The Coastalwatch Isolation Salvation – No.3
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Three weeks in a row of staying at home, staying safe and isolating ourselves from other people – it's an act of compassion solidarity towards the rest of our community. The lot of us should be commended for that. And it's not all that easy, so to help we're once again pulling out a bunch of things to check out and help keep the stoke alive. Pumping tubes, classic videos, epic fails, goofy podcasts, and classic reading from Coastalwatch's archives. Stay home, stay safe, and do your best to stay stoked. We're all in this together. – CW
Froth An All-Time Swell
The Biggest East Coast Swell of a Generation
The waves, the people and the stories of the Once'A Swell, from 2016.
Have A Laugh
Another Hilarious Rock-Off Fail, This One's For the Groms
The timing for an audacious leap at this Gold Coast point break is key. Sometime we just get it wrong. Don't worry young fella. We've all been there!
Something To Listen To
Ain't That Swell's Incredible Live Episode With Kelly and Occy
Abig old language and content warning – but goodness this is good. Ain't That Swell took their podcast on the road last Easter for a sell-out show at the Torquay Bowls club with Kelly Slater and Mark Occhilupo. It was a special show, Kelly Slater was on fire and in a mood to talk story with an openness I'm not sure we've ever seen with the great man.
Surf Books You Mightn't Have Read Yet
Review: Becoming Westerly by Jamie Brisick
Westerly and Peter are two of the greatest characters to ever grace surfing, two titanic life stories. Read the review here.
A Classic Read
Sean Doherty On: The Return of Owen Wright
You’ve never witnessed a scene in the surfer’s area quite like it. Doherty recounts the remarkable final day of the Quiksilver Pro 2017. Read it here.
Photo: WSL
Short Surf History of Anything
Jock Serong's Short History Of Boardshorts
A quick and fun read from the author of Quota, Preservation and The Rules to Backyard Cricket on an intrinsic and necessary part of our lives as everyday surfers – boardshorts! Read it here.
Illustration by Nanda Ormond
Epic Surf Movie
Lost Atlas – Watch Kai Neville's 2011 Masterpiece
The follow up to his era-setting film Modern Collective, Kai Neville's Lost Atlas is argued by some to be his finest work. Featuring mid 20s Dane Reynolds and Dion Agius, early 20s Craig Anderson and Chippa Wilson, and still a teen John John Florence and Kolohe Andino (amongst so many more), it massively holds up!
Master Surf Gaming
True Surf – Surfing Controls
The official mobile game of the WSL is a pretty damn good way to kill an hour or ten. If you want to get onto it you can download it for your iPhone here, or for your Android here. For this week, the vid below hits us with the basics on how to surf in the game when you're just getting started.
Craving more distractions?
Check out Isolation Salvation No.1 and Isolation Salvation No.2
Nick Carroll: The Swell That Blew the COVID Cobwebs Right Off
What a Week of Waves! – More Perfect Pits
Piles of Face Masks Are Washing up on NSW Beaches!
Our Five Favourite Clips From the Weekend's Swell (So Far)
“It Was the Day of Days” – Merewether Saturday was as Good as it Gets
“I’ve never surfed Merewether that perfect, but I’m wrecked."
Revisiting the Best CT of All Time (Mexico), Fresh Pumping Merewether Footage, and "That" Rock-Off Clip
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was May 29 2020
