Surfing the interweb
Everyone has a blog these days, unfortunately like this one, most are rarely updated and are filled with garbage. When I’ve got a bit of time on my hands, these are some of the blogs I check out.
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Lewis Samuels might just be the best writer in surfing. His “power rankings” after each world tour event are legendary. In between contests he keeps the surfing world entertained by finding retarded aspects of surf culture and ridiculing them. The comments section is often as amusing as the original posts and a few of the comment lurking peanut gallery have launched their own sites, most notably nugable.com which is pretty funny in it’s own right.
Lewis was kind enough to run a photo dispatch on Post Surf a while ago using some of my images.
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This website is run by WT surfer Fred Patacchia and his buddy Andrew. These guys have access to the world best surfers like no one else and run some great content. Video interviews and crazy behind the scenes party photos. Fred comes across as a really intelligent and likable guy but the best posts are when Fred’s mate Kekoa “Bam” Bacalso makes guest appearances, that guy is hilarious.
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Lots of surfers have blogs, but Dion’s is the best. Dion’s smart enough to realize that people don’t want to just read about him, so he also posts about stuff he likes, hot models, new music tracks, cool photos and slickly made surf videos. Good formula.
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I was having a cry the other day because my Terabyte hard drive fried and I lost all my stuff, including my collection of surf videos. My buddy Chris showed me this Brazilian blog which has just about all the surf vids I had and many more available for download. Is it illegal or unethical to download movies I already bought and lost? I don’t know and don’t care.
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This blog is an off-shoot from Stab Magazine and it’s pretty zany. There’s a number of contributors who post about surfing, religion, politics, airlines and other crazy shit. I think I’m not intelligent enough to get into some of the content, but I love the reviews of the other surf mags, where they all get written off to make us realize they are no where near as awesome as Stab.
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This is the blog of Whangamata photographer Daniel “Digger” Davies. When I take a photo of someone falling off I usually erase it there and then. But Digger saves these images and makes the most of them, posting the shots on his blog with some amusing commentary.
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This is the blog of the Hobgood twins. Mostly DIY style with a lot of the video content shot by Damo and CJ themselves. These guys are pretty funny and their posts often makes me feel better about my own terrible spelling.
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Occasionally when Cory Scott has a little spare time from being the Editor, Senior Photographer and Photo Editor of NZ Surfing magazine he posts some gold on his blog.
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Josh Kerr’s seems like a nice enough guy, but his blog is a little bland. Fortunately he’s got some mad skills on a surfboard and after he bores you by giving you a tour of his accommodation or whatever you’ll get to watch some mind blowing footage.
