You beat me to it guys ! I am always keen to promote anything ethical and green as these issues are really important to me. I was talking to Andy from Airhead about setting up an ethical surf clothing company before Christmas, just really throwing ideas around, but these guys at Rapanui have beaten me to it, and they are local, so that makes it very cool. I hope to be seeing your stuff in the shops soon - good luck ! Press release is below :
Rapanui Clothing is an organic and sustainable clothing company based on the Isle of Wight. Powered by renewable energy throughout the product life cycle and only using natural fabrics, Rapanui has a fair claim to being the greenest clothing company in the world, on its credentials alone.
Set up by surfing brothers Rob and Mart Drake-Knight, 23 and 21 respectively. The brothers were motivated to influence environmental change after becoming ill from surfing in polluted waters. Mart wears scars from a skin infection caused by pollution; Rob spent three days of a holiday in France in bed due to sickness caused by field run-off. (more…)
Adam Zervas has been busy again ! On Monday 28th Jan 2008 he became the first Stand Up Paddle Surfer to surf the Cribbar. I think we are going to be seeing alot of firsts over 2008.
Bonga Perkins claims Paddle Core Fitness Pro at Sunset
Bonga Perkins from Haleiwa took down a final of international big wave riders on eighteen to twenty five foot westerly peaks at Sunset Beach to claim the first ever Paddlecorefitness.com stand up surfing event on the north shore of Oahu.
You have to love Garrett McNamara, not satisfied with tow in surfing the waves made by ice falls from glacier, he decided to pull in a pipeline on his SUP. The footage has to been seen to be believed.
Great news that Quiksilver and C4 are putting on a big wave SUP contest at Makaha Point, I would dearly love to be there to see all the action. I happen to know that UK big wave surf Simon Jayham is on the North Shore at the moment and he has posted that big waves are forecast over the next few days - prehaps he could pop down to Makaha and check it out for us (hint, hint).
Here is the press release :
QuiksilverEdition Ku Ikaika Challenge
Presented by C4 Waterman & Red Bull
Makaha Point West Side Oahu
15 January - 29 February 2008
Brian Keaulana : photo Allen Mozo
QuiksilverEdition Ku Ikaika Challenge wait period starts
The official holding period of the QuiksilverEdition Ku Ikaika Challenge, presented by C4 Waterman and Red Bull, will get underway tomorrow, January 15, and will run through February 29, 2008. The QuiksilverEdition Ku Ikaika Challenge is the world’s first big-wave stand up paddle (SUP) surfing event and will be held at Makaha Point, on Oahu’s West Side.
What could be better after a hard days work in the City of London, than popping on the tube, board under arm, for some 100 metre point break, 6ft waves ? Fantasy …… or is it. Following this article in the Guardian news paper it looks like this might have stepped closer to reality. Outline planning permission has been granted and, if all goes well, by 2011 you could be catching a wave after work.
The British Stand Up Paddle Surfing Association (BSUPA) has been set up to provide information, organisation, training and contests for this new sport in the UK. It was set up in September 2007 by Olaus Macleod and since then has started to grow from strength to strength.
