The last Australian World Champions were Stephanie Gilmore in 2022 and Mick Fanning in 2013. For such a wave and talent rich country, those stats are pretty surprising.

Outside of a professional surfing career, there aren’t many who can manage to ‘grow up’ and still maintain the freedom necessary to chase swells. Tai ‘Buddha’ Graham is someone who has managed to do ...

Lensman Bill Morris was on hand to capture the swell on the East side of Sydney from all of its angles. You can check out ...

Fate has an interesting way of treating those who tempt it. When the WSL committed to running a championship event at the Abu Dhabi wave pool they came under fire from various quarters because the UAE ...

The WSL has made a bold but necessary decision to relocate the Gold Coast Pro from Snapper Rocks to Burleigh. In the wake of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred, the Superbank stretch is lacking one essential ...

Last year’s WSL finalist Tatiana Weston Webb has taken to Instagram to announce a short departure from competitive surfing, citing physical and emotional burnout as her reason for downing tools in the ...

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 ...

Let’s just call the Abu Dhabi event what it is, the Italo Ferreira exhibition contest. If the Surf Abu Dhabi owners wanted to entertain a couple of rich clients (god knows they have a few), they’d ...

Legendary surf filmmaker Jack McCoy has passed away at the age of 76. Best known for his ability to tell stories through surfing, Jack was responsible for the creation of a number of modern classics ...

When a hefty south swell hits Sydney, Bondi’s Ben Buckler Point is not necessarily the first wave that comes to mind. Wedding Cake Island at Coogee has become the unofficial proving ground for the ...

It’s not a gentle welcome. El Paredón is bold, mouthy. The kind of wave that smacks the sleep out of you. The drop feels like falling off the edge of something holy. There’s no mellow fade, no slow ...

Above: The sequence of Hayden’s mutant Solander slab. Photo: the Light by the Sea. “It was big man that day we towed, it was ...