“Surfing has saved me from the dark side of the night” The first Portuguese woman to charge Praia do Norte’s now infamous mammoth waves, Joana Andrade, is the star of Director, Minna Dufton’s, epic new tale of overcoming colossal fears, personal discovery and healing recovery. Big Vs Small, currently touring in cinemas throughout the UK, […]
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5 Things You Didn’t See On The Tudor Nazaré Challenge Broadcast
A peep up Nazzy Tow Challenge dryrobe? Nazaré tends to be a pretty popular one in terms of live online audience. Forecasted days in advance, a great chance of shit going horribly wrong, also never a bad hate watch – and if you can‘t find the energy to type ’shame league’, preferring the character economy […]
Nazaré Tow Challenge Set To Run Despite Ban: New Format & Expanded Women’s Division
While the local port authorities declared a surfing ban at Nazaré yesterday due to the spectacle attracting thousands of spectators to congregate on the cliffs, the WSL’s Nazaré Tow Challenge event will run as soon as conditions allow, with a closed to the public, no-spectator format. The event waiting period officially opened Monday 2nd Nov, […]
Listen: It’s Not The Length Podcast Ep 20 – Nazaré Gets Naughty
It’s Not The Length – Surf Podcast · G-MAC on the ‘Best Day Ever At Nazaré’ It’s Not The Length Podcast returns with a thrilling instalment fresh off the drama of Europe’s historic Epsilon swell. When one of the biggest swells in recent memory hit Nazaré, an absolute classic day of giant tow surfing went […]
G-Mac on Big Thursday: ‘The Best Day At Nazaré I’ve Ever Seen’
When it comes to opinions on Nazaré, everybody’s got one. Some are shared from the safety of a Disqus comment thread on the other side of the world, others are formed from an afternoon spent atop the famous cliff, watching on. Very few are as qualified as Garrett McNamara’s, whose exploits at Praia da Norte […]
Surf Rage Goes XXL: Drama At Nazaré As Big Wave Surfers Fight In Lineup, Jetski Runs over Rival Crew on Purpose
Reports – as yet unsubstantiated with nobody involved willing to go on record – of multiple incidents in the lineup at Nazaré are coming out of the last couple of days of huge swell at the infamous big wave break. With yesterday seeing perhaps one of the biggest swells ever, it wasn’t just the conditions […]
WATCH: Behind The Scenes At The Nazare Challenge With Nic Von Rupp
The Nazare tow challenge format presented a rare opportunity for surfing to have a go at being a real team sport. Unlike previous more tokenistic attempts, like the founder’s cup or the ISA’s, at Nazare event, the team’s are out there facing down the elements and attempting to surf the world’s biggest waves together. Polished […]
GALLERY: The Many Faces Of Nazaré By Helio Antonio
For centuries Nazaré was a seaside town like any other. Just a mass of white houses with terracottas rooves sprawling back from the coast where the beaches bustled with tourists, frolicking among brightly coloured boats and a tangle of fishing nets. In the late 70’s a small crew of local surfers and bodyboarders sprung up […]
Listen: Insider Insights From The Nazarè Challenge On It’s Not The Length Podcast
It’s Not The Length comes to you from the cliff overlooking 50-60ft surf at Nazaré, just after the WSL’s Nazaré Tow Challenge. Evans & Mondy, fresh from the live commentary booth and slightly rattled from seeing what looked a lot like Alex Botelho drowning on live broadcast, bring you a fresh debrief the key events […]
Near Tragedy At Nazaré Tow Challenge
The inaugural Nazaré Tow Challenge was less than 10 minutes from completion, towards the end of the last bonus heat when near tragedy struck and reduced the broadcast, beach crowd and athletes to stunned silence as 50ft waves unloaded at Praia da Norte. With Hugo Vau driving and Team Portugal partner Alex Botelho on the […]
BREAKING: Nazaré Tow Challenge Yellow Alert, Likely To Run Tuesday 11/02
The WSL’s inaugural Nazaré Tow Challenge is set to go next week, most likely Tuesday 11/02/20. A huge North Atlantic swell with plenty of north in it – ideal for the peakier waves and in particular ‘Big Momma’ outside first peak Naz – is developing between Greenland and Ireland and set to arrive early next week. The […]
Meanwhile At Nazare: 25 Grand Wipeouts & Near Misses
The waiting period for the Nazaré Tow Challenge opened at the start of November, the brand new WSL big wave event previewed in the latest episode of It’s Not The Length Podcast. After a couple of small – mid size swells early in the month, the Atlantic came to life last week sending a huge NNW pulse […]
Listen: Natxo Gonzalez Recounts His Game-Changing Nazaré Performance
“At first, I thought I was too deep, but I just said to myself, ok, I’m going, I’m gonna pull in and just see what happens…” Natxo Gonzalez remembers thinking seconds before snagging a huge left tube for an historic perfect 10 at the Nazaré Challenge last November. “Sometimes at Nazaré, the medium ones are better, the ones […]
WATCH: A Crazy Season Opener At Nazare
Last weekend saw a giant swell and an all star cast grace Nazare for the season opener. No need for a verbose pre-amble on this one, we know exactly why you’re here. For carnage and crazy waves and the biggest aquatic beast on mother earth. Crack a cold one and spectate yourself silly:
Fourteen Year Old Summa Longbottom Tows A Bomb At Nazaré!
