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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Rolling Retro With RVCA - Kicks off at Llandudno

RVCA South Africa recently put on a Retro Surf Jam with the help of Vudu'Surf and most of the Lands' Crew. It was a blast and had a really big turnout for such a low key surf/beach event. Big up to all the cats who showed up to see what was going down...

Andrew 'Roosta' Lange as Retro as they get now-a-days, paddling out on the Whitmore

Clive Barber '2-Hot-2-Trot' single fin (Shaped Oct. 2010)

Talking to Jordy about the new Clive Barber single fin

5 min. before the event starts, out the back big Liam paddles into the wave of the day and gets a sick barrel

Jordy all smiles after a session on this original 'Pottz' Spowy

Jordy Fins-Free Retro Blast

Jordy getting shacked while Roosta claims it on the inside

Same pit different angle

Jordy and Royden chilling w/ friends

Roosta feeling out a classic old Clive Barber

Some of the 'Crew'

Spectators w/ young RVCA ripper from 'Strand'

Robby McDonald (Vudu'Surf) the man who provided his retro board collection

Even Dallas'O pulled in for a sundowner to end the classic day of good vibes and fun surf...

Here is the link to a short video of the event on Wavescape by Alan Robb

Reworking Retro

Sunday, January 30, 2011

RedBull NightShift Featuring Jordy Smith and Friends Goes Down in Camps Bay with Flying Success!

Jordy Smith was chilling in Cape Town for a while in January enjoying the summer vibes before heading out to begin the 2011 WCT. Seeing as he finished off last year 2nd in the world to the 10-time Champion Phenom known a Kelly Slater, RedBull decided to give him a little treat for having such a bad-ass year. And thus gave birth to the RedBull NightShift held in Camps Bay on the 9th of Jan, 2011. Jordy along with seven of his good friends had a blast in the dark, literally. Boosting Airs into the evening using tons of floodlights; they had Jet-Skies pulling and whipping them into knee high shore-break.

I don't think anyone could have anticipated the huge turnout for this inaugural event. Smith's surf buddies who joined him in the water were: Craig Anderson, Damien Fahrenfort, Ricky Basnett, Travis Logie, Rudy Palmboom Jr, Warwick Wright and Royden Bryson. I shot a few med-format portraits of Jordy prior to the event and a few images before the sun and light were gone. After sunset I shot a few video clips that I will be editing together into something good. Here is a bit of what went down...