Sumner’s best weekend of the year returns! - The Single Fin Mingle 202

Next month, Sumner is set to host its annual and globally renowned Traditional Longboarding Festival - The Single Fin Mingle. As more than 100 of the world’s best longboarders roll into town, Sumner is readying itself for a jampacked, frolicsome and ...

Clarification of an Old Mal Rally

Update from Daffy Chisholm following up on some local "feedback" regarding Old Mal gatherings: To clarify an "Old Mal Rally" ...

Hydrofoils in crowded line-ups?

Ever done much surfing with foilboarders sharing your waves? Maybe you ride foils yourself? We hadn’t had much to do ...

Noosa Festival of Surfing 2021 – spots filling fast – news + divisions + entry

“Celebrating the Joys of Surfing for 30 years.” Register for the 2021 Noosa Festival of Surfing - the divisions are filling up ...

Terror Vault - Mad Moments & Wipeouts at Shipsterns Bluff

How does anyone actually launch themselves into these unholy beasts? This footage is from 2011 but this vid was only ...

Parkwood on the Gold Coast selects Endless Surf technology for their Surf Park

We’re thinking this is now the third wave pool in the works for the Gold Coast, with both Surf Lakes ...

“Surfing” – 1950

Plucked from the bowels of British Pathe by our archive detective Ian Lording, and labelled by the Poms as “Unissued / Unused ...

Why does going to the beach make you so tired?

Not talking about a three-hour paddle here, this is about just hanging out – as addressed by Mel Magazine: These days, ...

A 15-minute movie – “Welcome to - A Mano Surf”

“Shot throughout the Byron Bay area, the film celebrates alternative approaches to wave riding and the art of handcrafting a ...

Jack McCoy’s on the road again with movie, music, guests and “Talk Story”

After the big tour a couple of years back, renowned surf filmmaker Jack is touring Oz again with “A Night ...

Pismo the surfing goat

As cheering children and men frantically paddle their inflatable surfboard through the frothy Pacific waves onto the beach, one passenger ...

Guns, wood and more - highlights from the Surf Auction – and you can bid online

Over fifty rare and culturally significant lots under the gavel - report from The California Gold Surf Auction: Encinitas, California: An exciting ...

Champion surfer Katherine Díaz Hernández killed by a lightning bolt while surfing

One of El Salvador’s top surfers and Olympic hopefuls 22-year-old Katherine Díaz Hernández gone in an instant in a freakish lightning ...

“Smoke clean, breath easy, style that wave” – TV ad from 1960 - cigarette smoking surfers

As the crooner serenades, suck on that durry, rock that hammock, ride that wave . . . “a clean breath ...

On again! The Byron Bay Single-Fin Classic – for the 40th time!

The Byron Bay Malibu Club will be celebrating the 40th year of this event, and it’s probably the longest running ...

Barz Optics winners – Kiamas on their way

Each issue we give away pairs of Barz sunglasses to four of our international subscribers (it helps us feel a ...

Meet the Sea Slugs that chop off their heads and grow new bodies

From the Strange Sea Stories file: Their severed heads get around just fine until they regenerate perfectly functioning, parasite-free new ...

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