Frenchman Fred Compagnon is a Hossegor surfer who’s invented a bizarre new way to ride waves by combining his passion for stand up paddle boards and the finless wooden alaias. It’s basically like step offs from a jet ski but the ski is an SUP and you drive yourself in. Watch the video. It’s loony but it sure as hell works!!
Not sure about any poor bugger in the way of the loose SUP in waves like that though!
Koa Rothman and a Cuprinol worthy video title. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
Cain Kilcullen getting spat out of some meaty slabs at home in Ireland.
If you’ve got the new issue of the mag you’ll have seen the feature on Barbados featuring Josh Piper and Mangus Scotney and friends. Here’s a video clip from the same trip.
Jayce Robinson and Lyndon Wake continue their southbound voyage through Europe. This fragment of the trip sees them explore the Portuguese coast.
They have already travelled the coast of Ireland, United Kingdom, France and Spain in search for new hidden spots and waves that are foreseen as cold and stormy monsters.
Here is the last part of their trip:
Big-wave surfing is a passion like no other – let’s explore Barry’s addiction to the pursuit of XXL.
Meet Barry Mottershead. The South African was nipped by the travel bug at an early age and so he combed the globe, eventually falling in love with Ireland. Barry now resides on the Emerald Isle and works as a kayak tour guide to make ends meet. And for fun? He surfs Ireland’s heaviest waves. A regular at Mullaghmore, Barry talks about his addiction to big-wave surfing in a new episode of This and Nothing Else. It might just make you question the things that you’re passionate about.
