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After taking a year off to make way for the Olympics, J-Bay returns to the Championship Tour and the forecast is lekker.
08/07/2025

After taking a year off to make way for the Olympics, J-Bay returns to the Championship Tour and the forecast is lekker.

After a short hiatus to make way for last year's Olympic Games, the Championship Tour returns to Jeffreys Bay and the forecast looks good for the opening days.

You've no doubt seen the sites selling cheap surfwear of questionable origin. We have too. So we poked around a bit, got...
04/07/2025

You've no doubt seen the sites selling cheap surfwear of questionable origin. We have too. So we poked around a bit, got our algorithm bent out of shape and credit card phished just so you don't have to.

It's 1990 and Bruce Raymond is enraged. The licensing boss of Quiksilver – then the world's largest surf company – is planning a statement of fiery intent.

Though new to the booth, the Championship Tour's latest commentator has been hustling away for years.
18/06/2025

Though new to the booth, the Championship Tour's latest commentator has been hustling away for years.

With a lengthy background in competitive surfing, Jesse saw a fork in the road, switched tracks and is now working in media, interviewing past rivals and calling their heats.

After being put on the chopping block, Beachwatch - the public water monitoring program - was given a reprieve thanks to...
12/06/2025

After being put on the chopping block, Beachwatch - the public water monitoring program - was given a reprieve thanks to the good folk at Surfers for Climate and their merry antics.

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After a short few weeks of campaign pressure from ocean lovers, the NSW Government has officially dropped plans to cut funding for Beachwatch - the long-running public water quality monitoring program that lets us all know when it’s safe to surf.

"With the Shark Island Challenge waiting period having just kicked off it seems an opportune time to look back at a defi...
16/05/2025

"With the Shark Island Challenge waiting period having just kicked off it seems an opportune time to look back at a defining chapter, not just in the event’s history, but in the sport of bodyboarding itself.

"The 2001 Shark Island Challenge was arguably the wildest surf contest ever staged in Australia."

Article by Dan Dobbin now live on Swellnet.

After last year's succesful resurrection of the Shark Island Challenge, the comp is set to run again in 2025. With the waiting period having just kicked off it seems an opportune time to look back at a defining chapter, not just in the event’s history, but in the sport of bodyboarding itself...

"I'd sit in Quiksilver’s corporate boardroom in Los Angeles,” observes Ryan Scanlon, “surrounded by people with material...
15/05/2025

"I'd sit in Quiksilver’s corporate boardroom in Los Angeles,” observes Ryan Scanlon, “surrounded by people with material wealth and assets, yet some of them were really challenged in spirit and mind. Then after corporate burnout I'd leave that world for stints in remote areas - living the lifestyle Quiksilver were selling."

Ryan's story, from farm-boy to influential Quiksilver creative, then to starting up his own humble operation, needessentials, also traces the outlines of the surf industry as it rose and fell and ultimately renewed itself.

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Ryan Scanlon spent ten years at Quiksilver when it was the biggest and most influential surf company in the world. The work was creative and demanding, and his coping method was to tap out every few years and “live the lifestyle Quiksilver were selling.”

"Reality checks dished out and a crazy controversial Men's Final."Steve Shearer reports from a Final's Day that that wil...
10/05/2025

"Reality checks dished out and a crazy controversial Men's Final."

Steve Shearer reports from a Final's Day that that will be talked about for years to come.

A fitting finale for the event, with 28 waves ridden, 0.4 of a point separating eventual winner Filipe Toledo from runner-up wildcard Julian Wilson. The highest score of the heat, a 9.07 from Pip, was never broadcast, never replayed, and never mentioned by commentators.

Easter Friday and Sandon Point pumps for a memorial contest that'll never be forgotten.waxheads, Sandon Point Boardrider...
29/04/2025

Easter Friday and Sandon Point pumps for a memorial contest that'll never be forgotten.

waxheads, Sandon Point Boardriders,

It's been a few days since the Ty Delaney Memorial Contest ran at Sandon Point and I'm still marvelling at what happened. Equally, I'm still feeling melancholy about what it represents.

The dire sand situation at Snapper Rocks caused by Cyclone Alfred forces the WSL's hand.
09/04/2025

The dire sand situation at Snapper Rocks caused by Cyclone Alfred forces the WSL's hand.

The WSL today announced that the upcoming Gold Coast Pro, originally planned for Snapper Rocks, will relocate to Burleigh Heads. 

With a drip feed of heats coming out of El Salvador it'd be easy to forget there's a CT in progress. Fortunately Steve S...
09/04/2025

With a drip feed of heats coming out of El Salvador it'd be easy to forget there's a CT in progress. Fortunately Steve Shearer has been shirking his beloved dawnies to watch the calls and bring you the hot takes from a so-far lukewarm contest.

I have a mate who just became fabulously wealthy moreorless overnight. Sold a business to a multinational for life-changing money and to an extent he can now afford to kick the tyres on some major enterprises. We spoke briefly about the WSL and he took the lens of a prospective buyer to it. It wasn'...

The 'squirter' boat returns to the Goldy, and surfers cross their fingers for banks.
07/04/2025

The 'squirter' boat returns to the Goldy, and surfers cross their fingers for banks.

Following the prolonged battering from TC Alfred, Gold Coast beaches - particularly at the northen end - were heavily eroded. This was made worse last week when high tides combined with long period south swell toppling another lifeguard tower at Surfers Paradise.

Starting next Wednesday, the El Salvador Pro will start slow, inconsistent too, with increased potential towards the end...
28/03/2025

Starting next Wednesday, the El Salvador Pro will start slow, inconsistent too, with increased potential towards the end of the waiting period.

Facing south-west into the South Pacific Ocean, El Salvador has one of the largest swell windows in the world - larger even than Hawaii's view into the North Pacific.

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