From a surf stoked Durban kid to back-to-back Jeffrey’s Bay champion, O’Neill’s Jordy Smith has a special place in his heart for J-Bay. On the dawn of the ASP world tour returning to the much missed dream tour location, Jordy shares his personal connection with his homeland and one of the world’s best waves.
Beautiful video from the Bird of the Mentawai islands in Indonesia in all their glory from a drone…
Peruvian big wave maniac Gabriel Villaran paddling into a monstrous, frothy tube at Puerto Escondido… More froth than Starbucks on that one.
You wait ages for a Wavegarden and then three turn up at once… According to the Mid Devon Gazette there’s another slice of lake based wave sliding in the planning for junction 27 of the M5. Otherwise known as the Tiverton Parkway turn off. Which is going to froth the Exeter, mid-Devon and Dorset/Somerset crew out when it’s like totes flat. The plans look pretty ambitious and we don’t know if planning permission etc has been got yet. We’ll keep an eye on developments.
***UPDATE 12.30 8/7/14 Apparently this release should never have been issued, and this WaveGarden won’t happen. People eh. Rumours are circling of another one in the south west…
Here’s a look at our exclusive mag trip to the test facility in the Basque mountains last year, the Wales and Bristol sites in development are planning a significantly taller wave, the test site is limited by geography in the size of the lake and hence waves they can produce.
Alex Gray does a funny 😉
Fitting in with the World Cup of Soccer 😉 reaching the sharp end, with quarter finals kicking off (literally) today, here’s a masterclass in making average waves look awesome with Alejo Muniz, Filipe Toledo, Gabriel Medina and Miguel Pupo.