On Wednesday, as a sizeable Atlantic swell was wedging up at Nazaré, Dylan Longbottom’s fourteen year old daughter Summa jumped behind the ski for her first every tow session at the Portuguese behemoth. Summa is like a great many of second generation rippers, taught from a young age by their parents and securing surfing’s bright […]
An Update On Tom Butler’s Condition After His Crazy Nazare Wipeout
Earlier this week a the Nazare Big Wave Challenge Brit Tom Butler took a nasty wipeout during his round one heat whilst absolutely going for it on a solid one. Butler suffered some injuries and was carted off to hospital, and today he’s posted an update detailing the story from his perspective and an update […]
Biggest Wave Ever Paddled at Nazaré?
Nazare has been enjoying plenty of mentally big days recently, and with a whole host of international chargers staying near by waiting for the start of the Red Chargers invitational event, we’ve already seen XXL nominations, massive wipeouts and a clip of a man playing jingle bells on the violin as he takes the drop. […]
Tom Lowe Gets Chased By Jet Ski At Nazare
In what seems to be becoming an increasingly common incident, Tom Lowe has had a close encounter with a water vessel whilst paddling in at Nazare yesterday, check out the footage below and let Tom talk you through what sounds like a very near miss:
Overhead Nazare
When you think of Nazare you probably don’t immediately think of fun looking overhead drainers, however during a recent flat spell everywhere else along the Portuguese coats thats exactly what the world renowned big wave spot served up.
Behind the Scenes at Nazaré
Those gnarly photos of Cotty steaming down a sixty footer are epic, but seeing the other side of it all, the nerves and anticipation of the guys nailing these monsters is a great insight to the world of a travelling big wave surfer.
Behind The Lines EP 4: Cotty takes on Nazare
Episode 4 of ‘Behind the lines’ follows Cornish big wave legend Cotty as he tackles a huge swell at Nazare last winter. This edit details the trials, tribulations and preparations as the team set out to tackle one of big wave surfings most notorious beasts. With insights from fellow charger and pioneer of the wave […]
The Wavelength Surf Film Festival Preview pt. I
Heads-up, Bristol massive, this is pt I of our Wavelength Surf Film Festival preview, which is returning to the Blue Earth Summit On Thurs, October 12. Between films, Wavelength editors Mike Lay and Ed Temperley will be joined by a selection of filmmakers and contributors from WL Vol. 265, plus a live interview with 2x […]
The Wavelength Surf Film Festival returns to Bristol’s Blue Earth Summit on Oct 12
Calling all SW surfers, the Wavelength Surf Film Festival returns to celebrate the art of sliding at the Blue Earth Summit in Bristol. We’ll present a curated and entertaining selection of surf flicks and conversations to state that celluloid surf hunger. Grab your tickets here On Thurs, October 12, we will host a handpicked selection […]
Key Moments in Women’s Surfing in 2022
2022 has been a truly vintage year for women’s surfing. We’ve seen a host of incredible events, developments, cultural happenings and more as the world fully emerged from the pandemic. Here, we dissect some of the key moments in women’s surfing in 2022. Moana Jones Wong Crowned the New Queen of Pipeline The debut of […]
2022 Wavelength Quotes Of The Year: Part 1
Words matter and we think these matter more than most. “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation,” said the powerful goofyfooter, Benjamin Disraeli. He had a point. And so with 2022 drawing to a close, we thought we’d bundle the best words of wisdom from surfing’s key […]
The Weekly Wavelength Q&A: Andrew ‘Cotty’ Cotton
“There were a few seconds where I really thought that this is the end” – Andrew Cotton. Short questions and big answers from the key players in the surf world. Andrew “Cotty” Cotton is a professional surfer from North Devon. Cotty was an early adopter at Nazare and has spent the last decade forging a […]
Mason Barnes: Winner Of The 2022 Red Bull Big Wave Award for the Biggest Tow Wave
Big wave rider, Mason Barnes, talks us through the giant wave at Nazare that changed his life… Mason Barnes has won the 2022 Red Bull Big Wave Award for the Biggest Tow wave. The 28-year-old from Wilmington, North Carolina rode the wave at Nazare on March 4 this year. The Nazare bomb came a few […]
Vissla Creators & Innovators: Paul Duvignau
