We Surf

Southern African juice featuring: Benji Brand, Matt Bromley, Emi Erickson, James Lowe, Natxo Gonzalez, Andrew Marr, Jurie Muller, Jason Hayes, Mike Schlebach, Jeremy Johnson just to name some of the crew. By @shotboet

The Dill & Beeg Project

You’ll have seen one of the trips for this film in the mag, the sharky Reunion tale a couple issues back. Well the full thing is ready to go … a year on the road with Brendon Gibbens and Dillon Perillo.

The Dill & Beeg Project is a compilation of our best footage from a year on the road.
We’re very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on our own project and want to thank everyone who helped us make this film materialize. We’d especially like to thank Andrew Schoener for all of his hard work.

Ehukai Sand Bar Gurglers With Jamie & John…

If you rock up to check what’s going down at Pipe odds on you’ll do it from the Ehukai beach park. This little unbuilt on oasis on the North Shore is a rare undeveloped beach lot and if you look left you stare into the maw of Pipe, out front are shifting sand bars that when the swell is small can sometimes throw up some mental shapes. Jamie O and John Florence enjoy a session when the sand has been cooperating … kind of.

Snapper Sesh!

Ridiculous runners at Snapper yesterday with Mick and friends tucking into some drainers.

This Is Not France… Mediterranean Goes Large.

Eric Rebiere and some Mediterranean boomers… Swells may be short lived in Europe’s enclosed sea, after all the name Mediterranean is derived from the Latin mediterraneus, meaning ” inland” or “in the middle of the land”, but they can pack a punch and if you know where to go there are some tasty waves.

Cribbar Today…

The slumbering beast that is the Cribbar awoke today for a feisty little morning session. Newquay’s fickle, tricky and unpredictable big wave spot is never an easy option. That didn’t stop a grom crew of George Hudson, Seth Hughes, Kamron Matthews, Angus Scotney and Jack Powers taking it on for the first time under the watchful eye of Tom Butler (pic below).

The groms didn’t disappoint and have now all worn a bigger wave on the head than they could ever imagine. Trouble with the Cribbar is there are minimum two peaks and to sit on one where the medium size more consistent waves break you run the risk of being mown down by the rare big sets. Still. This was all about experience and getting to understand the playing field. We tip our hats to you grommets who to a man paddled into the abyss.

ps: How the heck is the plume on Tom’s wave at the 2.15 mark? Like a ruddy depth charge going off…

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Whilst Buttsy took off one bomb he snapped his leash going under the two behind it which led to a long swim in. Didn’t faze the youth they carried on as he disappeared around the headland.

As Jack commented on Tom’s Insty: So sick being out there with you today Tom best experience I’ve had surfing so far, cheers.

The real drama happened after the session when two windsurfers got in a bit of bother and had to be rescued by the lifeboat and various other emergency services.
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Angus
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Kamron
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Line up and note the two groms in a very uncomfortable place…
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