A Brokedown Melody

A Brokedown Melody - Trailer

Purchase 'A Brokedown Melody' and other fine surf videos at www.studi411.com.This re-release of A Broke Down Melody combines new music from Jack Johnson and Eddie Vedder and a photo journal with never seen before photos with the film journey that follows the swell through South America, Polynesia and Jamaica documenting in16mm the surfing of Kelly Slater, Gerry Lopez, Jack Johnson, Mike Todd, Mark Cunningham, CJ Hobgood, The Wilmots, The Malloys and Rob Machado.

Info | Share | Comments (1)

"Record" for Largest Wave Ever Ridden Trivializes Big-Wave Surfing

A return to old-school measuring techniques is in order

Consider two representations of two very big waves, below. The first is a photograph of Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank. The second is a video of Garrett McNamara near Nazare, Portugal. Now take out some measuring tape and make the distance of one foot between your hands. That's the amount, according to the Billabong XXL committee, that McNamara's wave is bigger than Parsons's wave.