Category Archives: Video

Moving pictures and sound, usually Flash format, but can also be mpeg or wmv

Thread

Posted on September 3, 2011 by ed

Netflix brought us this moody, mostly black and white meditation on surfing by Patrick Trefz. Thread starts with a collaboration between Joel Tudor and photographer Michael Halsband and then sort of meanders from La Cote Basque to Africa, Hawaii and … Continue reading →

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Inaugural Surf Contest Held at Mamallapuram

Posted on August 14, 2011 by ed

India’s east coast saw a rare display of surfing when the first Ocean and Earth Surfing Championship was held at Mamallapuram yesterday.  The surf contest drew 70 competitors to the resort town 30 km south of Chennai, IBN reported. It was an … Continue reading →

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Curren & Co. Rip Tidal Bore

Posted on April 28, 2011 by ed

RipCurl’s Search crew has gone pretty far afield for their latest adventure, sending a team to Sumatra to surf one of the biggest tidal bores ever seen. The bono, or wave, is on the Kampar River, across the Straits of … Continue reading →

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Thurso Goes Off

Posted on April 16, 2011 by ed

The first day of the O’Neill Coldwater Classic, held at the famously fickle Thurso in far northern Scotland, got off to a good start in overhead and offshore conditions. The event is part of the WQS, World Qualifying Series for the … Continue reading →

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Children of the Sun

Posted on November 22, 2010 by ed

Children of the Sun is a beautiful  Kodachrome document of the surfing scene in New Zealand from 1965-1967. Most of the surfing is at NZ hotspots like Piha, Raglan and Shipwrecks, but there’s also great footage from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, … Continue reading →

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The Summer Was Immense

Posted on October 11, 2010 by ed

It’s been a great summer in New England. Not the massive parade of mega-storms that was predicted, but a few good swells. And, towards the end of the summer, we had a run of beautiful days.  Hurricanes Danielle, Earl and … Continue reading →

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The Mystic

Posted on September 18, 2010 by ed

The Mystic falls somewhere between high art and blue wallpaper. This 2004 DVD by Bill Ballard’s Billygoat Productions was two and a half years in the making.  Ballard and his crew lugged their 16 and 35mm film cameras all over … Continue reading →

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Riding Waves

Posted on July 8, 2010 by ed

Cyrus Sutton found inspiration for his debut film in his backyard. As a kid surfing at Seal Beach and growing up in Long Beach, California, he looked up to surfers like Rob Machado and Joel Tudor. So when he went … Continue reading →

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Chile’s Endangered Coast

Posted on March 9, 2010 by ed

On the morning of February 27, 2010 residents of Santiago were thrown from their beds as an 8.8 tremblor rocked the Chilean capitol. The epicenter of the earthquake was later placed about five miles west of Curanipe, Chile, or about … Continue reading →

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Land of 1000 Lefts

Posted on March 6, 2010 by ed

In case you missed Brendon Bosworth’s article about a 6,800-mile trek from South Africa to Angola  in the February 2010 issue of Surfer, you can get a feel for that epic surf mission from this video, posted on the venerable … Continue reading →

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