The five-star Volcom Pipeline Pro surf contest has kicked off with epic 8-12 foot Hawaiian style waves. Volcom riders Bruce Irons and Dusty Payne are favorites as well as locals Dave Wassel, Derek Ho and Jamie O’Brien. The contest can be streamed live on the Volcom Pipeline Pro website. Highly recommend checking that one out.
Pipeline is the world’s most famous wave; located on the middle of the North Shore of Oahu which is considered the epicenter of professional surfing.
On Crushed we have Pipeline stand-outs Bruce and Andy Irons, Dustin Barca, and Jordy Smith charging some heavies and showing why they’re among the best in the world. Here’s one of Brucie:
Shawn White, Louie Vito and Scotty Lago will be joining Kelly Clark, Gretchen Bleiler and Hannah Teter in Park City for the 2010 Olympics! The US Snowboard Team, full of Olympic veterans, is looking to be a strong contender for a few golds again this year; and we’re all expecting Louie to bust out the sickest victory dance of the entire games, since he’s now a Dancing With The Stars veteran. Go Louie!
We’ll be throwing up plenty of snowboarding videos on Crushed over the next few week to get you amped for the competition.
The California coastline is getting hammered with some of the biggest and best surf in years this winter season. Buildings are falling off the cliffs, sandbags are being filled, insurance claims are being written, and surfers are being stoked. All this can only mean great things for the Mavericks big wave surf contest in Half Moon Bay Calif.; which needs a swell of at least 50 ft wave faces to go off.
The 24 hand-picked surfers who will be competing in the contest vote on the day that the contest will run. When conditions meet the strict standards set by the competitors, the surfers have about 48 hours to hop on a plane from wherever they are in the world and get to Half Moon Bay, which is located about 20 minutes down the coast from San Francisco. A $150,000 purse and giant surf awaits.
Check out the Mevio Men’s show Podsurf to see some of the world’s best surfers tackling some of the best surf.
Everyone has goals and ambitions in life. For one man in Australia his goal is the do absolutely nothing. Well, actually you can’t say absolutely nothing. He actually does a whole heck of a lot. Except for anything that involves working: “I hate working. A traditional nine to five job, I can’t stand working,” says the man whose birth name is David.
Known as the “Walkabout Man” to those who cross his path, this 33-year-old Aussie has taken it upon himself to walk across his homeland just for the fun of it. And there’s one other bit of interesting information about the Walkabout Man – he has an alter ego. The two personalities of the Walkabout Man differ greatly. One personality – David – generally doesn’t have much motivation or enthusiasm for adventure. The other personality – named Benjamin Safari – has the drive, ambition and determination to do whatever in the world he damn well feels like. And Benjamin feels like trekking the 2,485 miles from Sydney to Perth. That’s what he does. “He walks, he camps, and he surfs,” explains David, “and he drags me along with him sometimes.”
If you think it’s odd that a man three decades old is led around an entire continent on foot by his alter ego, you are not alone. When David and Benjamin finally reach Perth, they have vowed to see a psychiatrist with a hope to figure out exactly what in the world is going on in that brain they share.
If you would like to see the adventure of Benjamin Safari and David, check out the film they shot on a trip from Queensland the Victoria. It is called ‘Curious Safari.’ Here is a clip.
More stories just like the Walkabout Man’s are available on Podsurf — with new episodes published all the time.
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Aside from natural talent, hard work, and dedication, what would you say is the biggest factor in achieving great success in the sport of snowboarding? Throwing darts at the board I’d say the bulls eye is overcoming fear. Fear keeps you from committing to your position. Once you don’t fully commit, you don’t do your best, and you fall short.
One youngster who has learned to overcome his fear years ahead of most of us is 16-year-old Canadian professional Sebastian Toutant. One minute into his segment here on Crushed you see a person who takes a fall and stands back up again with a smile on his face and tougher look in his eye. The kid – known to his friends as Toots – stacks at least ten times in his video. No matter how hard he falls he pulls the trick on another attempt.
Seb’s born with the natural talent to go big. But I guess the lesson learned from the mad teenager is commit to what you can achieve. No matter what it is. Make a smart decision and give it your all.
