Cameron Staunton
Wave of the Day: The indistinct outline of Kipp Caddy

Editors picks

Tow surfing and Kirra: A maze of legislation

Surfpolitik

Makuakai Rothman: The (unofficial) 2014 BWT world champion

Talking Heads

2015 airline surfboard fee guide

Swellnet Dispatch

Tim Baker: (M)Ocean at Burleigh Heads

Talking Heads
Swellnet Dispatch

Australia's white shark population: The hunt for answers

Kent Stannard
Tuesday, 3 March 2015

How much do we know about sharks? It's a question worth asking following another shark fatality in Australia. Surfers and ocean users are looking for answers.

Swellnet Dispatch

Brett Simpson - video

Stu Nettle
Tuesday, 3 March 2015

From Aaron Lieber's '4K Monday' series comes this lively clip of Brett Simpson blasting his home beach of Huntington and staking a claim as the Californian Parko.

Surfpolitik

Requiem for a surfboard

blindboy
Monday, 2 March 2015

Having recently broken a favourite board blindboy was moved to ponder the implications of our relationship with our most beloved boards.

Jonathon Nimerfroh
Wave of the Day: Freeze your brain and melt your mind
Matt Dunbar
Wave of the Day: Parko, nose to the grindstone during Round 1 of the Quiksilver Pro
Form Guide

World's best light up Snapper Rocks for Quiksilver and Roxy Pro Round 1

Saturday, 28 February 2015

2015 is Year Zero for the World Surfing League and today was Day One. Although the surf didn't match the weightiness of the occasion the action made up for it.

Form Guide

Quiksilver & Roxy Pro: Day 1 - photos

Stu Nettle
Saturday, 28 February 2015

Photos from the first day of competition on the newly-minted World Surf League.

Jack Dekort
Wave of the Day: Overwhelming colourfast, Luke Jory, Noosa
Swellnet Dispatch

Kirra: Hollow by thy name - video

Stu Nettle
Friday, 27 February 2015

Might as well finish off the week the way we started it, with a clip of pumping Kirra. It might be a while till we see it like that again.

Swellnet Dispatch

Luke Hynd's leftovers - video

Stu Nettle
Friday, 27 February 2015

Luke Hynd talks a small game. "This clip is just a bunch of leftover footage from around home and a few trips I did throughout the year."

Fortunately the clip is a tad more exciting than its downbeat description.

Swellnet Dispatch

Jordy Smith: Working class - video

Stu Nettle
Friday, 27 February 2015

One thunderous clip from the fella who would be king.

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