Paul Duvignau is something of a renaissance man. The 25-year-old describes himself as a “shaper, surf coach, carpenter, multitask craftsman, cowboy, chippendale, whatever you want (laughs).” He’s also something of a throwback, a millennial with old school sensibilities. He rides big waves on self shaped guns, as well as horses, 80’s enduro motorbikes, and much […]
2021: Women’s Wrap Up
As we cast our eye back to 2021’s eventful and powerfully charged run of events and happenings in women’s surfing, it feels like 2020’s fallow year gave way to an incredible year of achievement, energy and creative expression. Powerful icons within surfing celebrated stunning achievements, cementing their rightful places within surf lore and history, surfing […]
Top Surfers Shred Pro-Only Setting At The Wave + The WL Surf Film Fest Lights Up Bristol
This week saw surfers, activists, adventurers and sustainable business leaders gather in the heart of Bristol for the inaugural Blue Earth Summit. Over two days of talks, workshops and outdoor activities the event set out to explore how we can all work together to tackle the issues facing our planet and the communities that inhabit […]
Leading The Charge; A Live Conversation With Andrew Cotton & Gabe Davies At The WL Surf Film Festival, Bristol
The Wavelength Surf Film Festival rolls into Bristol for an evening of critically acclaimed surf cinema and good times in the heart of the city this Wednesday 13 October. Get tickets here. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be kicking off the WL Surf Film Festival at 1900 on Wednesday the 13th with a live […]
Owen Tozer: A Life in Pictures
Powered by Goodrays Owen Tozer has been a busy boy of late. While the rest of us spent lockdown completing Netflix or getting in Twitter spats about whether not wearing PPE in the surf made you Gammon, Karen or cancelled, the South Devon local instead got productive. He recently released Looking Sideways Vol. 1 with […]
Dad & Daughter Duo Dylan & Summa Longbottom On Towing Heavy Waves Together
When it comes to stalwarts of the big wave surfing world, Aussie Dylan Longbottom ranks among the most well respected. With an illustrious career spanning almost three decades, headline accolades include a starring role during Teahupoo’s infamous Code Red swell and a stint stunt doubling on Hollywood’s big 2015 Point Break sequel. He’s also a […]
Have We Just Witnessed The Greatest Global Run of Swell In History?
Popular surf forecasting app Magic Seaweed tend cop a bit of flak, for one reason or another. Harsh, if you ask me. Super harsh. Take just yesterday, for example. The very last day of the greatest ‘run’ of swell in the world, ever. A perfect, perfect day. Skies blue; sea, shimmering. Exotic sting of pavement […]
Dad Dance: What’s Behind Surfing’s Fetish For Older Men?
One time they were just like youDrinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glueHelp the agedDon’t just put them in a home – Pulp “I’m old, I could take the Search sticker off… it gets boring after a while” – Tom Curren, Free Scrubber ITV made a documentary on the American surf scene back when Kelly Slater […]
The Wavelength 2020 Surf Quiz
As we say goodbye to 2020, it’s time for one last little look back on the year that was (before we never, ever dare breathe a mention of it ever again) by testing your knowledge of the world of surfing over the last twelve months. You may want to refresh your memory, of course, in […]
Listen: 2020 Podcast Best Bits
Like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before it, or the Dead Sea Scrolls before that, Wavelength’s It’s Not The Length podcast serves as an important historical and cultural record of our times. With a collective sigh as we leave 2020 astern, like the welcome relief felt when that obnoxious drunk of a mate has finally passed/been punched […]
2020 Revision: Looking Back on The Year in Surfing That Was
Somebody’s has to speak up for the forgotten victims, like 2016. The year that gave us Brexit, Trump and killed everyone who’d ever thought about making a decent song or film, had enjoyed a level of infamy as the gruesome year everyone wanted to turn off and on again, until 2020 came along and put […]
Performance Not Politics: Justine Dupont’s Quest For The Finest Line
French big wave surfer Justine Dupont rode a huge left in the morning of the inaugural Nazaré Tow Challenge in February 2020, winning the Best Female Performance award for her efforts. As the former Women’s CT surfer accepted her award in a ceremony at the iconic lighthouse that evening, she paid tribute to fellow women’s […]
Dead Leg: Euro Championship Tour Stops RIP?
