Point break, beach break, slab oh my.
Competitive surfing has long been a staid affair. One venue, heats, scores et voilà. A winner. It is all fine enough but surf fans have long wondered if more might exist. Something maybe even polyamorous. Well, Natural Selection has picked up on the vibe and is set to deliver a wild competitive ménage à trois.
Some of the best and/or most interesting surfers in the world, including Milla Brown, Noa Beschen, Hughie Vaughn, Soli Bailey, Kirra Pinkerton are currently in South Africa to face-off in the second ever NST Surf competition. Last year, our heroes and heroines were flown to the Marshall Islands wherein they made battle over a never-before-contested-upon wave.
This year, and as mentioned, the competition will unfold over ten days and a variety of spots including a racing point, a gurgling slab and a thumping beach break. The surfers, including Balaram Stack, Eden Walla, Mikey Wright and Sanoa Dempfie-Olin will have to flash fearlessness and flair, in equal measure, in order to hoist the trophy at the end.
Natural Selection, the brain child of Travis Rice and Circe Wallace, got its start as a thrilling snowboard event before expanding, in recent years, to include mountain biking and surfing. Tying them all together is the ethos that nature must have equal billing.
The aforementioned Balaram Stack declared, “Seeing the NST snow events, then the first surf event, NST has looked like a dream competition to be a part of. Incorporating aspects of freesurfing with competitiveness will make for a mental event, where we can focus on the waves and the land and hopefully have less stress about competing in small waves.”
The show premieres Friday, September 25 on Red Bull TV and the Red Bull Surfing YouTube channel.
It’s business time.
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good to hear , little rocks has gotten baseball fever (although only 6 yrs old) , we’ll see , he throws hard but accuracy a bit of question mark, ha – spend a bit of every day in the yard throwing and hitting , hope he doesn’t burn out by 7 yrs old!
What kind of snake is this? Carpet python?
Hope you’re well happy. You guys in baseball season still?
My Monolopy money is on Balaram.
I wonder what is going on in Pips head at the moment? Comedy AI image would be greatly appreciated boys. Beefy, Bog, anyone……..
A I is the end mate. It’s lazy
an It’s gunna take your job…probably only 2 years away from a i machines punching up stud walls and house frames, trusses etc. Won’t be so funny then ay
Im hearing ya brother and I fucking hate it, I still dont have a single app hahaha. I do enjoy some of the images up on here though although Beefys non AI ones are me favourite and fucking mental haha
That is why you fail
Go rip some banana peel ya fuckn idiot
Nobody even gives a shit about your trolling racist posts mate.
Copy Pasta Crap
You can be better
The current 3rd guitar player in Sunny Day Real Estate also plays with the B-52’s.
Epic
That is all I got
You got this.
I am a Western Rock Lobster.
Known as a Crayfish
I have no meaty claws.
Sucks for me…
You know meaty claw though.
https://youtu.be/C_LGgyIAxYs?si=-tsP0LN_7SB-kjgk
Fark…just Fark
JJF has simply became an explorer.
Did the WSL and his titles amplify his accreditation?
Fuckn Oath
As much as we give the ASP/WSL so much SHIT….
The SHIT still sticks to the blanket
Total respect and happy for JJF and his family. Probably be saying the same thing for Darwin in 20 years.
I don’t care about any of that. All I see is pure surfing
Hes sooooooo fucking good in the pit it’s an absolute joke. Those late take offs under the lip are just fucking mental yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
nice one- have;’t seen the big girl that lives in the shed yet- I reckon one or two more warm days and she will be stirring.
Of course, but you gotta catch up quick to capture the true essence of the Beach Grit Live Chat
Gotta have Swellnet’s Live Chat open too, but that is like observing strange beings that live on a different planet.
And the whole not being able to skip shit, is what makes Live so good. Especially in the last few minutes of close heats
One of you wants this job .
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbwewyxzhts/?igsh=MWNnbHNncGQ5MTkyYw==
Someone needs to teach Strayan Cunt the ways of Instabooks and Facegrams….
Would be perfect for the cunt.
Could film from Snapper
No doubt.
Southern Rock Lobsters love to eat shit.
Thanks Flippy
3am start for us in the morning Longy, they’ll kick it off tomorrow ay
They should start the Live Chat now like Swellnet.
We have waited so long.
I’ll be probably be passed out at 1AM
I don’t wanna wake up to this after Slater’s first heat
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Hahaha
yep
Leaked photo of Filipe Toldeo putting in the work training for Slabs in prep for Tahiti
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a couple of snowboarders picking the roster ?
nobody there makes me seek it out.
There are better waves very close by and Speedies is world class but only handful of times a season. Needs some west in the swell. G-land as a whole is consistently rideable most of the time but it’s nothing compared to places like Deserts, Gods, and other spots I won’t mention since everyone is so pinchy about that on here. Those places a bit fickle too but usually pretty epic if there’s any swell.
The more west the swell the better for speedies ay?
Try reading it again
Any surfers that are known in the event?
Wow Cool photo