Brad Domke is back.

“They were offering me to do step-offs with my surfboard on the bigger ones but honestly, I just wanted to stay on my skim. I was like, you guys can’t plane down the wave, then pull into the barrel, then try a skate trick! Let’s do this!”

Which brings us to a new clip from Mexico. Do yourself a favour: click the little cog at the bottom of the player, jack it up to 1080p, and enjoy some huge barrels and enthusiastic hand movements (a necessity for maintaining a line on a board with no fins).

as seen at stabmag

The San Diego Surf Film Festival has announced its much-anticipated list of films for 2013. The films, chosen by a six-member screening panel, represent a wide variety of cultures and surf destinations on nearly every continent.

Due to the overwhelming amount of film submissions, SDSFF organizers have expanded the amount of films to be shown from 35 to 42. Fourteen features and 28 short films will be shown during the festival May 8-12, 2013, which will be held once again at Bird’s Surf Shed in San Diego, a world famous restored quonset hut filled with an impressive collection of historically significant surfboards and artifacts.

read more @ sandiegosurffilmfestival.com

All five nominees for the XXL Wipeout Award are presented for your review. Featuring: Joao De Macedo at Mavericks; Tom Dosland at Jaws; Axi Muiain at Nazaré; and Brett Burcher and Chris Shanahan at The Right in Western Australia. A category in the 2013 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Pacifico, coming May 3. For more info see the event website at www.BillabongXXL.com.