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The brilliant cold water surf film by Ben Gulliver ‘The Seawolf’ is now available to buy or rent on iTunes.
For all of £6.99 you’ll get the stunning film, partly filmed on our shores, and support independent creators to help them make more good stuff!
To entice you in to parting with a few quid here’s director Ben Gulliver’s bonus ‘The B-Wolf’ a short with a load of clips that didn’t make the main feature. You might remember the mag feature we did on the film last year when it was playing in cinemas.
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Kikas by @sharpysurf
After months of speculation the bods at the ISA have delivered the news on how getting to the Olympics in Japan is going to work in surfing. The short version is 20 guys, 20 gals, max 2 per gender per nation, with priority to WSL riders. For the non-surfing super powers the ISA World Games are the gateway to Olympic glory. The host nation gets a spot so there are 19 places up for grabs. So if we understand this correctly the guys from the smaller nations on the WCT have it all to play for. As the US/Oz/Brazilian superpowers will predictably use their allocations from the CT.
A CT example being:
USA: John John and maybe a young buck like Griffin Colapinto, doubtful Kelly will hold out long enough.
Brazil: Medina and Filipe, pretty lethal combo and Yago, Italo and more nipping at their heels.
Australia: Owen Wright and Julian Wilson and there’s plenty of depth in the ranks with Wilko and new blood like Mikey Wright.
France: Bourez and Flores, Joan Duru as sub
South Africa: Jordy is arguably a dead cert at this stage.
Then the last spot could be a bun fight between:
Japan: Kanoa Igarashi
Portugal: Frederico Morais
Italy: Leo Fioarvanti
So you can see how the smaller nations on the CT will be scrapping for that spot on the 2019 tour. Huge profile boost to be an Olympian.
For the rest of the world these will be the keenest fought and highest level attended ISA World Games ever. Expect ex-CT guys from all nations to be in attendance. Make the finals and you’re in the Olympics … and there’s a lot of talented riders from a lot of countries, it’s going to be fierce. Wouldn’t want to be the judges making the calls in those events. Good luck one and all.
The key elements of the qualification system are as follows:
- 20 men, 20 women.
- Maximum of 2 surfers per gender per National Olympic Committee (NOC).
- Qualification spots will be earned on an individual basis, by name.
- In accordance with IOC guidelines, the qualification events have been determined in hierarchical order of qualification, as further explained below; If two surfers of a gender have qualified through the first hierarchical order, that NOC will not be able to qualify more surfers of that gender through qualifying events lower in hierarchical order.
- All surfers selected by their respective National Federations for their national teams must participate in 2019 and 2020 ISA World Surfing Games in order to be eligible for Olympic qualification. The final details of the eligibility requirements are still under review by the ISA and the IOC.
The hierarchical order of qualification will be as follows:
- 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour: First 10 eligible men and first 8 eligible women.
- 2020 ISA World Surfing Games: First 4 eligible men and first 6 eligible women.
- 2019 ISA World Surfing Games: 4 men and 4 women selected based on their continent. Top finishing eligible surfer of each gender from Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
- 2019 Pan American Games: First eligible man and first eligible woman in the surfing competitions.
- Host nation slot: One man and one woman slot will be guaranteed for the host nation of Japan, unless already filled through the above hierarchies. Should athletes from Japan qualify regularly, their slots will be reallocated to the highest ranked eligible surfers from the 2020 World Surfing Games.
See the ISA post here.
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It’s been a big weekend for British long boarding with competitors at the Espino Pro and Noosa Festival of surfing excelling on the global stage.
Justine Dupont and Edouard Delpero of France took to the winners podium after a hard fought battle through two-days of size-able surf at the Longboard Pro Espinho
Edouard Delpero (FRA) consistently charged through his heats netting several of the event’s highest heat and beating Ben Skinner in the final.
“I just wanted to surf well,” said Delpero of the final. “Ben (Skinner) surfed really good through the event. We both had a lot of trouble paddling out and we both got really smashed. In the two last heats I broke two of my boards, just snapped them.”
“To win would have been great,” said Skinner. “But to be in the final with Edouard is great too. He’s such an amazing surfer and to me, he and his brother Antoine are the two best longboarders in the world. And it was nice to at least take one of them down, but nice to surf against Edouard in the final.”
In huge surf there were several broken boards, a 15-minute paddle out attempt by last year’s champ Emilien Fleury. Britains newest WSL world tour competitor Jack Unsworth was third, losing out in the semis to winner Edouard. South Devons Ben Howey was fifth losing out to Skindog in the quarters.
