One year on from a wipeout which broke Cotty’s back while surfing at giant waves at Nazare, he’s finally back after a long road of recovery! In the first episode of his new web series he returns to the scene of the incident to surf again.. The idea of the Vlog is to give you an insight into his thought processes, training and preparation to be ready and amped for a new big wave season! Follow the series to see how he deals with the very first big swells of the winter, both mentally and physically.
Globe and Monster present a series of relatively short films about surfing and everything that goes along with it….CULT OF FREEDOM!
The third instalment of CULT OF FREEDOM takes us to the North Island of New Zealand with Creed McTaggart, Dion Agius, and Nate Tyler. The boys spent a good portion of the trip dodging wind and rain and shooting a slingshot but ended up stumbling upon a few out of the way spots that delivered really fun surf in a dreamlike location.
“Here & Now” features Miguel Blanco during his latest mission to Indonesia during the swell of the decade, being in the right place at the right time Miguel ended up scoring the now legendary monster session in Nias Pulau. The film portraits all the action during his trip around Indo, culminating with the Nias Swell and the wave that ultimately changed his life and ended up in the cover of Surfer mag and as a DPS opening the feature in the last issue of Carve.
“Here & Now” was filmed and edited by the brilliant Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Zanin who was travelling with Miguel during this dramatic swell, with additional footage by Carlo Coral.
Miguel Blanco added the following: “This has been a great year. Such a great roller coaster! I’ve been putting a lot of energy into surfing and just stoked to be doing what I love the most every day! I had a big gap in summer so I decided to go to Puerto and Indo. Caught a good swell in Puerto and somehow ended up being in Indo for the biggest swell in this last decade. “Here & Now” shows some of that action. Back home, I was doing the national league where the champ has a chance to surf the WCT in Portugal as a wildcard. I had some chance to win it but it wasn’t looking too pretty. Well, I guess everything came together and I won the event, crowned National champ and earned the wildcard for the WCT in Peniche.”
Portuguese world tour ripper Frederico Morais has been working on a new documentary about his life and career.
It was actually an initially a project for Portuguese television but he wanted to share this with the whole surf community.
These first two episodes are about his journey from grom to tour and also feature some of my best sessions from last winter!
