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Description: We'll check the waves, read the buoys, do the interviews, and arrange the photography. You just go surf & enjoy.

 

Founded: 1985

 

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The Modern Guide to Surf Exploration Ep 1, Fernando Frances No need to choose between work and surf these days—chasing waves and a 401(k) is more possible than you think. Our new series, The Modern Guide to Surf Exploration, features regular (and goofy) individuals who live for the never-ending quest to find more waves, and do so while balancing full-time careers and real-world responsibilities. Episode one highlights Fernando Frances, a keen surfer, traveler and software programmer from Madrid, who spends much of the year chasing great surf around the world—with his laptop and a Starlink in tow. Remote Mentawais? Yep. Surf eight hours, come in and work six hours while everyone else is celebrating with Bintangs. For Frances, this is not a vacation, it's a life. "I realized this job was perfect for surfing 'cause you need to be super flexible with time," he said. "You need to pay attention to swells, and you have to be able to be anywhere in the world. It's perfect if you can just work whenever and from wherever you want. If I can do what I love and be where I wanna be and share it with the people I wanna share it with, then that’s all the happiness that you can get.” ----------------------------------- Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/surfline Become a Surfline Premium Member: https://www.surfline.com/upgrade

24/07/2025   |   video icon

Eimeo Czermak vs. XL Teahupo’o! On Wednesday, May 7th, Teahupo'o saw the first very solid swell of the season. It was very big, right on the line between paddle and tow, with both crews giving it their collective best. Turned out local Eimeo Czermak snagged the wave of the day, paddling -- arguably one of the biggest waves ever caught without a ski. Longtime local Tikanui Smith, who watched from the channel, said, "maybe one of the best paddle waves at Teahupoo." And we believe him. The swell itself, according to chief forecaster Kevin Wallis, was "the result of a strong but not crazy, eye-popping storm. But what it lacked in strength, it made up for in track and location. It moved almost directly at Tahiti over the last few days and the peak seas only occurred only 1000-1500 miles away. Close enough to create pumping surf, but not bad wind and weather." Wallis offered some more telling intel: "Perhaps the most interesting thing was the swell period — not long, 15-16 seconds, with the shorter swell period, which meant that the even the largest waves were at least somewhat approachable for the paddle crew. And Eimeo paddled into one of the biggest waves I’ve ever seen at the End of the Road." *Worth noting: Surfline's EPIC rating only happens a few times per year, when the forecast team -- not the models -- deems a swell truly special. Filmed by: Tim Pruvost, Kim Mean, Boris Martinet and Blaise Booth Edited by: Nick Liotta ----------------------------------- Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/surfline Become a Surfline Premium Member: https://surfl.in/2Cd36tF ----------------------------------

10/05/2025   |   video icon

Koa Rothman and Team Japan Win 2025 Da Hui Backdoor Shootout! The thing about surfing Pipeline — as is the case with many athletic endeavors — is that you can have a team full of all-stars and the waves could be totally all-time, but if you’re not in a rhythm, none of those factors means jack-sh-t. A rhythm, and being in one, is that semi-intangible x-factor that separates the haves from the have-nots in surfing events and Day 4 of Da Hui Backdoor Shootout was no exception. While decent, often well-groomed 6-8-foot-Hawaiian waves graced every single heat from sun up to sun down, it was Team Japan in their second heat of the day who truly caught the beat and tuned into that systematic arrangement of aquatic high notes and found an enviable flow. Sure, the waves absolutely pumped during that heat with surfers like Shogo Harada, Shinpei Horiguchi and Riku Matsumoto bagging bombs that secured scores which may have made up for heats the day or two prior. But as the dust settled from that monumental heat, everyone around the contest zone was whispering to each other: “Did they just get enough waves to win as a team?” Under the This Is LIvin’ tent where Team 96712 sat, Nate Florence shook his head in disbelief and said, “We have to get sets like whatever they just got in our next heat.” They actually would get a few in theirs — but just not quite as many. And besides Koa Rothman, who definitely found his rhythm, the team as a whole couldn’t quite lock into the melody that Team Japan did. “I think we really found a rhythm out there during that heat with the ocean,” said Shinpei Horiguchi. Mind you, this is the same Shinpei that nearly got decapitated in front of our very eyes on Day 1, if you remember that 8-footer that unloaded all of its kilojoules onto his dome. “But that’s really what it was: ocean rhythm,” continued Shinpei. “Once we got that rhythm, then we got plenty of waves. Back-to-back. So, really, all I can thank is the ocean.” Certainly, teams like Team Volcom, Team North Shore Boys and Team New Earth Project had their magic moments. Event runner-up Shayden Pacarro of Team New Earth, who surfed as a replacement for Kelly Slater, was surely in form all six times he surfed in the event, and never more so than today. “Every time I was out there, it felt like it was my first wave again, you know?” said Shayden. “Kelly, maybe next year, brah!” In the end, the whispers and rumors would be realized, both for the Team and individual winners — both entities who very evidently had that flow today. Team Japan had done the impossible, while Pipeline specialist Koa Rothman did the quite-probable. “Winning this for Team Japan is…happy…crazy…amazing…unbelievable,” said Shinpei Horiguchi searching for the right word, with tears in his eyes. “This is history for Team Japan, you know? So, we are very, very, very happy.” Maybe finding that elusive “rhythm” gets somehow easier with reps. If so, the Backdoor Shootout gives you more than a handful of chances to find your footing over the course of 4 days. “This is honestly my favorite event because there’s no other event where you get to surf Pipeline six times with your best friends,” says Koa Rothman. “That’s so crazy that that can actually happen. Then to have my family and Da Hui o Hee Nalu there putting it on, these people that I’ve known since I was a baby…I’m kind of speechless. I just gotta thank Nathan and Ivan Florence for going on the first wave of the set [laughs]. I ended up getting a really good one and Jose Angel helped out with that too. Oh, and thank you to my brother Makua for not showing up those last few heats, so I could get more waves!” Individual Winner: Koa Rothman 2nd Place: Shayden Pacarro 3rd Place: Jamie O’Brien 4th Place: Shogo Harada 5th Place: Nathan Florence Team Winner: Team Japan: Shinpei Horiguchi, Riaru Ito, Riku Matsumoto, Shogo Harada, and Shohei Kato Longboard: Kala DeSoto SUP: Anthony Maltese

15/01/2025   |   video icon
 
 

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