Water Sports
ArchiveBen Marr. Photo: Forge Motion Pictures For the latest video in the series Of Souls and Water, Forge Motion Pictures followed kayaker Ben Marr to Canada.
The third episode in Forge Motion Picture's series of Souls and Water features whitewater kayaker Ben Marr surfing waves at night. Click here to find out how the crew got the light on the boat at night.
El Mar, Mi Alma – film preview from Rebel Waltz Films on Vimeo. Anyone who dreams of surfing Chile should watch the trailer to El Mar, Mi Alma. It might be just the boost needed to book a ticket. Of course, there’s more to this movie than…
Cramming a whole lotta adventure into one day doesn't have to be a sufferfest. Photo: Katie Arnold We recently took the kids to see a Brazilian jazz band perform outside at our local college on a hill above town. You can probably picture the scene:聽 Everyone…
Photo: Shutterstock The Surfing Walk of Fame has announced its 2012 class. The seven inductees will have their names placed in the pavement at the corner…
Globe just released Electric Blue Heaven, a five-minute video of Dion Agius surfing an artificial wave in the United Arab Emirates. Don't turn it off when you see the yellow Lamborghini racing down the road and the…
In celebration of our 35th anniversary, we created the first-ever 国产吃瓜黑料 国产吃瓜黑料 Grant, a $10,000 endowment meant to help fund a smart, creative, and (perhaps) slightly foolhardy project. We asked applicants to submit basic contact information, a two-minute video, and a 500-word essay describing their adventure and why they would…
New footage from Forge Motion Pictures of the North Fork Championships, where the world’s best kayakers competed on Idaho’s big-water classic, the Payette.
Yes, the adventure video of the week features Kelly Slater talking. After the ASP called the third day of the Volcom Fiji Pro on June 8 due to massive conditions, the 11-time champ sat down in the booth…
Waterlining is slacklining over water. If you're going to slackline, it seems like a pretty good way to do it. Still, it would be hard to walk 728 feet on a slackline for 25 minutes without falling, which is what 24-year-old Mich Kemeter did at Gr眉ner…
The world record holder dishes on his diamond grills and his plans for London
Filmmaker Taylor Steele continues to push the bounds of what a surf flick can be. The man behind innersection.tv and The Drifter has been voted one of the 25 most powerful people in surfing by…
Don't make the mistake of clicking off this video when you see a wetsuited man skipping through the mudflats while awkwardly carrying windsurfing gear. It gets better, and not just because the windsurfers will reach speeds of roughly 50 knots, or about 55…
April Vokey鈥檚 crusade to save a foundering sport
Kelly Slater wins the Volcom Fiji Pro. Photo: ASP/Kirstin Kelly Slater, 40, beat Gabriel Medina, 19, in the finals of the Volcom Pro to win the 49th tour event of his…
Highlights of the 11-time ASP champ capturing his 49th tour victory at Cloudbreak.
Catching up with the Kiwi kayaker between races about his upcoming debut at the London Olympics; his girlfriend, Martina Wegman; and how he tries to close the gap between slalom kayakers and creek boaters
Last fall, when pro riders Eric Porter and Kelly McGarry needed a vacation, they decided to do a raft trip down Utah's Green River to look for unridden, Red Bull-style lines. Because they're pros, they brought along a videographer, a photographer, and hired…
A Q&A with an 国产吃瓜黑料 in Aspen participant
Earlier this week, 35-year-old German freediver Tom Sietas reportedly broke the world record for breathholding when he stayed underwater for 22 minutes and 22 seconds. That's just a bit longer鈥攁nd probably a bit more exciting to watch鈥攖han the average television sitcom without…
The 国产吃瓜黑料 in Aspen participant spoke to us about measuring risk, environmental advocacy, and getting older
Meet April Vokey, the steelhead-catching British Columbia guide who is changing fly-fishing as we know it. More to come on Vokey in June's XX Factor.
Big-wave stand-up paddleboarder; 10-time winner of The Molokai-to-Oahu Paddleboard Race
James Caird in surf. Photo: Frank Hurley In 1916, after losing his boat The Endurance on an expedition to Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton and five crew members hopped in a row…
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Surfrider Beach in better days. Photo: Bill Parr Malibu鈥檚 Surfrider Beach should be a busy place tomorrow. A long-delayed restoration of the polluted Malibu Lagoon鈥攖he estuary that feeds the famed surf break鈥攊s finally scheduled to begin after a year of conflicts and court battles that…
Rafa Ortiz on Palouse Falls. Photo: Lucas Gilman/Red Bull Content Let鈥檚 get this out of the way. Tyler Bradt kayaked off Washington鈥檚 189-foot Palouse Falls first. That was in 2009, and he stayed…
The second episode in Forge Motion Picture’s series of Souls and Water features paddler Melody Shapird paddling beautiful canyons in the southwest.