Justine Dupont had one game plan in mind throughout the entire event – make it to the outside and get the bigger set waves – to take the women’s event
“My strategy was to go outside and to take the best two waves and to make it through each heat,” said Dupont. “Not to stress and just to go heat-by-heat and to take it easy.”
Bude’s Emily Currie was narrowly defeated in the semis finishing third, Jennifer Pendlebury finished in fifth.
Over at the Noosa Festival of Surfing James Parry finished 7th in the Logger Pro, Chris Griffiths finished 3rd in the Men over 50’s, Connor Griffiths finished 7th in the Mens Open, Chris and Connor finished 2nd in the family challenge.
MEN’S FINAL RESULTS
1. Edouard Delpero (FRA) 13.50
2. Ben Skinner (GBR) 6.26
MEN’S SEMIFINAL RESULTS
Heat 1: Ben Skinner (GBR) 16.26 def. Benoit Carpentier (FRA) 8.84
Heat 2: Edouardo Delpero (FRA) 17.83 def. Jack Unsworth (GBR)2.97
MEN’S QUARTERFINAL RESULTS:
Heat 1: Ben Skinner (GBR) 6.73 def. Ben Howey (GBR) 2.57
Heat 2: Benoit Carpentier (FRA) 13.10 def. Alvaro Fernandez (ESP) 7.50
Heat 3: Edouardo Delpero (FRA) 14.90 def. Rémi Arauzo (FRA) 6.17
Heat 4: Jack Unsworth (GBR)12.06 def. Augusto Olinto (BRA) 9.94
MEN’S ROUND OF 16 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Ben Howey (GBR) 9.84 def. Rodrigo Sphaier (BRA) 5.17
Heat 2: Ben Skinner (GBR) 14.73 def. Antoine Delpero (FRA) 12.00
Heat 3: Alvaro Fernandez (ESP) 7.40 def. Federico Nesti (ITA) 5.93
Heat 4: Benoit Carpentier (FRA) 9.23 def. Julian Schweizer (URY) 9.17
Heat 5: Edouard Delpero (FRA) 12.83 def. Evan Rogers (GBR) 2.67
Heat 6: Rémi Arauzo (FRA) 10.44 def. Emilien Fleury (FRA) 5.00
Heat 7: Augusto Olinto (BRA) 6.73 def. Moana Domenech (PYF) 5.74
Heat 8: Jack Unsworth (GBR) 5.84 def. Diogo Goncalves (PRT) 3.44
MEN’S ROUND OF 24 RESULTS
Heat 1: Rodrigo Sphaier (BRA) 17.17, Antoine Delpero (FRA) 12.83, Joao Dantas (PRT) 10.33
Heat 2: Ben Skinner (GBR) 9.43, Ben Howey (GBR) 6.33, Thierry Andre (FRA) 3.83
Heat 3: Federico Nesti (ITA) 8.83, Julian Schweizer (URY) 7.83, Fabrizio, Gabrielli (ITA) 4.10
Heat 4: Benoit Carpentier (FRA) 10.97, Alvaro Fernandez (ESP) 6.00, Pier Loustau-Lasplaces (FRA) 0.00
Heat 5: Edouard Delpero (FRA) 17.47, Emilien Fleury (FRA) 4.23, Luis Cruz (PRT) 2.63
Heat 6: Rémi Arauzo (FRA) 11.44, Evan Rogers (GBR) 7.86, Aurelien Meynieux (REU) 6.50
Heat 7: Augusto Olinto (BRA) 9.76, Diogo Goncalves (PRT) 6.37, Juan Villasante (ESP) 3.76
Heat 8: Jack Unsworth (GBR) 8.07, Moana Domenech (PYF) 7.50, Robin Henry (FRA) 5.27
MEN’S ROUND 0F 28 RESULTS
Heat 1: Joao Dantas (PRT) 7.33, Ben Howey (GBR) 5.56, Wenderson Bludo (BRA) 5.53
Heat 2: Julian Schweizer (URY) 7.57, Pier Loustau-Lasplaces 2.07, Sebastiao Maia (PRT) 2.04
Heat 3: Emilien Fleury (FRA) 7.57, Aurelien Meynieux (REU) 6.84, Eduardo Bage (BRA) 6.00
Heat 4: Augusto Olinto (BRA) 10.00, Robin Henry (FRA) 4.36, Joao Gama (PRT) 2.44
WOMEN’S FINAL RESULTS
1: Justine Dupont (FRA) 10.40
2: Chloe Salmon (BRA) 0.90
WOMEN’S SEMIFINAL RESULTS:
Heat 1: Justine Dupont (FRA) 8.66 def. Lindsay Steinriede (USA) 4.57
Heat 2: Chloe Calmon (BRA) 5.77 def. Emily Currie (GBR) 4.27
Women’s Quarterfinal Results
Heat 1: Justine Dupont (FRA) 13.35 def. Kathleen Barrigao (PRT) 6.94
Heat 2: Lindsay Steinriede (USA) 7.16 def. Nienke, Dulnemeijer (NLD) 2.03
Heat 3: Emily Currie (GBR) 5.23 def. Jennifer Pendlebury (GBR)2.30
Heat 4: Chloe Calmon (BRA) 9.10 def. Valentini Macroni (ITA) 2.97
Women’s Round of 12
HEAT 1: Justine Dupont (FRA) 8.60, Emily Currie (GBR) 6.40, Francesca Rubegni (ITA) 4.20
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The RVCA Bruce II Boardshort is a 4-way premium performance stretch trunk with DWR water repellant coating and a logo Bruce Irons print. It has triple lock closures and triple needle stitching on the rises.