Could the Meo Pro Portugal be joining Quik Pro France France in getting clipped in the WSL’s 2021 reboot? Back in May, WL broke the news that fans lining the famous sands of La Graviere in 2019 QPF might’ve been watching their very last edition of one of the Dream Tour’s flagship events. Kicking off […]
Stories & Shots From The Monumental Epsilon Swell
First spotted as a spinning wind somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland, the level of hype ahead of last week’s swell looked, to a miserable pessimist, like a recipe for disappointment. However, after Hurricane Epsilon merged with another Atlantic depression early in the week, it did just as it was supposed to, making landfall on […]
Manera Meteor Magma Hooded 5/4/3 Wetsuit Review
First impressions: I’ll just come right out and say it; when I unwrapped the Magma Hooded 5/4/3 from its pizza box and bioplastic embellage, my first thought was “It looks a little bit like a woman’s wetsuit”. Not the colour (mine is all black everything), not the logos (very minimal), something about the shape. I […]
Manera: A Unique Brand Story
How a mum & dad run family business from the French Mediterranean used 3D design, shunned e-commerce and got their suits onto some of the world’s leading freesurfers. In 1994, Raphaël & Sophie Salles started F-One, a brand for the relatively new sport of kiteboarding on the French Mediterranean coast near Montpellier. In 2012, Manera […]
5 British Mysto Waves To Look Out For This Winter
So that’s it for summer then? This time last week, the view outside the window was one of autumnal perfection. Head high waves, light winds, sunny skies. The sort of conditions almost every surfer would break into one of those tottering jogs for. Now, the view looks very different. The horizontal rain is back and […]
‘Can You Surf A Tsunami?’ – The History Of A Pop Cultural Obsession
On the island of Oahu in the early 60’s, the story of the man who surfed a tidal wave was just one that everyone knew. “Everyone always used to say, ‘Hey, have you heard that story?’” remembers a Hawaiian woman named Kris Sellin, who’d first been told it way back in elementary school. “This guy, […]
A Blueprint For A Happy Lockdown With Nic Von Rupp
From the jet setting pro to the humble weekend warrior, the current lockdown demands a major adjustment for surfers from all walks of life. We’re all trying to strike the balance between isolating as much as possible to help slow the spread, maintaining our mental and physical health and not descending into long periods of […]
Listen: Taz Knight’s Mullaghmore Mullering
Devonshire gnarl enthusiast Taz Knight is known for his dedication to some of the heaviest slabs and reefs that break around the British Isles and beyond. One such frightful waveform is the Irish lefthander known as Mullaghmore, which this winter has lit up under the rare calmer atmospheric conditions between a series of raucous Atlantic named […]
Did We Just Have The Best Week of Euro Surf Comps Ever?
While the British Isles were getting blasted by screeching gales and torrential downpours by the back to back bomb depression systems of Ciara and Dennis, the Continent basked in the double delights of plus 20 degree air temps, and plus 20 ft swells. For good measure, it was also puffing offshore, too. While Ciara’s sub […]
In Defence Of The Hastings Storm Surfer
On Monday of this week, a lone surfer jumped off a harbour wall for a surf in Hastings as solid 6-foot onshore waves pounded the shoreline. Nestled way up the channel coast, in the south-east corner of Britain, Hastings isn’t exactly a surfing hub. But still a small community of wave riders exist there, waiting […]
Listen: “It Scared The Sh*t Outta Me”
By their very nature, invitational events tend to be held in high quality surf, and Quemao Class, held at the infamous Pipe-style wave El Quemao on the north coast of Lanzarote is no exception. When Storm Brendan sent XXL swell pulsing to all corners of Europe last week, prompting a very near green light on […]
The Most Talked About Surf Clips Of The Decade
Like everything the internet has got it claws into, the world of surf film making has undergone a profound shift over the last ten years. When the decade began Youtube was still in its infancy, Instagram was still three years off even hosting video and the majority of surfing’s moving images still existed on the […]
A Decade In Review; European Surfing’s Defining Moments From 2010-2019
Smell ya later, twenty teens. We started the decade not wanting to be part of no f*kin tennis tour, and ended it on the eve of being part of the Olympics, whether we like it or not. If we cast our minds back a decade, we probably didn’t particularly see a wave pool CT event, foiling, or the Brazilian Storm coming. Elsewhere, […]
Surfing in 2019 in Review: Tearing a New Annus Horribillis?
