A giant swell hits the Portuguese coast, causing indescribable waves due to their strength and size!
Surfers as Garrett McNamara, Andrew Cotton, Hugo Vau, Eric Rebiere, Carlos Burle, Maya Gabeira, Pedro Scooby, Felipe Cesarano, Nitzan Benhaim, Sylvio Mancusi went into the sea of Nazareth willing to write a new chapter in the history of surfing.
From the near drowning of Maya up to the largest possible wave surfed records favored by all surfers who risked surfing a wave on this day! Nazareth once again shows the world its size and power …
Surf Travel – The complete guide is a book from the publishers of Carve which covers every aspect of surf travel and exploration: where to go, where to stay, what equipment to take, how to get in shape for your trip, how to stay healthy abroad, and how to make the most of your time away. Packed with essential tips and awesome photos, Surf Travel will inspire you to pack your boardbag and head off to find the waves of your dreams.
The main section of the book focusses on the classic surfing destinations such as the Gold Coast, the North Shore, the Maldives, Indo, the Canaries, Costa Rica, Morocco, Barbados, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Tahiti, France and Southern California. Each location is described and dissected, with insider tips about the best spots and how to score primo conditions. Several less-well known areas such as the Lakshadweep Islands, Samoa, Mozambique and Papua New Guinea are also included for those who thirst for pristine, uncrowded waves. All kinds of priceless advice is offered by a writing team of experienced travellers who’ve put in the hard yards, and the images are provided by some of the world’s best lensmen (including Andrew Shield, Alan van Gysen, Pete Frieden, Mickey Smith, DJ Struntz, Simon Williams and Tim McKenna).
Other sections of the book cover essential equipment, gadgets, fitness, photography, air travel, surf camps, cold water destinations, boat trips and road trips. Twelve of the greatest surf travellers are also profiled, from original pioneers like Peter Troy and Wayne Lynch through to modern-day surf explorers like Brian Conley and Anthony Walsh.
The book also includes a comprehensive information section where you’ll find listings of the coolest annual events and the best surf travel companies, plus lots of sound advice about staying safe abroad.
The idea of travelling to remote, far-off places can seem daunting at first. But the more organised you are, the easier travelling becomes. Preparation is key, and Surf Travel will both inform and inspire. “Go out there and search for your own paradise,” urges Walshy in the book’s foreword. “When you find it, the waves you’ll score will outweigh all the dramas along the way and make everything worthwhile.”
Yup, as March comes in like a lion with another 20 foot swell I thought I’d do a quick desktop clearance, but as I started putting the files into folders ready to delete from memory I thought, “Hey this is gold.” of instead of pressing delete I pressed “Slideshow. Random..” I literally took one movie out as it was too big, and this is the result.
From Pipe to Scotland, and Cotty to Anastasia it has been one crazy ass winter. So sit back and enjoy a few frame grabs, moments and random moments from winter 1013-14.
Beautiful, unique, kaleidoscopic, geometrically exquisite…perfect waves are some of Mother Nature’s most alluring and mesmerising creations. The Incredible Waves book is a stunning collection of photographs that capture the beauty, majesty and danger of the world’s most awesome waves including Pipeline, Cloudbreak, Shipstern’s Bluff, The Right, Teahupoo, The Wedge, Kirra, Ke Iki, Skeleton Bay, The Box, Captain Steve’s, Riley’s, Desert Point and Apocalypse – waves which are as dangerous as they are enticing, for photographers as well as surfers. This breathtaking volume features some of the best recent work by Clark Little, Brian Bielmann, Chris Burkard, Russell Ord, Ray Collins, Laurent Pujol, Mickey Smith, Tim McKenna and 20 other top surf photographers.
Incredible Waves also includes insights from pro surfers, a global discussion with five top photographers, as well as essays by Kirk Owers and Roger Sharp about the allure of perfect waves and the forces that create them. Readers interested in improving their own photographic skills will benefit from the technique sections in the book which offer tips and advice for getting better shots; everything from basic composition to underwater photography is covered, along with tips for getting the best from board-mounted POV cameras such as the GoPro.
Incredible Waves is a tribute to the beauty and power of the ocean at its most spectacular. Buy here
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Pics by Richie Fitzgerald and a couple from Jager, do not steal them without permission.
It’s the trip you would have loved to be on … never mind get paid to go on: exploring Iceland with your mates. Come with us as we go behind the scenes of the Jager ad shoot with one of the stars Richie Fitz’.
“The whole Jagermeister ad came to me through my good mate Gabe Davies and his production company during late summer last year. After 14 months of scouting different countries the ad company decided that British and Irish surfers were what they needed . So after an initial casting Dave Blount and myself from Ireland were chosen along with Oli Adams, Ben Skinner and Owain Davies from the UK to make up the cast. All solid surfers and good blokes. I knew the trip would be a blast with this group of shams!
“We spent 12 days in Iceland in November 2013 shooting the ad. Pegasus Productions scouted the most amazing and breathtaking locations you can imagine taking in pretty much the whole country in our 12 day stint. Huge drives and radical weather was the theme most days. Ingo from Arctic Surfers, our surf guide, took us to some of the best surf coast I’ve ever seen, with world class slabs, points, reefs and outer reefs everywhere. That’s really saying something considering I live in Bundoran and have phenomenal waves on my doorstep.
“Many of the waves we surfed were inside the Arctic Circle, cold, heavy, hollow point breaks where the outside air temp was -15C and sea temp was just above freezing. It was a hardcore environment, in and out of the water, with blizzards and gales popping up with ferocious regularity. It made the west of Ireland feel like the Med’.
“I reckon we travelled a couple of thousand miles and did at least six to ten hours a day driving. We literally drove the whole way round the island really and we touched the barren interior too, with all the sulphur from the geysers and volcanic activity there is a strong smell of rotten egg fart everywhere.
“The best surf was way up north in the seldom visited north western fjords. They are really inaccessible and also around Olafsfjorour we scored a brilliant point break at eight foot with the outer points double that … but we just surfed the inside point.
“Being with the boys for 12 days in a van searching for waves in Iceland was the best and funniest trip of my life, the fact that we shot a TV ad, shot a lot of Jagers and got paid for it … it was a dream trip!
Watch the ad here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr5IANBE8os
