Beth Hamilton in Bali

Beth Hamilton duck dives and paddles into Indo waves, deals with Ulu’s cave one armed. I’m impressed! That takes some skills! She has also a pretty sharp forehand hack and rips with the locals.

Huge swell heading for J Bay

Pumping waves with sets int 15ft range are going to hit the ASP J Bay comp tomorrow!

“With a new swell filling in at Supertubes, a lay day has been called for the J-Bay Open in anticipation of peak weekend sets. The next call is at 7:30 AM local time Saturday; until then get ready with the updated Surfline forecast, predicting waves up to 15 feet.’ Said the ASP

Surfline forecaster Kevin Wallis said ”
“The bulk of this swell, however, will build in through Saturday and produce pumping surf all day. We expect to see solid double overhead+ waves on Saturday (10-12’++ faces), with the better sets in the 15’+ range on the face. Sunday will see easing, albeit still strong, surf in the overhead to double overhead range in the morning.”

Should be epic. Comp may kick off at 6.30am GB time, 7.30 local time.

All the action will be live here. Updates and highlights are alread posted. Enjoy!

Meet the Mandiri Beach Boys

One of my favourite stories in this months Carve (on sale now) is how three friends from Exeter, (Devon, UK) decided to build a surf camp on what could be one of the best six miles of beach break in the world. It is in Sumatra, so it was never going to be an easy job. But when you watch this video you can see why they did it. Meet the Mandiri Beach Boys in issue 153 out now on UK newsstands, and digital through Apple or here http://pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?titleid=172&title=Carve

Ours and Shark island

Some cray shiz from Sydney including a bit of Ours and Shark Island

Goodbye JOB 4.0

There have been laughs, there have been tears there have been moments of incredible stupidity and bone crunching wipeouts. It’s been fun 4.0. Here are your best bits.