As crowd numbers skyrocket Neil Lazarow thinks it may be time to revisit some of surfing's core rules.

Last week the government passed an amendment making more commercial drone photography legal, however it forbids the use of drones at some of Australia's best waves.

It's not only lids that have the mortgage on maybe waves. In Peru, Alvaro Malpartida and Christobal de Col scrape into a fin deep ledge breaking an arms length off the rocks.

Halfway between Cape Town and J'Bay are clusters of right point breaks, condensed in a popular area known as the Garden Route. 

The Australian licensees of Wavegarden have today announced they'll be opening Australia's first wave pool late next year. 

"As a designer I've really looked to different areas to inspire myself to look deeper," says Tomo about the esoteric theories that inspire him.

A handful of summer time surfs around SW WA with Jacob Willcox after his injury and in between QS events.

...and not just any old homes either. The ginger genius behind Firewire is embarking on a "social, economic, and environmental solution to a global problem."