Radical Tow-In Action

Just uploaded the tow-in shots I got last week, and there's a couple of impressive sequences and amongst the biggest and heaviest looking Hoax Coast waves I've seen surfed.

The shots and sequence are at HERE

Tow-Ins

Though I'm not normally a fan of tow-in surfing and don't like it's prevalence in all the mags, what it can do is open up places that can't be surfed otherwise.

This week Hubba sent me some great shots of local guys surfing secret back beach mysto rights that can't be approached in normal ways. Hope to post one or two soon on the HOAX COAST site. They are even hotter than the last shots he sent me; he's a real Peter Parker that Hubba, getting all the scoops on the secret back beach locations.

Great moments in soul-speak

Some more quotes from ASL 190 (July 04) their soul issue:

Just by the act of surfing you're supporting the revolution - Nat Young

Time is expanded in the tube - Shaun Tomson

The waves in National Park are the best thing I know in surfing. Riding them is second best. One pure slice of existence. Being. Is-ness. Is-ness is appreciation of the whole deal, appreciation, grooving. Is-ness is National Park. - Bob McTavish

Life is a waste of time and surfing's as good a way to waste it as any - Mickey Dora

When I surf I dance for Krishna - Ted Spencer

Pedbalboarding

It's new, it's different, it's happening. So the website says, and it should know. I took these photos between surfs earlier this week as pedalboarding makes its push for the extreme sports niche market!

PedalBoarding

My Top Surf Movies

I have included Hollywood portrayals of surfing, so some of these are breaking out of genres. Here goes....

1. Morning of the Earth (1972)
   
2. Endless Summer(1964)
3. Big Wednesday (1978)
   
4. Crystal Voyager (1974)
5. TO' Day of Days (2001)
6. Five Summer Stories (1972)
7. Point Break
8. Liquid Gold
   
9. A Winter's Tale or A Sea for Yourself (can't decide)
   
10. Apocalypse Now (Directors Cut)

Also check out a bigger list than Tracks on realsurf at RealSurfs Top 180 Video List

Tracks Mag - Top All Time Surf Movies

The latest Tracks mag has a thing on the best surf movies of all time. An interesting discussion and good to see them following up their article earlier this year (I think) about the greatest surfers of all time. Much more interesting than their usual guys lighting up farts style of journalism.

There are two parts to the discussion, the mag talks in details about some movies, and there's a reader's poll. The Tracks list (though they're not actually numbered)

1. Morning of the Earth
2. The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun
3. Litmus
4. Sarge's Scrapbook Series
5. September Sessions
6. Momentum
7. The Green Iguana
8. Blue Horizon
9. Kelly Slater in Black and White
10. Endless Summer

The Readers List

1. Momentum
2. Morning of the Earth
3. Kelly Slater in Black and White
4. Mad Wax
5. Degrees
6. Storm Riders
7. Campaign
8. Sabotaj
9. September Sessions
10. Searching for Tom Curren

No Hollywood movies there! I'll post my top ten list next.

Tracks

Did get a couple of surfs in, which was great, even though it was a light onshore for pretty much the whole time. The first surf was the obligatory I can't catch anything, I can't get to my feet fast enough, I can't believe how cold it still is kinda thing. The second, much more satisfying, with a couple of longish beach break lefts that made it worthwhile.

Then I watched a few of the local kids pedalboarding, a new sport which just might take off on the long flat beaches when there's no surf. The web site is HERE