"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Mavericks video

You want big? You want stooopid big and freezing cold? Check out these seasick waves from last weekend Warning, no steady cam For those who haven’t seen this vantage point and aren’t prone to motion sickness here are some clips from the first two heats of the Mavericks contest this last weekend. …

Surf in Scotland?

Interesting 9-min video of surfin’ in Thurso region. Waves look kinda like the NSW south coast… but a bit colder! A video guide to Thurso, Scotland.

Video: the Dolphin stampede

Who doesn’t love watching dolphins… a lot of dolphins! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiEXRMB-u8[/youtube] From the YouTube description: This video was shot in the Sea of Cortez between Isla la Guardia and Bajia de los Angeles. While fishing we ran through a pod of several hundred dolphins. This is part of what we saw.

Gerry Lopez & Jock Sutherland talkin’ Pipe

Came across this very interesting video of Gerry Lopez and Jock Sutherland talking about the history and their experiences of Pipeline. It’s part one of six and in this episode they give us brief bios before Gerry talks about trying to surf Pipe the first time in 1962 – and meeting Jock, who already had […]

The Mootrix

MAN vs. COW See the video.  Someone once told me I had a better chance of being attacked by a cow than a shark. Seems appropriate today given the shark attacks in Sydney.  Those aren’t funny. This video is hilarious. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByG3GmOg9I8[/youtube]

Weird waves: The Silver Dragon

In September of 2008, Greg and Rusty Long and Mark Healey joined writer Mike Cianciulli and photographer A.J. Neste from Gerard Sports Marketing on a mission to surf the Qiantang River bore in China Apparently the bore is known to locals as The Silver Dragon and is the focus of a riverside festival. The river […]

Have a laugh: Hitler’s shaper

I’d say every surfer on the planet will have seen this mashup within the next 24 hours… Mr Hitler isn’t happy about his surf trip, guess why…(click to follow link) …… Actually, there have been numerous other mashups on this clip. Here’s one provoked by, of all things, Nikon’s new D3x pro camera. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwf2RShNV0[/youtube] and […]