Modern Collective

Modern Collective is a group of young individuals including Dane Reynolds, Jordy Smith, Yadin Nicol, Dion Agius, Mitch Coleborn and the final sixth invite to be released very soon. The collective seek to set in motion the expectations of surfing with a voyage to five high performance locations around the galaxy. The First trip took the collective to France discovering giant ramps to experiment new moves on...So big that at the end of the trip Dane Reynolds busted his ankle trying to stomp a massive rotation. This is not the end' with more trips to come where will the collective be hunting ramps next.Modern Collective DVD is available at Kicker Films -http://www.kickerfilms.com/modern-collective-p-602.html

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"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.