Laurent Roy a french photographer has just updated its Photoblog. He lets us appreciate a selection of very nice pics taken in the famous Britany spot of La Torche. Follow this link if you want to see the set and why not discover the whole work of this photographer.

I knew the Paris, New york, London, StarTrek… editions but not yet the Surfing Monopoly.
I’m not really sure that surfing values like respect of each other and sharing are really matching with the game capitalistic concept of Monopoly. But actualy, I do not forget it just a very fun game. Moreover, as Nollie says, a percentage of profits go the Surfrider Foundation.

Now I’m hardently waiting the Cluedo Surfing Edition, where the purpose would be to find: who has snaked kelly, on which beach, and with which board :D

It’s getting nice outside and summer is definitely on its way… so it might be a good time to start thinking about where you’ll get some hot action! One event you can blindfoldly mark down is the Rip Curl Boardmasters, from August 6 to 12, at Fristral Beach, Newquai, UK.

Surf, skate, music and … bikinis what could you want more than that!

You’ll find all the information you need concerning the line up, the tickets and much more on the website.

See you there!

RipCurl has always been engaged to fight against environment threat. Today, the surf brand continues in this way by presenting 4 commitments gathered in the RipCurl Planet programm. It inclues partnerships with WWF and Surfrider Fondation but moreover, the company is also seeking to reduce its own impact on the environment by improving its operation and by developing more ecological products. A good exemple of this engagement, is that you will never see any plastic bag in a RipCurl store.

More details here in french and also here in English.

Some members of the french surf portail Surf4all have launch a new wiki about Surf. The website is quite new but we can already find many content. A great initiative all in GNU free documentation licence !

This is the result of a study found on the discovery channel website. Indeed, we can learn that a competitive surfers sustained 6.6 significant injuries per 1,000 hours of surfing… wow, it seems already enough but apparently is quite less than other sports.
Now, mums can be quiet : )

Picture from Jpstanley

I feel so freezed when I see these pictures which have been taken in the artic circle. This is amazing and beautiful.

The video footage of this cold surfing session can be seen here.

It has been organised to test and get commentaries from surfers about the new Ripcurl Wetsuit, the “H-Bomb”.

Surfer Against Sewage association (SAS) always find new ways to communicate about the dommages thats sewage cost to nature. Recently some members disguised themself in legends of old times like Merlin, King Arthur… to warn about the low level of sewage traitement in the british city of Tintagel.

King Arthur, speaking on behalf of Surfers Against Sewage says: “I can’t believe the water company plans to provide such a low level of sewage treatment for half of the community and for the other half to not treat it all. As a community, Tintagel is hugely popular with visitors, recreational water users and exceeds the 2000 population equivalent that requires a minimum of secondary level treatment – without this treatment Tintagel will remain in the Dark Ages”.

More information and a video here.

I know that Wikiriders is for now a European website but as music is universal I wanted to write a small note about a japanese artist: Takeshi Terauchi.
With his band “The Bunnys” he has released an album of classical theme like the symphony No 5 of Beethoven played in a surf music style, and it rocks : )

More song of the album can be found here.

Point Break is one of the most popular film talking about surf. For a new DVD released, a video website has just being launch. On bodhisarmy, you can submit videos of you and friends surfing or talking about Bodhi’s philosophy :) And the best video maker will win an autographed surfboard.

This one is a mashup of Brokeback Mountain and Point Break. I don’t think it could win but it’s really funny.