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Their is a small cove in Taiji, Japan where the ocean water is dyed red from the blood of dolphins.
Each year approximately 2,000 dolphins are killed during the dolphin drive hunting practice which involves fisherman using boats and nets to circle pods of dolphins and drive them into the cove, where they are stabbed and drown and sold.
Not exactly uplifting but it’s an important issue that deserves full exposure.
Last year professional surfer Dave Rastovich and actress Hayden Panettiere led a team of conservationists into the cove to document and possibly rescue the dolphins during the hunt. They were unsuccessful in rescuing any dolphins, but they did film and document the secret fishing practices. The footage they recorded is now on PodSurf TV:
There was one man everyone wanted to see during the MotoX Best Trick comp at X-Games 15 last summer. That man was 25-year-old Travis Pastrana. Pastrana, who has twice as many X-Games medals as any other contender, hired an Olympic gymnastics coach to teach him how to twist, spin, and contort his body into ways never before seen in motocross. With the help of his trainer, Travis brought a new trick to the games – a Corkscrew 720. The trick required adding an extra two-foot wedge under the kicker ramp for extra height.
Travis launched his 125cc bike off the ramp and flipped, then twisted, and nearly 95% completed with the trick he stacked and hit the ground flat on his back. He squirmed and wiggled around a little, surrounded by medics, then got up and hobbled to the top of the dirt runway to wave to the crowd. Was a great moment which landed Pastrana in fourth place for Best Trick.
Travis Pastrana is just one of the hellmen causing havoc in the muddy lots and dry deserts featured in Invasion 3. We are happy to bring you Pastrana, Ben Milot, Nate Adams, Twitch, Jean-Sebastien Roy, Ronnie Renner and more in this clip featured on Crushed. Plus you get to hear the great punk rock sounds of The Turbo A.C.s. Check it out:
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Over the first two weeks of September organizers at the Hurley Pro Trestles surf competition asked Facebook users to vote for who they believe should win the event’s Expression Session.
A field of twelve competitors, including nine time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, competed for the prize. After all votes were tallied a clear and present winner emerged. With 40% of votes – far more then any other competitor – 24-year-old Dane Reynolds came out victorious.
On MeVIO Men we just published some footage from Dane’s debut movie First Chapter. In the flick we see Reynolds travel the coast of Morocco, pulling into massive barrels and punting airs at a rapid clip. Surfing like you’ve never seen before. The California native took a year off from competitive surfing to shoot the film. Surely a decision you would never want to be forced into, right? Travel to Morocco, Portugal, France, Australia and Hawaii to surf and film, or travel to Portugal, France, Australia, Hawaii, Tahiti and Costa Rica to surf and compete. Life of a surfing prodigy sucks.
Seems Dane made the right choice though as his film one two awards at the annual Surfer Poll Awards. Reynolds and First Chapter took away the prizes for ‘Best Male Performance’ and ‘Video of the Year’ in 2006. Not bad for a first timer.
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Is there any doubt that you have to be completely mental to go chasing big waves? We’re talking waves that loom as large as a city block and move like a freight train. Waves that are so big and fast that you actually have to have someone tow you into them with a jet ski. It might be safe to say, for those of you who believe in a supreme being, that had God intended for man to ride those waves he would have put a jet pack in your ass.
But far be it for these crazy bastards to obey the laws of nature. These are the kind of guys who see a big wave and know they have to own it. These are the kind of guys who eat danger for breakfast, though they may slather some Vegemite on it first.
This is Mark Viser… crazy 60-foot wave riding mofo.
And what’s cool is that in this interview, Mark gives mad props to his “tow partner”, the unsung hero who drives that jet ski AND you get to see some footage of Mark Viser riding these insane waves. On the long shot that little spec moving across that wall of water… yeah, that’s him.
Also up in this episode of Podsurf, Clash of the Titans: Occy VS Curran, which no is not some undercard in a title fight but a showdown of surfing prowess between surfing great Mark Occhilupo and his arch rival Tom Curren. Two legends face off.
