Spring Summer 09 T-Shirts Highlights - Mens Collection

Miguel Ximenez goes to O’Neill Coldwater Classic in Scotland

With the first stop on the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Series successfully concluded in a remote corner of Tasmania, it’s now up to the other end of the earth for the Cold Water Classic Scotland.
Staying true to its ethos of scouring the globe for the remote locations holding world-class waves, the Cold Water Classic Series is hosting the northernmost event in professional surfing in a choice of barreling fast reef breaks and powerful beachbreaks.
The second CWC event, a 6-star World Qualifying Series (WQS), will start 29-April till 6-May.
The Lightning Bolt team rider Miguel Ximenez is ready to surf with his kilt to go through some tough heats.
Miguel please don’t take your scotch bottle to the heats. We know it’s very tempting, but you can always wait for the night parties.
God Bless the moustache surf man.
Swell charts indicate an awesome start to the Cold Water Classic in Scotland.
Stay tunned at the official event website

Spring Summer 09 Boardshorts Highlights

Clown Surfing by José Ferreira at Onfire Surf Mag

Almost everyone thinks that the best Carnival parties are in Rio de Janeiro or in Venice. Onfire Surf magazine changed the rules and took 4 surfers to celebrate Carnival surfing in Alentejo (Portugal) to launch the new magazine section Happy Times. Lightning Bolt team rider José Ferreira had this privilege and got the clown mask. Even with his “low instruments” too tight he was able to show some aerials and kerrupt flips. Buy the last Onfire issue or go to onfiresurfmag.com to read more

Lightning Bolt Fanzine – The second issue release

The second Lightning Bolt's Fanzine issue, our semestral magazine, brings you the Spring Summer 09 collection, the adventures of Lightning Team Riders in Peru, an interview with the Pipeline master Rory Russell and lots of other new stuff within the Bolt world.
This issue is published in English and Portuguese and the paper version will be available in the surfshops and streetwear shops in England, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece.
But now you can read and download it online.

Between The Lines - the true story of surfers during the vietnam war

Narrated by acclaimed writer and director JOHN MILIUS (Apocalypse Now-Big Wednesday), BETWEEN THE LINES explores the Vietnam War through the prism of the surfing sub-culture. This documentary film offers unique insight into the dramatic effect that the Vietnam War and draft had on young American men who rode waves.

BETWEEN THE LINES delves into the lives of two surfers who chose opposite paths, Pat Farley and Brant Page. Pat Farley, a heavy combat vet, volunteered for service in Vietnam and was discharged with a full psychiatric pension. Conversely, Brant Page evaded the draft and fled to the surf rich Hawaiian Islands where he was unceasingly pursued and eventually arrested by the FBI.

While following the lives of these two surfers the film chronicles the impact of the Vietnam War on the surfing lifestyle. From the peaceful shores of Hawaii to the canopy jungles of Vietnam, BETWEEN THE LINES excavates the surfing cultures response to an extraordinary circumstance.

The DVD is now available at XTREMEVIDEO

Rory Russell roadtrip by Jonathan Paskowitz – Part II

Jonathan continues his roadtrip report. After Pukas, they continue to France...

"We got to Pukas and were so stoked to meet our friends there. Rory ran into Peter Daniels a legendary shaper and dear friend who he had many adventures with and Matt Biolas the owner of the Lost Brand and a good friend of mine from San Clemente, California. Not to mention the Puka’s owner son, Miguel. The shop there was amazing, I have never seen such a well run factory anywhere in the world.

We then headed north to Biarritz in France. We had invited the boys to come visit us at the Uncle Zizu surf shop for a little party the next day.
The French surf scene in Biarritz was awesome! The town is amazing, the hotel was beautiful and the French guys that meet us were great, Nicolas Pinot and the French photographer Yves Sobanski.
We went to the Surf Session magazine office and surfed cold overcast waves that day, it was gloomy and very cold but the people were great .
We had a good promotion with an awesome surfshop called More and Less, and we met a great guy from the local paper meet to have an interview. Turned out Rory had met him years and years before at the Pipemasters dinner when he was in Hawaii for the newspaper Sud-Qwest.
We got together later that night with our whole team, the local surfers and heroes like Peter Danels or the world class champion, one of the creators of a famous surf brand Jeff Hackman, and a slew of others at the Uncle Zizu Surf Shop.

