It used to be enough for surfers to film themselves while holding a GoPro. Not anymore, photographers are slowly making their way back into the picture, filming the surfer from behind as they pull into the barrel.
On the weekend, the mob at Xensr Technology paddled out at Jaws with cameras capturing every angle. The result is some of the wildest footage yet seen of Peahi.
Filmmaker Tim Bonython trains his lens at one Sydney's heaviest ledges during a recent south swell. There's snapped boards, blown takeoffs and failed rock jumps - it's carnage a'plenty.
The Green Cathedral Surf Festival Surf Swap Meet is locked in for Saturday 14th December. Part of the Green Cathedral Surf Festival, presented by Wollongong Art Gallery, the surf swap is a chance for keen punters to buy, swap, or just tyre kick a huge selection of pre-1990 sleds.
Donovan Frankenreiter will play an exclusive gig at Kandooma Resort in the Maldives. Let the mustachioed troubadour provide the laidback soundtrack to your next surf holiday.
In June of this year long-standing Cronulla Point regular, Graeme 'GK' Bronner, passed away after a battle with myeloma. Graeme's family extends an invitation to all those who knew and surfed with him to help celebrate his life by joining them for a paddle-out and ashes scattering ceremony at Cronulla Point
November 13th was opening day at Jaws for 2013, it was also in the words of Mark Healey, "some of the biggest Jaws ever paddled."
Recently the organisers of the London Surf / Film Festival tasked a selection of the UK's leading surf creatives to reinterpret and redesign poster art for iconic surf films. However, it's up to the viewer to decide if the reinterpretation is an impovement on the original.
Matt Scarff is a Byron Bay surfer who has run a surf school in Bali for the past 14 years. On Saturday morning he was king hit outside a nightclub in Seminyak and suffered severe head trauma. Matt immediately underwent surgery to remove a blood clot and release pressure on the brain and will shortly be medi-vacced to Australia.
Based around one of the most spectacular days in surf history, June 8th 2012, when a massive swell hit Cloudbreak in the middle of the World Championship Tour event, 'Thundercloud' is a 60-minute documentary that tells the story in full.
