Work now underway on Melbourne’s URBANSURF – the world’s first full-sized Wavegarden® “Cove”.

The Duke Festival of Surfing, Christchurch, New Zealand – wrap, results, photos

The New Brighton Pier and Foreshore Promotion Society once again put together an amazing range of events for The 2018 ...

A one-of-a-kind collection! Ten Summers Long – The Best of Bombora

Ten Summers Long is billed as the best of a decade from Bombora, Australia’s best surf music label – and ...

Philippines: Single and Unattached Single Fin – results & photos

San Jan, La Union: Dawn revealed what everybody was hoping for after waiting through two days of flat waves, and that ...

West Oz Longboard Titles, opening round – wrap and results

An impressive group of champions have been crowned at the picturesque Yallingup Mainbreak, after an exciting conclusion to the opening ...

Nuke waste stored right at SanO surf spot? What? How we can all help.

Andrea Coleman Photo along with San Onofre Surf Co have come together to help end the threat of deadly nuclear ...

Gold Coast to host Global Wave Conference – news + vid from Santa Cruz 2018

Attracting up to 400 experts from around the world, Queensland’s Gold Coast will host a major surfing conference in 2020. Coolangatta ...

Kiwi Longboard Titles – wrap & results

Papamoa Beach, Bay of Plenty, North Island, report from Surfing New Zealand: Auckland surfer Thomas Kibblewhite (Red Beach) defended his ...

Win an Oceanside Surfcraft Noserider – all you’ve got to do is subscribe to the mag

Finished to the nines with a full light blue tint and a “sanded smoke” filler coat for a worn jeans ...

The Final Wrap - Laguna Real Estate Noosa Festival of Surfing

A mind-bending week at The Fest – from small and perfect to fully pumping, and back again. Thomas Alexander from NFOS ...

Four Generations of Women’s Surfing Reunion hosted by 1990 World Champ Pam Burridge

By Ben Horvath: Pam Burridge was pretty much the face of women’s surfing in Australia in the 80s and 90s, paving the ...

Jack McCoy: An open letter to friends & fans in the WA surfing tribe

For over 40 years I’ve been showing surfing films in Western Australia. It’s been a privilege to share my films with ...

How it went down at the ALSO + photos & results

Kingscliff, NSW/AUS  (March 3) - Honolua Blomfield (HAW) and Dane Pioli (AUS) took out the Open Men’s and Women’s divisions at ...

Josh & the Groms Score the Little Cove! Our 78th subscriber board winners!

Joshua Smith was well beyond chuffed when we rang to say he’d won the 9’6” Little Cove, “That’s the Promethium ...

We’re ba-aack! So PLB’s two weeks “gone bush” turned into a month – but how’s this for an excuse?

Clearly getting more than they bargained for, the ed and the art director headed into the Pacific in search of ...

Gone bush - no phone, no internet, back March 4

Yep, for the next fortnight the PLB ed and the art director have headed well off the grid into some ...

Here’s to a big heart (and a little business) we much admire:

Over the past 10 years we here at PLB have come to know and be continually surprised by Kym Mahoney ...