Dorian's a freak

Shane Dorian paddled into possibly the biggest wave ever paddled into. Just looking at this footage freaks me out and then to top it off he pulls into a massive barrel on the last wave. We will see how big they say it is at the Billabong XXL awards, but I'm guessing it's more than 50ft...


Walsh and Dorian on a Tuesday... from Justin Clark on Vimeo.

Rags to riches

Took a bit of a tiki tour at the weekend...along with 500 other surfers. Raglan was pretty wedged, you couldn't even get a car park at Manu or Whale bay! I was stoked myself as this was only the 2nd time I've ever been to Raglan and this time it was pumping. Staying in the local caravan park there was feck all sleep had with some nut bag coming home drunk screaming and crying her boyfriend dumped her, woke everyone up and continued for 3 hours, I'd dump her too! Althou it allowed me to be up at the crack of dawn checking out the bay. When you first round the corner the waves take your breath away, then as you look around you notice more and more multi million dollar houses. You can't but wonder if they have surfing in there blood or they just like the view of all the beat up cars crammimg up the roads.
  Seeing that everyone seemed to be focused on the points I decided to extend my travels a bit more on the way home and found a huge left at the bottom of a valley, and an Indo looking left and right, sweet days work.
Stoked

Morning light

Hmmmm

Not a soul in sight

Indo?

Impressions of Indo II

A little strand...opps beach

Been a while since I last did a blog on my own surfing photos, since Hawaii! A little swell crept in from Tropical cyclone Atu last week, unfortuantely I didn't get to where I wanted to explore but ended up on a long stretch of strand. Yes I said strand, I know I am in NZ but Ireland still is in my heart. Anyway just a few beach shots from Atu in the land of the long white cloud.

Filth, pure filth

 Sorry Roo but I knocked your photo, sweet shot.

 Clik here to see more of Roo's work

This is what's been going down the last few days, unfortunately i'm not there but thank the webster for youtube and facebook to keep me sorta sane, will add clips as more comes in the coming days. Some pretty amazing surfing went down at the 1st towin comp in Ireland organised by Paul O'Kane in junction with The Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club and sponsored by Billabong and Monster energy at Mullaghmore. Paul did an amazing job putting a lot of this together, if it wasn't for Paul this would not have happened this year so a big thank you to him. Even though I wasn't there on behalf of everyone I would like to thank the RNLI from Bundoran and Sligo, The Irish Tow Rescue Club, Billabong, Monster Energy, which ever council gave the ok which I think might've been Sligo to run the comp and The Pier Head hotel at Mullaghmore. It sounded like an epic day. Apararently there was hundreds of people watching the comp, great turn out and support for the extreme sports people. Bring on next year...
Results:
1st. Eric Rebiere/Benjamin Sanchis
2nd. Peter Conroy/Glynn ...
3rd. Andrew Cotton/Al Mennie
4th. Gabe Davies/Richie Fitzgerald
Gabe also got best Barrel, it's in the clip below at around 28sec in, Richie also got most gnarliest wipeout

Roo has an awesome photo in the Irish Times, just clik here to view it

This the latest clip is pretty wicked, it's good to see a few camera people putting there heads together to do a pretty cool clip and using there imagination. Keep an eye out for a documentary maybe later this year by these talented videographers. 4 different angles. The water angle is sooo close to the action that it makes me fell like a scardy cat not being closer myself in the sessions before. Big congrats to Peter Martin, Peter Clyne, Dave Mottershead and Daniela Gross. Well dones guys, cool bananas

Mullaghmore Head "Tow in Surf Session" from Mully Productins on Vimeo.

The latest and best footage so far, 3min 10sec in...


The following clip insane barrel at 28sec

This next clip at 2.08 in, what a barrel


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more to come...

Biscuit fun

Have been hanging around and getting to know my awesome nephews better I haven't seen for nearly 8 years. Having loads of fun along the way. The bro has a cool little pool that one of the boys just loves to dive into about a foot of water! They have so much energy it tires you out just watching them hahaha. We also went to the lake and dragged them around at high speeds often getting airbourne. So much fun, I haven't laughed that hard for a long time. The lake is class with beautiful surrounds of mainly bush and hills. I can hardly wait till the next time we head out, cheers boys for the laughs.

launching

Superboy

Hangloose

Hang on buddy

2 waves, 1 county...

Been living on the East coast for most of the year I didn't get much of a chance to catch the swells. But what swells I did get were pretty damn impressive. So here's 2 of the best swells of the season I caught up with at 2 totally different breaks in 1 county. Happy new years to ya all and hope 2011 treats everyone with good fortune and great waves. Some parting advice, I could rattle off over a dozen breaks virtually unsurfed in Ireland, quality breaks so go search, walk over that hill where beyond could be your dreams come true, it won't kill you...


The Mighty Mullaghmore



Dave before he got barrelled of his nut

Mikee loving it, his favourite big wave



Neil eyeing the beast up




Pete getting the ride of his life




Rick cruzzing it




Prowlers perfection




Paul just chilling out




Richie look behind ya mate...cool & calm




Barry about to get engulfed but makes it




Jeremy's 1st wave in Ireland...ever!!




Al charging it




Cotty going for gold



Jeremy Flores takes Pipe Masters in memory of Andy

Andy Irons - Photo Brian Bielmann

  The Pipe Masters in memory of Andy Irons is one I will never forget. Andy was a great surfer and will be remembered by all.

  Jeremy Flores takes his first tour win this year picking his barrels carefully and tactfully. A well desreved win taking out 10x world champ Kelly Slater in a breath taking semi-final with a long long barrel, probably the longest of the event. Once again it was Backdoor that produced the goods with the north swell.
   Yesterday saw consistant 4ft barrels, lite winds and sunny enough to burn me face to a crisp even thou I had 50+ sun screen on, a hat and sat most of the day in the shade! Gotta luv been a red head. It was an awesome day of waves yesterday and there was some incredible barrels had. Today was a bit more inconsistant but what waves did come through were taken advantage of. A big crowd was around for all 3 days and about 2 million worth of cameras! So here's a few shots from my perspective and probably another 200 photogs! Congratulations to Jeremy and good luck for next year.

Hmmmm...a bit close maybe?

This is what you tell the judges if you don't want a 10!

If you know who this is & she's over 21 can I have her phone number please?

   Meanwhile at Off The Wall this sorta shit was going down...