Finals Wrap: Rio Pro 2025
Three days of competition couldn't shift the status quo.
Three days of competition couldn't shift the status quo.
A fickle Sumatran gem fires for a lucky few.
MR and Cheyne, AI and Kelly, Andy Meridian and Rossco. Honourable adversaries, nearly all of them.
As carbon fibre makes a return, shapers are beating a path to Lucid Glassing.
So much sand, so many pointbreaks, so little swell.
Though new to the booth, the tour's latest commentator has been hustling away for years.
After a slow start the swell kicks in from the middle of the waiting period.
One taxpayer's journey into the heart of the Military Industrial Complex.
"The best small wave final of recent memory, and possibly the greatest of all time."
A short essay on the season that wasn't for NSW North Coast surfers.
The surf goes up a notch and the performance level with it.
Kelly Slater, who reluctantly accepted the wildcard, was beaten in straight sets.
"That one paddle wave is worth a thousand tow waves."
Google Earth turns twenty today.
"The wave here is very difficult," said Yago Dora, "even the good waves."
"They'll have to recap without me," says tired journo from twelve time zones away.
A love letter to the strange pursuit of good waves.
"We worked really hard to look at waves with fresh eyes."
A festival of tubes ridden this time last Friday.
Big win for clean water and coastal commonsense.
No cutbacks, no airs, no righthanders.
After more than a decade of service, JMD signs off.
Three days of competition couldn't shift the status quo.
A fickle Sumatran gem fires for a lucky few.
MR and Cheyne, AI and Kelly, Andy Meridian and Rossco. Honourable adversaries, nearly all of them.
As carbon fibre makes a return, shapers are beating a path to Lucid Glassing.
So much sand, so many pointbreaks, so little swell.
Though new to the booth, the tour's latest commentator has been hustling away for years.
After a slow start the swell kicks in from the middle of the waiting period.
One taxpayer's journey into the heart of the Military Industrial Complex.
"The best small wave final of recent memory, and possibly the greatest of all time."
A short essay on the season that wasn't for NSW North Coast surfers.
The surf goes up a notch and the performance level with it.
Kelly Slater, who reluctantly accepted the wildcard, was beaten in straight sets.
"That one paddle wave is worth a thousand tow waves."
Google Earth turns twenty today.
"The wave here is very difficult," said Yago Dora, "even the good waves."
"They'll have to recap without me," says tired journo from twelve time zones away.
A love letter to the strange pursuit of good waves.
"We worked really hard to look at waves with fresh eyes."
A festival of tubes ridden this time last Friday.
Big win for clean water and coastal commonsense.
No cutbacks, no airs, no righthanders.
After more than a decade of service, JMD signs off.
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