Surf Camp Early Sign Up

Summer Surf Camp is just around the corner and for the rest of the month of March we are offering $20 OFF early sign up. This year's camp starts the first week in June and runs every week through the end of August. Surf Camp is a great way for kids ages 8-18 to learn about ocean safety and surfing, in a safe and controlled environment. For more info check out the Surf Camp section of our website or feel free to call us at the shop and reserve a spot for your kids. If you do not have four days for Surf Camp or will be in town before June, try a Private Surf Lesson!

Spring Has Arrived

We are getting stocked up and ready for summer here at the PIT Surf Shop. New gear is coming in daily and the shop is starting to get packed out. We have received shipments of guys and girls clothing in the last couple of days from Rip Curl, Matix, Rusty, Fox, and Von Zipper. As always we are loaded with the latest sandals and sidewalk surfers from Sanuk, and we also just got a huge shipment of Ocean Minded sandals for guys and girls. As always this time of year sunglasses are as hot as the weather, and we have a ton of new styles in from Von Zipper, Electric, Spy, Smith, and Anarchy.

Red Bull Inside Tahiti

So, what do you get when you combine the biggest swell to hit Teahupoo in years with space-age video technology? Easy. You get the best view, or should we say views, of the famed Tahitian lefthander…and you get to control the view. It works like this: Thanks to Immersive Media’s 360-degree spherical video camera, a technology that uses a specially designed camera housing to capture eleven separate video streams, as well as their production and post-production platforms, all of the streams are arranged according to geodesic geometry to create a complete spherical image; in other words, a high-resolution, 360-degree view of Teahupoo’s innards. By putting viewers in the director's seat and giving them the ability to look in all directions, the technology creates a first-of-its-kind video experience that gives viewers the feeling of actually being part of the action.

"I think we've made a small bit of history with this project," tells test-pilot Jamie O'Brien, who, along with Jamie Sterling, Raimana Van Bastolaer, and Ian Walsh, had the audacity to strap 25 pounds of electrical equipment to his back and huck himself into the pit. "The video experience that we've captured is a first. The view that someone gets by controlling the footage is a perspective that even I've never had until now."

With a simple manipulation of the computer mouse, you can look to the left or right, up or down, front or back. Since you control the camera angle, each viewing of the video can be a completely different and unique experience. So, next time you put on a surf video you may not be sprinting out the door to hit up your 2-foot beachbreaks. After all, why grovel in the slop when you can virtually stand tall in the biggest tube of the year? Read more >>