To capture kayaker Evan Garcia dropping 70 feet off Outlet Falls, filmmaker Andy Maser and two friends set up four cameras for a day of shooting near White Salmon, Washington. The crew used a RED Scarlet, two Canon 7Ds,…
Screenshot from Surfer. Surfer magazine has turned its how-to series from Kelly Slater into an interactive online feature. The 11-time ASP champ offers advice on everything from…
As this video of a two-year-old catching his first wave illustrates, surfing isn't always about competition. Still, it would be nice for high school surfers to be able to compete in front of crowds in the same way basketball, football,…
Check out the board at Pinterest.聽 The folks over at The…
Screenshot from Powerbreather.de. A new form-fitting snorkel promises to eliminate the need to turn your head while swimming. It's called the Powerbreather, and it earned a finalist nod in the accessories categoy at the ISPOBrandnew Awards鈥攁 tradeshow…
Manta ray. Photo Shutterstock Most people are familiar with Aldo Leopold's thoughts on cascading environmental damage from Thinking Like a Mountain. When wolves were hunted out of forests in the American Southwest,…
John John Florence wins 2012 Billabong Pro Rio. Photo: ASP/SCHOLTZ The last six months have been pretty good for 19-year-old surfer John John Florence. The Hawaiian took the 2011 Van Triple Crown Championship in December, won the Volcom Pipe…
When DON WATERS finally read the unpublished memoir given to him by his late father鈥攁n absentee figure he grew up resenting鈥 he was shocked to learn that the old man hung with Greg Noll during surfing鈥檚 golden age in California. Sounds like grounds for a quest.
While filming a feature on surfer Josh Kerr for RUSTY, filmmaker Matt Kleiner decided to rummage through some of his scraps and put together a little clip. The resulting video, Light:…
The judging panel at last week's Global Big Wave Awards determined that Garrett McNamara's much-discussed wave in Portugal this past November was 78 feet, or one foot taller than Mike Parsons' record-holding monster. But the measurements of both waves are so crude as to mean absolutely nothing.
Perhaps surf footage and an orchestra should be paired more often. In 2009, photographer and videographer Jon Frank put his videos and stills behind the music of composer Richard Tognetti. The duo debuted their creation at the Festival Maribor, with the Australian Chamber Orchestra…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/xOPvB1t6c4kNathan Fletcher, Ride of the Year and Monster Tube Champion, Teahupoo, Tahiti Garrett McNamara won with the Biggest Wave Award, earned a Guinness World Record for the biggest wave ever surfed, and took home the Wipeout of the…
Surf shorts don鈥檛 offer a lot of support when you鈥檙e going from paddling out to riding a tube. Or they haven't鈥攗ntil now. Oakley鈥檚 new Blade II Board Shorts聽have two parts. On the outside, they're all board鈥攅verything you would expect: quick-dry and stretchy with welded seams and a…
Whitewater guide Andrew Matthews takes to this part of the Zambezi River once a year when the flow is just right, and the surfable barrel above results. Scott LeDuc of River Surf Sessions…
On March 21, 2010, 35-year-old Dave Freeman and 30-year-old Amy Freeman, veteran guides for Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge, welcomed 100 people on skis, dogsleds and ice skates to their wedding just outside of Ely, Minnesota. Less than a month later, the couple took off…
聽Glines聽dam site, pre-dam; the dam intact; the dam coming down. Photos: Clallam Co. Historical Society; Olympic NP The Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River is running free. Pretty much. The Elwha dam is down and the Glines dam is being chipped away (see the image…
“I killed a lot of fish in my youth. But later I went with Cousteau, and with a team of scientists, and through them I understood what was happening to the world. It was then that I completely changed my tune. I threw away my harpoon to take up a…
The first of NRS and Forge Motion Pictures five-part series, on Souls and Water, features whitewater paddler and wanderer Erik Boomer…
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Bird's Nest, by Mandy Barker Photographer Mandy Barker couldn鈥檛 stop collecting, cataloguing, and photographing trash. The 48-year-old from Leeds, England, picked ocean debris as the central theme of a school photography project. She often went…
A little more than a week ago, 28-year-old Florida Tech student Justin Ellingham won the college division of the National Scholastic Surfing Association's East Coast Regional Championship. Less than a week later, he was bitten…
Rescue of one of three living crew members, Screenshot Courtesy of Coast Guard Video At approximately 3 P.M. on Saturday April 14, the Coast Guard Center in Alameda, California received an EPIRB signal from near the Farrallon Islands. A 38-foot cutter named Low Speed Chase, which…
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Float the Grand Canyon in a Dory. Bike across America. Tie your own fly. And 47 more epic quests, essential skills, and dream trips for the ultimate adventurer.
