A surfing tutorial with Kelly Slater - video
Thursday 03/09 26
Struggling with your slob grabs? Rodeo flip a bit rusty? I feel your pain, and Kelly Slater does too, that's why he's here spouting all sorts of uncommon surfing wisdom.
Winter 2015 wrap
Thursday 03/09 63
Winter is over and what a mixed season of waves it was! How did your region rate against the rest of Australia?
Drive fast and take chances: Julian Wilson - video
Thursday 03/09 3
Allow Julian Wilson to illustrate the difference between the best freesurfers and 'CT-level surfers.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Wednesday 02/09 12
"A substantial work that easily eclipses anything comparable and instantly achieves classic status. Anyone seeking to understand surfing across the last 50 years will turn here first."
Blindboy reviews the highly anticipated surfing memoir of William Finnegan.
North Pacific triple threat
Tuesday 01/09 12
For the first time ever, three concurrent Category 4 hurricanes have developed within Hawaii's forecast region.
Coloured Perth
Tue 1 September 10:01am
"It's been a terrible winter here in Perth," said Mike Maxted forlornly, yet immediately after uttering those word he quickly pepped up. "However I managed a little swim this arvo with some fun results."
Coloured Perth
Tue 1 September 10:01am
"It's been a terrible winter here in Perth," said Mike Maxted forlornly, yet immediately after uttering those word he quickly pepped up. "However I managed a little swim this arvo with some fun results."
William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 1978 he travelled through Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji, where he and his travel partner, Bryan Di Salvatore, were among the first to surf Tavarua. In this excerpt from 'Barbarian Days', Finnegan's surfing memoir, he and Di Salvatore have just landed in Australia, a nation of "smart-mouthed diggers with no respect for authority." Best of all, Kirra is just beginning to break....Read the full feature 37