Created by brothers Sky Shaw and Travis Shaw. A short stint back home found Travis and Sky putting their heads together to bring you ‘Sithech’. They spent three months surfing and filming in the north east of England and The Scottish highlands.
With Sky being in Australia for the past two and a half years through the pandemic the duo were reunited late 2022.
Pat charging Wiamea in the 50s, heavy gun, no leash… Imagine…
Pat Curren , one of surfings most enigmatic characters has passed away. He was 90.
Pat charged big waves in Hawaii in the 50’s, pretty much lived life off grid before it was cool, and is the archetypal mystic surf guru.
He is the father of Tom and Joe Curren and grand father to a bunch of charging grandchildren such as Lee Ann Curren.
In the 60s his big-wave boards were considered the best in the world. In 2021 one he had shaped sold for $26,000 + commission!
Proper surfing legend.
Thoughts are with his family.
A playground to a very select few, the Banzai Pipeline can take you from hero, to zero in a split second. Not much beats backlit Pipe, hit the link for all the drone action from the North Shore.
The Cortes Bank is a shallow seamount (a barely submerged island) sitting in the North Pacific Ocean. It is 96 miles southwest of San Pedro, Los Angeles, 111 miles (166 kilometers) west of Point Loma, San Diego, and 47 miles (82 kilometers) southwest of San Clemente Island in Los Angeles County. It is considered the outermost feature in California’s Channel Islands chain. – Clever stuff courtesy of wikipedia.
Who wouldn’t fancy surfing a shallow seamount 96 miles in the middle of the ocean, well, me for one. Thankfully those are others on this spinning globe with less of a hangover and more get up and go, hit play to watch some of the finest big wave surfers including Andrew Cotton, Lucas Chumbo and Justine Dupont, full respect to all the team, we salute you all.
John John Florence on his way to winning.(WSL: Keoki)
The 2023 Eddie Aikau big wave invitational has been green lit for Sunday January 22.
The comp only runs at Wiamea when surf consistently reach 20-feet between December 14, 2022 through March 23, 2023 and it will be the first time in six years the comp has run.
You be able to watch it live here
Hawaii is 10 hours behind GMT so roughly live from 6pm UK and Ireland
5 hours behind Florida so 1pm
Cal is 2 hours ahead
Sydney is 12 hours ahead
Perth is 18 hours ahead.
2022-2023 INVITEES
Aaron Gold
Andrea Moller
Billy Kemper
Eli Olson
Emily Erickson
Ezekiel Lau
Grant Baker
Greg Long
Ian Walsh
Jake Maki
Jamie O’Brien
Jamie Mitchell
John John Florence
Josh Moniz
Justine Dupont
Kai Lenny
Keala Kennelly
Keali’i Mamala
Kelly Slater
Koa Rothman
Kohl Christensen
Landon McNamara
Lucas Chianca
Luke Shepardson
Makani Adric
Makuakai Rothman
Mark Healey
Mason Ho
Michael Ho
Nathan Florence
Nathan Fletcher
Nic von Rupp
Paige Alms
Peter Mel
Ramon Navarro
Ross Clarke-Jones
Shane Dorian
Taio Shipman
Tikanui Smith
Tyler Larronde
What will you be doing when you’re 65?
65 year-old surfing legend Michael Ho took his son Mason Ho’s place at the 2023 Dahui Backdoor Shootout. He went on to catch two massive 2nd reef waves! The guy is a straight up legend, full respect to him and all the competitors that took part.
