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
From Shorts in Cape Verde to the Cold UK
A few weeks ago I went to Cape Verde to do some commentary for the Professional Windsurfers Association; which meant point breaks and I got to break out the board shorts! It was a really cool place, we didn’t get too much wind but I got wet a few times, I would say its like […]
Posted on December 17, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | Leave a 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
Sup’ing Ripples
I’ve put together a quick video of me checking out some micro surf on the Lopez 9’6″ Surf Music; really shows this board can go on anything!
Posted on December 9, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins, Stand Up Paddling, SUP Fins, Surftech Boards | 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
Landed the Money Move at the Animal Newquay Open
The Animal Newquay Open was the final event of the tour this year and although I wasn’t planning on competing as I’ve been suffering with a few injuries, I managed to make a late entry on the morning of the event. I was drawn against Russ Winter and Richie Sills, so knew I had my […]
Posted on November 29, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | Leave a Comment
Mount Llesur was Conquered, and Victory is Once Again Mine – Animal Newquay Open
Job done folks, the last event on the UK pro surf tour and I took down the victory. With 3 key events cancelled this year on the tour, the title race was tight. Unfortunately I missed 3 events on top of that, 1 of those being a 2 star event because I was competing in […]
Posted on November 26, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins | Leave a Comment
Great Results For the Futures Team at the Animal Newquay Open
Futures team riders had some great results at the Animal Open at Newquay this last weekend with Reubin Pearce winning the event, also scoring the highest wave of the event with 8.7 point wave in the semi’s, leading him into the final against Jonny Fryer, Micah Lester and Mark Harris with Reubin going onto win! […]
Posted on November 22, 2010 Filed Under Future Fins, Thruster Fins | Leave a Comment
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
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