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Grant Molony

Wave of the Day: Six up, two down with Ryan Waine somewhere in the middle

A rock and a double-sucking face

Thu 5 December 2:49pm

Highlights from two days of waves somewhere on the East Coast. A place that demands maximum commitment from the surfers who run the gauntlet between the shallow rock and the double-sucking face.

Talking Heads

Dion Atkinson: Seven years and seven days

Stu Nettle

Thursday, 5 December 2013

After seven years of tenacious competition, South Australia's Dion Atkinson is oh-so-close to realising his ambition. Atkinson sits in 30th position and technically inside the cut-off for next year's WCT. However, there's one more contest on the 'CT calendar - the Pipe Masters - and a reshuffle of lower ranked surfers could see Dion on the wrong side of the ribbon.

Swellnet Analysis

Billabong Pipe Masters 2013 Surf Forecast

Craig Brokensha

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Last week the North Shore lit up under a large north-westerly groundswell. Sunset Beach pumped for the World Cup of Surfing while second reef bombs unloaded at Pipe in preparation for the Billabong Pipeline Masters.

So what's in store for the waiting period?

Swellnet Dispatch

Green Cathedral Surf Swap

Stu Nettle

Thursday, 5 December 2013

The Green Cathedral Surf Festival Surf Swap Meet is locked in for Saturday 14th December. Part of the Green Cathedral Surf Festival, presented by Wollongong Art Gallery, the surf swap is a chance for keen punters to buy, swap, or just tyre kick a huge selection of pre-1990 sleds.

Swellnet Dispatch

Donovan Frankenreiter plays Surf Music in Paradise

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Donovan Frankenreiter will play an exclusive gig at Kandooma Resort in the Maldives. Let the mustachioed troubadour provide the laidback soundtrack to your next surf holiday.

Swellnet Dispatch

Paddle out for Graeme K. Bronner, Cronulla Point, 7/12/13

Stu Nettle

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

In June of this year long-standing Cronulla Point regular, Graeme 'GK' Bronner, passed away after a battle with myeloma. Graeme's family extends an invitation to all those who knew and surfed with him to help celebrate his life by joining them for a paddle-out and ashes scattering ceremony at Cronulla Point

Swellnet Sessions

Julian Wilson, late afternoon oop, Sunny Coast

Jack Dekort

Wed 4 December 9:29am

Sitting in sixth spot on the 'CT rankings and first in the One World system, Julian Wilson had no need to go to Hawaii early and fight for qualification. Following Portugal Jules had an extended break at his Sunshine Coast home, where a lack of swell meant plenty of small wave practice.

Steve Arklay

Wave of the Day: Darren Wilcock time travelling in Victoria

Surfpolitik

Requiem

blindboy

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

It is a rare thing in our age to run the daily risk, however small, of being attacked and eaten by a wild animal. And that is at the core of our fear. It is not the risk of dying as such, our odds of drowning are orders of magnitude higher, it is the nature of the death that appals us. Our fear is built into our bones.

Swellnet Sessions

Bowls and boils

Ian Tyley

Tue 3 December 10:42am

Ryan 'Wanga' Waine and Kerry Langdon Down trade waves at an East Coast reef. The depth of the water betrayed, not only by the shape of the waves, but also by the ever-present boils in the water.

Swellnet Sessions

World Cup of Surfing: Finals Day

ASP/Kirstin

Tue 3 December 8:48am

"I was building confidence through each heat," said Ezekiel Lau after his win at Sunset. "It seemed like things were going in my favor and I was just getting the waves I needed at the right time."