Pretty crazy run of surf last month, never seen anything like in living out here for 12 years. Three in a row and pretty much all three were on the verge of being too big, waves breaking all over the place and a couple crazy windows. I threw together this short edit of Nate Behl that focused on the last swell at Kandui. Justis St John
Think Griffin Colapinto is ready for the Surf Ranch WSL event? Watch and marvel as Griff flies around Trestles with the kind of zip and vim we all wish we had.
Free chiro and sand jammed in every feasible orifice courtesy of the mythical Wedge…
When Dan Johnson’s mum moved to Crescent Head from Sydney, a place they visited often on family holidays, he couldn’t believe his good fortune. The classic point was now, his front yard and the with no holiday crowds he had the place to himself. Perfect!
But what he didn’t know was that in the down season, when the surf went flat and the holiday crew went home, there was not that much to keep his vibrant, tireless mind occupied. So, he did the only thing that seemed logical. He built a shaping bay under his Mum’s house and started hacking away at chunks of foam.
That was four years ago, and since then Dan has become the good time pilot of the point, out there on any given days riding all manner of designs on his self-shaped Snarly Surfboards (They’re sick, they’re gnarly, they’re snarly!) He studies design at Uni and doesn’t care about being the best guy in the water, just the bloke with the biggest smile.
“Dan Johnson represents the O’riginal mind of the next generation,” explains Blakey. “Kids who surf for the pure stoke of it, who want different sensations, and who don’t understand why you’d restrict anything as fun as surfing. I’ve never seen him not having a ball in the water and it gets everyone else in the line-up so stoked.”
Tyler Newton made the right call when one of the swells of the decade hit Indo recently. The dark holes of Nias was the place to be … as evidenced here.
Rob Machado, Evan Geiselman and Mikala Jones on a boat in Indo on the hunt for sick waves. What’s not to like? Dive in for a welcome slice of adventure. Simple fact is we’ll never get bored of watching the style maestro draw his lines.