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The RVCA Saunders Printed Boardshort is a 4-way performance stretch trunk with C6W/R water repellent coating and an allover print. It has triple needle stitching on the rises, a front RVCA motors patch, and a patch pocket at the back with a bungee cord loop in the pocket to keep your keys protected.
Patagonia have launched their biggest ever European campaign, “Save The Blue Heart of Europe”.
The campaign aims to raise global public awareness about the massive scale and long-term negative impact of the Balkan Rivers hydropower boom. These are the last wild rivers of Europe – and they deserve to be saved.
The Balkan peninsula, which includes 20,000 pristine, free flowing kilometers of rivers between Slovenia and Albania, has become a target for foreign developers and banks who plan to build 3,000 new hydropower dams and diversions throughout the region.
These are the last wild rivers of Europe: A global treasure that is largely unknown and is threatened by a wave of hydropower development that would devastate local communities and environments.
We have an opportunity to shed light on this beautiful, untouched region – the Blue Heart of Europe – and to support the local people and NGOs fighting to stop destructive dam construction on their rivers.
The myth of “clean, green” hydropower must be shattered, for the sake of these Balkans rivers and to protect our last wild rivers around the world, and the call to action of this films focuses on stopping the flow of money from banks that are pushing these destructive dams.
Patagonia has been fighting to protect wild places for over 40 years. Just this past year, it sued the Trump Administration for its illegal actions to try and eliminate the largest area of protected land in the US.
Billed as “green power initiatives,” the 3,000 dams and diversion projects* planned for this region would choke some rivers to death, flood valleys with thriving communities that have lived there for millennia, and divert massive amounts of water from other rivers, literally draining long stretches of the river dry. Given many of these projects involve small hydropower plants, we’re often talking about small amounts of the energy, far outweighed by the devastation brought to local communities and the environment.
The people in the Blue Heart of Europe don’t want these dams
These rivers are the life-blood of local villages, providing water to grow food and clean drinking water. Thus, the destruction brought by hydropower dams and diversions, is both an environmental issue and a human rights issue.
To sign the petition click here
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Nixon has released the Regulus, an element-proof, dual chronograph watch. Durable enough to withstand the demands from the world’s top snowboarders, surfers, and skaters, the Regulus is uniquely designed for those seeking a quintessential watch that provides basic operational necessity without excess.
Reflecting the brand’s Team Designed, Custom Built ethos, Nixon developed The Regulus through input from current and former special ops personnel. The result: a minimalistic, high function digital watch that can stand up to the harshest maritime, dryland, and high altitude conditions. Retailing for €150.00/ £120.00, The Regulus will be available globally in February 2018 at select retail stores and online at Nixon.com
The custom digital LCD module boasts a 10 ATM (100 meter) water-resistance rating and features protective PORON XRD™ that lends to tough shock absorption and sturdiness.
An oversized display and customisable LED backlight provide clear visibility in dark and underwater settings.
The Regulus is equipped with a five-year battery life, dual chronographs, visible from all mode screens, with a 1/100-second resolution to provide precision time telling.
Large, water-resistant polycarbonate pushers located at 6 and 9 o’clock allow for easy control during deep-water operations.
Additional digital functions include: dual time, 12 or 24 hour time, date, auto-calendar through 2099, count down timer, three customisable alarm options, and silent mode setting.
The Regulus is fit with a custom injection moulded TPU 80 free-swing band. Tapering from 29mm to 24mm, the band features a water flow texture on its bottom side, a patented locking looper, and a stainless steel buckle with stainless steel screw down bar
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