Back at the start of the year, small yet brave embers of optimism glowed fiercely in the pot bellied stove of our stoke cottage. John John was back, and on a tear (before his ACL did). Slater was about to embark on perhaps his last ever lap of the Tour, giving fans a chance to […]
INTL Podcast: “Love You” Slater: “Thanks man”
Guinness World Record holder Paul Evans & 4th place finisher in U16 NSW State Surfing Titles 1989 co-host Ben Mondy return with another thrilling instalment of Wavelength’s It’s Not The Length podcast. Yep, that podcast. The one brought to you proudly in association with FourFiveCBD and Billabong’s Graphene wetsuits. Leaving no journalistic turn unstoned, Paul and Ben are […]
Does Checking the Surf in an SUV Make You an Idiot?
Bad news, surf folk. Not only is eating meat and flying to Indo all very much Climate Crisis kookery, it would seem driving the exact kind of car your favourite and least favourite pro surfer influencers are peddling is too. I was working at the Meo Rip Curl Pro Peniche recently, and a colleague was lucky enough to […]
Post Portugal: What We Learned
I hadn’t been to Peniche for a few years before attending this year’s Championship Tour event. While I’ve been a regular visitor to Portugal, that particular waft of cabbage field offshore across a kinda bleak, vaguely dystopian Peniche skyline, married with an outrageous richesse of nearby surf opportunity had all become unfamiliar to me. It […]
The Best Wetsuits For Winter Surfing
If you’re surfing in Europe in winter, you’re wearing a wetsuit. In fact, what wetsuit you’re wearing will likely determine the quality of the surfing experience as much as – possibly more – than the board you ride. Realistically, each session you’re only up and wiggling (sorry ripping, I meant ripping) for a couple of […]
An Idiot’s Guide To: The Euro Leg
The World Surf League’s European leg is nigh upon us; surely the most wonderful time of the year. Sure, Christmas is decent for pub time, and summer sure has its moments – be they festival or merely estival – but neither really match up in terms of exotic shred. Who doesn’t remember exactly where they […]
Meet Hijo Del Mar; The Underground Big Wave Bodysurfer
Have there ever been more ways to ride a wave than there are today? Let’s take Nazare- surfing’s HQ for mainstream publicity- as a sample. On any given day you’re likely to find an assortment of bodyboarders, foil boarders, jet boarders, tow and paddle surfers and even, on rarer occasions, men in blow up sumo […]
Pale, Female & Stale: 2019 Women’s CT
Women’s sports, while still having distance to travel to achieve parity with men’s in terms of audience, adulation and earnings, have never been as high profile as they are today. Just this week, American soccer star Megan Rapinoe took on President Trump, no less. Her stance over LGBT rights among other issues has seen her […]
2000 World Champ Sunny Garcia In Intensive Care After Suicide Attempt
2000 World Champion and 6-time Triple Crown Winner Vincent Sennen ‘Sunny’ Garcia is reportedly recovering in hospital in Oregon, after what has been reported – but not confirmed by official sources – as an attempted suicide. Garcia went public with mental health issues including depression in 2014, and regularly uses his Instagram as a place to […]
Listen: “I Think I Deserve A (BWT) Spot, I’ve Given It My Best, I’ve Been On Every Swell”
Did you help lock down London Town on the Extinction Rebellion protest lately? We sure hope so. Do you dump unnecessary plastic packaging plastic at the Tesco check out in attempt to help clean our seas? Right on brothers and sisters. Right on. Now we need to call upon your activism once again, for another very worthy cause. We […]
WATCH: A Horrific Wipeout & Disastrous Rescue Attempt Starring A 51 Year-Old Charger
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the rabid pack who take to the Nazaré lineup once the waves tick above the 20 foot mark, is how many over 50’s there are among the ranks. Sure, adverts for supplements might tell you that life begins at 50, but realistically by the time most people hit the half-century their […]
April: Where Not To Surf in Europe
You might be familiar with the popular surf website doozy known as the Seasonal Travel Guide. ‘Hey! Why not check out Chopes or Cloudbreak this spring… southern hemi swells are starting to…’ As. Fucken. If. Either you’re already going there, know who you’re staying with, what boat you’re using, ordered your pintails etc, etc, or […]
