Photo Of The Day!!!

[ricki]

Remember, there's wind somewhere in the world right now. Even if its on video.


As AJ would say, don't strike bottom!


This New Symrna, FL?

[ricki]

A collection of some of the more impressive kite moves out there on video. Hope the landboarder throwing some mega kite loops over the lawn is still with us. Broken lines or some other problems could make for a real bad day.

[ricki]

Here is the first GoPro HD UW video that I've seen. Viz. isn't the greatest and there is some compression loss, still it looks pretty good. I was worried some of the WIDE attibutes might not be present in the HD despite the better resolution, so far so good! I hope it will be insane in blue water. Have some arriving in early December I hope, will know more soon.



NOTE: the image resolution on the HD and WIDE cameras is limited underwater. This is likely do to issues with the dome port underwater vs. in air. With the WIDE the unusual shooting qualities allowed the limited resolution to be overlooked. Still evaluating the HD which still seems to have UW issues.





"Freediving at Vouliagmeni blue hole (pigadi) in Greece with a friend. Shot on gopro hero HD @ 720p."


p.s. - bizarre karst feature!


Just found another one, this time SCUBA diving in Norway. Note to self, if I ever come back as a flounder, stay out of the fjords!




and one free diving with a whale shark off the west coast:




just heard about another one involving a white shark cage dive. have some surreal imagery here.




and in the "odd fish" category, we have Kinsley Wong, actually his fish, not Kinsley from Cozumel.





Videos shot with the NEW GoPro HD camera

[ricki]

Video buffet time, a wide selection of clips ...

Cave free diving in the Dominican Republic with full caving team on SCUBA as safety




Kiting Teahupoo





The kind of seas you never want to have on a cruise. Looks like a dingy as opposed to a large ship in those waves




Wingsuit over Russia?




Some extreme snowboarding. The guy caught in the avalanche is one lucky bugger to ease out of that fall.

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[500EPILOT]

Rick, killer videos, the wingsuit and the snowboarding on what seem like vertical walls makes Jaws seem tame in comparison. Thanks for posting.
JP

[ricki]

Thanks JP, there's a lot going on out there. The Internet makes it so easy to look in from time to time. Here's something a bit more local. Swung by LBTS and the pier last weekend.



Had some nice little swells wrapping around the pier. A guy on an Island Wave Ski catches one and breaks to the left while the surfer breaks right. I was blown away by the mobility and ease of catching waves when I first saw a waveski in Melbourne about ten years ago. The aerials weren't too shabby either. Picked a (too) small one up from http://www.waveski.com/, thought I could grow into it, whoops. You should know how to eskimo roll without ripping your shoulder out and be able to throw them fast. Or, be good at breathholding, well one out of two isn't too bad.



Barrel hunting



Looks happy






This guy had an interesting trick of surfing underneath the pier and to the other side. Watch out for those sudden hard stops!



Cowabunga!

[ricki]

Looking for something new in the waves? Why not try a new board ... two of them?





Here's another clip from big water. So, its frozen.



Some of us are thinking about snow, some are in it but hey, grab alpine time when and how you can.

[conchxpress]

The skis probably wouldn't be that expensive, but you gotta fork out a lot of dough for the jet ski, since there really is no other way to launch. And then you need a buddy that really isn't doing anything, to drive your jet ski.

[Russky]