Before Tom Carroll paddled out for his Pipeline Masters Heritage Heat, Swellnet spoke to him regarding the Rawson replica he'd be riding. The board is the exact same - almost! - as the 7'8" that powered him through 'that' snap.
After a decade surfing some of the most remote waves on Earth, Captain Andrew Rigby is weighing anchor and heading for shore. Swellnet speaks to the Captain - soon to be ex-Captain - of the PNG Explorer.
One of the finest female big wave surfers on the planet, Paige Alms is holding her own among the Maui push.
It’s been quite the year for Margaret River’s Jacob Willcox, but today could be the sweetest of them all. Swellnet speaks to the kid called Chippo on the day of his last school exam.
"To be honest I'm just doing it for myself now. And I'm happy just doing it for myself. Since I had that injury I've really simplified my life."
"The 40kg redwood one takes a while to build up inertia, you turn around and start paddling and you don't go anywhere for 20 seconds."
Ex-Surfing World publisher Bruce Channon chats to blindboy about his new fascination with old materials.
"I sometimes take off just at the back of Lennox Head and do my surf check from a thousand feet up in the sky. Then as I keep flying I check all the beaches and see where all the banks are."
For the last seven years Ray Collins has straddled two ends of the civic spectrum. Three days a week he was working down a coal mine, the rest of the time he'd spend shooting high end surf photography. Something had to give.
Angie Takanami is a Byron Bay-based travel writer, producer, and surfer who recently returned from a trip to Peru. Angie is now hoping to make a documentary about the environmental woes in Lobitos, one of Peru's great surfing towns.
Artist, musician, surfer, and skater, Ben Brown slides easily from role to role. Yet it's his art that's taken him beyond the tabernacle of Sydney's Northern Beaches. Ben recently spoke to blindboy.
Darius Devas is a filmmaker from Melbourne via Byron Bay. His latest film, called Within, draws on many feelings that all lead back to one life-changing experience.
A surf coach sceptic, Blindboy speaks with one of Sydney's best junior coaches, Matt Grainger, about his high performance coaching sessions. So is he now a convert to the coaching cause? Read on...
