Rip Curl Padang Padang Trials - video
Sunday 29/06 5
In absolutely pumping six foot plus Padang Padang 24 local Balinese surfers battled it out for the two wildcard spots up for grabs in the prestigious Rip Curl Cup Padang Padang.
Finding Macaronis: Photos from the first surf trip to the Mentawais
Sat 28 June 9:18am
"We called it P'Land. The actual name of the point is Pasangan, and there's G'Land, so we called it P'Land. I reckon it's better than Macaronis though. Macaronis is so American." Tony Fitzpatrick, who along with Chris Goodnow and Scott Wakefield, discovered Macaronis in 1980. See the photos from that trip.
Finding Macaronis: Photos from the first surf trip to the Mentawais
Sat 28 June 9:18am
"We called it P'Land. The actual name of the point is Pasangan, and there's G'Land, so we called it P'Land. I reckon it's better than Macaronis though. Macaronis is so American." Tony Fitzpatrick, who along with Chris Goodnow and Scott Wakefield, discovered Macaronis in 1980. See the photos from that trip.
Finding Macaronis
Saturday 28/06 8
In 1980 three young Sydney surfers headed to the farthest frontier of Indonesia, an unheard of region called the Mentawai Islands. There they found one of the world's great lefthanders and camped in a fisherman's hut on the swampy headland surfing the wave alone. It'd be fifteen years before the surfing world twigged to what they found.
Nias Daze - video
Friday 27/06 6
Early season shacks with a bunch of Lagundri locals plus one or two dudes from Maui.
Victoria this morning
Fri 27 June 12:32pm
Victorian surfers awoke to great conditions this morning with a strong sou-west swell buffetting the coast and a brisk nor-wester brushing it clean. There were, as you could imagine, plenty of spots firing.
Victoria this morning
Fri 27 June 12:32pm
Victorian surfers awoke to great conditions this morning with a strong sou-west swell buffetting the coast and a brisk nor-wester brushing it clean. There were, as you could imagine, plenty of spots firing.
Maldives exclusivity: A dangerous precedent
Thursday 26/06 55
Who owns a surf break? Who can stop others from surfing it and on what grounds? After numerous trips to the Maldives, photographer Joel Coleman questions the right of anyone to stake a claim and restrict others. It's a complex debate but also an urgent one.