Surfing Life — Issue 337 2017
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A TOLLs The hold-downs at Cloudbreak are like nothing else in surfing. In fact, it’s widely accepted the easiest place in all of ...
@SUPERBRAND_AUS Clay Marzo’s Mad Cat Model - Animal Style A lively EPS core, epoxy resin, carbon center strip and three differen ...
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A perfect central coast peak having its shirt tucked in and boots polished by a brisk offshore wind. PHOTO: RESPONDEK ...
Wind. Glorious wind. We love it. We hate it. It is both Creator and Destroyer. Both friend and foe. It is surfing’s ultimate dic ...
Now friction kicks in, allowing the wind to get a better grip on the surface, systematically building up the ripples to make win ...
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When the heavens turn the tap on, the swell god’s promptly turn their tap off. Why? Non-linear interactions, that’s why! PHOTO: ...
If you’ve surfed long enough – especially in the southern states – you’ve learnt the hard way that rain can reduce swell size fa ...
The falling rain has a coupla different effects that alter the water surface, and in doing so dampens the swell. First up is the ...
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Another time and another place. Photographer Peter Boskovic looked into the weather map, saw something that no one else did and ...
In the digital age, with everyone being spoon-fed internet swell forecasts and predictions, it’s still possible to use old schoo ...
Wind blowing over water is called a fetch, and it’s our basic driver when it comes to swell generation. A fetch creates wind wav ...
Snapshots of synoptic prognosis charts can look insane, but these are guesses, based on computer modelling, and just like a butt ...
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The biggest pattern – the ENSO cycle, with its twin poles of El Nino and La Nina – is well known. ENSO describes the movement of ...
Dave Vlug taps the ceiling in the middle of Sydney, with not a soul around. Waves like these exist and sessions like these go do ...
sea state is the maximum amount of energy that can be imparted to the ocean for a given wind strength blowing over the same area ...
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