It鈥檚 ironic that surfing requires being in synch with nature and its rhythms but surfing equipment is so environmentally toxic. Almost all the gear, from the trunks to the wetsuits to the boards themselves, are made from non-recyclable petroleum-based resins, foam, plastics, and neoprene. Is it possible to enjoy surfing…
The trailer for a new mini series from NRS and Forge Motion pictures about paddlers and their love of water.
Peter Douglas 聽 聽Photo: Courtesy of California Coastal Commission The next time you find yourself on a stretch of pristine聽California coastline, you can thank Peter Douglas for what you don't see, such as high-rises or offshore oil-drilling platforms. The 69-year-old, who聽died April 1, fought hard against…
Matt Rutherford has fought off drunken fishermen, lost his favorite books, and sailed 24,000 miles alone in his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the Americas solo. After nine months at sea, he鈥檚 still not sure who will be around to greet him when he docks.
Last November, Garrett McNamara caught what may be the tallest wave ever surfed. Here are the songs he listens to before his biggest rides.
A great new kayaking flick from the French filmmakers at Original Production.
In the wake of a controversial ESPN interview, big wave surfers tell Laird Hamilton to put up or shut up
Ben Lecomte will attempt to set the long distance swimming world record by swimming across the Pacific.
Surfer Mark Visser has a can鈥檛-miss formula for becoming cable鈥檚 next action hero: crazy stunts, against-the-odds luck, and a growing Internet fan base. So why isn鈥檛 it working?
Kelly Slater and an Australian 颅engineer are battling one another to create the world鈥檚 first shreddable artificial break
In June, the world’s best paddlers will coverge on Idaho’s notorious North Fork of the Payette for a two day race down Class V whitewater. Get more info here. The teaser is from Forge Motion Pictures.
Researchers wield the collection trawl 聽Photo: Stiv Wilson Despite what you might have heard, there are no huge, visually striking debris fields of plastic shopping bags and PET bottles swirling around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But if that's the good news, the bad news is much worse:…
Can Caroline Queen win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics?
聽 By Guest Blogger Elizabeth Sullivan Need to thaw out? Leave the winter behind? We did. Our wants were simple: Our destination had to be warm and had to have salt water. What we didn鈥檛 want was simple, too: no passports required and no connecting flights.聽 With four boys…
Michael Roberts boards a Swedish catamaran to report Cat Power, his latest story on the new boats used in the famed sailing race the America’s Cup.
This surf video from Cody Caldwell makes us want to ditch the office and go outside and play. For more on surfing, check out the Top Beginner Surf Spots in North America.
By Guest blogger Emily Brendler Shoff@ebshoff 聽 Exploring tidepools on Puako Beach (Emily Brendler Shoff) Traveling to Hawaii with children can seem daunting. The flights are long and can get expensive. Oceanfront lodging can cost you a bundle,…
Beach bliss, off the beaten path: San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua su casa @ Pelican Eyes Also on Groupon this week: a three-bedroom ski cabin 鈥渘ear鈥 Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Admittedly, the Teton Springs Lodge & Spa isn鈥檛 in Wyoming鈥攊t鈥檚…
Duct Tape Then Beer sea kayaks between thousands of islands of Georgia’s coast. Here’s how you can repeat the trip.
Six nightmare scenarios that keep the best adventurers up at night
A couple of months ago, I caught up with 21-year-old pro surfer and youth activist Kyle Thiermann. Possibly the world's most upbeat environmentalist, Kyle's spent the past five years surfing his way through Indonesia, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Australia, and Hawaii, shooting documentaries…
Pat Keller, Issac Levinson, and Chris Gratsman paddle over Alabama’s 90-foot Noccalula Falls. Read True Tales Behind the Web’s Best (Worst) Moments for the behind-the-scenes story.
Can a new fleet of scary-fast catamarans make the America's Cup wild enough to lure a different breed of fan? So far there have been epic wipeouts and multiple injuries. Which means everything is right on track.
It鈥檚 that time of the year again鈥攖ime to start fantasizing about summer river trips. Many of the best stretches of family-friendly whitewater are regulated to prevent overcrowding, and if you want to lead your own multiday trip, rather than go with a commercial outfitter, you need to…
Read Almost Famous, Kyle Dickman’s profile of Visser and his attempt to become TV’s next big action hero.聽…
The first of three quick vignettes shot by Taj Burrow of surfers riding waves in Fji.