Support Stoke

From Monsterboards creater, Eff. Mr Stoke himself .................

"you can vote for our movie (and watch it too) at the site of the Vancouver Festival of Ocean Films, so please do!

We are very honoured to be part of it!! I have had the pleasure to visit Vacncouver and Vancouver Island two times (we went surfing in Tofino) and the place and it's people are amazing!!

Here's how it works:

Click the link at the top that says "Click here to open the festival
microsite and watch the films."

Then click Monsterboards from the list of films.

If it says zero votes at the top of the page just reload the page a
few times. It should say 5 votes.

You can vote 5x by clicking the seal in the upper right 5x.

If you could make a post and send this around to friends (or folks
with blogs) that would be awesome.

Thanks,

Eef

What B - S!

Just BSing

By Caltona


There it came once again, the salty fizz escaping, through gravity, from the very depths of my sinus cavities. Another splendid early session; now another warm shower soaking with its initial skin tingle-burn and the slow thawing of extremities with blood eventually circulating through the chilled inner core. While wetsuits extend the season and the thicker 4-3mm get-up is more flexible even than much thinner suits of years and decades past, and although my girth has further improved the length of a day’s go-out, the deep sub-surface canyons’ up-flows win over each time and we all get too cold to continue.

Bodysurfing conjures an inane vision for most non-devotees. Even hardcore watermen and waterwomen, surfers and boaters and fisherpeople of all varieties, whose diverse uses of the Pacific should arguably provide some depth of view, are as a whole ignorant of the possibilities. Most have a tourist’s eye view of what my crew celebrates. Most have bodysurfed in the most basic sense and therefore feel they have some knowledge. It’s much like completing a coloring book and calling oneself an artist, or winning in a game of tag and calling oneself a sprinter. Well, yeah, technically they are the same activities, but there are levels you know?

You want to irk a bodysurfer? Talk about “real” surfers......Read on here...


All rights to San Diego Reader.

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.

Surfs up Brooklyn

Travels took me to the US of A, New York City.... The promise of maybe finding a drinkable coffee took me to Williamsburg, Brooklyn...and there i found, shining like a dusty jewel, in between factories with stray cats crawling all over it... a surf shop..
and not just any surf shop... mollusk surf shop...I can confirm there is absolutely no surf in brooklyn.. but these guys still had a sweet range of hess and brownfish handplanes...also a fine selection of noseriding sliders...couldn't believe my eyes..

How to make a Handplane

Want to see a master at work?

ok.

Thomas Bexton, the bearded waveslider of the north...


Thomas Surfboards from Bird Man Media on Vimeo.


Water is still 20 degrees..... the swell is dropping...time to put the boards away... time to womp ...

>>Under pipeline>>

I love this, french bodysurfer Fred David shows what the reef looks like under those perfect spinning tubes.

RIP Russell Hughes

Submerged Sandy Beach- Oahu

Nick takes nice photos....and videos...and lives in Hawaii.

What does the underbelly of Sandy Beach look like?

Sandy's from Nick on Vimeo.

..For more Nick....www.nickchudeau.com

womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp womp.

The Double Hander

More homemade Handplane action..

In a brave and adventurous leap forward in handplane design...the man who gave the world the Dual Fireball Handpods now brings the double hander to life.

From the plywood kingdom of Billyboarder....www.deluxepaipo.com


Its time to rip down a fence post and hit the water.

Home Made Hand Planes

Ode to a handboard.

Bravo.

My hand boards from GotSurf.ca on Vimeo.

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.

Shark Island>>>>>>>

Yesteryear...

Bodysurfing the notorious cheese grating, ridiculously heavy Shark Island in the 1970's..



From www.bodyboardmuseum.com.au (....the best source for all your flouro, hyper colour, zinc cream 70's and 80's magazine article needs. ..a sick little website.)

...This year

From last weeks uber-swell... the island again..


from www.leahmaclean.com

:::Spotted:::

Strike 2 !

A bodysurfer gets into the annals of Sprout Daily for the second time... more more more !

Sprout Daily...providing a daily chronicle of the surfing life around Manly.

:::Spotted:::

In the deep south of Sydney lies a beach called Bondi.

Snapped by the chronicler of these parts, Eugene of Aquabumps...

...a bodysurfer and his plywood.


Go see www.aquabumps.com... there are also recent photos of Slater who was in town sampling some local sydney 6-8ft slabs last week.

Come Hell or High Water by Keith Malloy

Coming not soon enough.

New movie by Keith Malloy,

all about bodysurfing....

Come Hell or High Water Trailer from Woodshed Films on Vimeo.

Malloy filming the master, Mark Cunningham, for the film