BeachGrit

22/09/2025

Crazy!

The perennial world title contender Jack Robinson, described by our tour correspondent JP Currie as “a man distilled to the core pillars of male pre-history:

22/09/2025

Keep the Australian youth in your thoughts today.

So there I was on my very first pilgrimage to Australia's Gold Coast. It was early 2009, the Quiksilver Pro was in town, Kelly Slater was riding a Wizard

21/09/2025

Decades of conventional surf thinking flipped upside down.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once opined, "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than

21/09/2025

The sexiest surfer who has ever lived, the Kauai-born Koa Smith, famous for charging like a bull at Cloudbreak and Skeleton Bay and who was a star of MTV Teen Cribs when he was just a fourteen-year-old t***k, has released an online program that promises “reconnection” through “the ancient practices we’re all born with” for $29 per month.

The Koa Smith academy is "a lighthouse for so many who feel lost, disconnected or want more magic in this life."

20/09/2025

"Maui did not have to burn if they didn't believe such wacky, goofy, pagan stuff."

"Maui did not have to burn if they didn't believe such wacky, goofy, pagan stuff," says Charlie Kirk in resurfaced video.

19/09/2025

Oops.

As you have certainly heard, by now, "cancel culture" has officially transitioned to "consequence culture," a very neat re-branding that is being hailed in

19/09/2025

Too early to unlace the boots and put the ol sword back in the scabbard? Or better to scuttle around the tour until well into or beyond middle-age aka Kelly Slater?

"I've been doing this since I was 8 years old, so there comes a time when you really want to take advantage of all the structure you've built," says Italo Ferriera.

18/09/2025

Is there a little irony in Yago Dora, as goofy and screwy as they come, being crowned world champion in the midst of Gabriel Medina’s complaint?

Although the World Surf League has shuttered its grand slam circuit until April 2026, at least one of its biggest stars, Brazil’s Gabriel Medina, has kept the

17/09/2025

Joel Tudor is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

Ah the many and varied joys of traveling with surfboards. The sweaty slog to airline counter, the hoping for no peeking inside board bag, the stomach drop

17/09/2025

Italo + 30 Red Bulls + jet pack = the record becoming ours.

It feels but a few short years ago that airs, in surfing, were wildly exotic things only seen once every blue moon. Kelly Slater soaring momentarily above the

17/09/2025

US surf star Keith Malloy reveals how he came to have a front seat to a gruesome fatal shark attack.

US surf star Keith Malloy reveals how he came to have a front seat to a gruesome fatal shark attack on award-winning creative Adam Strange.

16/09/2025

"Positioned near one of the world's most iconic surf breaks — revered by champions like Kelly Slater — this is your front-row pass to waves that define King Island."