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Surfing’s Dark Secret… Scheiße ya!

My girlfriend read something I’d written on t’interweb the other day and reacted like a proper Daily Mail reading shocked of Tunbridge Wells- 

“You really piss in your wetsuit?” she exclaimed in horror. ‘Err, yes. Everyone does, what of it?’ I replied. 

“So you mean to tell me that even Kelly Slater pisses himself when he wears a wetsuit?” She -like most hot-blooded females I know- has a bit of a soft spot for The Bald One™ and whilst he may be the King he still needs a wee now and then; although as we all know he pisses excellence…

Let The Froth Commence...

There was a time long ago when surfers forecast what the waves were going to be doing in the future themselves- just by looking at a picture of squiggly lines. They didn't go on the interweb and get spoon fed numbers and stars. These squiggly line pictures were hard to find -the world wide web only existed in Tim Berners-Lee academic brain at the time- and to see them you had to watch the BBC weather religiously...

Julian Wilson, Kelly Slater, Dane Reynolds and J-Flo In Slo-Mo...

More stunning visuals stuck around an attempt to make you buy stuff. Don't worry about the boardies (as it is the middle of winter and miserably wet and cold as only Britain can be) and enjoy Dane, Jools Wilson and the Bald Man in super slo-mo... Clips after da jump- 

Ian Walsh On A Whopper..

Okay so this may be an advert but as adverts go it's pretty frickin cool. Ian Walsh, Chopes and one mother of a big wave... Clip after the jump- 

Alan Stokes Is The Internet...

Mr Stokes has a shiny new website that's gone live about 3-seconds ago. It looks right tasty with plenty of photos, vids and his bloggity. Good to see the Brit pro's catching up with the World Tour fellas when it comes to online shenanigans. Mick, Parko, The Goods etc are all doing it so why can't we? It also features a plethora of my photos from all over the place. Go check it. It nice...

Bruce Irons Bum Ride...

It's not quite a classic 'cockroach' (where you lie on your back and wave your arms and legs around) but it's a pretty good bum ride. Especially considering it's at wild, wooly Pipe. The Volcom QS is down to the semi's which will hopefully run this evening our time. John John, JOB, both Walshies, Mark Mathews, Danny Fuller, Kiron Jabour and East coast US surprise Brett Barley are in the frame... Clip is here (Day 3, Rd32, Heat4 apologies their embed code is useless).

Surf Photo 101- Gizmos, Putes, Etc...

A decent laptop is now an essential part of your armoury. Never used to be but times change and be glad you’re reading this now and didn’t have to deal with laptops like my Apple 180C ten years ago that had something like 8mb of RAM and found Internet Explorer a struggle… I’m a Mac geek -as are many photog’s and creative’s originally due to the Mac’s superior colour handling ability when it came to print work flows- but these days it doesn’t really matter what you have as long as it’s got a decent processor under the hood. The current MacBook Pro 13-inch would be my choice- it’s tough, good value, rock solid OS and with Photoshop CS4 on board will do all you need.

Carlos Burle's Jaw's Jaw Dropper...

 Here's a rather nutso clip of Brazilian big-wave nut-bar Carlos Burle at Jaws. Of note- he get's a huge barrel. Also of note you can watch this clip in full HD. Thass right full screen full HD. Which I believe is something known as 'the future'. We live in interesting times kids... Clip after ze jump-

Pumping Pipeline For the Volcom QS...

Volcom's first ASP event has been, err, rather good. They've been scoring belting Pipeline on the first day of their first WQS. Usual suspects Jamie O'Brien, Healy et al have been getting some hell pits... Vid after the jump-

There Goes The No Claims Bonus...

Consider the scene- a balmy June day in Hossegor, the swells a fun three-foot, the wind a light zephyr of offshore and the morning sun is just taking the dawn chill out of the air nicely.  I’m down there shooting a bunch of micro-groms, who froth 24/7, but are particularly frothy this morning cos the shorebreak barrels at Caserne look super fun and –important when you are a 12 year old micro-grom- not too deathly or heavy.