Tim Bonython Productions made it down to film the last Shipsterns swell. Mark Mathews, Mike Healey, Josiah Schmucker, Rudi Schwartz, Tyler Hollmer-Cross, Brook Phillips, and Mikie Brennan score some fun ones.

Here’s why every surfer should have a skateboard.

Some fun waves off a reef in the Orkney Islands with two guys out. Waves start to turn on a couple minutes into the video so keep watching.

A healthy beating, well deserved. Don’t turn your back on the ocean, kids.

It’s rubber month over at mesurf’s online mag. The have a couple good articles up already with more to come. Mid month they’re dropping a large independent wetsuit guide, looking at 11 of the top wetsuits in the market for 2010.

Cory Lopez ripping a super long secret wave! Around 1:45 he loses the tow rope and still manages to tear the wave apart, going switch and crossing sides.

While we’re on the topic of sick cover shots, how about this latest from Carve Magazine. This mutant keg is somewhere in the north Atlantic. Would you charge it?