Luke Hynd and Kipp Caddy jump off the grid and into an untouched world. From snakes to elephants, to a vast coastline of empty lineups and endless swell.
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A vivid account of a wave unlike any other, featuring Luke Hynd, Tim Bisso and Gearoid McDaid.
La Puesta Del Sol, which means “the sunset” in Spanish, is all about the experience, the fun, the sun and… the feeling that you get as you wake off from the top of an skyscraper in a helicopter bound for the unknown.
Slab hunters Bruno Santos & Guillermo Satt are on a volcanic rock in the middle of the Pacific, getting bludgeoned by massive swells.
What if I told you there was an unknown sand-bottom right that is five kilometres long, breaks 20 metres off the beach, holds six foot of swell and has only been surfed by four people on the entire planet?
The European Alps are at the top of the destination bucket list. Uncommonly known, it is actually just one single mountain range – only it’s a mountain range that spans over eight different countries
Join Dillon Perillo, Jacob Willcox and Ry Craike on a Rip Curl Search trip into uncharted oceans, chasing unknown slabs and charting their course as they go.
Japan has come out with a lot of good shit over the years. Ramen, sushi, Nintendo, DVDs, anime, cat cafes, electric rice cookers, karaoke… the list goes on
Unexpected. Distant. Isolated. Unknown. There are a million different ways to describe this trip, but perhaps the most fitting is to say that it was unlike anything else.
Ostensibly empty, the desert here is never devoid of life. Tough, spiky, drought resistant life. Cacti run the show, cacti of every possible shape and size.
The world number one and three decided they wanted a piece of the warm water swell action that has been flooding waters around the equator this year…
Mick Fanning and Mason Ho find cold waves and clarity in the frozen north. This trip was ideal timing for Mick who had met his drama limit for the decade.
When an 8-foot swell hit Hawaii’s Oahu we tracked its movements in various directions and finally zeroed in on a remote atoll many, many miles from the densely populated line-ups of the famed North Shore.
Wandering into the various shades of real world blue, Gabriel Medina, Matt Wilkinson, Mason Ho and Bruno Santos pull-the-plug in the search for a simpler stoke.
There’s an old saying that goes: “Before you get the princess, you have to slay the dragon”… In this story Louie Hynd finds his own princess of a left with only him and the sea life to share it with…
Dillon Perillo, Luke Hynd and Pat Curren re-grouped and headed to another island they knew absolutely nothing about.
Like some of the best stories, this one began with a whispered rumour of some far-flung islands.
There are levels of surfing perfection. At the highest level everything comes together. 1. Wind. 2. Tide. 3. Swell and 4. Crowd – or more importantly a lack thereof…
Over the years, Rip Curl’s flagship Search boat the Quest 1 had been a home away from home to the Rip Curl girls, but alas, she is no more. Earlier this year she unfortunately sunk – just a week before the girls were due to go on a Search trip.
We had been Searching for 6-months. Anytime, anywhere. Wherever Ben Matson at Swellnet could direct us into a meaningful swell.
It’s the driving force that lead to the creation of Rip Curl. It’s all about pure Searching for Surf and enjoying the beautiful ride along the way. This clip sums up that deep rooted sense of exploration and desire and invites you in for a deeper look, for and at yourself.
