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Dan Malloy surfing in North Sumatra

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Gerry Lopez Big Wave Challenge

 

A message from Gerry Lopez for Surfrider Japan

 

Go Pro Bomb Squad at Real last week

 

Gerry Lopez Australian Tour Webisode 2

 

 

Dancing With Nature, by Dr. Tony Butt

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Photo: Tony Butt Collection

Dancing with Nature

Tony Butt

 

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy Nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. Now, I truly believe, that we in this generation, must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.” – Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

 

Before Charles Darwin came along, it was ‘us’ and the ‘animals’. Now, over a century and a half later, most of us acknowledge that we are actually just another species of animal, with as much right to exist as chimpanzees, cats and dogs, mice and insects. The planet doesn’t just belong to us, it belongs to them as well.

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Where is My Mind.....Sasha Leitmanis

 

2012 FCD Shop Video

 

Big Kahuna Surfing Documentary

 

Great new documentary on surfing from Black Box Audio Visual . For our friends in Portugal, you can see the series start on April 15th at 19:00 on RTP2. Info here.

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::Surfdreams:: from insener on Vimeo.

 This is a Liquid Force video for a board Fletch designed for them for Kite surfing...

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