Firewire is rolling out a new online 3D custom surfboard design program that lets consumers create their own custom board and view it before ordering. Developed by SHAPELOGIC and Firewire’s CAD team, the software promises to reinvent the custom ordering process. The boards will be sold through Firewire retailers. CEO Mark Price walks us through the new program.
Já ouvi muitos narradores nos webcasts do WCT dizerem que o Brasil é o país das ondas inconsistentes e fracas. “Mushy”. Mas na verdade o Brasil vive outro momento que os outros países surfistas mais desenvolvidos, onde todo point já foi descoberto. No ‘Braza’, estão descobrindo inúmeras ondas e picos novos, com uma mente mais aberta com as possibilidades novas do Stand-Up e do Tow-In.
Sem a mesma infra-estrutura dos estrangeiros (boias, estradas boas, patrocinios etc etc etc…) O brasileiro consegue fazer a adrenalina correr na veia. Olha só o Luel Felipe no Pena Pro, surfando sem assistência de Jet Ski, num dia cancelado por excesso de ondas. Parabéns, Luel. E que o Brasil continue evoluindo no surfe de mão dada com o meio-ambiente.
-Hans da Silva
Bondi Rescue lifeguard Kobi Graham suffered a hideous wipe out at Cape Solander mid afternoon on Sunday May 30. Kobi took off on a slabbing 6-8ft bomb and kind of nose dived, free falling head first into the reef at “Ours”.
For those that don’t know “Ours” is a notorious big wave surf spot just outside the entrance to Botany Bay. The wave comes out of deep water before literally exploding on a shallow barnacle encrusted rock ledge no more than 10 metres in front of the sheer cliff face. Kobi fractured two vertebrae, meaning he broke his neck in layman’s terms.
Fellow Bronte surfer and good friend John “Bones” Dwyer helped Kobi onto a sled and then coastalwatch photographer Billy Morris drove them around to Kurnell beach on a jet ski and promptly called an ambulance.
