Recent Rants

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Authentic youth lifestyle brand Hurley and Warner Bros. Records will release The Drifter, iconic surfer Rob Machado's much-anticipated autobiographical movie, this fall. The film will have limited theatrical screenings across the country and will also be released on DVD. Directed by Poor Specimen's Taylor Steele this is a personal journey as much as it is a showcase of some of the world's most flawless waves.

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The Style Evolution project pays homage to the immense treasure of surf movies over the past 50 years, many of which are sadly becoming rapidly unavailable due to new video formats. This short film is a collage of wipeouts from 19 surf movies from 1963 to 2005.

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Check out this cool time-lapse video of Rick Malwitz shaping a fish. It looks like a lot of work

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Jordy Smith is a 21-year-old pro surfer from South Africa. He's in his second year on the Association of Surfing Professionals tour. And off the coast of Indonesia, he just pulled what GrindTV is calling "the most high-performance maneuver ever executed on a wave". It's called a "rodeo flip," and it's pretty insane.

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Rant - Surfing Bird

Huh, that's odd. I thought that would be big news [...] a headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety [...] it was my understanding that everyone had heard! ...

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Surfing on a car door tied to the back of a 4x4 Toyota Landcruiser. Boredom-induced fun and lots of sweet footage.

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Andrew Cotten goes over the lip of a monster Irish wave on his jet ski.

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