Versatile Wagers

Pro surfers with a heavy competition schedule use their free time to relax at home, or travel and discover new places.
Featured here is Marc Lacomare, gambling with Mama Nature to find waves in Nicaragua, before heading to California to compete at the US Open of surfing.
On his journeys around the world he has the privilege to experience local culture, and one day, looking for food, some music and screams attracted our curiosity that led us to witness the wild world of underground cockfights…

Film and photo: Alex Laurel

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John John Florence

Yep. No one wants to be back at work. Ease the pain with this new clip of JJF doing otherworldly surfboard riding down France way.

EDIT: Original YouTube file made private for who knows what reason…

http://youtu.be/Hjn1yrU63HM

Pipeline Above & Below

Photog Brent Bielmann and Aerial Filmer Eric Sterman collaborate to show two very different perspectives of one of the most famous waves on the planet: Pipeline. Starring Jamie O’Brien, John John Florence, Koa Rothman, Flynn Novak, Stephen Kohne and more…

Mavericks

Mavericks. Big. Fugly and magnetic viewing. For contrast, especially when it comes to measuring wave heights, at say Nazare, check the drone angle on Jamie Mitchell’s wave. How different does it look from the sky angle?

Super Tubes

We were down in Portugal mid-December on a mag shoot and lucked in to all time Supertubos, the first section of this clip from Dane Hall is from those sessions.