By Bry
Slowly but surely, the luminous trend from the 80’s seems to be creeping back into wardrobes everywhere, without causing too much of a reaction. This is odd, I have to conclude, as neon is hardly subtle, and should be causing far more of a stir. But, in saying that, imagine for a second, if neon made a comeback similar to the size of say, something like, Converse sneakers. Imagine entire cities tossing out there plain clothes and instead stocking up with luminously colored pants, caps, shirts, bikini’s, boardies, spray jobs on their boards… it would be a nightmare, and in a very literal sense, blinding. It would be too much, and unlike massive fashion movements where entire groups buy into specific products, it would crash and burn, as I am pretty sure, an entire nation dressed in neon, would lose its coolness …
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It’s March and the year has definitely started, in terms of surfing and both the WCT and WQS. Although it is still early, and only one comp has gone down with regard to each tour, each point that each surfer earns from the very start counts for something. Basically, it’s impossible to get a whiff of who is going to come out on tops, but it is a good time to check out the year’s talents, the year’s wildcards, the potential winners and also, those who came on tour with on mission and one mission only.
The opening event of the WQS, the Roxy Women’s Pro Festival, was held in Aus at Philip Island in late Jan, and saw all this seasons ‘QS riders battle it out for a podium finish. The 6 star qualifying event lucked out with near perfect conditions, …
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World Longboarding Champ and fellow California, Jen Smith took top honors at the recent Banana Boat Pro held in Noosa, Queensland, Australia. The Banana Boat Pro (a women’s only longboarding event) is one of many events at the Noosa Festival of Surfing, which has been running on Aus’s Sunshine Coast for well over a decade. Originally a plain old surf compo, the festival has taken shape over the years and is now proud host of a 7 day long surf expo, displaying surfing and the surf lifestyle as it is. As well as major surf industry brands, a selection of epic live music, give-aways and surf movie premiers we available to those who visited Noosa.
The Banana Boat Pro, was fortunate enough to be graced with decent swell and waves. The final day saw decent, clean 1m waves pull through, which provided …
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By Bry
1. Getting barreled – if you’ve experienced the green room, you’ll know what I am talking about, if not, then make it your next goal. It’s easy and not nearly and daunting as it seems. When you take off, try paddling in from a little deeper, so it looks like you might not make it. Stand and surf down the line towards the close out, which hopefully will throw instead of crumbling. Bend your knees, lower your centre of gravity and tuck into the barrel. When starting out, run your inside hand along the wave for stability and extra stoke. It looks cool in the pics too!
2. Road trips - in search of waves with a posse of equally stoked friends. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter if you don’t get waves; it’s just the trip and the stories …
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Ezekiel recently launched their brand spanking new website (http://ezekielusa.com/) It’s fully interactive, slick and easy to navigate and full on useful tit bits, like the latest Ezikiel Women’s lines, awesome downloads to customise your phones and computers with and even a Girl Blog, where you can keep in touch with the Ezikiel team riders, or simply have your say. This is something worth checking out, as most clothing sights are slow and painful to download, where as I found browsing this one easy and on top of that, interesting. The spring line is looking exceptionally good this year, with a seemingly floral and girly feel to the designs. If you’re tired of being stereotyped as a butch girl for always wearing boardies or jean pants, browse through the spring range and pick out a pretty frock to shock all your …
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So, it’s almost spring break, you have been working your ass off for close on a year just to afford this vacation, and you are so excited that sleep has become literally impossible. Short of constructing a giant calendar worm that you shorten with every passing day in the form of a count down, you have packed your bags several times, had your board waxed and tuned, and made sure you pants and jacket didn’t have any weird cupboard mold growing on them. You couldn’t be more ready for your trip to the mountains and the ski resort of your choice, and you think you have everything under control. You’re going to warm up on the groomed runs on your first day, hit a few tree runs and the park on your second and then work on landing that …
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