New Boards with Futures Fins
Al Mennie – Futures Fins Team Rider. It’s always an exciting time for a surfer to go to the shaping bay and pick new boards! I love it! It’s so exciting. So today I drove to Rosy Surfboards in Londonderry to pick up a new 10’8″ gun and a new 6’0″ tow board. Both have future […]
Posted on December 2, 2011 Filed Under Future Fins, Quad Fins, Thruster Fins | Leave a Comment
Al Meenie chasing down swell – Europe
Futures Fins Rider – Al Meenie Red Shadows from Jamie Russell on Vimeo.
Posted on November 30, 2011 Filed Under Future Fins, Quad Fins, Shortboarding, Thruster Fins | Leave a Comment
How about a wee 90 footer before breakfast
90 Footer at Nazare – Portugal..? Biggest wave ever ridden? Foto by Polvo/ Jorge Leal and Wilson Ribeiro We are without are main safety ski and no helicopter back up. All we have is a ski to tow with another ski that doesn’t work in white water and Nicole spotting for us on the cliff […]
Posted on November 10, 2011 Filed Under Future Fins, Longboarding, Quad Fins, Shortboarding, Surftech Boards, Thruster Fins, Ultraflx | Leave a Comment
Al Mennie Makes Entry in the Billabong XXL Big Wave Contest
As Global big wave surfing has literally grown in size, Futures team rider Al Mennie has been at the forefront of the European movement. Mennie has surfed huge waves all over the planet (most recently at Nazare, Portugal). It has been through continually pushing the boundaries in Ireland that he has become an internationally recognised […]
Posted on December 23, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | 1 Comment
Surfing in the Snow at Portrush
Didn’t want to let this snow keep me from surfing, so went for a surf off Portrush, the BBC have also a a video up.
Posted on December 10, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | Leave a Comment
50Ft North Canyon Wave on a GoPro
The guys over at X-TremeVideo.com set me up with one of their GoPro cams for when I went to the North Canyon at Nazare Portugal, check out the footage below: http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.x-tremevideo.com%2Fgopro-cameras%2Fgopro-hd-hero-cameras&session_token=JZAseDiTNUR_lZGlM33PxrfVtpZ8MTI5MTgwODI1Nw%3D%3D My full write up goes into how it all went down.
Posted on December 8, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins, Thruster Fins | Leave a Comment
The North Canyon Show – Nazare, Portugal
The waves of Nazare, Portugal have long been feared and respected by surfers, fishermen and the local community. A deep water canyon, over 200m deep, just off shore funnels swell in from the Atlantic before projecting it at the coastline. The result is huge a frame style peaking waves with extreme power. Al and Garrett […]
Posted on December 1, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | 2 Comments
Ireland’s Biggest Wave – Prowlers
Check out more footage of Prowlers, the massive wave we discovered off the west coast of Ireland:
Posted on November 12, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | Leave a Comment
Newest Big Wave Spot Discovery – ‘Prowlers’
Prowlers is something we have been watching between us all for some time now. It is so exposed it takes everything to be right for it to be rideable. We assembled a solid team consisting of: two Irish men, myself and Ritchie; Devon’s Andrew Cotton; Aussie Paul O’Kane; and two saffas, Mottershead and Johnson. There […]
Posted on November 11, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | 2 Comments