Koa Smith takes a waterproof microphone out to the Banzai Pipeline. Wipeouts, second reef clean up sets and huge perfect barrels! Listen to what it sounds like – Wait until the end! On his last wave Koa had one of his gnarly wipeouts. Shot in one day on the 24th December 2020.
The world knows Tom Carroll as the pro surfer, the two-time world champion, the big-wave killer, and the Australian legend. What they don’t know is that while leading the charge of surfing’s rapid and unstoppable move to the world-stage of professional sport during the 80’s, Carroll kept a Canon film AV-1 in-hand and took photographs – lots of photographs. Salt in the Blood is the documentary exploring surfing’s infant days through Tom’s lens and the 30,000 undeveloped photos hidden underneath his house until now.
Dive deep into the life of big wave surf photographer Dom Mosqueira. Spending his youth as a vagabond Dom sailed his way to Tahiti and never left. Living in proximity to one of the worlds biggest and most dangerous waves, Dom Mosqueira risks life and limb in pursuit of the perfect photograph of world class surfers riding the worlds most dangerous wave, Teahupo’o. Surf photography perfected through the lens of Dom Mosqueira.
Check out Dom on Instagram here.
UK Lockdown 3.0, here we go again, time to pull into some classic surf films. Pentacoastal, Flow State, Lost Atlas, Sprout, Mick Fanning and Mason Ho in Red Monkey, Full Moon. Not forgetting the legends that are Occy in Billabong Pump and Addiction The Matt Archbold story are all now playing at carvemag. Be safe people, look after yourselves and others, it may get a bit bumpy but we’ve got this, now pass the popcorn.
Rip Curl’s The Search featuring Mick Fanning and Mason Ho in Red Monkey, Full Moon
PENTACOASTAL: A Surf Film Directed by Wade Goodall & Shane Fletcher
FLOW STATE | Russell Bierke
Sprout An exploration into the riding of water mountains
Lost Atlas | John John Florence, Jordy Smith, Craig Anderson | Full Movie
Addiction The Matt Archbold story (MCD)
Billabong Pump (Occy, Richie, Ronnie Burns, Munga)
Aussie surf legend Mikey Wright helped save a woman being dragged out into the surf on Oahu’s north shore. Wright, who was in Hawaii for the Pipe Masters posted footage of the rescue on Instagram with the caption: “hold my beer”. Well done Mikey and all involved.
