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Ian Walsh

Ian Walsh

Country flag United States

Age: 41

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Lives in: United States

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Nationality: American

AKA: "Walshy"

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Stance: Regular

Disciplines: Big Wave Surfing

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Philosophy of life: It's not how good you are but how good you want to be

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Eddie 2024, Best Rides Of An Iconic Day The Rip Curl Eddie Aikau Invitational, starring winner Landon McNamara, Luke Shepardson, Billy Kemper, Jamie O’Brien, Ian Walsh, Jake Maki, Ross Clarke-Jones and Joey Cadiz. Riding big Waimea Bay is both a wild adrenaline rush and a quite subtle game of inches. You’re playing cat and mouse with an uneven rock ledge and a lot of swell energy, and you’re riding a board way bigger than you are. All the elements scream “CHARGE!” Yet even as you’re charging, all kinds of tiny things are happening. Little shifts of the board underfoot. Wind holding you up a fraction longer than you thought it might. You draw a simple line and it works, or it doesn’t. There’s a deep layer of grace and beauty under the wildness, and nowhere was it plainer to see than during yesterday Rip Curl Eddie Aikau Invitational, when the next generation of big wave greats showed all the skills and qualities this amazing event asks of a surfer. Here’s some of the best rides of an iconic day — and a word or two from Uncle Clyde Aikau, keeper of the flame.

23/12/2024   |   video icon

PERFECT JAWS with Kai Lenny, Ian Walsh, and More | RAW FOOTAGE Kai Lenny is accompanied by renowned big wave surfers in the midst of a major tow swell at Jaws, showcasing remarkable feats on a surfboard. With an impressive lineup of big wave legends, relentless hold downs, and helicopter rescues, the action unfolds at Jaws, the world's heaviest big wave destination. Surfers: Kai lenny Albee layer Ian Walsh Paige alms Billy Kemper Steve Roberson Matthieu Extebarne Watch the newest episodes of #LifeOfKai on Red Bull TV: https://win.gs/KaiLenny #surf #surfing #bigwavesurfing

09/03/2024   |   video icon

Cloudbreak On Fire! Fantastic Fiji barrels with two swells back to back Summer in Fiji is HOT. The days are longer, and the sun feels like it’s suspended directly above you — which in early February, it pretty much is. Sit for long enough in the open water lineup at the amazing Cloudbreak Reef, and it’ll feel as if your eyeballs are about to fall clean out of your head. Yet for two and a half days last week, that’s what a bunch of very good surfers did: sat there as long as they could stand it, because Cloudbreak wasn’t just hot, it was on fire. The reef is exposed to south and SW swells moving up from deep storms in the Southern Ocean and travelling up between Australia and New Zealand — out of the cold and into the tropics. A three to four day journey during which they grow clean and straight, yet hang on to that South Pacific energy. Easterly trade-winds complete the picture. This doesn’t often happen in February. It’s a Southern Hemisphere winter thing, and February is tropical cyclone time in these parts. But when a couple of very off-season storms flared in Fiji’s sweet spot, a happy few jumped on various planes and got there just in time to ride. In the lineup: Ian Walsh, Balaram Stack, Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, Nathan Hedge, Dean Morrison, Max Beach, Che Slatter, Eden Edwards, Sean Lopez, Tosh Tudor, Ben Wilson, Navi (surname), Dane Snelton, and quite a few more. At the end: A lot of tube time, a lot of sunburn, and if a few dozen eyes were sore, nobody seemed to mind. Filmed and edited by Hannah Anderson, additional footage by Scott Winer, ski pilot and writing by Nick Carroll.

14/02/2024   |   video icon
 
 

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