“Pe’ahi aka Jaws finally woke up. It wasn’t easy, the strong winds and long interval swell made it very difficult to paddle-in into the waves.’ said Kai “But there is always the diamonds in the rough and I almost got the best barrel I’ve had out there.”
Ex QS charger, still a ripper, but now a super star DJ Paul Fisher, ‘Fisher’ shut down Hollywood Boulevard on the weekend with a massive show including a legend opening intro from Thor himself. He also shut down the Australias Today Show live on Friday in typical Fish fashion.
As big as they come. I just hope someone is making a movie of this.
Massive!
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Good job he didn’t bring his old surfboard…!
Photographer Samuel Howard takes on a subversive journey into the beautiful oceans surrounding Scotland. With the majority of his work, Sam dives into the ocean with his camera, capturing the magical moments as he swims. From tiny water gems to powerful waves, we will venture to the far corners of Scotland and discover the beauty in the water often right next to our towns and cities.
We will also gain a taster of his ongoing personal project ‘In Scotland We Surf’, which delves into the incredible hidden community that calls our ocean home.
Sam Howard is a professional lifestyle and adventure photographer with a love for the ocean and surfing. Born and raised near Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland he discovered surfing and the benefits of the ocean through a close knit group of friends.
He became fascinated by photography after purchasing a camera to record memories of a surf trip to Africa. Photography has brought the same escape as surfing for Sam and has helped him through some difficult times of mental health.
He believes in the health benefits of the ocean and wants to provide support to the community and introduce them to this concept through his work.
A proportion of the profits from ‘Our Scottish Seas’ will be donated to @waveprojectscotland . Preview night on Friday 27th Oct.”
The exhibition will run at The Alchemy Experiment in Glasgow from 24th Oct - 5th Nov. With an opening night of the 27th of November 7-9pm.
The opening night includes:
• Charity donation on the door
• Free drinks
• Short film screening
• Q & A
• limited edition run of prints for purchase
Follow Sam here @s.howard_photo
Top Welsh shredder Logan Nicol heads to Morocco on a C Skins testing mission and scores!
He set about putting the 4:3mm Wired through its paces proper in the often-hostile land of deep-Atlantic swells, razor sharp rocks and stray dogs. Got a bit hot so he ended up stepping down to his 3:2mm team suit for some of the midday sessions in the edit.
Check out the full AW23 Wired Range here https://c-skins.com/collections/mens-…
The original tower. Maybe use this and give the $5 mill to an eco charity?
Photo Tim McKenna
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Locals in Tahiti have protested against a proposed $5 million aluminum judging tower that Olympic Games organisers want to construct at the surf break for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the worlds top surfers have backed them.
A wooden tower has been used at Chopes for years whiteout incident, and locals say the new tower would damage the reef and ecosystem. Matahi Drollet said,
“This is going to damage the reef and the whole ecosystem of the lagoon in front of the wave… and in the worst case scenario the wave of Teahupo’o also.
“The Ocean and the lagoon is the most precious place we have here. This is where we get our food from, where we play, where’s we spend most of our time and where we have the most perfect wave in the world. It’s a heritage of our ancestors that we need to preserve.
“Our association that regroups Fisherman’s, farmers, surfers, the population of Teahupo’o, younger older people … we are against this new tower. We want them to use the normal judging tower that WSL uses every year. It works perfectly fine and they need to adapt to our environment and listen to what us locals say.”
“”The impact and the risk are too important for only three days of contest. This message is for Paris 2024.”
Long time Chopes surf photog Tim McKenna said in a post
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” Every year the wooden judging tower at Teahupoo is assembled in the lagoon just before the @wsl event dates for the Tahiti Pro.
Shortly after it is taken down and stored in containers ready for the next year. Sometimes a few pieces of wood need to be changed but it has basically been the same structure for the last 20 years.
“For the surfing events of the @paris2024 Olympic games the governing body requires a much larger and complex judging tower with very strict specifications. The tower needs to accommodate more people, have a perfect security standard, an air conditioned room for the judges, electricity, running water for toilets and high speed internet cables.
“The new alluminum tower is going to cost USD $5 million and have permanent cables and pipes from shore to the middle of the lagoon but the tower will also be disassembled after the event to mimimise the visual impact during the year. Yesterday over 500 people gathered at Teahupoo to do a peacefull walk to protest against this new tower and the impact it could have on the environment. Let’s hope the locals and environmental specialists and associations will follow all this process to make sure the end of the road stays in all it’s pristine glory.”
Most the Pro Surfing world seems to back them, and it seems common sense. A petition has been set up and you can sign it here…
After a rollercoaster WSL Championship Tour season wrapped up in California, Jack Robinson and João Chianca shelved all thoughts of rest and relaxation when they saw a booming swell heading for the South Pacific island nation of Fiji. With the famed Cloudbreak a huge and very welcome re-addition to the 2024 CT schedule, Jack and João had no hesitation in launching a last-minute strike to one of the planet’s most revered waves with two goals in mind: R&D for next year, and to celebrate their sterling seasons by getting barrelled out of their brains.
To call the trip a success would be an understatement. Jack and João – and assortment of friends including Yago Dora, Ian Gentil, and Kai Lenny – indulged in a tubefest of the highest order, and headed home buzzing over their first trips to Fiji, and excited to tackle Cloudbreak in competition next year.
When Dan Scott’s incredible footage landed in our hands we had no hesitation in pulling together the edit you see above, and got Jack on the phone to find out if Cloudbreak lived up to its billing as the world’s most perfect wave, how much time he spent parked in the pit, and just how hungry he is to get back to the South Pacific in 2024.
Press play now to soak up all of Dan’s work and Jack's wisdom, fresh from the South Pacific. Enjoy!
