Patent Pending: The FCS Design Saga
Wednesday 30/11 137
In 2013 FCS released FCS II, a new and updated version of their removable fin system. Yet three years later they still don't have the patent secured and the imitators are ready to pounce.
Surfpolitik
Noooosaaa
Wednesday 05/10 55
I had been to Noosa once before, in the days when the milk bar on the main drag was the social centre of a rather isolated coastal village.
Making plastic sexy and other green schemes
Wednesday 24/08 4
Being green won't cut it unless you're innovative too. These surfers are turning pond scum, old plastic, and fishnets into stuff for you to surf.
Surfing joins the five ring circus!
Thursday 04/08 53
The Olympics will divide surfing more than any other issue. What chance is there that surfers will get citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger - in summertime beachbreaks?
Billabong settles class action for $45 million
Monday 11/07 3
Billabong has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a shareholder class action relating to its share price collapse in 2011.
A stitch in time?
Friday 17/06 60
Phil Jarratt on the unravelling of former stock market darling, SurfStitch
The wavepool that saved pro surfing
Monday 30/05 38
Never mind surfing in the Olympics, an inland CT event, or even the online backlash, last week's wavepool sale will have a side effect not yet considered – the potential to bankroll the whole WSL.
Is it time to rethink the rules of surfing?
Friday 08/04 104
As crowd numbers skyrocket Neil Lazarow thinks it may be time to revisit some of surfing's core rules.
A new way to detect tsunamis: cargo ships
Monday 04/04 5
The network of ocean buoys are proving problematic for detecting tsunami but fortunately scientists have stumbled across better technology - big ships.
The age of the superstorm
Wednesday 30/03 203
They're weather systems, but not as we know them. And to think about surfing in such an event - an event expressed in detail by James Hansen and outlined by blindboy - is "an almost obscene waste of effort."
The surfonomics of the Superbank
Tuesday 15/03 68
Earlier this month it was calculated that Cyclone Winston generated $20 million for the Gold Coast. But how was that figure generated and how can it alleviate overcrowding on the Gold Coast?
The age of the hypercrowd
Tuesday 08/03 142
"The surf was uncrowded, there was only 100 people out."
Welcome to the age of the hypercrowd.