Showing posts with label underwater bodysurfing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label underwater bodysurfing. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Bloody Paul McCartney and underwater bodysurfing
A killer run of Jack McCoy underwater footage from Teahupo'o. Double the fun if you like Maccas music ..
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Immersion
Tim Bonython makes films about surfing and surf stuff. They are good. They are worth watching. His latest is Immersion.
A wee smattering of bodysurfing in the trailer, including some seal like maritime tom foolery underwater dolphin bodysurfing upside down..
The whole thing is worth watching..
Monday, October 17, 2011
Bodysurfer Photography Competition---WINNING
The Bodysurfer’s Toolkit Contest >>>drum rolL>>> brought to you by Surfing Magazine (and a bunch of other people)...Ta Daaaaa..
A collection of some pretty epic 20 or so bodysurfing shore wompin shots..
There's a nice little prize pack offered..
This is Jamie McClellan's entry.
Go get wet. Thats an order.
A collection of some pretty epic 20 or so bodysurfing shore wompin shots..
There's a nice little prize pack offered..
This is Jamie McClellan's entry.
Go get wet. Thats an order.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Bodysurfing indonesia - with Laird hamilton et al
A group of surfing superstars bodysurfing in Indo.. nuff said. Get into it.
even a bit of underwater bodysurfing...noice. Im sold.
This is from the movie "waterman"...worth a looksee.
even a bit of underwater bodysurfing...noice. Im sold.
This is from the movie "waterman"...worth a looksee.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Submerged Sliding
Beautiful Photo.
Just one among many.
from The Black and White Life.
Caption says this is Ryan Heywood..
'spose this is the same Ryan Heywood of Bodysurf.com.au fame.
Now you've got two more things you can look at. Keep going. It's worth it.
...and from Morgan Maassen..more.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
:::Bodysurf Underwater:::
bodysurfing underwater... always looks awesome.. the rush is awesome... this footage aint bad.. look and learn..
The "How To bodysurf like a dolphin" post : Dolphin Action
Bodysurf underwater + Scuba
Body Surf underwater + Fiji
Bodysurf underwater + breach like a dolphin + extras from "A Brokedown Melody"
The "How To bodysurf like a dolphin" post : Dolphin Action
Bodysurf underwater + Scuba
Body Surf underwater + Fiji
Bodysurf underwater + breach like a dolphin + extras from "A Brokedown Melody"
Friday, January 7, 2011
::Spotted::
So my local beach is a crowded place..sometimes you can walk from one end to the other across the surfboards without getting your feet wet... and yet bodysurfers are everywhere, shore dump womping, shooting straight down-head down-arms out...life savers training, and a bucket load of old buggers with handplanes shooting across the face...
Sprout Daily , a daily photo log of the goings-on along the beach delivers a daily snapshot of life on the beach...documenting life in the water on one of Sydneys busiest beaches...and there has been a glaring discrepancy so far! No bodysurfers!
Today is the day...finally, the cellophane people get their showing. Nothing spectacular, but its a start!. Come on Barnaby and Murray! More!
I encourage you to go check out their material. Just Bewdiful.
Sprout Daily , a daily photo log of the goings-on along the beach delivers a daily snapshot of life on the beach...documenting life in the water on one of Sydneys busiest beaches...and there has been a glaring discrepancy so far! No bodysurfers!
Today is the day...finally, the cellophane people get their showing. Nothing spectacular, but its a start!. Come on Barnaby and Murray! More!
I encourage you to go check out their material. Just Bewdiful.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
:::Nearshore Incursion:::
Under the Sea from Thomas Stockwell on Vimeo.
A gem from Mr Stockwell;---- a bit of underwater takeoff action, a bit of underwater bodysurfing footage, a bit of nearshore underwater scenery...and nice beats.
If you haven't seen his blog...thomas.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
The view from under the waves
Photographer Mark Tipple speaks about the Underwater Project:
"I've always been intrigued by what happens below the surface, like what's happening where we can't see." While watching the slide-show on Mark's laptop I'm amazed at the detail of this 'other world' that's portrayed with his selection.
As an accomplished documentary photographer, in the past Mark has used the ocean as an escape for some solace away from his projects. Lately, while between projects he's been "hanging out" below the surface trying to capture what happens while swimming on a slow summer's day.
"Coming from a surfing background I used to wonder what happens when we're duck-diving, like, what it looks like from a different angle than what we can see. Kinda hard to explain but it has always been on my mind. I used to surf with a small video camera and housing attached to my helmet, (pauses) it worked surprisingly well but my neck couldn't take the impact and stress while trying to duck-dive and capture the right angle. Even tried to turn it back on myself to see what happens clearer but that, uh, sucked (laughs). I looked for a new approach to capture what I was seeking, which basically meant getting off the surfboard."
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Dolphin Action
Underwater fin surfing... Some years ago i was sitting on a beach in northern N.S.W. Australia after a swim with my monofin. It was a beautifull sunny summer morning with a small but clean swell rolling through. As i was relaxing i saw what i had only seen once in a photo before. A pob of dolphins approached from offshore and proceeded to catch a wave and surf it as it peeled along the shore. These creatures are the planets most ancient surfers and probably this image is what inspired the ancient polynesians to start riding waves. To see with what style, fluidity, and grace they playfully rode that wave is something imposible to describe. This was really a situation of "you had to see it to really understand it".
