My first introduction to big wave boards was a photo on the wall in my Technical Drawing class at school in 1968. It was of Buzzy Trent riding a Rhino Gun at Waimea Bay. I loved that photo because ...

How lip-blasts and surf contests taught Christo Hall lessons about life and business.

Jaggar Bartholomew, son of former World Champ and Tracks Ambassador Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew, is currently bed ridden in a ...

Some people are too sensitive for this world. It only takes a couple of really bad things to happen in a row and they become discouraged. Injury, expectations, bad luck. They visualise, all too ...

Pulling into the Kirra car park, we obsess over Big Groyne Kirra pumping in late February of 1975. Max Bowman and I had driven up from Byron Bay. Walking out to the point, Michael Peterson called out ...

50 years ago, Dick Van Straalen made a board for Andrew McKinnon (Andy Mac), to compete in the annual, 1975 Rip Curl Bells Easter contest. Andy Mac, as he is commonly known, finished ninth at Bells ...

For the third part in the ‘Postcards from Motel Hell’ series, Haz shares moments from his time in Ireland with Wade Goodall, ...

It’s January in Bali, the rains heavy and a sixty one year old ex-surfboard builder puts his next cigarette in his mouth. It’s dry and stale. The filter sticks to his upper lip. At ten cigs a week, he ...

Competing in the Pipe Masters, surfing XXL Jaws and finishing 18th at the Eddie are all extremely commendable accolades on their own. Most pro surfers would be chuffed just to tick one of those off in ...

Hundreds of submissions were received for the 2024, Surfing Australia, Photo of the year. After the judges sifted through the pile of sterling entries, it was this shot of Laura Enever on the stairway ...

Every surfer knows what it’s like to be caught inside by a freak set. There’s nothing to do except try to survive it. The LA fires are no different. Amplified by a warming climate and clearly of a ...

From a bar stool in Bali, an ageing surfer reflects on the decisions that have defined his life.