Highlights reel from 2009 Billabong Bali Pro Junior
Billabong Pro Junior Bali
Tuesday July 21st to Monday July 27th 2009
Association of Surfing Professionals Australasia Grade-5 Rated
Prize Money – $AUS30 000
Keramas/Bali
An epic final day at the Billabong Pro Junior – Bali
Performance surfing in 5 feet perfect barrelling Keramas, one of the world’s highest performance waves.
Great Barrel rides, huge scores and celebrations as Australia’s Dean Bowen
takes the final at the Billabong Pro Junior Bali – the Association of
Surfing Professionals (ASP) only rated event in Indonesia for 2009.
www.aspaustralasia.com
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The nominees have just been announced for the 2009 BILLABONG XXL GLOBAL BIG WAVE AWARDS. Regarded as the Oscars of surfing, the BILLABONG XXL AWARDS recognize the athletes who ride the biggest and best waves over the last year everywhere in the world, based on the photographic evidence. The ninth-annual event hands out over $130,000 in cash prizes in an array of categories including the Ride of the Year, the XXL Biggest Wave, Monster Paddle and Monster Tube. Here are the nominees for the Ride Of The Year Category, check all the rides on www.billabongxxl.com
You know how it is. You’ve seen a name someplace and somehow it’s associated in your mind with “good”. Somewhere along the way I’d heard about this guy called Seasick Steve, so when I heard he was playing in Sydney, I checked youtube to see if I could find any of his clips.
There are heaps of them.
And the guy is a phenomenon. His kit is straight out of a junk yard: a stomp box, a trashed three-string (!) guitar and a slide. He looks and sounds like the kinda guy you find up the back of a truck repair shop somewhere in the deep South.
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 it wired. Although we see the two champions bantering on a dimly lit stage (they’re actually at the Patagonia surf shop in Cardiff, California) , their chat is liberally illustrated with great stills pictures from Jeff Divine and Surfer magazine.
Sharks that jump out of the water and spin are apparently reasonably common along the coast of Florida*. In this short video you can see one of these critters in full flight just behind a guy on a mal…
Video from the 2008 Oxbow World Longbow Tour at San Onofre. Footage provided by Oxbow Surfwear Company. Features interviews with Bonga Perkins as well as Socal local Joe Aaron.
Submitter Dan writes: “I used to live on the southcoast in the UK and surf there from a young age – I say surf more like mushburgers, but was great fun growing up there. I used to check this website alot as a kid – a real community on here and because waves are few and far between – keeps everyone very very keen. Might not be what your after, but might give you 5 minutes of fun!! it has 2 links which are also good to filf (local shaper) www.filf.co.uk and a shop in devon (that does a daily surf report/cam) www.croyde-surf-cam.com ”
Matt K sent us a link to what is presumably one of his favourite bodyboard sites. Transitsurf is your basic blog style site (y’know, like this one!). It covers off misc bits of news from around the world of bodyboarding. I think they’re pretty new and I’m not sure if they’ve quite figured out their focus. They invite user content, so maybe they’ll get a clearer purpose as they go along. Some damned impressive trailers on the site for a new bodyboarder epic called Roam II.
There’s only one Marz and he’s been running the fiercely independent srosurf.com since forever. Long time ago he even graced our pages with a regular contribution (you’re always welcome back mate!). His reporting style is factual and no one quite has the Marz writing style. He covers off the metro, Mandurah and Margaret’s surf reports on a daily basis. If you’re in WA and you don’t know this one, hang your head in shame!
When Peter sent this one in for consideration I thought it was just someone looking for free advertising. And maybe it is, after all it’s the blog for Moonlight Glassing Co. in Leucadia California. Anyhoo, I had a scroll down the long page and there are some real purty boards there pardner, so even though it’s a nekked ploy to get your hard-earned, I am a sucker for fine handcrafted boards that I will never in a million years be able to own and therefore I’m tossing in this link for my fellow old-school fans.
Gotta get at least one vid in, so here is one almost everybody’s seen. Yeah, I know, I know… so don’t watch it okay? But for those who’ve never seen it… or those who just want to enjoy again, here it is…
Six of New Zealand’s best surf breaks will get national park status if a new coastal policy proposed by the Department of Conservation goes ahead.
The surf breaks are all of national significance and include: Shipwrecks in Ahipara, Northland; Raglan on the west coast of the North Island; Stent Road in Taranaki and White Rock in the Wairarapa, both in the North Island; Mangamaunu near Kaikoura on the east coast of the South Island, and Papatowai in the Catlins, Otago, South Island. Read more at Curl.co.nz
Our first submitted link is from Daniel who writes
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