Things are getting heated up in Portugal. The world´s best surfers are currently competing on the waves of Peniche, Portugal, for the last European leg of the ASP World Tour, but the last events have been of trouble for two of the world´s surfing superstars: Kelly Slater and Joel Parkison. Both surfers habe been involved in two minor altercations.
The first incident involved Kelly Slater. The american all-time record champion changed some heated words with a photographer after almost running him over.
The second altercation got a bit more serious. Joel Parkinson got almost physical with a local bodyboarder. Next time Parko should be more careful, Peniche surfers are known in Portugal for being ferociously hostil to any non locals. Local elitists of that small fishing city can indeed ruin all the fun.
10/13/13
Sustainability in boardsports
Not every surf movie is about great surfing manoeuvres or monster waves, there is a type of movie - let´s call them meta surfing movies - that care about every other aspect that concerns the sport, be it the training, the daily life of the surfers, or, in the case of today´s movie, the sustainability of it.
The "3 weeks,
3 boards, 3 friends" project (abbreviated to 3fwb), made three surfers
come together in order to "document the lifestyle, the adventure and the
passion of travelling" in three different sports: snowboarding, skating
and surfing. Matze Reif, Benno Postert and Maximilian Meisberger took a three
week trip, documenting their experiences on concrete, snow and water and
presenting their discoveries and experiences on a weekly web episode.
The fifth web
episode of the first season, called "Sustainability in Boardsports"
is particularly interesting to the world of surfing. It consists on an
interview with Tony Butt, author of the book "Guide to sustainable surfing" and discusses the ecological footprint surfers leave and
suggestions for more sustainability in the world of boardsports. An interesting
view.
10/2/13
The best of 50 years of wipeouts
Over recent years the Style Evolution Project (SEP) has made a notorious contribution in recovering what we could call "lost" surf movies - "surfing footage that is becoming rapidly unavaible due to new video formats". This video in particular compiles 50 years of the most amazing surfing wipeouts ever recorded on tape.
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