This beautiful video from Mickey Smith shows some stunning scenery from Co. Clare Ireland. I’ve seen some of these cliffs from land and they are impressive. Mickey’s comment, which transcends the video itself is about the nature of going to sea, and of surfing itself. The comment @ time segment 4:35 on is what makes …
Tag Archive: Surfing
Oct
13
US National Surf Kayaking Championship Results
This is the promo video for the World Surf Kayak Championships that will be held in the Outerbanks of North Carolina, Cape Hatteras in Fall of 2011. The qualifying event was this past weekend at Cape Hatteras. ESKA, hosted the tournament event. As it turned out, according to ESKA, it was an international event with …
Mar
15
Surfing’s Aerial Future
The New York Times posted a great article about the history of aerial maneuvers in board surfing. Surf Kayaking has experienced a similar revolution in it’s judged competitions. Aerials maneuvers in kayak surfing, and wave ski competitions are now a high scoring maneuver that does not count against the competitor, and instead scores highly. Judged …
Feb
09
The types of surf breaks
This image of different types of breaks does a fairly good job of explaining how different breaks are formed. The type we see the most often on the Great Lakes is the beach break. Though on the east coast of Lake Michigan we often get sandbars that form in deeper water simulating a bit of …
Oct
04
Surf Kayak Monkey Face
My Surf Kayak Monkey Face from Keith Wikle on Vimeo. I think surf kayaking is cool. Luckily, I know I am not. Try not to look in the mirror too often, you may laugh at what you see. This was a great day surf kayaking on Lake Michigan this August. Steep six foot waves and …
Sep
28
How to predict good surfing weather on the Great Lakes
The fall storm season is on with a vengeance. When the wind starts to howl we get waves on both sides of the lake. Today the wind is at gale force with 50 knot winds out of the west. The result of the storm weather is this picture: This fall storm on Lake Michigan is …
Jan
28
Image of Bandaged Surfer-Dangers of Board Surfing
Ouch! Apparently he hit his face on his board. MagicSeaweed, (home of the dreamy surfer girl pics and day dreamy reef break pics) has the details. Even wearing a helmet would probably not have saved his face from his own board. Be careful out there.
Jan
16
New York Times Article on Winter Lake Superior Surfing
The New York Times wrote an excellent travel piece about winter surfing on Lake Superior. The waves in the pictures are stellar, clean spillers, not the norm on the north shore by any stretch of the imagination, don’t be fooled. They also mentioned the venerable Superior Surf Club. Great article about the fresh water surfing …
Sep
12
Molokai Surf Ski Competition 2008
Ocean Paddler TV has been showing some awesome footage of both paddle sports and surfing in Hawaii. This video of both the sailing canoe and the surf ski race had my blood pumping wishing to hell I could be out there catching a ride like that. Surf Skis being 20 feet long and 19″ wide …
Sep
08
A little on Waveskis, the advantages of Sit on Top Kayaks
Ventura California Waveski Competition Video For the uninitiated in paddle surfing here is a video of some waveski surfing. Val posted this. It is not entirely indicative of the waveski performance alas, the paddlers are having difficulty making the power pocket in this wave. Some however do make it. Waveskis are a different breed of …
