Monthly Archives: May, 2010
O’Neill Raw Courage Big Wave Award winners announced
O’Neill Raw Courage Big Wave Award winners announced : Grant Baker wins Biggest Paddle Wave The winners of 2009/10 O’Neill Raw Courage Big Wave Awards presented by theBOMBsurf.com were crowned in dual ceremonies at Long Beach and the Rioja restaurant in Cape Town on Wednesday with legendary big wave charger Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker capturing the [...]
Peru – by Stephanus Rabie
I believe a true adventure writes its own book and the only way to discover what the word means is to get out there and experience it for yourself. I have an absolute passion for travelling and spend most of my hard earned cash to fund my trips around the world. The globe hosts so [...]
SELI 1 BECOMES PERMANENT FEATURE
MEDIA RELEASE – ‘SELI 1’ 10 May 2010 SELI 1 WRECK REMOVAL As was reported by this office in November 2009, the SELI 1 was extensively damaged by late winter storms last year despite efforts to strengthen her, which seriously compromised any simple salvage solutions. Since that time, a small but determined group with a [...]
The Mentawai Island Adventure – By Anton Fourie
The Moslems go to Mecca, the Christians go to Jerusalem and surfers go to Indonesia. After my last surf trip to Nias I just knew that I needed to organise another trip to Indo, so there was no hesitation to accept when I got the call from Anton Hannekom inviting me on a boat charter [...]
G-Land by Anton Fourie
We made all the arrangements for our G-land trip in Bali. We had a choice of three surf camps; Bobbie’s Surf camp, Jungle camp and G-spot and we decided to book with Bobbie’s Camp. We also had a choice of a 10-hour overland trip with a bus or a 2-hour one hundred-dollar speedboat trip. Needless [...]
Paddling out
You can use one of the following methods to get through the waves Turtle roll: Paddle towards the oncoming wave. Time it to roll over when you are about 5 meters away from the wave with the nose of the board facing the wave. Move your hands up around the nose of the board and [...]
Local charger breaks his back in the barrel
on the 22nd of April 2010 I pulled into a barrel at a beach break near Cape Town, got drilled into the sand bank and broke my L1 vertebra. I managed to paddle myself back to the beach but could not stand or walk because of the pain. A few surfers that were on the [...]
The art of skimming.
Cape Town beaches are full of ‘wish you were here’ post card moments, from the femme-bots, topless Germans to vendor boys selling granadilla popsicles. If you can find your way through the crowds, you might be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the sport that’s still ruled by the kids – it’s the water [...]
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