“The moment we stop taking care of nature, that’s when everything’s going to be lost,” says Kimi Werner. “Whether it’s respecting the plants that we eat, the animals we hunt, or even the one’s that are hunting us. It’s all a beautiful thing, and we’re all in it together.” Kimi is a natural spearfisher, knowing [...]
The Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards were held on Friday night (May 3rd 2013) in LA. The planet’s big wave surfing scene, including surfers, photographers, filmers and fans gathered to celebrate another boundary pushing season of big wave surfing and to watch the Billabong XXL and Pacifico awards being handed out. Here are a few [...]
Action sports are continually evolving and different disciplines are gradually learning from each other, developing new techniques and sometimes new sports entirely. Currently there’s a lot of excitement in the world of snow surfing, a blend of surfing and snowboarding – essentially snowboarding without bindings. So that’s a water craft being taking onto snow, but what about [...]
On Tuesday 16th April, news broke that a South African surfer, Brett Archibald, 50, had fallen overboard the Nagu Laut boat while en route to the Mentawais on a surf trip. After a frantic search-and-rescue effort from the Nagu Laut and numerous other boats, Archibald was found alive, a full 27 hours after going missing! According to reports, Archibald was suffering from seasickness when [...]
Greg Mallory broke his back, skiing in 1994, while jumping off a rock outcropping at Mount Hood Meadows, Oregon. He shattered the top lumbar vertebrae (L1) of his spine and after a back surgery and three weeks in rehab, Greg was left paralyzed below the belt line due to a bruised spinal cord. However that didn’t stop him [...]