Europe’s Longest Waves
For one reason or another, length of ride has always captured surfers’ imaginations. Part launched into collected surf psyche by Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer Cape St Francis stitch up (“waves so long, we couldn’t capture then on a single reel of film…”), length of ride was once held in such high regard that it was even in […]
Surfers Ride Cribbar On Motorised Jet Boards
Although motorised surfboards have been around for a number of years, they haven’t established much of a foothold in surfing lineups, remaining largely confined to lakes and wealthy people’s garages. However, last Friday two enthusiastic British proponents of Jetboard surfing took to the Cribbar for an afternoon of petrol-powered pocket rides, leading us to wonder […]
How To: Make The World Tour Better
Despite previous pronouncements to the contrary, most notably the plan to crown the World Champs on a boat in Indo in September, the 2019 CT will look a lot like the Dream Tour schedule of a decade and a half ago, starting at Snapper ending at Pipeline. In the middle, there’s no longer Fiji or […]
Surfing in 2019: Bold Predictions For The Year Ahead
A brave new year in surfing is upon us. What exactly it brings in terms of surfing opportunity to you is still uncertain. Atmospheric vorticity, tidal ebb and flow, local sea states and perhaps above all, your own day to day lifestyle choices, along with a multitude of other variables will all come into play, […]
10 Moments That Defined Surfing In 2018
Ain’t it exciting to be part of a sport that’s always advancing? Imagine if we all had to spend our time consumed by golf, where the rolling grassy knolls and little-manicured sand pits are exactly the damn same on every day of the year and the nature of the swing has barely shifted since the […]
Big Wave Plastic Ocean Defender – Garrett McNamara
Over the past few days we have been fortunate enough to get to know Garrett McNamara in Ericeira and Lisbon, while attending the Surf & Web Summit. He is a man with legendary status for pushing boundaries of big wave surfing and famously held the world record for biggest wave ever surfed for over 7 […]
Inside The World Of Maya Gabeira; The Hardest Charging Woman On Earth
When Brazilian big wave surfer Rodrigo Koxa broke the record for the largest wave ever surfed at Nazaré back in November last year, his triumph was covered by media outlets the world over. At a staggering 80 foot, the beast he rode is certainly something to shout about – especially after an almost fatal wipeout […]
How Dangerous Is Surfing?
Every year, when the World Surf League releases its entries for the wipeout of the year awards, the same words pass across thousands of lips: ‘How on earth didn’t they die?!’ While there have been several high profile deaths over the past few decades, surfing, even in giant waves, is actually nowhere near as deadly […]
The British Surf Broadcast, June 2018
Welcome to the British Surf Broadcast, June 2018 edition; your guide to all that’s been going on in the world of British surfing. Summer seems to have arrived in Blighty and if you haven’t been getting amongst it, you’ve been missing out. By now those boots and 5/4 should have been jubilantly cast aside and […]
Catching up with Andrew Cotton; Wisdom Gleaned From An Ongoing Recovery
Seven months ago Andrew Cotton towed into a giant wedge at Nazaré. He faded deep, bottom turning on his backhand and setting his line going left. Then the lip fell, it’s full weight landing directly on Cotty and catapulting him high into the air with the whitewash. After a few milliseconds airborne, he slammed back […]
In Conversation With Shane Dorian; Wisdom From A Life Long Hellman
Last weekend saw the world premiere of ‘Vague A L’ame’ a brand new film which takes you behind the scenes of the quest to ride the biggest, heaviest waves on the planet. It stars Shane Dorian and Benjamin Sanchis and features near death experiences, whirlwind strike missions and a secret Spanish slab as the pair […]
New Big Wave Film ‘Vague A L’ame’ Starring Shane Dorian & Sancho To Premiere In London This Weekend
This weekend will see the London premiere of ‘Vague A L’ame’ a new film from the Billabong Adventure Division, which takes you behind the scenes of the quest to ride the biggest, heaviest waves on the planet. On the 11th of December 2014, Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis was towed into one of the biggest waves ever […]