Visuals

Check the following galleries in photographs, sequences and video clips

Full Motion

Photographs help to freeze a moment in time, however, much is lost in the process. Seeing a moving, heaving, screaming mountain of water frame-by-frame is so much better&hellip

Slow Motion

Surfing in action often takes place at such a fast pace that you can't appreciate the finer details. It's for that very reason that we've put together some sick sequences frame-by-frame, we hope you enjoy them!

Stop Motion

Photographs freeze the defining moment in any action, the shutter clicks and the moment is preserved. Take a look at our photo archive, perhaps we caught your defining moment…

About Our Galleries

We've put together some excellent galleries of the high-quality footage that we go out of our way to capture every month. All our galleries are available to the public for free. While we've tried our best to facilitate all the different browsers that people use, we can't be held responsible if the galleries don't work for you.

Gallery Requirements:

Certain galleries like Stop Motion have specific requirements. Please read the following notes so you can be sure that you'll be able to view the content.

Flash Player 8: Stop Motion is displayed using Flash Player 8, a freely available cross-browser, platform independent plugin developed by Macromedia and Adobe.

Please download this plugin before visiting the gallery. If you have an older version of the plugin installed, you should be shown an option to upgrade to the latest version.

Disclaimer

Please note that any member of The Swell Guys will not be held responsible for publishing images of you, your mom, your dog or cat or anybody and anything that our contributing photographers have captured. We won't publish pornography (but will show girls in bikinis).

If you find anything offensive please let us know so that we can remove the material from the gallery.

Copyright of images: All images are the respective property of the photographers and are used with permission. We can't stop you from copying any images but ask that you please refrain from doing so. We may not catch you but then again we might just, and any person found in possession of our images without prior consent will be punished to the full extent of the law.

Old Wive's Tales

They say a man's only as good as the woman who supports him, so we asked four surfer's spouses to share their experiences with us.

Hit The Road Jack: Mossel Bay

Get behind the wheel and take a trip to Mossel Bay with us. Experience fog horns, joy riders and hammer heads as we divide the Boere Wors Curtain.

Surf Shop Culture

Have you ever been to a surf shop and wondered just what goes down there the whole day? We've been thinking about it and decided to find out. Join us and get to know some surf shop culture...

Confessions of a Surf Coach

You see them in coffee shops chatting to clients and out in the water pushing groms into their first rides - Surf Coaches - find out just how glamorous being a Surf Coach really is.

Commitment: 745's got it

Commitment is what makes you paddle out in icy cold conditions, it's also what stops you from sampling foreign g-strings in night clubs the evening before a surf, take a ride in Clint's mind as 745 helps him explore further.

YOU SAID WHAT ?

OK people, let's face the facts… either you love us or you hate us. Either way we're happy just as long as you're talking about us!

The Soul Food Store

Surfing is more than just competitions, moves and boards. Surfing as an art form inspires us in many ways - we've put together some articles about the deeper side of our lifestyle. Read them and feed your soul…

The Wall of Shame

Sometimes we do things when we think nobody is watching - things like picking your nose while in traffic, or wearing no undies when visiting the Mall. Next time you go for a surf, beware, we'll be watching and we won't hesitate to pin you to the Wall of Shame for posterity…

OverXposed

Surf spots around the planet all have a few underground rippers who don't care about being famous or winning competitions - they surf because they love to. In OverXposed we profile these diamonds in the rough…

Strandloper

Ever heard the phrase “Take a trip down memory lane”? Surfers don't do that, the only lane we use is the one that leads to the ocean, instead we talk a walk down the beach where the only thing we leave behind are our footprints…

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