Pipeliners having fun at 4pm
21-12-2008 — It’s 1pm here and 4pm yesterday at Pipeline. They’re having a fun surf with nice overhead peaks, and it doesn’t look hugely crowded. Some great surfing going on as usual – right now. Here’s a link to the cam LiveSurfCamHawaii.com: Pipeline Camera – and you can control the cam.
VIDEO:: “Hawaii Surfing” but I’m sure some of it’s Teahupo’o
21-12-2008 — Hawaii and Chopes, and maybe other places too under the one name of “Hawaii Surfing”, this video is still 4:21 minutes of great waves, some of Laird’s momentus waves at Chopes, some of Flea in Hawaii, others. With nearly 2 million views and a ranking of 4.5, this editor agrees it’s worth the […]
Bra Boys, Bandidos and Comancheros clash in turf war at Maroubra
21-12-2008 — Interesting story in the Sunday Telegraph this morning in Sydney. What do RealSurfers think about this? “A VOLATILE turf war has broken out between the Bra Boys and two outlaw motorcycle gangs that have begun moving into the surfers’ territory in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra.” Here’s a link to the […]
Blizzard surfing, NYC style
From our friends at New York Longboarder , some truly good waves in the middle of a blizzard at Rockaway beach. 2006 NYC Blizzard Surf @ Rockaway Beach – video powered by Metacafe
Massive Mavs
Late November and they get a bit of swell at Mavericks… [youtube]http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tA57cIBkA0o[/youtube]
Editor’s choice from our mailbag
Your correspondent has been spending too much time below decks tinkering with the engine, so it was about time he put in appearance on the bridge. We have a bit of a backlog in the way of suggested links, so I’m calling this round ‘from the mailbag’. Cardboard boards? Sounds mad doesn’t it? Rod D. […]
LNT: Adrian Belew, Frank Zappa
Read a reveiw in the Herald about a Adrian Belew gig at the Basement. Had never heard of him (cringe) so went looking for some clips. Here are a couple I liked… First, a great cover of Bowie’s We can be heros with Martha Wainwright sharing vocals [youtube]http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eO4Sok-_JIs[/youtube] Most of the clips I found had […]
Artificial reefs?
Who hasn’t watched perfect hundred metre long walls shutting down along a beach and thought ‘if only there was a reef…’? Artificial surfing reefs have recently bobbed up as a topic on our forums, so we thought we’d see what we could find in the way of interesting links on the topic. If you’re not […]
Threatened surf spots
For as long as there have been surf spots, there have been people trying to turn them into marinas, breakwalls, jetties, boat ramps, pulp mills, etc etc. Here are a few sites devoted to threatened surf spots such as Kirra, Bastion point in Victoria, Ollies at Pt Kembla and New Zealand’s Whangamata. Over the last […]
LNT: Rock n’ roll No.1’s
According to our poll on your favourite music genres, the hands down winner is Rock n’ roll. I’d dearly love to know what the RealSurf audience’s all time top tunes are, but since I haven’t polled on that question, I thought it might be worth looking at what could be found in the way of […]