We then went to an amazing space where we met one of the premier shapers in the area JP or Jean Pierre Stark, we checked out his amazing shop and met his team
Rory there shaped the first Pipliner board to be made in France ever…. Nicolas and Yves Sobanski were crying, they were so happy!!!!

It was a great adventure and so many nice people along the way.
We said our goodbyes and the boys started their 10 hour drive back home."

Rory Russell roadtrip by Jonathan Paskowitz – Part I

Jonathan Paskowitz, our international brand manager was there and tells us what happened around the legendary Rory Russell in his roadtrip in Europe.

"As I arrived to Portugal a few days before, I went to Porto airport and picked up Rory Russell with the original surf hero from Portugal Pedro Lima, a 75 year old man that is not old. He is full of life and surfed before surfing ever existed in Portugal. Pedro was a diver with Jacques Cousteau and pioneered body surfing in Europe long before there were even surfers in the European community.

We only stayed one day in Porto then drove to Lisbon the next day to meet the press and show the fall line to the Portuguese press and local magazines. We had a great time in Lisbon on the beach on a cliff overlooking one of Lisbon’s premier surf beaches. Rory even went into the water to help some kids surf with Bryan Porter our man from the states. The kids looked like they had a great time and Rory and Bryan we very funny with them. Back to Porto again and we started off on the Rory Road Trip to Spain and France. We picked up the guys Joao Diogo and the Lightning Bolt team riders Alexandre Ferreira and Pedro Soares, our new friends on the next part of this adventure. We drove north out of Porto to the boarder of Spain, rocky green mountains and little villages with farms. Really an incredible rich and glorious view whenever you looked out the window.

The Europeans maps are a joke!!! So hard to read. We missed our turn so many times I thought we would never get there. Mundaka was our first stop and we were trying desperately to get there. Finally after so many turns, we got to Mundaka and found the hotel Mundaka. It was now 04:00 am!!!!

We woke up the next day to meet our Spanish salesman Eduardo, great guy with a lot of style, he brought his charming girlfriend with him and was going to take us to meet a writer from a Spanish surfing magazine as well as a famous surfboard collector in the area.

We headed off for a little adventure in the area next to us in Bilbao. We all really wanted to see the city and have a dinner in the main town, we were really surprised to see the architecture and the modern mixed with the old.

In Mundaka the surf was really small but you could see the incredible potential of the waves there. We said goodbye to our new friends there and dropped into the Mundaka surf shop before leaving on the way up the coast to our next stop France. We would stop on the boarder to see the Pukas surfboard shop on the way.

USBOLT - New Lightning Bolt Gadget

We didn’t make up USB Pens, neither the 2GB memories, but we invented the Lightning Bolt shaped USB Pen 2GB
These are not for geeks that want to save more than 500 illegal movies. These are for stylish surfers. As it is made of rubber, it can be used as an Anti -Stress toy.
Available in red or yellow.

Alexandre Ferreira aka Xaninho playing a sort of AC/DC-T.N.T hit

In Sagres, Portugal, the Lightning Bolt team rider Alexandre Ferreira decides to show his musical ability. Forgive us AC/DC.

Rory Russell Pipeline Master Interview

Rory Russell 2 time Pipeline Champion talks to Boardridersreview about Pipeline, Lightning Bolt surfboards, Gerry Lopez, surfing,surf school funny stories.....

Lightning Bolt team riders go to Vendée Surf Pro

The Protest Vendée Pro, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 4-Star Men's event, will start April 6 at La Sauzaie on the West coast of France kicking off the 2009 ASP European Tour. La Sauzaie, one of the best reefs of France renowned to deliver some consistent and hollow waves when the surf reaches the three to four foot (1 to 1.2 meter) range, will welcome some of the world’s best surfers competing for the valuable 1500 ratings' points and US$ 85 000 prizepurse on offer.

Lightning Bolt Team Riders, both portuguese Alexandre Ferreira and Miguel Ximenez will try to improve their last season’s result. Stay tunned at http://www.aspeurope.com/