Featured image: Mike Baird ‘Surfers Pre-Stretches’ CC2.0 via Flickr Keeping in good shape and avoiding injury is essential for anyone who loves to surf, skate or do any other action sport. You’ll never perform at you best unless you prepare your body for it, and flexibility is key to pulling off radical maneuvers. Stretching your muscles is one of the most important things you … [Read more...] about 10 High Performance Stretches Today’s Action Sports Athletes Swear By
In Between Giants with Albee Layer
https://vimeo.com/163461776 Here’s an edit that will get you hooting, the fearless Albee Layer surfing his home island of Maui, and we’re not just talking about Jaws. Watch Layer come within a whisker of nailing a backside 540, pull into immensely intense barrels and go over the falls in agonising slo-mo. Does watching this make you want to go to Hawaii? Sure it does! Just … [Read more...] about In Between Giants with Albee Layer
The Odysea Stump – Why Haven’t You Got One Yet?
Versatility in a surfboard can make or break a surf session, and the Odysea Stump is packed full of the stuff. This adaptable shred stick goes good in all types of waves and conditions, whether it’s a sandfilled shorebreak, lumpy overhead peaks or glassy perfection. Catch Surf have really created something special in the Stump, which takes it name from being a scaled down … [Read more...] about The Odysea Stump – Why Haven’t You Got One Yet?
Surf Gets Good in the Galápagos
https://vimeo.com/161071710 The Galápagos Islands. It’s not exactly the first destination that comes to mind when planning a surf trip, but perhaps it should be… The waves seriously pump here and the wildlife is spectacular, but you already knew that right? Well now you can watch OAM and Futures Fins team rider Brett Barley seek out an El Niño swell with buddies Dillon Perillo … [Read more...] about Surf Gets Good in the Galápagos
Steve Caballero – Still Styling It In His Fifties
https://youtu.be/_kDA3JH9UhE Steve Caballero is back on the Bones team again… that’s right, he was a member of the original Bones Brigade, along with Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain and the rest. Cab was born in ’64, making him 52-years-old later this year. But here he is, gliding round a bowl with a bushy white beard and seemingly not a care in the world. He wasn’t named ‘Skater of … [Read more...] about Steve Caballero – Still Styling It In His Fifties