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FEATURE SESSION | Volcom’s Nate Tyler recently headed south of the US boarder for a playful Costa Rican session he titled, “huevos revueltos” - which is Mexican for ‘scrambled eggs’...
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TOP 10 | Australia continues it's small swell drought with the east coast of Australia barely surfable most of the week. The weekend then threw down a Westerly from hell that left the beaches looking more like MARS than earth. Still, the talented photo crew snapped the goods as you'll see. This week we've got a special guest from NJ, David. It's summer over there, but you wouldn't know it! Enjoy t...
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TEAHUPOO, TAHITI – Rivalries; everyone loves them; all sports need them. As the cliché goes, ‘they’re good for the game’. There’s nothing more fascinating than when two elite competitors with a history of intense duelling go head-to-head in a no holds barred showdown. It’s the ultimate catalyst for drama...
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Top 5 | Weird, wacky, bizarre, tacky, lame, odd, outrageous, uncanny, peculiar, strange, eerie and unusual inventions, creations, devices and products from the surfing world, planet, globe, community, fraternity. To all you Franken-Froth monkeys, enjoy..
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FRIDAY FOX | Madalina Diana Gheneal is a gorgeous Latina model who looks good in Pink. I don't have much more to say except enjoy this weeks Friday Fox... - THE COLT
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BILLABONG PRO | Sitting 41st on ASP rankings coming into The Billabong Pro, 24-year-old American rookie, Pat Gudauskas, was in serious jeopardy of being culled from the World Tour at the culmination of this event. Down on the scoreboard and with the clock ticking in Round 3 against Australian Chris Davidson, the heat and Gudauskas’ place on the Dream Tour looked all but over...
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MVP | In early 2009 innovative Queensland shaper Tom Wegener teamed-up with Global Surf Industries to begin ‘The Seaglass Project’. This collaboration set out to launch a unique range of finless surfboards capable of challenging existing notions of modern surfing...
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TEAHUPOO, TAHITI - Jordy Smith took to the skies to advance in his opening heat of the Billabong Pro Tahiti. The current world number one pulled off a dazzlingly mondo Judo-punt for onlookers in the channel. It was a heat-winning wave and he didn't even get barrelled. Enjoy the clip.
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YOU ONLY have to look at the ASP's profiles on its top 45 (soon to be ‘Top 32’) to gather Dane Reynolds exists outside your typical pro-surfer prototype. While the likes of Parko, Fanning and Jordy Smith state, “fishing”, “hanging out with friends” and “tennis” amongst their hobbies, respectively. Reynolds, the 24-year-old Ventura native, simply lists, “drinking more beer”...
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TOP 10 | 99% of Australia's surfing population would have labeled this week as poor in the surf department. The other 1% that live in and around Torquay are still smiling ear to ear having had one of the best swells in a long time. Lines from shore to the horizon brought Bells and the surroundings to life. Regardless of where you were, the crew snapped up a few gems along the way. Here are our To...
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TEAHUPOO, TAHITI – With The Billabong Pro at Teahupo’o due to kick at any moment, we thought we’d take a closer look at the arsenal of surfboards some of the events’ big guns have sitting in their holsters. Presenting Kelly Slater, Dane Reynolds and Dusty Payne’s Teahupo’o 2010 weapons of choice…
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MVP | Like Vegemite, I’ve only tried night-surfing once. Both left a fairly sour taste in my mouth. There’s a rocky right-hand reef break back home that, only on the fullest of moons, would light up like Jessica Simpson in Michigan. In other words it wasn’t too bright...
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FRIDAY FOX | When you're hot you're hot, and that's exactly what Elsa Benitez is. A drop dead gorgeous model who's posed for the likes of Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, The Pirelli Calendar and much more. In a world where plastic seems to be the norm to look beautiful, Elsa brings a much missed natural glamour to the meaning of 'gorgeous'. You'll only ever find the best in here at mesurf...
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BELLS BEACH, VICTORIA – Bells has been frothatively pumping the last few days. Surf photog, Chris ‘Pesty’ McConville was on hand yesterday to capture the famed right-hander ringing to the tune of 6-foot plus. It was cold, the sweep was gnarly and the only time crew weren't paddling to hold position was when they were on a wave. Out dominating, local veteran and legendary shaper, Maurice Cole, was ...
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TEAHUPOO, TAHITI - Richard Bennett, pioneering Surf Psychologist and author of “The Surfer’s Mind”, has worked closely with dozens of extreme big wave riders for more than 10 years. mesurf asked Richard to comment on the mental challenges faced at Teahupo’o and how surfers can rise to the challenges of a number of scenario’s that may unfold during the 2010 Billabong Pro.
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TEAHUPOO, TAHITI - Good news sports fans, guess who’s has drawn each other in one of the opening heats of The Billabong Pro at Teahupo’o? It’s surfing’s ultimate sparring partners, Kelly Slater and Andy Irons...
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TOP 10 | The middle of August was a much different game to the week before. After Friday the 13th's impressive powerful display Huey returned back to the trenches and decided he'd had enough. There was the odd wave if you searched, but you had to be pretty damn lucky...
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NORTH SHORE, HAWAII - Kelly Slater and Dane Reynolds, two of the sports biggest names, each put on a memorable display during the prestigious final stop of the last years ASP World Tour, The Billabong Pipeline Masters. The following clip is an awesome compilation of the best waves Kelly and Dane put together throughout the fixture...
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TOP 5 | Greetings sports fans. Welcome to another edition of the always fun and often ridiculous mesurf TOP 5. This week we’re looking at some of our favourite surfing personalities and the famous counterparts we believe may have been separated from them at birth. That’s right folks, presenting mesurf’s TOP 5 - SURFER LOOKALIKES...
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FRIDAY FOX | There are friday fox's and then there are FRIDAY FOX'S. As I spend days trawling for these hidden gems, I sometimes stumble across what can only be labeled as 'unobtainium'. Karolina Kurkova is one such precious creature. I have no doubt you'll agree that KK is one of the most photogenic beauties of our time. Enjoy. - THE COLT