Surfing the Key Frame Cascade

It’s no secret how much I love surfing and I’m always on the lookout for the next bad ass surfing video. Combine that with the fact that I’m always looking for what other people are capable of doing with the Canon 7D- especially in regards to the limits of slow motion. Well, if you’re me, sooner or later you find this video- and then you find your mouth on the floor.

Behold Oahu’s famous north shore, at a blistering 1000 frames per second. Of course the 7D is not capable of filming at 1000FPS so additional software like twixtor is required to slow down the footage.

Riding Hawaii’s Jaws in Pitch Black

Mark Visser packed up his board called in a few choppers and dropped in on Jaws, the world famous big wave surfing location off the coast of Maui, in the middle of the night no less. The video is absolutely mind blowing to think that a 40-foot wave is right behind him and hes essentially riding blind down this aquatic cliff face. Mark was wearing a buoyancy vest and employed a modified surfboard with LED lighting. Still, even with the two helicopters, that’s some seriously dangerous sh*t- and I approve!

Apparently the lighting technologies were created for by Solus Corporation using NASA submarine lighting technology to ensure the wave and board were lit in the right places at the right time to illuminate the scene, but not blind Mark in the process.

via Gizmodo

Surfing The Matrix

This RipCurl video would be awesome enough on it’s own, but Timeslice Films also built a rig of 52 canon cameras shooting sequentially to produce the bullet-time or the matrix effect. It’s the first time this effect was used with surfing, and I think it turned out great. Now if they could just show me a huge bass jumping in bullet-time..

via gizmodo.

Behind the scenes video after the break!

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Surfango Power Kayaks!

Ever wonder what your kayak or surfboard would be like if it had a 9.5 HP electric start engine?

These wild rides are developed by Surfango, and come in 5 different models, the fastest reaching over 40 km/hour (25 mp/h). Their Hawaii GT model even comes with rodholders! Expect to pay over $3000 USD if you want to own one of these little badboys.

Surfboard Shark Fishing

This video is certainly more believable then the last shark fishing surfer we saw. As far as I’m concerned, fishing from a surfboard is a great idea. Seriously, I’d love to have one of these paddleboards for fishing the flats!

Surfing in Ireland!

If you thought the fishing looked good in Ireland, check out the surfing! Who knew there were such massive waves off the coast of Ireland?

via Telegraph