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Tropical Winter

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Tropical Winter

One morning about a week ago I noticed an offshore westerly wind when I woke up. And a fairly big swell to go with it. It was freezing cold too due to snow falling on nearby mountains the previous night. I grabbed my camera and drove down to the beach

Surf Contest Day

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Surf Contest Day

Went out last weekend to take some photos of the vibe at the beach during a surf contest. 📍Scottburgh, South Africa📸Fujifilm X-E4 with Pacific Blues film recipe.

What Sixty40 could be like if it relaunched 20 years later.

What Sixty40 could be like if it relaunched 20 years later.

As a passionate software developer, I often find myself going into a nostalgia trip trying to think what it would be like to rebuild and relaunch Sixty40 in 2022. I used to live on Sixty40 and it played a huge role into growing my passion for the sport. After all,

The Future of Bodyboarding

The Future of Bodyboarding

TLDR - Why is bodyboarding still not thriving? Over the years, we’ve seen multiple bodyboarding body’s, amongst them are Global Organization of Bodyboarding (GOB), International Bodyboarding Association (IBA), the Association of Professional Bodyboarders (APB) and now the International Bodyboarding Corporation - which I didn’t even know exists,

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Cyclone Swell

J-Bay is always magical

J-Bay is always magical

I've been coming to Jeffreys Bay for many years, ever since I can remember. Little did I know back then that it's home to one of the best waves in the world. In recent years as I started getting into bodyboarding I learnt more about the

I made a Telegram bot that tells me local surf conditions.

I made a Telegram bot that tells me local surf conditions.

After I made Downtime bot, I decided to go a bit further and make it related to something I’m truly passionate about. Surfing. It started off with mapping out my local knowledge about surfing here. * Wind Direction * Swell Direction * Swell Size I also had to write a bit of

Brown water surfing

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Brown water surfing

Fun surf - 06 October 2011

Offshore winds and a little swell, provided us with some solid fun, on a rather shallow sandbar. Was good to be out in the water on a beautiful morning like this! Enjoy

Reasons why we Bodyboard

1) We can get barreled on anything 2) Bodyboards fit in the boot of a car 3) Bodyboarding and Mountain biking use the same muscle groups 4) We take-off deeper. Feel free to add to the topic. Click here for full forum discussion.

Exploration Pays off!

It was a very undecided morning as far as swell around the area was concerned. It was full high tide, not much swell, but at least the offshore was pumping! We checked out a few spots and they were absolutely tiny. We headed north to a few beaches, and we

What a good weekend!

No epic swell or heavy winds, but the long swell periods on light offshore breezes in the morning made sure we are in for some fun waves. We started of searching for waves yesterday morning. Everywhere was rather small or not really doing it. We eventually decided to go look

Just a few pictures

We have had some swell over the last 24 hours, but nothing to get extremely excited about. Waves was about 4-6ft overhead. A few pictures of unridden goodness.

Pictures of this morning

Waves unfortunately weren't firing! But there were a few ones to relief the crave for waves.....

Wave Breaking on Aliwal Shoal

A solid left, breaking on Aliwal Shoal... Caused by a big EAST Cyclone swell and a Spring low tide.

Surf Story 2010

In the April holidays of 2010, I was lucky to paddle out at a semi secret localized spot for my first time even though it wasn't quite doing it's thing - was still heavy. I also got waves at Back beach and and surf'd

18 January 2011–South Coast KZN

18 January 2011. 4-6ft SW Swell. Low Tide. Light Offshore breeze