everyone’s quiver collection being laid out along …
Nate Johnstone Blog: Heading Home
So I’m heading back to freezing cold Aus in a few days so I thought I’d put up one last Bali blog entry to keep the warmth alive. 2 Days ago we had a good swell come through so we decided to drive a couple hours up the coast to …
Nate Johnstone Blog: Lakey Peak
So I have just arrived back in Bali, we have been over in Sumbawa surfing Lakey Peak for the past few days. Sumbawa is a island, about an hour flight from Denpasar. We flew into Bima, and had a 2 and a half hour drive till we reached our hotel …
Behind The Scenes Of The TW Biz Swimwear Shoot
Transworld Business have got their annual swimsuit issue out now and there’s a neat behind the scenes video of the shoot happening. The shoot is all based on inspiration from pin-up artists like Alberto Vargas and George Petty. The guys do an amazing job at recreating …
Pop Sells Out – Rick And Dave Remain Poor
You probably already know a little about this but Rick and I wanted to put a personal note with the exciting release below and let you know a bit about the deal we’ve done and what the plans are. Rick and I have established a Joint Venture partnership with the …
Plastiki Arrving In Sydney This Morning
Plastiki, the boat made of 12,500 reused plastic bottles and a whole lot of courage, has almost completed it’s 8,000 nautical mile, 4 month trip from San Francisco to Syndey. It’s due into Sydney Harbour at around 11am this morning (26th of July). The adventure aims …
Nate Johnstone Blog: To Lombok And Back
Hey guys. Sorry if there is a few too many spelling mistakes its hard to spell check when its all in Indonesian. So I have just arrived back in Bali after spending a few days over on Lombok, unfortunately we had no luck in finding any waves over there …
Innersection
Maybe the biggest thing in surf movies since forever, Innersection is a contest for surfers and filmmakers to create their own 2-3 minute surf movie. Then we all vote to which five parts make it into the next Taylor Steele movie. The winners have the rest of the year to …
Billabong’s Taj Burrow Signature Collection
Billabong has released a signature collection for Taj Burrow that has some pretty awesome looking pieces in it… According to the release, Taj said, “When we were approving the pieces, I would think: Could I put this on at 6:30 am and still be…
Tarp Surfing Looks Awesome
I got this via the good guys at Lush Productions. Their video of the week features a few guys ‘tarp surfing’… This is worth watching just for the shots. Looks epic. (Via Lush Productions)
Top Gear Goes Surfing
I’m a big fan of Top Gear and was stoked to see that the episode which aired last weekend has the guys hitting the surf in Cornwall, England. It’s only a short feature but I’m pretty sure I spotted a GoPro on the front of Hammond’s board. I’m not entirely …
Jordy Smith Wins Billabong Pro at J-Bay
South African Jordy Smith has beaten Australian Adam Melling to claim the Billabong Pro at J-Bay. If you missed it there’s a replay on FuelTV at 11:30am. Next stop on the World Tour is Teahupoo!
Billabong Pro J-Bay Round 4 Now On
As the ever rad Sej pointed out in the shoutbox, the Billabong Pro at J-Bay is continuing live right now on FuelTV (channel 516) and via webcast at the Billbong Pro website. So get the lads over, crack a few frothies and enjoy the wrap up of round 3 and …
Billabong Pro J-Bay To Start 4PM This Afternoon
UPDATE: Just got word from FuelTV – It’s on! Tune in at 4pm on FuelTV or on the webcast here. Word is coming through that the Billabong Pro at J-Bay is going to start at 8am local time if the swell’s good. Which lucky for us because that’s at 4PM our …