Huge paddle in and tow in surfing at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, California. January 10th, 2021 a huge swell arrived at mavericks with some of the best big wave surfers in the world taking part. The session lasted all day with epic conditions, huge swell, and lack of wind.
CATCHING UP WITH BOYDIE ON SCOTLANDS NORSE SHORE INTERVIEW BY JONNY EWART
( @markboydsurf @jonnyseasurf )
Blue bird days. Pic Thomas Horig
No pain no gain.
Q. Looked like you injured yourself pretty badly the other day Boydie, how’d that happen?
Aye, I was surfing Thurso-East, I hadn’t been in the water long I’d only had a couple waves and on my third wave I pulled in and got bucked off by the foamball and as I was going over the falls my board got forced into my leg just below my groin.
Q. Oocha, sounds sore, so will you be out of the water for a while?
I got 6 stitches in the puncture wound the nose of my board made, but weirdly there wasn’t even a mark on my wetsuit! Its more the impact of the board hitting my leg that’s sore – my hip and my thigh are so bruised its been pretty painful and haven’t really been able to move my leg until today but I’m still hobbling around. I’ve got the stitches in for a week and then hopefully the bruising and stiffness doesn’t take too much longer to heal. Hopefully just be out a couple of weeks.
Deep on he reef. Pic Grumpy Old Surfer
Q. You got a pretty good tube just before that, was it worth the injury?
My first couple of waves were pretty decent; a double barrel (I didn’t quite make the second one) and then the one just before was probably my best barrel of the year so that was a bit of a consolation I suppose! Haha. Don’t think anyone was filming though unfortunately.
Q. Hows your season been so far?
We’ve had a good start to the season, plenty swells and we’ve had some good winds too.
Q. Tell me about the crowds in Thurso these days?
Its pretty crazy now. There were 50 people in the water at Thurso-East alone a few swells ago. Was hoping to enjoy it being a bit quieter with this lockdown again but there are a lot of people who live and surf here now too, so there’s always a crowd these days.
Q. How has Covid affected you? How have you found it having a year out of competing?
The Scottish Nationals was cancelled this year because of Covid so it was disappointing not to get a chance to get 3 in a row. I had also hoped to do the full UK Pro Surf Tour, which was also cancelled, so fingers crossed events can run next year. That said however it has allowed me to do a bit of extra work offshore and save some cash – I did a 16 week trip on a cable lay ship over the first lockdown period, not really by choice but because we got stuck due to crew change restrictions because of Covid. So that was a long stint without surfing but means I can take more of the winter off when we have waves at home.
Q. So tell us about this edit
The edit is a collection of footage from various filmers but mostly Malcolm Anderson (@malsurf) who I have so much to thank for. Mal is so dedicated to filming on the good days in Thurso its always amazing to analyse footage afterwards and he captures so many great memories. Most of the footage is from Thurso or nearby with a little bit of France and Portugal thrown in and it was all filmed over the last year or so. I’d also like to thank @perrygershkow @_mark_mason @oscrjmsmedia @didierpitersurfcoach @jasurfproject @grumpyoldsurfer @will_nangle for the additional clips and @mr_rupo for his editing input.
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Please credit photographers for photos:
Andre Silva @andreinnit
Thomas Horig @thomashorig
Grumpy Old Surfer
The North Shore had an amazing run of waves from December 1st to December 7th from Pipe and Backdoor to the outer reefs. For John, this was the lead up to the WSL 2020 Pipe Masters. Pull in and watch the pipe master at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r3Edj3dblk
The original GOAT, with a surfing style imitated by many, bettered by none. California’s Tom Curren is a style master, poetry in motion sliding through the aqua blue. Take time out of your day to enjoy Tom, Pat Curren and surfings anti-hero the ever so talented Bobby Martinez.
Half Basque/half Balinese super grom Koldo Illumbe, has a lifetime supply of perfect, left tubes. Click in and watch, somewhat with jealousy on my behalf as Koldo get’s endless dreamy kegs.
The untold story of how a band of renegade surfer girls in the 1980s fought to create their own professional sport, changing surf culture forever.
#GirlsCantSurf is coming to Australian cinemas March, 2021: http://mad.mn/girlscantsurf It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN’T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, GIRLS CAN’T SURF is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
