The Groms of Agnes Water – and what’s cooking for 2018

Santas invade Currumbin Alley! Crescent Head longboarders have been “Santa Surfing” en masse for years, and seems it’s spreading north. This sort of frivolity must be stamped out! Bah humbug!

The following appeared in The Gold Coast Bulletin, Tuesday 12th:   SANTA ditched the sleigh and jumped on a surfboard at Currumbin Alley today. ...

Farewell Bruce Brown – 1937-2017

Bruce Brown single-handedly changed the public’s perceptions of the act of surfing, and of surfers, with The Endless Summer – ...

Tim Winton’s classic novel “Breath” now a movie – get the news, watch the trailer – and it looks pretty damn good!

Based on Tim Winton’s award-winning novel of the same name, Simon Baker’s feature film directorial debut Breath follows two teenage ...

Was this little gathering the beginning of something gamechangeingly BIG?

The first ever China Surfing Championships: For the first time in surfing’s history, National Surfing Championships were held in China ...

Kiwi surfer and surf industry legend farewelled

Paul Zarifeh of Sumner Beach in Christchurch died of pancreatic cancer on November 23, he was 60 years old. Paul ...

UN commits to stop ocean plastic waste

Sourced from the BBC: Nations have agreed that the world needs to completely stop plastic waste from entering the oceans. The ...

2018 Burleigh Boardriders Single Fin Festival - presented by Billabong

A nostalgic journey and an ongoing part of Gold Coast culture for the last 21 years, the first and most ...

Crazy finish to the Taiwan Open and the Men’s World Title!

It is only the second time in WSL/ASP history that a World Championship has been decided by a surf-off – ...

Down to the final four in the Men’s World Longboard Titles! Wrap, Results & Photos

Title favourites drop like flies, the race intensifies, and the maths gets mad re. the outcome of the two-event World ...

There’s a new Women’s World Longboard Champion!

She’s 18, she nailed 18.6 points on her first two waves, she wears a leggie on her front foot (the wrong one right!), ...

Hotting Up - Day Three, Taiwan: Wrap, Results & Photos

Jinzun Harbour,  Taitung, report from Tom Bennett/WSL: Surf-wise it’s been Groundhog Day with perfectly clean 4-footers continuing right through a beautiful ...

Day Two – Taiwan – Wrap, Results & Photos

Jinzun Harbour, Taitung, report from Tom Bennett/WSL: The first casualties were sent packing with the completion of 8 heats of Men’s ...

Day One – Taiwan – Wrap, Results & Photos

Jinzun Harbour, Taitung, report from Tom Bennett/WSL: The Taiwan Open World Longboard Championship kicked off in pumping surf, and it was an ...

The news on “The Reef Beneath” – from the largest living structure on earth

Directed by Justin Turkowski and Belinda Baggs, The Reef Beneath is a film about the impact our choices have on the ...

Bondi now Oz’s newest NSR – the news and historical photos

Hopefully with the Australian Prime Minister and Eastern Suburbs local Malcolm Turnbull presiding, the National Surfing Reserve dedication ceremony to ...

New website, new issue of the mag, new subscriber board giveaway - right in time for the Silly Season.

Most Australian subscribers (the nice ones anyway) will have their copies by now, NZ has landed already, and the US, Europe and the ...