Mavericks has been firing, XXL, off the charts, big wave surfing legend Peter Mel bagged one could be one of the most epic waves ever surfed, with many claiming it as the “the wave of the decade.”
“Everyone on earth should see this ride” – Kelly Slater
See for yourself, check out the footage from the line-up and the cliffs, insane stuff.
Koa Smith takes a waterproof microphone out to the Banzai Pipeline. Wipeouts, second reef clean up sets and huge perfect barrels! Listen to what it sounds like – Wait until the end! On his last wave Koa had one of his gnarly wipeouts. Shot in one day on the 24th December 2020.
The world knows Tom Carroll as the pro surfer, the two-time world champion, the big-wave killer, and the Australian legend. What they don’t know is that while leading the charge of surfing’s rapid and unstoppable move to the world-stage of professional sport during the 80’s, Carroll kept a Canon film AV-1 in-hand and took photographs – lots of photographs. Salt in the Blood is the documentary exploring surfing’s infant days through Tom’s lens and the 30,000 undeveloped photos hidden underneath his house until now.
2021 in Los Angeles kicked off with a week of solid swell. The first swell, filmed on the first Saturday and Sunday of January, brought plenty of size but left the locals craving for more. This swell moved some sand around to help give a nice combo featuring both size and shape for the rest of the week.
Dive deep into the life of big wave surf photographer Dom Mosqueira. Spending his youth as a vagabond Dom sailed his way to Tahiti and never left. Living in proximity to one of the worlds biggest and most dangerous waves, Dom Mosqueira risks life and limb in pursuit of the perfect photograph of world class surfers riding the worlds most dangerous wave, Teahupo’o. Surf photography perfected through the lens of Dom Mosqueira.
Check out Dom on Instagram here.
UK Lockdown 3.0, here we go again, time to pull into some classic surf films. Pentacoastal, Flow State, Lost Atlas, Sprout, Mick Fanning and Mason Ho in Red Monkey, Full Moon. Not forgetting the legends that are Occy in Billabong Pump and Addiction The Matt Archbold story are all now playing at carvemag. Be safe people, look after yourselves and others, it may get a bit bumpy but we’ve got this, now pass the popcorn.
Rip Curl’s The Search featuring Mick Fanning and Mason Ho in Red Monkey, Full Moon
PENTACOASTAL: A Surf Film Directed by Wade Goodall & Shane Fletcher
FLOW STATE | Russell Bierke
Sprout An exploration into the riding of water mountains
Lost Atlas | John John Florence, Jordy Smith, Craig Anderson | Full Movie
Addiction The Matt Archbold story (MCD)
Billabong Pump (Occy, Richie, Ronnie Burns, Munga)
