Surfing Life #297

Dark pasts and dirty secrets in surfing's forgotten states...

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Rio vs J Bay

With all the brouhaha surrounding the waves at Rio for the first day of competition we thought we’d better wade on in to the debate.

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Teahupoo As It Happens

Surfing Life's live feed straight from Tahiti.

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Soli Bailey In Green

Meanwhile in Australia...

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Kelly Slater On Kelly Slater

ZoSea, wave pools, and other things that make Kelly, Kelly. 

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Julian Wilson's Loop Revert

A new aerial added to the dictionary of surfing maneuvers. 

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Behind The Cover

Laurie Towner talks us through his latest cover of Surfing Life.

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Bosch DIY Series: Fixing A Rail Ding

Surfing Life and Bosch bring you the first part of the DIY series, Fixing A Rail Ding.

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Mayhem: The Man Of The Moment

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Matt "Mayhem" Biolos is a shaper in demand from pros and punters alike. He works closely with Kolohe and Chris Ward, but he crafted Taj's winning board at Snapper, and has made quivers for Julian Wilson and Mick Fanning when they want to step away from their regular rides. If you want to know what the pros actually ride, Mayhem's your man.
All eyes are on Bells Beach for the 51st annual Rip Curl Pro presented by Ford. The world's best male and female surfers will be competing for the famous Bell trophy and valuable ASP World Championship Tour points.Music by "AH2 Music", track "Hey Ho" from "Up in the Club" courtesy Getty Images

Summer Solstice

Monday, 19 March 2012
Taj Burrow captured at home in W.A by Rick Rifici on his latest High Speed Digital Camera the RED EPIC at 300 frames per Second from the Water.

Mental Mentawai

Monday, 19 March 2012
Jamie O'Brien and Ryan "hippo" Hipwood shred HT's while the Vans team of John John Florence, The Gudauskis brothers and Dylan Graves down at Maccas go big with some crazy new skool shredding. Filmed and edited by Rowan Walker while cruising the Ments on www.surfchartersindonesia.com boat the Asian Princess.
www.onepalmMEDIA.com directed and produced a 36 minute story from the Philippines based around the junior surfers, Creed McTaggart, Soli Bailey, Jake Halstead, Kaimana Jaquias & Mitch Parkinson. This clip is a preview section from the production that is available to watch in full via Billabong's IPTV channel which can be accessed through any Sony...

Taj Burrow Likes To Win!

Monday, 19 March 2012
A couple of weeks ago TB won the Quik Pro on the Gold Coast, the first event on the ASP world tour. We caught up with the man after his victory and had a little chat about how he's feeling right now.

Filipe Toledo 10 pt ride

Monday, 19 March 2012
Felipe Toledo busts a huuuuuge backside 360 air, and follows up with another to finish off the wave! No wonder he scored a 10.

Mick Fanning At Snapper

Monday, 19 March 2012
Mick enjoying his local in the lead up to the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach.Music from Miners Club.

Excerpt: Dane Reynolds

Sunday, 18 March 2012
Dane Reynolds describes Excerpt as "Fragments from the videos Singles 3, Singles 3 .Epilogue., and ...as of late, early february 2012. Crafted into one piece that is downloadable to your personal device

BEYRICK DE VRIES

Friday, 16 March 2012
Beyrick De Vries from South Africa on the South Coast of NSW, Australia. Fun summer beach breaks, with loads of stylish airs.Music : Breathe Carolina - BlackoutFilm / Edit : Chris Venning

LNF WINTER SERIES: PART II

Friday, 16 March 2012
Part II of LastNameFirst.tv series from the North Shore of Oahu in 2012 with Alex & Koa Smith.Also starring Reef Macintosh (on the wave of the winter) + John John FlorenceEdited: D TreanDirected by D Trean & Alex SmithFilmed: D Trean, Dune Newhouse & a few from Lachie MckinnonThanks for watching... for more go 2 http://LastNameFirst.tv

Surfest Heating Up

Friday, 16 March 2012
It's getting down to the business end of Surfest at Mereweather, Newcastle. And yesterday a bunch of the World Tour big guns put on a show.

Shaggadelic, Baby!

Friday, 16 March 2012
From tears to glory: the waves, parties, girls, madness, friends, brothers, family, unseen, uncut... Simon “Shagga” Saffigna’s latest movie about the greatest surf town on earth promises to show Cooly and its kids like nothing else ever seen before.
This is the result of a few encounters with Gabriel on the North Shore season of 2011.We just wonder what we'd see if someone filmed him full time throughout the year...Durante o inverno havaiano de 2011, esbarramos algumas vezes com o Gabriel. Isso foi o que vimos.Só nos resta imaginar o que veríamos, se tivesse alguém acompanhando o moleque todo...

Quick Clip

Thursday, 15 March 2012
Short clip done with some recent footage of Tristan Forras
12 March 2012 - North California, United StatesMavericks Left - The New Frontier in Paddle-in Surfing in CaliforniaBig wave surfer Jeff Rowley 'paddles-in' to "Mavericks" Left Hander in California and becomes the first Australian to conquer this challenge.Mavericks is California's premier big wave surfing location and is traditionally considered...

MIRAGE Athletes: Mick Fanning

Thursday, 15 March 2012
Check out some extra footage from the Mirage campaign shoot in fiji last year!!!

Wilko Freak

Thursday, 15 March 2012
Matt Wilkinson enjoying some time back home.
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