May 23rd, 2013

Born To Boogie

Born To Boogie – Legends of Bodyboarding by Owen Pye and Mike Stewart

Full description for Born to Boogie
To its legions of followers, bodyboarding is quite simply the most intense watersport on the planet. Wherever you find waves that are too heavy for even the most gung-ho surfers, there you’ll find the boogers, screaming into dredging pits and scoring impossibly deep barrels. Born to Boogie: Legends of Bodyboarding tells the story of this incredible sport from 1971 to the present day. The pioneers, the champions and the underground chargers are all profiled, among them Tom Morey, Pat Caldwell, Ben Severson, Jay Reale, Mike Stewart, Michael ‘Eppo’ Eppelstun, Guilherme Tamega, Andre Botha, Ryan Hardy, Damian King, Ben Player, Jeff Hubbard, Mitch Rawlins and Pierre Louis Costes. Written by respected bodyboard journalist Owen Pye, Born to Boogie tells the tale of how the sport was created, how it developed, flourished, faltered and fought back to become one of the most exciting extreme sports in the world today. Filled with incredible stories spanning four decades and packed with iconic images, Born to Boogie is a book that will fascinate every bodyboarder.

Tags: born to boogie, mike stewart, owen pye

May 23rd, 2013

Paul Naude Lowers His Bid For Billabong

Paul Naude and Sycamore Partners have reduced their bid for Billabong International from 60 cents to 45 cents.

Long suffering shareholders will likely be hoping for a resolution soon. Several institutional investors have already given up, with Franklin Resources selling down its stake to 6.6%, and US-based TIAA-CREF revealing that it was no longer a major shareholder, offloading more than 10 million shares.

Paul with Andy Irons

Tags: billabong, paul naude

May 22nd, 2013

What Does The Ed Want

You may ask yourself how do I know what the editors want for their surf mag’s? To give you an example we received this email today from one of the editors of a very large surf mag.

“I’m sure you all know, but there’s something nasty brewing in the Southern Ocean and it looks like the day of the year is again coming to the South Pacific.

If anyone is onto it, please send through the shots. We’re working on the Tropical Islands issue, and this is the sort of fodder that makes me rigid.

Let’s get ‘er done.”

May 21st, 2013

Surfer Photos

We have uploaded more images of the following surfers into their section

Gabriel Villarn

Matt Archbold

Mike Losness

Nathan Webster

Noah Johnson

Pat O’Connell

Peter Mendia

Philip Waters

Ricky Whitlock

Ross Williams

Shaun Burell

Shaun Munro

Shawn Briley

Shea Lopez

Todd Holland

Todd Prestage

May 21st, 2013

Surf House – Four Surfers Living Together On Reality Show

Remember the show ‘The Real World’ “when people stop being polite…and start getting real.” Then in 2002 came Boarding House with Sunny Garcia, Damien Hobgood, Myles Padaca, Danny Fuller, Holly Beck, Veronica Kay, and Chelsea Georgeson.

Now eleven years later since the last failed surfing reality show comes a new series called Surf House which is shot on Hawaii’s North Shore on Network A.

About: Mitch Crews, Michael Dunphy, Alisha Gonsalves and Bree Kleintop—four pro surfers living together on the North Shore of Oahu during the prime winter surf season. The entire surf industry including the pros migrate to the North Shore every winter to compete on surfing’s biggest stages including the Reef Hawaiian Pro, the Vans World Cup Of Surfing, and the Billabong Pipe Masters. In this episode, the crew move into their new home and look ahead to a season of epic surf, competition, parties, and yeah…some drama. Watch the season unfold with new episodes dropping every Monday on Network A! Produced by Jamie Tierney and Tate MacDowell

Tags: surf house

May 21st, 2013

They Call It P.O.V

P.O.V meaning Point Of View. We didn’t make it up nor did we know who came up with the term P.O.V (which we think is pretty lame). You know the awkward shots you see plastered everywhere of the surfer riding a wave. Guy’s like Kelly Slater have jumped on the band wagon only because GoPro is paying him a lot of $,$$$,$$$ now his peers like Shane Dorian are claiming themselves “photographers”.

I feel like all the best surf imagery I’ve seen lately have come from surfers like you. Please discuss. – Elliot Struck from Stab magazine (what a kiss ass question to start an interview)

Interview here

Tags: gopro, p.o.v, stab magazine

May 21st, 2013

One Happy Family

Source Interlink who own Surfer and Surfing magazine have just bought Transworld Surf. With a shared office in San Clemente by ER and ING, Transworld will stay in their current location in Carlsbad. We have also heard Chris Cote editor-in-chief of Transworld Surf has stepped down from his current role and has given the reigns to Casey Koteen.