From his Hokkaido home, ex-pat Australian surfer Shane Peel watched a nascent snowboard movement slowly take shape. The style of snowboarding, snowsurf, closely parallels surf culture. Snowsurf is also the name of Shane's debut film.
Connor Coffin bucks the trend of young punters retrofitting a rail game to their air repertoire. Coffin is a power surfing purebred with a deep inclination toward committed rail turns and rear foot weighting.
It's been a quarter of a century since Jack McCoy released Bunyip Dreaming. An instant hit, Bunyip Dreaming is both a snapshot of a particular time and a timeless piece of surf cinema.
Swellnet spoke to Jack to celebrate the occasion.
More than 2,000 spectators turned out on Saturday 19th September to see Red Bull Unleashed wavepool contest.
"When you’re surfing on the Championship Tour you surf against the best in the world," said Fanning. "A fourth world title won’t be easy, especially when I have to surf against people like Adriano.”
Join award winning Australian photographer Shane Peel as he journeys to the mountains, beaches, and silver birch forests of Japan's northern most island, Hokkaido.
