Stu Nettle
Thursday, 21 November 2013
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.
Wed 20 November 8:56pm
The Swatch Girls Pro China is currently underway in Riyue Bay, Hainan Island. Before competitors donned the coloured singlets they warmed up on the waves nearby.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
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.
Stu Nettle
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
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.
Stu Nettle
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
"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."
blindboy
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Australia's relationship with Indonesia has been characterised by long periods of indifference punctuated by occasional crises. The recent incident in which Australia has been caught spying highlights the lack of understanding that has characterised our politicians. What might this mean for travelling surfers?
Stu Nettle
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Now this is a curious book; a treatise on marijuana smuggling told in a scholarly manner. A novelty indeed, because despite the prevalence of marijuana in Western culture a few volumes of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and a lyric sheet to Cypress Hill is about all this reader has been exposed to.