All i could do was admire, in awe. When the first wave of emotions had disipated and the dolphins gone (probably to breakfast, hungry from the session) the only thing i could think about was if such a thing could be done by a human. Here i was in the land where surfing is a national sport and millions of waves get ridden around the country all year, yet to my knowledge, no other human had ever tried to imitate what i had just seen the dolphins do. So stood up and decided that it was time to wet my mono again and this time in a way i had never imagined. I finned to the lineup (for non surfers; the point where waves start to break) and waited for my first wave. Needless to say that my first attempts resulted in getting tumbled around with no result. But as i started to figure out the timming in diving at the right moment, finning and catching the wave as it broke, i magicly caught my first wave swimming underwater, just like they did. When you ride a wave in this manner you actually only kick to get some monentum, then when the wave comes above you it pulls you along with it's own energy without needing you to kick anymore. You suddenly find yourself in another dimension where you are inisde the wave, it's energy is all around you and you glide through the water propelled by it as it breaks down the line. You almost ARE the wave. When i exited the water from that first attempt i seriously felt as if i had seen the light, something in me had changed, maybe everything. As time passed i continued to practice whenever i got a chance and after some months figured out how to actually follow the wave. In the beginning i could only catch it and go in a straight line in front of it as it broke. This meant that my ride was very short as i didn't really follow the wave for much of it's breaking distance. So when i first followed the wave underwater as it was breaking along, without exiting from its inertia was again a ground breaking moment. This time i was starting to really surf it like the dolphins do. Of course i still could not manouver around underwater like they do with quick direction changes, out of the water leaps and so forth but i was on my way. One of the last times i surfed was in front of my old house in Bronte Sydney, where i was given the gift of catching my first tube ride. I was glidding fast under this wave when it started to tube and i kept on speeding right below the surface of a breaking liquid cylinder, WOW. Nevertheless, life having some odd twists and turns i was led away from my beloved waves and back to my familiar and flat mediteranean shores . It's been a year and a half since that last wave but not so long anymore until my next one. This winter i'm planning to see how far i can take this concept and to do so i will go where the best go, in the meca of surfing. Hawaii of course. Updates will follow. What i now want to know is...is there anybody else out there doing this. I really think that there must be, it's imposible that no one else has thought of this and tried it. If you are out there i want to know, i want to communicate, this is too fun to not share, and if i'm still alone it just a matter of time...
Delphicly,
Noa
reposted from : http://forums.deeperblue.com/general-freediving/53588-underwater-fin-surfing.html
All i could do was admire, in awe. When the first wave of emotions had disipated and the dolphins gone (probably to breakfast, hungry from the session) the only thing i could think about was if such a thing could be done by a human. Here i was in the land where surfing is a national sport and millions of waves get ridden around the country all year, yet to my knowledge, no other human had ever tried to imitate what i had just seen the dolphins do. So stood up and decided that it was time to wet my mono again and this time in a way i had never imagined. I finned to the lineup (for non surfers; the point where waves start to break) and waited for my first wave. Needless to say that my first attempts resulted in getting tumbled around with no result. But as i started to figure out the timming in diving at the right moment, finning and catching the wave as it broke, i magicly caught my first wave swimming underwater, just like they did. When you ride a wave in this manner you actually only kick to get some monentum, then when the wave comes above you it pulls you along with it's own energy without needing you to kick anymore. You suddenly find yourself in another dimension where you are inisde the wave, it's energy is all around you and you glide through the water propelled by it as it breaks down the line. You almost ARE the wave. When i exited the water from that first attempt i seriously felt as if i had seen the light, something in me had changed, maybe everything. As time passed i continued to practice whenever i got a chance and after some months figured out how to actually follow the wave. In the beginning i could only catch it and go in a straight line in front of it as it broke. This meant that my ride was very short as i didn't really follow the wave for much of it's breaking distance. So when i first followed the wave underwater as it was breaking along, without exiting from its inertia was again a ground breaking moment. This time i was starting to really surf it like the dolphins do. Of course i still could not manouver around underwater like they do with quick direction changes, out of the water leaps and so forth but i was on my way. One of the last times i surfed was in front of my old house in Bronte Sydney, where i was given the gift of catching my first tube ride. I was glidding fast under this wave when it started to tube and i kept on speeding right below the surface of a breaking liquid cylinder, WOW. Nevertheless, life having some odd twists and turns i was led away from my beloved waves and back to my familiar and flat mediteranean shores . It's been a year and a half since that last wave but not so long anymore until my next one. This winter i'm planning to see how far i can take this concept and to do so i will go where the best go, in the meca of surfing. Hawaii of course. Updates will follow. What i now want to know is...is there anybody else out there doing this. I really think that there must be, it's imposible that no one else has thought of this and tried it. If you are out there i want to know, i want to communicate, this is too fun to not share, and if i'm still alone it just a matter of time...
Delphicly,
Noa
reposted from : http://forums.deeperblue.com/general-freediving/53588-underwater-fin-surfing.html
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