Rip Curl Signs 5 Year Deal With Bethany Hamilton
Hawaiian surfer Bethany Hamilton has been riding with Rip Curl since 1999. After being scouted at a Hawaiian junior surfing event, she signed on with the brand at just nine years old. Today, 23 years later, Bethany and Rip Curl have just inked a new five-year deal that will see their partnership grow into an exciting new phase.
“I have just been kind of in awe that we have been together this long,” says Bethany. “It feels amazing to have been with Rip Curl for this long, and it really feels like we align on so many different levels. I love how the brand is approaching the environment of young women in surfing and really supporting females in the water – that’s something we are really focusing on together.”
Over the next five years Rip Curl and Bethany Hamilton will collaborate across video projects, surf trips, surfwear collections and more. Soon Bethany will launch a Masterclass for the next generation, where women can learn from her experiences both in and out of the water – this is due to launch on the Rip Curl YouTube channel in late February.
“I am really energised with what we are hoping to achieve together over the next few years,” continues Bethany. “In the water I haven’t really set any huge goals at this point, but I’m always ready to charge. Outside of my surfing goals, I love finding ways to empower young women to live their best lives, to overcome challenges and to learn how to have fun in the process.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about my future and what I hope to do with my career, and I feel like with this new deal, I’m exactly where I’m meant to be.”
Rip Curl echoes this sentiment, and is looking forward to what can be achieved in the next five years of this long partnership. “Bethany is all about pushing boundaries,” says Ryan Fletcher, Rip Curl International Team and Events Manager. “And not just for herself, but for women’s surfing in general. That’s something we want to support at Rip Curl.
“She has obviously had fantastic success in WSL Championship Tour events in the past, including a historic semifinals finish at the 2016 Fiji Pro, but her ability to surf the way she does, train as hard as she does, and be a wonderful mum and wife – it’s all a part of the inspiration that is Bethany.”
Stay tuned to Rip Curl and Bethany’s channels over the coming months for exciting new content designed to inspire women in surfing, both in the water and out.
Rip Curl | Mirage 3-2-One Ultimate 19" Boardshorts
When it comes to competitive surfing's three key criteria: Speed, Power and Flow, Conner Coffin is a triple threat. So it's only fitting he's repping the Mirage 3/2/One Ultimate boardshort this season. This revolutionary trunk is constructed with three complementary panels giving the four-way stretch of Mirage Pro Fabric, the durability of tough Codura, and the added allure of smooth neoprene side panels. Tough where you need it, stretch where you feel it.
The Mirage Owen Wright SWC Banksia Boardshort is going to be a popular pick this season
Introducing Owen’s latest Mirage Saltwater Culture Boardshort - made with recycled PET bottles.
Designed with the influence of our home boy Owen Wright, they're designed to be surfed hard, and you can feel good knowing they were made from recycled PET bottles with sustainability in mind.
“It’s hard to avoid plastic - it’s everywhere… I think we can all do little things each day to cut out single-use plastic. If we all give it a go, it would make a difference”, Owen says.
Made with sustainability in mind, these trunks are made from Mirage Pro Eco fabric which provides Owen with all the stretch and performance he needs, while ensuring even Owen’s tremendous hoof leaves the smallest eco-footprint.
Designed to offer our customers an environmentally conscious range of quality surf products, Rip Curl’s Saltwater Culture is created from materials made from recycled bottles, organic cotton, organic hemp and ECONYL Regenerated Nylon from old fishing nets and other nylon waste.
This limited-edition watch celebrates Rip Curl's golden anniversary
Born at Bells in 1969, this limited-edition watch celebrates Rip Curl’s golden anniversary. ‘Born at Bells 1969 – 50 Years’ inscribed on the gold inner dial ring, while a gold rotor powers a 21-jewel Japanese automatic movement with date, a 48-hour reserve and a sweep second hand. This limited-edition dive watch comes in a commemorative box with a neoprene lining and a picture of the original Rip Curl surf shop on Boston Road in Torquay, Australia.
