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The Clif Bar Cold Shot Challenge is back and we could not be more stoked.  Celebrating its 4th year, Clif Bar has increased the prize purse to 10k! Running from Mid-December to March 31st, photographers and surfers from North Carolina to Maine and the Great lakes have their shot to take home some big bucks.  [...] Continue Reading

Hurricane Melissa brought the goods to NY in Mid October and we were lucky enough to grab some selects from Local (and not so Local) Pro and Cold Shot Challenge Judge Mike "Nelly" Nelson. Surfers include: Pat Schmidt, Pat Fallon, Sam Hammer, Ryan Saboe, Mason Lesser & Mike Dunphy https://nysea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/NYSEA-Swell-Melissa-MikeNelson-SamHammer-BKG.mp4 Surfer: Sam Hammer   Mike [...] Continue Reading

The beginning of September broke the summer flat spells with the arrival of swell from Hurricane Dorian.  While many rejoiced in the much needed waves, it is important to mind all the destruction Dorian left in its wake.  As surfers, we have a love/hate relationship with these Hurricanes, and we should have a moral obligation [...] Continue Reading

NYSEA Presents The 10th Annual NY Surf Week LONG BEACH, NY (July 10-14) – NYSEA is hosting the 10th annual New York Surf Week, anchored between Long Beach Road and Riverside Boulevard in Long Beach, NY from Wednesday July 10th to Sunday July 14th. This New York Surf Week (NYSW) celebrates a decade of honoring [...] Continue Reading

The awards ceremony, held at Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY, gathered top photographers and members of the East Coast surf community for a night of cheers and beers, and – of course – the presentation of this year’s champions.

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As the phrase goes, In like a lion, out like a lamb, March has lived up to its reputation.  Cold and bitter to start off the month with mild and more welcoming temps as we head into April.  Hard to believe the winter is over.  It is bittersweet to see her go. The month started [...] Continue Reading

Although this winter has been less than stellar, February still offered a handful of fun-sized swells up and down the east coast.  Some really amazing photos have been entered from each region; a solid set of great lineup shots peppered with a good mix of action and water shots.  Scroll down the check out a [...] Continue Reading

First off, we would like to thank everyone for their continued support and interest in cold water surf photography.  ClifBar really stepped it up this year with an increased prize purse and we are stoked to see the cold water community coming together and supporting one another.  There have been some amazing entries and we [...] Continue Reading

We’re Back Winter is in full force and that only means one thing.  The Clif Bar Cold Shot Challenge 3.0 presented by NySea is Back!  For the past 3 years, the Cold Shot Challenge had been the premiere East Coast cold water surf photography contest, with its jurisdiction ranging from Maine to North Carolina and [...] Continue Reading

While it is still technically hurricane season, this past weekend we experienced our first Nor'Easter of the year!  The remnants of Hurricane Willa in the Pacific crossed the continent and morphed into the nor'easter that sent significant swell to the northeast.  Saturday saw big, challenging, and unruly surf on Long Island while Sunday saw pristine conditions [...] Continue Reading

A ten foot column of reclaimed construction plywood, a thrown out surf school foamie chopped in half, and the MacGyver treatment of kayak-sailboat all felt at home standing next to the hottest in asym, flex fin and rail design at It Doesn’t Not Work this past weekend at Rockaway Beach Surf Club in Queens, NY.

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Looking Back at NY Surf Week 2018 Celebrating its’ 9th year, New York Surf Week presented by NYSEA was one hell of a good time.  NY Surf Week hosted surf & skate contests, adaptive surf clinics, a vending village on the boardwalk, movie night, and of course the annual mid-summer bash.  This year saw both [...] Continue Reading

The awards ceremony, held at Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY, gathered top photographers and members of the East Coast surf community for a night of cheers and beers, and – of course – the presentation of this year’s champions.

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Recently a few of the creative minds behind the ClifBar Cold Shot Challenge 2.0 sat down with Tyler Bruer and Ben Pomeroy of Swell Season Radio.  JR Jensen, Etan Blatt, and Michael Silverstein went on the show to chat about the history of Cold Shot Challenge, some of this winters more memorable moments, and where [...] Continue Reading

The Storm There is plenty of old lore about the weather in March, that if it comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb. Well, the lion otherwise known as Winter Storm Riley became an intense nor'easter after undergoing bombogenesis off the coast of New England. Bombogenesis happens when the pressure [...] Continue Reading

This year the ClifBar Cold Shot Challenge 2.0 is offering prize packages for each named winter storm.  We'd like to congratulate Ryan Moore (Insta: @ryanmooreart) of Long Island, NY for being the recipient of the Unsound Surf Kalani Swell package.  Among the numerous exceptional submissions, Ryan's dramatic sunset shot of an empty, perfect January peak [...] Continue Reading

The CLIF Bar Cold Shot Challenge 2.0 is off to a great start thanks to Winter Storm Grayson, and now -- courtesy of Winter Storm Hunter  --  the entries have been flooding in.  Along with sub-freezing temperatures, Winter Storm Hunter brought some solid surf to the majority of the east coast.  The storms have shown us [...] Continue Reading

The CLIF Bar Cold Shot Challenge 2.0 has started off with a bang thanks to Winter Storm Grayson!  With one of the craziest blizzards in recent history, we have had plenty of awesome entries.  Remember we will be picking one of the submitted photos from each named swell events and sending that person an epic package [...] Continue Reading

  The second annual Clifbar Cold Shot Challenge hosted by NYSEA starts today. This year we’re expanding the playing field, adding new categories and increasing the purse. Open to the public, photographers can now submit entries as far north as Maine, all the way down to North Carolina. Who’s going to claim their portion of [...] Continue Reading

“The best one yet,” claims New York’s Will Skudin. The 8th Annual NY Surf Week dedicated to George “Geeza” Gieser went off with a bang. A small groundswell all week set the tone for another jam-packed week of events. Skate contests, Vending Village, movie nights, parties and more fills the town of Long Beach, New [...] Continue Reading

Clif Cold Shot Challenge Results! Thank you to all the photographers who have shared their photos and the stories behind them. It is your love and passion that has made the Cold Shot a testament to the dedication it takes to be a New York and New Jersey surfer and photographer. Special thanks to CLIF [...] Continue Reading

  The Cold Shot Challenge fueled by our friends Clif Bar has been going strong for two months now.  The challenge encourages photographers and surf enthusiasts to share their winter cold water photos and the stories behind them. Watch, enjoy and follow up on some of the dedicated photographers who bear the winter elements to [...] Continue Reading

In today’s society, almost everyone has a phone, making us susceptible to an endless stream of advertisements and images. However, there are few photographers out there who aim to capture the rarest photos that make us stop, even if only for a second, to appreciate the artistic beauty.  These artists not only understand their cameras […]

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It’s the middle November in New York and the weather begins to chill.  No doubt the temperatures will be dropping rapidly over the next couple weeks. However, somewhere between the city’s high rise concrete structures and icy shores of Long Island, a fire is burning inside one man to become the world’s best big wave [...] Continue Reading