2013 was a big year for surfing. Records were broken and then broken again. A new champion was crowned, and an all-time great proved his mettle and renewed his commitment to surfing. There are probably many lists of top surfers of 2014 and I’m not aiming to make mine definitive by any means. I just … Read More
Over the past couple of years we’ve seen an explosion in big wave surfing, at least in terms of media attention. Thought there are big wave spots across the world in places as far flung from one another as Chile and Tasmania, one place has been at the center of the big wave phenomenon: Nazaré, … Read More
Two recent surf film festivals prominently feature Portugal: one coming up in Porto, (Portugal’s second largest city) and another that was held last month in New York. And while New York might not be much of a surfing town, it definitely knows film. The International Porto Surf Film Festival 2014 will only be the second … Read More
It’s not just famous American big wave surfing superstars like Garrett McNamara that are surfing Portugal’s monster waves. The same waves that McNamara surfed at Praia do Norte in Nazaré have been ridden by Portuguese surfer António Silva, just without the financial support and media attention that have been heaped on the man from Hawaii. … Read More
