Thanks! I was looking for it on YT but only found trailers
Again, the algorithm comes strong … I’m looking at surf videos from Alaska & Kamchatka, as well as reading spooky Christmas tales from Scandinavia, and an ad for Icelandair pops
That Red Bull site has a ton of great surf movies, including older stuff like Taylor Steele’s classics, the Drive Thru series etc.
And on the “that looks fckn cold but kind of epic” front…
Some Irish winter insanity.
Pay attention to Matt Etxebarne’s ride that starts around the 4:05 mark.. on a foilboard.
Same ride, shot from the water way out on the shoulder:
@surfline says today’s ocean temp is a toasty 51F
The paddle in was insane, and he made it!! It was deceiving to the riders, they would fade back but then the foam ball would launch and grab them in the tube often. Pretty epic day, hold downs had a lot of juice in them..
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After watching this a couple of times - on TUBI, if you have it - I googled all I could find about Jim Phillips, and this came up
I had to think … is that how I doodled my notebooks in high school, when I started surfing, or was I way off?
I’m guessing that even if I DID get the wave shape right, I added sharks and submarines and mermaids that kinda fucked it up
Clip from the Surf Expo:
“Look around this room. You don’t see Billabong, Quick(silver), RipCurl, O’Neill, Hurley*, Volcom. Not a single one are in this room. Not a single legacy brand that’s private equity owned, is in this room”
“Why do you think that is?”
“Because they’re lame. Private equity don’t surf. Bankers don’t surf. Surfer-owned, surfer-operated, in this room. We surf”
“Private equity don’t surf.” that might have to be a T-shirt, or something
.* “you can never have enough Hurley” - Glenn Danzig, Portlandia
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Watching all that expo footage reminds me of the Vegas bike show. Took a lot of years, but it eventually just died off and the big brands left for other venues, and eventually just stopped going anywhere. Liken these to print media, a slow death to the online world, companies just don’t order or see new stuff in one spot at one time anymore…Just glad I got to see the in their primes, it was just a bunch of us kids in a candy store..
On the other side though, there is The Running Event which is getting bigger & bigger - from what I’ve seen, read, and heard
#MakeRunningWeirdAgain
#MakeRunnersWeirdAgain
Where and when is that running expo? I have never heard of it, we did used to have a few of the companies at the triathlon portion of the bike expo. From what I hear, Sea Otter is the last bastion of any sort of “endurance style” expo. Mostly bike stuff with a few Tri related companies thrown in..
I learned something about it in 2024, but in 2025 it was covered by every YouTuber, Podcaster, Substacker, Instagrammer, and self-proclaimed Influencer in the Running Space - it was the “Elvis Year” for the event (so far)
I think I posted a couple links in “The Influencer Thread,” but I barely scratched the surface
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUCKHKOEeaW/?img_index=16&igsh=MTJiM3NrNTk1NGxtMg==
I think I need to pastel that pic
Posting because that wave is f’n perfection.
(Kind of surprised the guy duckdiving didn’t get sucked back over the falls by leaving it that late)
Is it summer yet?
The southern hemi swell season opened up with a bang yesterday in So Cal. Here’s a video of the Wedge, absolutely classic conditions.
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That was really fun, and brings back lots of memories. Really shocks me that so many surfers are now out and conquering big Wedge. Back in the day it was all body surfers, later body boarders, and the occasional lone crazy surfer that would sit all day and take one wave. That little take off spot next to the rocks which connects into the big peak, has let the board guys a way to get a nice barrel without the severe top to bottom take offs that usually just crush them.
And loved the lone longboard guy claiming his take offs top to bottom too!!
Glen is a very good friend of mine, I would go down to that spot a couple times a year starting in the 80’s. It’s a beautiful point break that can hold 20ft in the winter, and man that guy just knew where every halibut lived out there too.
Unfortunately he has finally succumbed to some health challenges, been a long battle for him thus far, but he keeps coming out the other end able to still surf, but just barely. He also finally retired El Toro and bought an old School Bus and completely cherried it out for Baja. Took their first trip not long ago and it drove like a dream…
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