Welcome back to No Contest, Red Bull’s deep dive into the cultural richness, unique charm, and radical local characters that make each of the eleven stops on the World Championship Tour special. On this episode, Ashton Goggans gets thrown in the West Oz deep end, with a proper taste of the region from four generations of the area’s icons: Jack Robinson, Jay Davies, Taj Burrow, as well as the Jake and Paul Paterson, aka Snake and Antman.
Have you ever been on a Skateboard Tour? Do you know the rules to “bring home the mission”? The new video of the Italian VANS Skate Team talks exactly of this. The title is “How to Survive a Skate Tour” and it tells some of the clichés of life on tour with skaters. The film takes place in Fuerteventura and it transforms into an entertaining hand-book for all skaters. A skateboard video presented as an ironic illustrated guide that summarizes the predictably taken forgranted differences between a tour where everything falls into place and one that turns into a battle-field.
When Big Wave World Champ Billy Kemper wanted to venture deep into the Indonesian archipelago to chase a big, perfect swell, he knew the surfers he had to link up with to score the kind of waves he was hoping for: Mikala Jones and Dede Suryana. Mikala has been living in Indonesia for decades and is arguably its most knowledgeable pro surfer expat. And Dede has sealed his reputation as one of Indonesia’s best surfing sons. True to form, Dede, Billy, and Mikala showed up right in time, at one of Indo’s best barrels, and score this perfect day of surfing.
It’s not often that Ireland’ best big wave, Mullaghmore, plays host to huge swell and perfect weather conditions. But when it did this winter, filmer Alex Laurel was there to capture Ireland’s best big wave surfers enjoy the day of the winter. Local stand-out surfers, like Conor Maguire, Barry Mottershead, Enda Curran, and Peter Conroy ruled the day, pulling into big barrels and taking heavy wipeouts.
