When it comes to evolution - surfboard design evolution, that is - people tend to think professional surfers have the most influence in the process. In this thought piece, blindboy proposes that the average punter has just as much bearing on the design path.
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles.
Read: Phil Jarratt picks up the quill and compares Main Break to The Box.
...and why they need the help of the surf industry to do it.
Following a change in movement of white sharks on the Eyre Peninsula, tourism operators have proposed bringing cage diving sites closer to the coastline. Other ocean users, surfers included, aren't happy.
It's déjà vu all over again at Quiksilver as CEO suit Andy Mooney gets shown the door and the salts march back into the boardroom. Phil Jarratt reports.
Swellnet speaks to Kelly Slater and Peter Maguire, co-author of Thai Stick, about turning the "untold story" of the marijuana trade into film projects.
Economic growth, political stability, and a rising middle class have combined to create a new wave of talented and competitive Brazilian surfers, the most visible being new world champion Gabriel Medina. However, the elements that powered the 'Brazilian Storm' are beginning to falter.
“It is absolutely not allowed for a foreigner to own a single inch of land in Indonesia." Recent statements by the head of Indonesia's National Land Agency set off a wave of panic amongst expatriate land owners in Indonesia. Phil Jarratt found out what they've got to be worried about.
Yesterday Billabong announced it had received notice of a class action lawsuit over market disclosures it made in 2011.
In June all 507 of WA's pastoral leases will expire, and the Government has sent out 503 lease renewals. However, the owners of Gnaraloo and Red Bluff are among the four stations that haven't received renewals. What happens next will decide what surfers will find when they make the seasonal run to the north-west.
What is pro surfing if the participants don't care about winning or losing? If they don't care when a call goes against them?
Just a surf video, that's what.
After running just two out of six big wave events last season, the WSL's Big Wave Tour has taken another hit of credibility with South African surfers pulling Dungeons from the itinerary.
