November 13th was opening day at Jaws for 2013, it was also in the words of Mark Healey, "some of the biggest Jaws ever paddled."

The Swatch Girls Pro China hosted by Wanning ran another big day of surfing.  It’s highly likely that the ASP Women’s World Longboard Champion will be crowned on the sands of Riyue Bay tomorrow afternoon.

Recently the organisers of the London Surf / Film Festival tasked a selection of the UK's leading surf creatives to reinterpret and redesign poster art for iconic surf films. However, it's up to the viewer to decide if the reinterpretation is an impovement on the original.

The Swatch Girls Pro China saw clean 3 to 4 foot left handers running 150 metres down the point at Riyue Bay all day today.

Matt Scarff is a Byron Bay surfer who has run a surf school in Bali for the past 14 years. On Saturday morning he was king hit outside a nightclub in Seminyak and suffered severe head trauma. Matt immediately underwent surgery to remove a blood clot and release pressure on the brain and will shortly be medi-vacced to Australia.

"Film is a powerful medium for expression, challenging status quo and having a voice. This film is important for the one-tenth of the community that is gay and for those that are struggling with finding their place in the world, when surfing is also a part of that world."