Legendary surf icon Jack O’Neill changed the sport of surfing forever when he decided to give surfers a protection against 50°F (10°C) waters. Discover his most inspiring quotations. Jack O’Neill (1923-2017) is often called the inventor of the modern wetsuit. The man who designed the surfers’ second skin so that they could stay in cold […]
Taylor Lane shaped a surfboard made from 10,000 beach-littered cigarettes. Last year, he produced a bodysurfing handplane using champagne corks, old t-shirts, fiberglass scraps, an old wetsuit, climbing ropes, and entropy resins for VISSLA’s Creators & Innovators Upcycle Contest. Now, the California surfer wanted to go beyond his own limits and spent countless hours collecting […]
How can you sell your first love? Why do you plan to get rid of the surfboard that got you into surfing? Why should a surfer sell his or her fondest memories? There’s nothing like our first wave. The feeling of walking on water is something will never erase from our waterlogged minds. The stick […]
Carlos Burle and Rodrigo Koxa have shared a big wave ride at Nazaré’s Praia do Norte, in Portugal. The Brazilian duo simultaneously rode a giant liquid mountain during the first swell of the European winter season, with the waves reaching the 60-foot mark. Party waves at Nazaré are extremely rare. The team performance is being […]
Danish stand-up paddleboarder Casper Steinfath, 23, has been crowned the 2017 Red Bull Heavy Water champion, in San Francisco, California. Hailed as the most intense stand-up paddleboarding event in the world, the Red Bull Heavy Water put 32 of the world’s best SUP athletes to an extreme paddling and surfing test. Competitors surfed over 15-foot […]
Deciding to buy your first paddle board is a big step, perhaps even greater than giving the sport a try. It goes to show that you mean business and that you are willing to change your lifestyle for the better. It should come as no surprise that paddle boarding is the world’s fastest growing water […]
Are you a surfer who can’t live without music? Have you ever wanted to know how to play surf music on an electric guitar? Now you can. There’s a new, straightforward online course waiting for your fingers. A Brooklyn-based musician and record label owner developed an instructional surf guitar course that will help intermediate to advanced […]
Today, you don’t need to be a professional surfboard shaper to build a surfboard from scratch. Here’s everything you need to know before making your private surfboard shaping room. Surfboard shaping is an art, but that shouldn’t stop you from becoming an amateur artist. Surfers are experimentalists, and we all dream of, one day, producing […]
Gabriel Medina has taken out the 2017 Quiksilver Pro France, at La Graviere, in Hossegor. The Brazilian surfer defeated Hawaiian prodigy Sebastian Zietz in three-to-five foot beach break waves. Medina locked in his third Quiksilver Pro France win. “It feels so good to win again. I have been working so hard before this event. This […]
Cat Woods is a yoga and barre instructor based in Melbourne, Australia. She deeply loves both yoga and surfing and the endless pursuit of knowledge, skill, and fluidity in both. This is the goal with yoga – to move on the mat, and off the mat, with a light step and an easy, relaxed movement. […]