Swellnet Dispatch

"Then BAM! With full force I fell on my back on the board. The pain was so unbearable that my vision went out and my body went into shock. I quickly lost consciousness and took on water. From that moment on and the next twenty minutes I would be fighting to stay alive."

Three years ago Jimmy Ulualoha Napeahi was attacked by a tiger shark while surfing on Hawaii’s Big Island. Ulualoha, known as 'Ulu Boy' narrowly survived the attack and now takes a philosophical view of what it meant. 

After a South Pacific jaunt, blindboy takes a sidelong view at Samoa. Blame it on the heat or humidity, or lay it all at the feet of the local root crop, but a straight up surf report this ain't.

As he enters a new phase of his career, Morgan Maassen makes a showreel out of his back catalogue.

Two free flights, free transfers, free food, and free boat trip to the best waves the Banyaks have to offer.

And the winner is...