Good morning. We have just got word that this years Rip Curl Search WCT event will be held at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. We are very excited to hear this news and with the dates November 1-11 2011 they are for surely going to get some great surf. No Donavon Frankenreiter will not be in the event, but here is a shot of him surfing OB.
April 1st, 2011
Rip Curl Search Is Going To Ocean Beach, San Francisco
March 31st, 2011
How Do You Spot A Tourist At 7 In The Morning
7am this morning in Oceanside surfers were making their way out to the surf. Full suits, gloves, hoods, and booties on. Then all of a sudden these two kids walk up with smiles on their faces like they just entered Disneyland. Boogie Boards in hand they go straight in. No testing the water to see how cold it is, just charging it as if it was bath water.
March 30th, 2011
Body Glove Gives You A High Five
Going to surf contests can be a lot of fun besides watching the surfing. Here are friends at Body Glove were one of the many vendors at this past weekends surf contest The Vans Pro in Huntington Beach. They were giving out these blow up large hands. Give me a high five!!
March 28th, 2011
Taylor Knox Falls Off The Horse
Shooting photos isn’t an easy task for the photographer nor the surfer especially when you are shooting water photos. For every good water shot you see their are most likely 10 throw-aways (meaning no good; go ahead and hit the delete button). Here you have Taylor Knox who has shot with pretty much every surf photographer in the world go up to hit the lip and all of a sudden, BOOM he slips and his surfboard goes flying right towards the photographer and his camera. What does Taylor do, get’s right back up and pulls into this nice little tube and get’s a good looking photo! So as you can see it’s not all fun and games for these guys when they are working for that perfect shot.
March 28th, 2011
Kolohe Andino Sheds Tears In HB
What a day for San Clemente surfer Kolohe Andino. Today at the Vans Pier Classic Kolohe made history for himself as he made it to two finals, the junior pro and the 4* pro. Taking out surfing veterans Taylor Knox, Adriano De Souza, and Damien Hobgood in the final as well as everyone else. As he was being carried out of the water he placed his hand over his face to cover the tears, but knew there was no holding them back and went in like a champion with arms raised high, tears and all.
March 26th, 2011
Elvis Presley Joins Kolohe
Today we ran into Mr. Kolohe Andino as he was making his way towards his car and he was nice enough to let us take his picture. I am sure there have been many musicians painted on surfers surfboards, but the one that comes to our mind right now is the one Rob Machado had of Jimmy Hendrix on the top of his surfboard. This was specifically done for a photo shoot in Isla Natividad with photographer Mike Balzer which ended up on the cover of Surfing Mag. Here Kolohe shows us Elvis Presley painted on the bottom of his board. We should of asked him who painted it and why he chose Elvis. Next time we run into him, we will ask.
March 25th, 2011
Jack English Promo Card
We have just received a promo card from photographer Jack English. He had the card made at Modern Postcard and highly suggests using them.
March 23rd, 2011
Kelly Slater Is Not Human
We were originally going to go into this post about the blue box that is placed perfectly on Kelly’s board where his foot is to go. Now were not pro surfers by any means, but would this throw you off a bit by having this box or would this help in knowing where to exactly place your front foot?
So we have the image open in photo shop and were zooming in to show you the blue box and then all of a sudden we notice Kelly’s left hand is webbed! What the… Are we tripping? What is going on? Is Kelly Slater a mutant just as Kevin Costner played in the movie Waterworld? We have sent out an email to Kelly’s agent to get answers regarding this remarkable find and will let you know what he has to say.
March 22nd, 2011
Pamela Anderson Supports Waves 4 Water
And so can you. Here Jon Rose (the founder) and Pam Anderson (no there not dating) pose for a picture in front of the Waves 4 Water booth at the Hurley Pro WCT surfing event at Lowers. To learn more about this great support project please visit wavesforwater.org
March 21st, 2011
Damien Surfs Lower’s On His Head – Kolohe Watches
Were not really sure what was going on between Damien Fahrenfort and Kolohe Andino as they chose to share a wave together at Lower’s. We contacted Damien and asked why he chose to surf the session on his head, his reply was, “you have try anything these days to get a shot in the mag”. We’re not sure if the shot ever got ran in the mag or not, but we do know Kolohe did not enjoy that back end view. Want to here more from Damien be sure to check out his website at doomasrumors.com
