Epic early season Pipe with Fred Patacchia, Bruce Irons, Jamie O’Brien, Dave Wassel, Reef McIntosh, Mark Healey, and of course, some absolutely brutal wipeouts!
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Even though we’ve only seen this trailer, bets are on that “Who Is JOB?” will be one of the best surf flicks of the year when it finally comes out … when is that JOB?
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The first installment of the Coconut Wireless with Flynn Novak takes us behind the scenes and into the pit of last week’s early season, typhoon-generated mega swell that slammed into the North Shore of Oahu. Stay tuned every Tuesday for Flynn’s reports from the front lines of surfing.
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When Super Typhoon Choi-Wan churned up the Pacific, Pipeline roared to life in all of it’s ferocity making Friday the 25th the best opening day in years at surfing’s most hallowed ground.
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After winning the SriLankan Airlines Pro in the Maldives this past weekend, there’s no doubt that Owen Wright is the hottest surfer on Earth right now. Recently named by TransWorld SURF as the Monster Performer Of The Month, Owen is seemingly unstoppable in contests and free surfs right now.
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Episode 8 of the Volcom House Show is led by Bruce Irons who talks about the early days of the Volcom compound at Pipeline, gets shacked off his gourd out front, and shows off his newborn baby, who, according to Bruce, is the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
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From Pusher Productions we got this little clip of some recent North Shore action. For the most part, the surfing is pretty good—until you get to Mason Ho’s Rocky Point rip fest where the ampage factor significantly increases. If there’s one word to describe Mason’s surfing it’s “spontaneous.”
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If you don’t know about “The Snap” then it’s time for you to check the history books…that or episode 7 of the Volcom House Show where Volcom team rider (and cousin to Bruce and Andy) JD Irons channels his inner TC and does the snap of the year at Pipeline. To quote Dave Wassel, “Wow, wow, wow. That was like a Tom Carroll snap!”
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Check out this pretty slick clip of the hard-charging Vans surf team as they slay some of the best waves to hit the famed reef at Pipeline all year. Featuring Reef McIntosh, Kalani Chapman, and the Gudauskas brothers…
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Since Dane has been eliminated in the very first round of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, we won’t be seeing him surf until the beginning of May when the Tour implants itself on the tranquil island of Tahiti for the Billabong Pro at Teahupoo. Seeing as how Dane is undeniably one of the most exciting surfers to watch, you could say there’s a lot of people bummed out about not seeing him push through to later rounds at Bells. But that’s that, the new format is what it is. He lost a heat and he got eliminated, the contest goes on.
That being said, here’s some of the most recent Dane footage out there to tide you (and us) over till Tahiti.
Dane’s GO Moment At Pipe
Hawaii Feb ‘08
Self-shaped ‘Otter Pop’
Let’s be honest, Kelly Slater shaping his own boards has gotten more banter and buzz than Alana Blanchard’s bikinis. Well, maybe not that much, but it seems like people are making a pretty big deal about it. And rightfully so, to a certain extent.
In this day and age of the shaping machine, most young pros have never even touched a planer or a sanding block. So, to see the world’s greatest surfer doing things for himself is a bit shocking, I can undestand that. But self-shaping-pros have always been the ones who made the drastic changes in board design: Mark Richards, Simon Anderson, et. al. Hopefully self-shaping won’t become a hollow, insincere fad for self-promotion, but serve the rightful purpose of pros being able to put their theories and needs of a board into reality. Spot on ya Dane for ripping that ugly thing apart.
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