The Surf Blog Spot

Get your fantasy surfer picks in for the upcoming Billabong Rio Pro! I have a great Fantasy league going with some other surfer friends. It’s a great way to talk smack with your friends and follow the top ASP surfers. Make your picks now!

Pick your fantasy surfers now

Billabong Rio Pro 2012

Lots of action over the past 4 days. Lay day on Tuesday, but check back to watch the surf contest live.

Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast 2012

Parko scores a perfect 10!

Heat Reviews video link

Check out this amazing slow motion video of Teahupoo taken August 27, 2011. Chris Bryan took this video and it will definitely amaze you!

More Surfing Videos

All images where shot by Chris Bryan using the Phantom HD Gold camera. To see more of his work check out his website: WWW.CHRISBRYANFILMS.COM

Merry Christmas everyone!! Enjoy a safe and surfing Christmas!

Surfing Santa

Check out all the surfing action live at Ocean Beach(San Francisco, CA). Watch Slater chase down his history making 11th ASP World Title.

Click here for the LIVE action during the day!

Rip Curl Pro Search 2011

Check out this hilarious video of Occy on the Australian Dancing with the Stars show. Doesn’t the dancer in the video remind you of the little Occy in the movie, North Shore?? Haha, he’s just as bad on Dancing with the Stars as Rick Kane was in the Arizona wave pool! Don’t shred so bad brah, you break your stick. Really, props to the movie North Shore. That was and still is a classic surf movie. It’s a “must have” in your surf movie vault.

North Shore Surfers, photo by Chad Thurman

Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro 2011

The Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro kicked off today in San Clemente, CA. The surfers will be competing for a total purse of $250,000.

Watch the contest LIVE

Directions to the event

Location: Lower Trestles, San Clemente California
Holding Period: May 3-7, 2011
Event duration: 5 Day Contest

Men:
Rating: ASP Men’s Prime Event
Prize Purse: $250,000 prize purse
Field of competition: 96

Junior:
Rating: 5-Star Pro Junior
Prize Purse: $25,000
Field of competition: 32

The inspiring true surfing story of Bethany Hamilton. The movie opens up Friday, April 8th!

Watch the trailer

Find movie show times and movie locations: Fandango.com

Soul Surfer the Movie

Bethany Hamilton’s official website: www.bethanyhamilton.com

My thoughts and sympathy go out to the people of Japan. Learn more about the devastating earthquake and tsunami that rolled across Japan on March 11, 2011.

A tsunami is a series of ocean waves generated by sudden displacements in the sea floor, landslides, or volcanic activity. In the deep ocean, the tsunami wave may only be a few inches high. The tsunami wave may come gently ashore or may increase in height to become a fast moving wall of turbulent water several meters high (NOAA official tsunami website).

Tsunami Event March 11, 2011 = The Honshu tsunami was generated by a Mw 8.9 earthquake (38.322°N, 142.369°E ), at 05:46 UTC, 130 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan (according to the USGS). In approximately 25 minutes, the tsunami was first recorded at DART® buoy 21418. Forecast results shown below were created with the NOAA forecast method using MOST model with the tsunami source inferred from DART® data.

Tsunami Energy Plot

Tsunami basics

How does a Tsunami Warning System work?

This truly is a nice rack. I was anxiously awaiting my Nice Rack surfboard rack while checking the surf report. The next thing I know there was a knock at the door and a package with The Nice Rack shipping label on it. I knew the surfboard racks had arrived and my wife was interested to see The Nice Rack. We opened it together and we were both stoked on The Nice Rack. It was almost as fun as opening a wooden crate marked “Fra-gi-le” and finding a leg lamp!

Order your Nice Rack

The Nice Rack definitely installs wherever you want it. Install this rack in your home, garage, bedroom, board shops, shaping rooms, or merchandising displays. These racks are a great addition to any board riding enthusiast! You can fit a surfboard, wakeboard and snowboard all on one rack. Where else would you store all those boards? I know I will get great use with this rack.

Store all 3 boards

I received the Surfboard Wall Rack Single 1 Set and I look forward to adding more of the racks (and new surfboards to those racks) haha. That’s the great thing with The Nice Rack. You can easily add extra surfboard racks to your existing rack. Rack expansion has endless possibilities. All you do is snap in the new rack. “It’s a snap!”

The Nice Rack in a snap

Watch a DEMO on how to install the surfboard rack.

The other cool thing about The Nice Rack is they are a green company. So you know you are going green when you ORDER!

• Nice Racks are made of 100% recycled ABS plastic

• All packaging and shipping waste are recycled

• Packaging Materials used for shipping are re-used materials

Enter your info to win a free Go Pro Hero Camera everyday. It’s a daily camera giveaway!

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This Alaskan tidal bore took place on the Turnagain Arm in the Cook Inlet near Girdwood (Anchorage), Alaska. A tidal bore, or bore tide, is when the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) travel up a river or narrow bay in the opposite direction of the river or bay’s current. These tidal bores typically happen in areas with large tidal range. When there are large fluctuations in the low and high tides. Typically, 20 feet or so between the low and high tide marks.

The Cook Inlet is one place where a 5-mile ride is very normal. Watch the video to see why!

The man-made surfing wave introduced!

The Wave Garden is a man-made wave that creates ideal conditions for surfing, as well as a broadly appealing range of other wave sports such as body boarding, kayaking, and stand up paddling. Early testing and professional feedback show Wavegarden to be the closest thing to an ocean break.

Click to see The Wave Garden

The Wave Garden

Check out this cool new surfing technique trainer! This is the No H2O surfing technique trainer.

NOHO is a new and innovative surf balance trainer. In seconds, the NOHO Surf Trainer transforms any surfboard into a training platform. This balance trainer enables a surfer to practice the techniques of turning, cross-stepping, noseriding, switch-stance surfing, and style development, all while experiencing the rail-to-rail motion of riding a surfboard on water.

Buy a No H2O NOW

The 2011 Volcom Pipeline Pro is scheduled to run from January 24th–February 5th, 2011. Here’s a free chance to surf with your idols at Pipeline and Backdoor. Bust out your video cameras and cell phone video cameras for your chance to get the highest seeded wildcard into the 2011 Volcom Pipeline Pro.

Enter the contest

Volcom Pipeline Pro

The Memorial Eddia Aikau is under way on the North Shore at Waimea Bay. The surf contest will have another meaning this year due to the tragic loss of Andy Irons. The event has surfing contest dates from December 1-February 28, 2011.

Quiksilver Eddie Aikau

Check out the Eddie Aikau event live

See the 2010/2011 Surf Riders

Enter here for your chance to win a round trip plane ticket, 5 night stay in Puerto Rico, VIP access to the 2010 Rip Curl Pro and a Rip Curl prize pack

Check out the 2010 Rip Curl Pro Search contest destination

Rip Curl Pro Search 2010 in Puerto Rico