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"The same south swells that lit up J-Bay for the recent event keep moving north and do the same to every point on the East Coast of Africa," Twig said. "I was lucky enough to intercept one such swell at this rarely surfed bank in the Transkei and score a few days of barrel bliss."
Thank you twigsurfboards.com 7'0" x 19.5" x 3" Kate Lovemore
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Flynn, Gabriel, Yago... The backflip is certainly nothing new since Flynn Novak gave it a proper unveiling a few years back. Yet there are some stinkpots out there who still find a way to pour eggnog on what is literally a revolutionary maneuver. Maybe they're calling it a glorified double-grab or calling bullshit on the amplitude. But whatever, anyone who downplays this stuff fails to grasp what this is, essentially.
It's a backflip... on a surfboard... off a moving wave face. Inverted. It's basically impossible, yet guys like Matt McCabe are doing it. How can we not be impressed?
Justin Mehren
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Brian Conley and Alex Gray step off into back to back dredging barrels in Mainland Mexico.
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West Oz charger Bradley Norris escapes unharmed from an enormous righthand mutant.
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Koby Abberton threads the needle of a perfect gem at Desert Point's grower section in Indo.
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Buddha Graham nabs a slice of perfection at Lagundri Bay.
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LA's intrepid explorer drives through mental Aussie desert slab.
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Up-and-coming South Oz hellman gets blasted out of thick, freight-train slab. It's up for an award in the Intense Surf Challenge, too. You can vote here. |
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I don't care if they make me walk all the way up the point from now on. Hell, I don't care if they ban 4WD access altogether. I don't care how many seal carcasses wash up on the beach or how many fin sightings there've been lately. I don't care that all the pros are flocking there, that the mags are blowing it up or that crowds have been an issue lately. I don't care if it's windy and under-head and expensive and the most pain-in-the-ass surf trip of my life.
I am going to Namibia one day. Because I want to be as stoked as Kiron is at the end of this clip.
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Southern hemi swells love Central America like Belgian kids love chocolate. And every summer, Nicaragua reigns as the Wonka Factory of Latin wavescapes. Playa Colorado, in particular, is an everlasting gobstopper of a beachbreak -- offering layer upon layer of tasty tubes inside a colorful, sticky exterior that's less congested than Costa and less scary than Mex. But no less thrilling.
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At around the 00:50 mark here, you can clearly see Chilean pro Cristian Merello is stoked out of his mind with this tuberide at a rare Easter Island bombora. Is it because of his connection with all the ghosts and legends that surround Rapa Nui? Or is it the novelty of the score itself: a chilly throbbing left every bit as lengthy and scary as Cloudbreak or G-Land? Or is it the fact that it took a Chilean surfer of Merello's caliber to bring this mysterious rock back into modern surfing relevance?
It's probably none of that. It's probably just the same, old, wonderful stoke that comes with bagging a big, spitting tube with just your buddies around.
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Kona, or "The Big Island", isn't really that big at all. If you've ever lived there, you know that it's a pretty small place in an otherwise big world.
Once you get out in that big world, however, and start sampling all the wonderful things it has to offer, you'll find that growing up in a small place has its advantages when ultimately confronted by so much so fast: like a penchant for healthy living and dangerous waves allows you to remain relevant far longer than most of your contemporaries. In Shane Dorian's worldview, that relevance is quantified in tube time.
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California regularfoot weaves through a hollow righthander.
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The Maui charger demonstrates how to paddle into a screamer at Chopes.
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"When you mission it to places, it's always fun. But always so much better when you score," said Walsh. "This is somewhere in the desert of Australia. Camping out nothing anywhere near you no running water, power, phone reception -- I love it!"
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Pumping Mundaka delivers long double barrel.
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Jezza threads through an ultra-long, super-fast Kirra cave.
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If you were to take all the surf spots -- ALL the surf spots -- on this big, blue ball of ours and package them into one ugly bully, Kirra Point would coil itself around the legs and hold its own against that beast. In terms of historical relevance, you don't have to be an MP buff or ever have seen Sons of Fun to know this wave is one of the seven wonders of the surfing world.
So if you ever find yourself lucky enough to make the pilgrimage here, once you get cut off (and you will, you will get cut off), consider yourself even luckier to be out at Kirra in the first place. Because if Kirra's breaking that means the Gold Coast is pumping. And if the guy who snakes you happens to be Mick Fanning, consider yourself the luckiest chap of all. Because if Fanning snakes you, that means you were riding a really good wave at Kirra Point.
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K.P. throttles through offshore double-drainer at Byron Bay.
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Gold Coast charger brings us a GoPro view from a recent wild ride.
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