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The Ultimate Search Boardshort, designed for life on the road
RIP CURL | Leilani Long Sleevel Back Zip Surfsuit
Three of the best surf watches
In the last ten years, the surf industry has been developing action sports watches that actually measure and forecast tides for thousands of surf spots across the world.
The so-called tide watches indicate the low and high tide times for any particular surf break on the planet, allowing you to know when to go in America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Oceania.
Here are 3 of the best surf watches and tide watches available today.
When Rip Curl started making wet suits in 1969, watches could only tell you the time. Today the surf company is still making wetsuits, but in the past few decades they’ve added a big range of surf watches to their lineup.
The Search GPS 2 is their most advanced surf watch to date and comes loaded with data for 1,400 tide locations. You also get sunrise/sunset and moon phase data plus real-time surf conditions from Surfline’s marine weather data system. Built-in GPS and Bluetooth connectivity let you track your surf sessions and log them on your iPhone so you know your top speed, distance travelled and how long you were out on the board. Shop Now
Rifles Tide Watch This next generation of Rip Curl tide watch utilizes a simple menu-based user interface, making instruction manuals virtually unnecessary.
500 pre programmed tides, 100m waterproof tested, versatile tide display and your regular technical features.
The only thing this watch can’t do is wax your surfboard. Shop Now
Rifles SS Tide Pinless Watch Our Core tide watch – an evolution of technology and development from the leaders in tide. 500 pre-programmed global tide locations. Water resistant up to 100 meters (330 feet) and backed with a limited five-year worldwide warranty. Shop Now
A good surf watch can help you make the most of your time on the water, which could certainly lead to an improvement in skill.
No Sudden Movements
Video from Rip Curl
A trip all about re-learning how to get out of your comfort zones and into the wild, with Luke Hynd and Kipp Caddy.
From snakes to planes to trains and beyond, this is #TheSearch.
Music: Basic
Track: Precipice
Source: Getty Images
Iron Horse | #TheSearch by Rip Curl
Video from Rip Curl
A Journey to the Rugged Ends of the Earth
On the Search with South American slab hunters Bruno Santos and Guillermo Satt.
“We are in the middle of the Pacific, on a volcanic rock, getting bludgeoned by massive swells. We are, as remote, as you can get.”
That’s Australian photographer Ted Grambeau talking. If you know Ted Grambeau, then you’ll be able to hear the sound of his deep, rough, vaguely erratic voice; the volume rising with each syllable, the delivery slowing with each word, dragging out each sentence until you can almost feel their isolation.
Filmed and Edited by Jon Frank
Artist: The Sufferjets
Track: Boys In Beetle Boots
https://thesufferjets.bandcamp.com/
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Artist: Thrupence
Track: White Kite
http://thrupence.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thrupence
Mick Fanning's Irish Crossroads
Video from Rip Curl
For the past two decades, Mick Fanning has collected homes all over the world – returning to the same places, the same towns, the same waves, each year on the World Tour. Making friends. Becoming family.
But one place has always held a special place for Mick, and it's a place that the World Tour didn't take him to.
Ireland. Ireland is where Mick's family is from. A tiny, modest town in the north is where his dad was raised. And it's where he feels his roots.
So on his year sabbatical from the tour, while he was taking time to try to reset – to get back to the basics and get to know himself again – it only made sense that he returned to the land of the Irish.
Because as you're reading this, he's facing one of the hardest choices of his life.
Join Mick Fanning, as he goes home... and faces the Irish Crossroads.
Filmed and edit by Nick Pollet
Additional filming by Taylor Paul
Artist: Alain De Carne
Track: Ireland Mix
http://alaindecarnemusic.com
Artist: The Foreign Objects
Track: Born Again Blues Man
http://theforeignobjectsaustralia.ban...
Artist: Piccadilly Circus
Track: Upbeat Hard-Rock
Source: Getty Images
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