Patagonia Surf Europe

Kepa Acero’s latest adventure takes him to a remote island where he discovers perfect waves.

Trevor Gordon and friends head to Mexico to surf perfect right point breaks.Fun & Dusted from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

Our favorite modern adventurer, Kepa Acero, is back at it. In this video, he shares details of his new adventure.

In Variables, Patagonia spearfishing ambassador Kimi Werner strives to find her place in the ecosystem. She treads the line between predator and prey – eventually discovering balance in an unlikely place. For more from Kimi and our other Patagonia ambassadors, see patagonia.com/surfblog.

Dr. Tony Butt examines whether or not you can lead a sustainable life as a surfer.

“You are out surfing on your own. Someone else paddles out, comes up to you and says, ‘How long have you been out here?’

You think as hard as you can. In the end you take a stab at it and tell him about an hour. But the truth is you really don’t know – on one hand it seems like a couple of minutes, but on the other hand it feels like you’ve been out there forever.

If you really have been deep in concentration, your world will have been reduced right down to what you see and feel in your immediate surroundings. Nothing exists apart from you and the waves and maybe the wind or the odd seagull. All that stuff you were doing earlier this morning seems like something in the distant past, almost from another life. Your mother-in-law, the traffic, the bank manager and the shopping have simply ceased to be.

Your surfing is effortless, almost as if the surfing itself is doing it for you. You feel like a passenger just along to enjoy the ride. You’ll be paddling back to the line-up after each wave without the slightest effort, feeling like you could go on catching waves forever. You are living in the moment, enjoying surfing for its own sake.

Psychologists call it Flow or Optimum Experience.” Read more.

Deep Water, Part 6 – Mexico from Patagonia on Vimeo.

Heavy barrels—and a few heavy beatings—greet Kohl Christensen and friends at Puerto Escondido in the sixth episode of the Deep Water series. Other surfers include Greg Long, Gabriel Villaran, Joao De Macedo, Jensen Hasset, Alvaro Malpartida and Coco Nogales. For earlier episodes, see the Deep Water page here.

Enjoy* “The Beginning of Something Big” from Doug Walker

Our friends over at Enjoy Handplanes made this exceptionally rad video about how they make planes out of old boards. Get inspired!

Directed by Craig Griffin, Uncharted Waters is a feature length documentary about legendary Australian surfer Wayne Lynch. It traces his upbringing in the seaside town of Lorne on Victoria’s south western coast and his turbulent experiences as a ‘conscientious objector’ on the run from conscription and the Vietnam War. Ultimately it is about an extremely gifted individual with an intense connection to the Southern Ocean, whose approach to surfing has been a spiritual journey often putting him at odds with the surfing subculture and society in general.

Premiere tour from May to July 2013 in the U.S., Europe and Australia. Dates and locations coming soon at http://www.patagonia.com/surfblog.