In 1965 Felipe Pomar won the world championship. It was the first among many milestones for the gently spoken Peruvian, some he strived for, others were matters of circumstance, such as his 1974 tsunami ride.
He placed ninth in his first CT! He's never surfed Bells! He can't wait to get to Fiji, and J'Bay, and Tahiti, too!
Swellnet speaks to Conner Coffin, the young fella keeping an old school tradition alive.
Mike O'Leary is an Aussie surfer turned environmental educator. As the founder and CEO of ROLE Foundation in Indonesia, he focuses on environmental issues in a unique way.
"I’ve always said when you feel like you have to go to the beach, then you should be doing something else."
Photographer John S. Callahan took his own advice switching from pro surf shooter to 'spear point' traveller. Swellnet recently spoke to John about the ethics of surf travel, tips to find your own secret spot, and Kelly Slater's wave pool.
Peter Garrett chats to Swellnet about music, activism, and politics, plus a little bit of surfing just to give the whole gig some legitimacy.
How to rip into your sixties? Craig Jarvis sits down with the world's hottest sexagenarian, Shaun Tomson, and finds out there's more to it than merely adding a bit of volume to your board.
"Surfing is a big idea," says Andrew Kidman. "Litmus showed that you could develop a relationship with your surfing and it wasn’t just one dimensional."
Swellnet speaks to Andrew Kidman on the twentieth anniversary of his greatest film.
An interview with the Indonesian frontiersman who has forged a deep relationship with one of the greatest waves on the planet. It's a connection that continues to this day, McCabe recently celebrated his 60th by spending a month in G'Land.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn, so the saying goes. In this interview Justen 'Jughead' Allport, one of Australia's most celebrated and loved big wave surfers, describes his own darkest hour and the events that led him to say Fuck The World.
From his Hokkaido home, ex-pat Australian surfer Shane Peel watched a nascent snowboard movement slowly take shape. The style of snowboarding, snowsurf, closely parallels surf culture. Snowsurf is also the name of Shane's debut film.
It's been a quarter of a century since Jack McCoy released Bunyip Dreaming. An instant hit, Bunyip Dreaming is both a snapshot of a particular time and a timeless piece of surf cinema.
Swellnet spoke to Jack to celebrate the occasion.
In the early 90s Gath hats were set to become a surf accesory staple, but despite their clearly practical application they faded away throughout the 90s, ironically just as the slab surfing movement ramped up. Swellnet spoke to Ric Gath following Jeremy Flores' Teahupoo triumph while wearing an original Gath.
