I twisted Dean “Dingo” Morrison’s arm to get me into the Surf Lakes Wave Pool in Yeppoon. Yes, that Mad Max pool that you’ve probably seen in clips. The pool up in Yeppoon is a test facility and isn’t open to the public. This was my experience behind the gates. Dylan Graves
For more info on this pool check out surflakes.com
And I thought me exe was shallow, Mason will drag that surfboard of his over any surface for fun. Mason took the red eye flight from Hawaii to California straight into some beatings at the famous Wedge and Cylinders. This session was filmed during hurricane Kay, click into the madness.
The promise of Autumn is knocking on the door. Ushering in the season, London Surf / Film Festival has dropped a fresh dose of inspiration with the longlist for 11th Edition of The Shorties presented by Surfdome. Settle in for some 60 minutes of surf movie magic over at the LS/FF site.
London Surf / Film Festival needs your help in selecting The Shorties to be premiered on the big screen at this year’s festival. They are asking you – the esteemed surfing community – to support your favourite films by watching and voting for them. And as part of LS/FF’s commitment to UK and Irish filmmaking talent, a £1000 filmmaking fund will be awarded to the winning short with £500 awarded to the stand out emerging talent.
The hotly contested ‘homegrown filmmaking’ category at the heart of the international film festival features 11 longlisted shorts from some of the best established and most promising up and coming creatives. There are sick edits from the furthest reaches of our fair isles, super 8 traveloguing, moments of chaos, moments of clarity, 3D cyber dreams and everything in between!
Voting is open now and will run until 22nd October. Check out the longlisted entries at londonsurffilmfestival.com and cast your votes.
The shortlist is decided by a combination of votes cast by the surf community and the screening panel. The selected films will be shown on the big screen as part of the 11th Annual London Surf / Film Festival hosted 25-26 November at the iconic Riverside Studios and 2nd December at the legendary, Genesis Cinema in East London.
Founded round a kitchen table, in the deep mid winter after a few good waves, London Surf / Film Festival is a celebration of the cream of international surf culture. After 10 editions of packed out premieres, icons, good times and more it has grown to become a must attend for saltwater aficionados, bringing to the UK the best surf films from around the globe – documentaries to inspire, travelogues to stir up the wanderlust and cutting edge action to blow minds, accompanied by talks, music, gallery shows, workshops and more. See you there!
You can watch, enjoy, share, support and stoke out on The Shorties below:
‘Surfing No Kandui on the first day with some sets reaching 10ft + was clearly the best and biggest day of the trip.
A scary wave at best as you can’t tell which waves will let you escape the channel with its long fast shallow barrel.
Just ahead of Kelly Slater, during the middle of the day my best wave came. I ‘freehanded’ it on my backhand which is always an exclamation point. Such a special day surfing with Kelly and the other guys that were having a dig.’
Overall, a memorable and unforgettable trip as the other surfers were all so enjoyable to live with over the 2 week trip. Good laughs, food and waves. @billykean
Unless you’ve experienced Long Island in full cry, you’d never believe that Long Beach serves up the only waves on earth that could possibly pull Balaram Stack and Tosh Tudor away from winter in Hawaii, but that’s exactly what this edit shows; sleet, snow, ice and all. From shivering cylinders to cold caverns on blizzard-ridden barrels, this is the East Coast edit you never knew you needed.
The Vans Pipe Masters event will run on Oahu’s North Shore December 8-20, 2022. Building on more than 50 years of history, this year the iconic Pipe Masters will run as a specialty invitational event ‘fuelling innovation, community, and progression by showcasing some of the most talented men and women surfers in the world.’
‘This year’s WSL-sanctioned event will showcase 60 men and women surfers selected by Vans, who will be rewarded for tube riding, aerials and turns for the first time ever at Pipeline, while preserving the historical significance that makes the wave one of the most consequential and awe-inspiring in existence. The event kicks off three weeks prior to the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, a celebrated digital UGC surf competition that crowns the most outstanding male and female performances across three iconic surfing venues: Haleiwa, Sunset Beach, and Pipeline.’
The event will kick off December 8-20, 2022
