One trillion reasons why your daily surf is good for your health, and the economy

Universities in Australia and Chile have gotten together and worked out that surfing is good for your mental and physical health (duh), but maybe what we didn’t know already is that it’s also a mega booster for the global economy. As ...

“Summer Time” - Surf radio Crescent Swells - track list, tune in

“A fresh new summertime show where we reveal Elton John as a super fan of Ocean Alley. It’s a fun ...

Orcas are wearing salmon hats again

As reported in the Daily Mail UK: 1980s fashion returns… for killer whales! Orcas are spotted wearing salmon as 'hats' nearly ...

The Toecutter Gang – Larry Blair - Australia’s heaviest gangsters, murder, and surfing!

This is a hell of a story - News from the ABC Australia: Surfing helps world champion escape childhood of bank robbers, ...

The fight to re-route powerline in South West France – news and petition

News supplied by Flora Richard: I'm a French longboarder and part of a citizen collective called Stop THT 40, based in ...

A bootleg of the maestro Phil Edwards

From Miki to Midget and, well, everybody who surfed through the ’50s and ’60s, to the loggers of today, every ...

RIP Kevin Barr

Like so many throughout the Australian surfing community we were so sad to hear we’d lost Kevin Barr. He was a ...

“JuJu the Surf Musical” – the world’s first surf musical!

Are you ready! Juju The Surf Musical - created by Jaleesa Vincent and Luka Raubenheimer. Starring Jaleesa, Josie Pendergast, Creed McTaggart, Mark ...

Surf Tourism forecast through to 2030 – hold onto your hat!

Once a lovely little niche, surfing has now become a global cultural and economic phenomenon – and no way that ...

2025 Australian Longboard Titles set for July on the Tweed Coast

News supplied by Surfing Australia: CASUARINA, New South Wales (November 22, 2024): Surfing Australia is thrilled to unveil the 2025 National Titles ...

Noosa Festival of Surfing – entries open + latest news

News from The Fest: Hello, Festival family far and wide! Here we are preparing for the 34th annual Noosa Festival of Surfing. In ...

Screenings for “Some Like it Classic”

A homage to the 1965 film “Some Like it Wet" and the great, but largely unknown, “Some like It Smooth". "Some Like it Classic" is ...

Justine Mauvin “fighting for life” following a freak car accident

The former top-ranked WSL World Longboard Tour competitor and famed singer and musician from Reunion Island is in a critical ...

The Long, Strange Tale of California’s Surf Nazis – some reading from The NY Times

Author: Daniel Duane - as run in The New York Times, first posted in September 2019. The first time I saw a ...

US East Coast surf legend Joe Roland dies after surfing in Ponte Vedra

As reported by First Coast News: Joe Roland, a Beaches surfing legend who at 17 became the East Coast Surfing Association's ...

The full 70-minute doco – “Makai Side - a History of Hawaiian Surfing”

Presented by Maui Salt and Sage Magazine, and subtitled “How Did We Get Here?”, this hour-ten movie is an engrossing ...

The Atlantic Ocean's currents are on the verge of collapse. This is what it means for the planet

So maybe we’re heading up shit creek without a paddle. This news is from BBC Science Focus Magazine – and also ...

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