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Clean, blue, sunny, Shipstern

stuart — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:27:55 +0000

Images Mark Cowels/HobartImaging & Jimmy Emms

Red Herring goes mad on prices!

stuart — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:05:31 +0000

Red Herring Surf have rolled out a “global price match” on all their boards and wetties to keep up with cheap online prices.
Red Herring Owner Victor Tilley said it was really important to keep surfers coming through the doors of their stores.
“We realise as Tasmania’s largest surf brand that we need to stay in touch with our core market – surfers,” Victor said.
“Sure we sell a lot of popular apparrell and accessories to the youth market but we also continue to pride ourselves on having the best product knowledge in Tassie.”
So keep it local and head into Red Herring Surf to get kitted for winter.

Movie Tickets Giveaway

stuart — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:51:49 +0000

The biggest ski/snowboard film of 2013 Warren Miller’s F L O W S T A T E is coming to Hobart & Launceston on June 18. We’re giving away two double passes to the shows, on Thecollective Facebook page simply like the page tell us the number 1 place you want to ski/snowboard in the world and the tickets could be yours – GO!

Flow State Trailer – Australia from Warren Miller Entertainment on Vimeo.

Tickets, Times + Trailer: warrenmiller.com.au

Johannesen Memorial Contest Video

stuart — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:13:03 +0000

The 2013 Paul Johannesen Memorial Contest went down at Little Swanport, on Tassie’s pristine East Coast. The long lefthander at the head of Little Swanport river provided surfers with fun 2-3 foot (1-1.5 meters) waves all day allowing the contest to be finished in the first day of the contest waiting period.

Benn Richardson of Scammander, took the Open Mens title for the second year running. Benn was the standout performer of the day and his lethal backhand attack proved too much for Hobart surfers Luke Bugg (runner up) and Jy Johannesen (3rd). Tom Gray also of Scammander, surfed out a massive day in the Open final but was overcome with severe cramps and finished 4th overall.

Hamish Renwick also had a massive day of surfing, taking out the under 21 mens final and the best manourvre award with a massive backhand air reverse.

2013 Paul Johannesen Memorial Contest from Jy Johannesen on Vimeo.

Results:
Open Mens- 1st Benn Richardson, 2nd Luke Bugg, 3rd Jy Johannesen, 4th Tom Gray.

Under 21 Mens- 1st Hamish Renwick, 2nd Gerome Bramich, 3rd Ned Bramich, 4th Tom Gray

Open Womens- 1st Lizzie Stokely, 2nd Brooke Mason, 3rd Jo Goldfinch, 4th Hahnee Chelkowski

Under 21 Womens- 1st Lizzie Stokely, 2nd Brooke Mason, 3rd Hahnee Chelkowski

Special thanks to all that helped out on the day and congratulations to Benn Richardson!!!

The plate can wait

stuart — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:44:28 +0000

The Tassie lads cleaned up at this year’s Oakley/ASL Big wave awards. They also put on a pretty good show that night, making the most of the free champagne.

As the Billabong XXL nominees were announced this week, the lure of another fast-paced adventure was getting the crew a little toey. The boys were checking flights to LA as Zadda was a shoe-in for a wipeout nomination. When his wave failed to appear on the XXL website as a finalist, we started trawling through the entries. In short, it looks like some sort of April Fool’s prank. Have a look for yourself, but it’s gotta beg the question… what are the criteria? Yeah it’s a wipeout and probably not the category anyone aspires to winning, but for surfing’s sake – if ya gonna do it, do it properly. So we bring a few awards home and a large percentage of Aussie nominations come from Shippies – not our fault we keep delivering. Maybe next time Kelly surfs a 10 they should knock it back a couple of points because he’s done it too many times before.

We can only assume they can’t handle the heat… Either the heat of the competition the Tassie boys provide or the sting they bring to the party. The apparent oversight on behalf of the XXL award organisers has led to a few crew discussing the possibility of a rival competition so as they say in the classics… the plate can wait.

The rocking horse from Mikey Brennan on Vimeo.

Rudi Schwartz eats shit big time from TheCollective on Vimeo.

Water angle of Zadas Bomb @ 1.00 min

Stern Late May 2012 from marti paradisis on Vimeo.

Here are the 2013 finalists, amazing wipeouts! but some are not even close to the level of the above

The day after

stuart — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:58:41 +0000

What Saturday lacked against Friday’s measurements, it made up in cleanliness. The wind held north throughout the morning and propped up solid lines still pushing upward from the south. Most of the professionals had skipped town, however a dedicated few hung around and scored some paddle-in doozies along with the local blokes who had either walked in with torches in the dark or motored down from Cremorne in the pre-dawn drizzle. All was going well; every one sharing, bodyboarders scooping round pits, uprights pushing deeper, photogs whistling as the sun pops through, then a series of loud, frenzied shouts hollered from the cliffs and broke the calm. At first everyone thought ‘shark’ and as we swung our heads a five foot fin broke the surface like a breaching submarine and the unmistakable black and white markings of a killer whale could be seen not at all far from the break. An interested panic spread between the surfers and they scrambled for the ski and boat, just in time for the three whales, including mother and calf, to cruise right past, even diving deep, straight under the boat!

Devastated to miss the day before but this was certainly a worthy consolation prize! Clean kegs and killer whales; not an everyday occurrence!

Pics: Alasdair Shurman

Blue Daze from Dave otto on Vimeo.

Blue Daze

stuart — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:08:43 +0000

Blue Daze from Dave otto on Vimeo.

Polly from Laif Johannesen on Vimeo.

Alasdair Shurman

stuart — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:44:44 +0000

On Da Cans!

stuart — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:14:54 +0000

Brain bender of a clip

stuart — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:38:49 +0000

This is a tribute to the International Space Station Program as well as Dr. Don Pettit, NASA Astronaut and ISS Astrophotographer. It can not be emphasized enough, how Dr. Pettits innovative photographic work and his passion has changed the way we see earth from space. Accompanied with great info on the challenges of astrophotography aboard the ISS by Dr. Pettit, the shortfilm features a great compilation of 4 timelapses (“intro”, “startrails”, “fisheye” and “aurorae”). Now welcome aboard the ISS – enjoy stunning photography and timelapses from the Space Station!

“Making the invisible visible” – the ISS Image Frontier from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.