After 2 month quarantined at home to avoid the pandemic, Nic von Rupp and friends finally break the social distancing to go surf some barrels, paint some surfboards and have some fun, the good times are slowly coming back in Portugal.
Portugal imposed it's lockdown rules on its citizens from March 19, and now like many countries on the planet many are slowing popping up for air, the new norm has given a deeper appreciation for many things we take as granted, like hanging with friends and going for a surf.
May 10th 2020 local surfers from Puerto Escondido were permitted by the authorities to surf for 3 hours after being in lock down for a month , this is a small highlight of that morning.
Surfers
José Ramirez
Marcial Monreal
Max Diaz
Roger Ramirez jr
Saturday 6th June an the Lockdown Surf Fest is stoked to present a free screening of the multi award winning Stoked & Broke – the staycation, zero dollar, surfari epic from EMMY award winning filmmaker @cyrus_sutton.
It’s a special festival finale screening including the world premiere of WiFi Waves Dir. @chrismcclean plus the best of the Found Footage Files... You’re not going to want to miss this. 7pm BST, 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific for 24 hrs – hit the link @londonsurffilmfest for details!
Making their own boards, bamboo rickshaws solar cookers, and hobo stoves, boundary blurring, zeitgeist capturing surfers @bobbersandsinkers and Cyrus set off on a thirty mile, eight day walk through San Diego. Combing beautiful surfing, cinematography, humour and humanity, what begins as a guide to taking a minimalist surfing journey, quickly becomes an examination of freedom vs alienation.
“We premiered Stoked & Broke at the very first London Surf / Film Festival in 2011 and has remained one of our all time favourites. Taking in the mood and feeling of the current climate, It feels as fresh, timely and relevant as it did a decade ago, a tribute to Cyrus’s skill at capturing the essence at the core of our culture”. LS/FF Founder Chris Nelson @approachinglines
Starring: Ryan Burch, Cyrus Sutton, Richard Kenvin @hydrodynamica , @lurchas , #ericsnortum Glen Horn, Roberta Horn and Kneeboard Steve
The amount of commitment Conner put into his rail work was consistently on a level above everyone else, executed with flow and style. That's no mean feat when the lineup is packed with some of the best surfers in the world.
Filmed pre lockdown, before the 2019 CT event at Keramas started, and during the lay-days, Conner Coffin was surfing better than most.
The Limited Edition E-Bomb E7 is latest in a long line of world’s first in wetsuit technology by Rip Curl…Designed and tested by our stable of WSL world champions Mick Fanning, Tyler Wright and Gabriel Medina the E-Bomb E7 promises ultimate stretch, performance, warmth and comfort by combining all of Rip Curl’s best technology – making it the number one performance wetsuit in the world.
“I like that there’s less rubber around the shoulders,” said 3X world champion Mick Fanning. “If you want to surf for two, three, four hours – it’s all about paddling. Your arms are the first to go. So if we can keep those shoulders nice and loose then we’re golden.”
The all new E7 neoprene has 25% more stretch and is 10% lighter than E6, and is built into an unrestricted, seamless, one-piece upper body panel. The new body block offers unparalleled stretch from wrist-to-wrist making paddling easier.
Under the arms the strategically designed Torpedo Gusset increases both fit and comfort during and makes paddling easier than ever before. It’s also light as a feather and like butter getting in and out of the zip free entry construction.
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But you’ll need to be quick, the Limited Edition suit is available throughout the world while stocks last. The neoprene requires a specialist production technique and is only available in small quantities at present so there are no guarantees on when the next batch will drop.
“It’s sick to have it as Limited Edition. It’s unique. It’s special. It’s world class.”
– 2X world champion Gabriel Medina.
Available in 3/2mm or 4/3mm the E7 E-Bomb is our lightest, stretchiest wetsuit ever.
Get it at Ripcurl.com and selected Rip Curl and Independent core surf shops worldwide.
