Features
South Africa had a winter for the ages during the weirdest of years. Photographer David Thiem captured the perfection amongst the madness....Read the full feature 8
As a teenager, Mitchell Rae was gifted rare knowledge about board design, and he's since spent fifty years perfecting it.
Follow Mitchell's journey through flex....Read the full feature 30
Join Ray Collins as he dissects the seven most decisive photographs of his career.Read the full feature 6
Just the mention of the word Java has been enough to send imaginations soaring throughout history, yet to the modern surfer it holds even more mystery than most imaginations are capable of. ...Read the full feature 30
It seems improbable, but Pohnpei, that verdant, reef-ringed isle in the North Pacific, has an image problem. Or more correctly it has a marketing problem - a mismatch between the waves we see in the surf media and the reality on the ground....Read the full feature 21
The Swellnet BF Goodrich trip to the desert evades a surf trip staple but lucks into a good time.Read the full feature 17
Before they left for home, Chris Goodnow, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Scott Wakefield made a pact not to tell anyone about the waves at Macaronis/Pasongan Bay. No-one knows who surfed Pasongan after them, however it would be over ten years till the wave was exposed to the world via video....Read the full feature 13
In May 1980 three Sydney surfers - cousins Chris Goodnow and Tony Fitzpatrick, and their friend Scott Wakefield - became arguably the first surfers to visit the Mentawais. Among their discoveries was a wave that's now considered one of the world's best, Macaronis....Read the full feature 48
A volley of emails leads to a quick dash down underer where Ross Clarke-Jones hooks up with Doug Young and photographer Derek Morrison, the three of them motoring into New Zealand's deep south....Read the full feature 21
Time to throw off the bowlines...or kickstart the engine in this case, as vagabond Victorian Matty Hannon loads a couple of Corey Graham handshapes onto his steed and rides from the top of Alaska down the Pacific coast toward Patagonia....Read the full feature 18