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Slater joins McNamara to surf Nazare

17 October, 2012 : - VIDEO: Evan Geiselman, Beau Foster, and Kelly Slater find some big beach break waves just an hour before dark with the help of Garrett Mcnamara and his PWC. Slater is in Portugal for the Rip Curl Pro and took a little detour to pounce on some building-sized A-Frames breaking just a few yards…
Meet Papatowai, New Zealand's Maverick's

15 October, 2012 : - New Zealand’s premiere big wave arena, Papatowai, awakes after going into hibernation and a handful of kiwi big wave chargers are on the spot to paddle and tow into the biggest waves ridden in New Zealand for years. Papatowai has been regarded as New Zealand's very own Mavericks providing s…
VIDEO: XXL entries as Jaws wakes up

The best big wave surfers in the world surfed a massive early season NW swell at Jaws on Tuesday (10/October), Glassy conditions made for an incredible paddle session. Surfers were calling it one of the best days in the history of Big Wave surfing. The swell lasted until the next day before dropping and made for anot…
Greg Long threads Jaws-sized needle

12 October, 2012 : - VIDEO: The winter big wave season struck the North Pacific with a spectacular opening day. Greg Long from San Clemente, pulled in and flew out of a macker at Jaws, Maui on October 10. Videographer Bruno Lemos caught the action from the bluff and now it's an entry in the Ride of the Year category …
LIVE: Talk Story - Buzzy Kerbox

10 October, 2012 : - Big-wave tow surfing pioneer, Top 16 international touring pro surfer, record-setting paddleboarder, Polo Ralph Lauren model for over a quarter century. Buzzy Kerbox has remained current and an inspiration for more than 30 years. More recently his passion has taken him from in front of the c…
Shane Dorian's Jaws pucker factor of 10

10 October, 2012 : - VIDEO: The long awaited winter big wave surfing season struck the North Pacific in ferocious fashion with a spectacular opening day of waves yesterday at Jaws, on the north coast of Maui, Hawaii, resulting in a flood of entries into the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. The year-long sur…
13-year-old tackles Shpstern's Bluff

8 October, 2012 : - VIDEO: Billabong rider Riley Laing is reported to be the youngest kid ever to charge solid Shipstern Bluff. Check the following video and you'll see that even at medium size Shippies is one of the heaviest waves on the planet.…
Garrett McNamara returns to Nazare Portugal

4 October, 2012 : - Garrett McNamara has arrived to Portugal for another exploration mission to the waves of Nazaré, during the months of October and November, as part of the Zon North Canyon Show 2012. The Extreme Waterman is back to Praia do Norte, where he made history by surfing the biggest wave ever, a de…
Storm Surfers 3D: The financing plan

28 September, 2012 : - Since Storm Surfers 3D was released on August 14, it has become the eighth highest grossing local feature documentary of all time. The group behind Storm Surfers saw the production of a 3D feature film as a necessary step in their quest to create a truly international brand and they paid for it…
Greg Long & Twiggy notch big wave entries

27 September, 2012 : - The traditional Winter big wave season is almost over, but the battle for big wave supremacy in Australian and New Zealand waters continues. The half-way point of the year long waiting period for Surfing Life’s Oakley Big Wave Awards has just passed and stunning entries have begun to flow…
Nelscott Reef Big Wave Classic enters 8th year

24 September, 2012 : - The premier big wave contest in the Pacific Northwest begins its waiting period October 1st and will be called with 72 hours notice when a minimum 30' swell with favorable conditions is forecasted. Surfline is the official forecaster for the NRBWC and will be supplying detailed swell data and f…
Garrett McNamara hits MSNBC TV show

21 September, 2012 : - Garrett McNamara and Garrett's mother earth, Nicole Macias, drop in on MSNBC's 'Caught on Camera: In a Split Second' this Sunday, September 23rd at 8pm ET. You will get to see rare footage and interviews of Garrett and Nicole speaking of the day he caught the record breaking 78-foot wave in Naz…
Tom Butler on the tasty, heavy slabs of the UK

18 September, 2012 : - In this fourth installment of our new segment ‘Carte Blanche‘ we’ve decided to share the interesting story of Tom Butler, 23 year-old surfer from Newquay in Cornwall, England. Competitor in ASP events throughout the UK, Tom is well more known in the surfing community for his b…