Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2016 i Surfing World Magazine

Remember those childhood books that let you choose your own adventure? You’re reading all about how you and some friends are walking through the bush, laughing about how much of kook your geography teacheris,when you stumble up on a cave… but you’ve hit the bottom of the page... but what’s this?! You can choose your next move! Enter the cave? Turn to page 32 . The cave is too scary. Stay on the path? Turn to page 99. If you choose to enter the cave the book rewards you with more adventures and even crazier scenarios. But if you choose to stay on the beaten path, you flick to page 99 to find something like… “You go home and your Mum yells at you for bushwalking without your…

GET BEHIND IT Surfers For Bretto A few months back a young man suffered a shark mauling to the thigh while surfing near Kiama, about three hours south of Sydney. That guy was 22 year old ripping surfer Brett Connellan. His life was saved by one of his mates who dragged him to shore and tied a legrope around his leg to to stem the bleeding, before paramedics could arrive. Now his mates are getting behind him again, and have set up a trust account and fundraising efforts to help the Connellan family with Brett’s long road to recovery. Check it out and buy a t-shirt at localartistdivision.com COOL EVENT BL’s Blastoff The world’s best grommet surf event hosted by the world’s most amped human, Barton Lynch (tied first with…

Cool cover… Road Work. Joel Fitzgerald by Aitionn Defiant coverline… This magazine is not an advertising catalogue Hip style… Simon Law Kuta Lines ad. Call out story… Note’s from Macka’s Diary: A Philistine could maybe see the surf media as doing the same thing over and over again distinguished by only by different headlines. A shallow non participant view and heaven knows non participants are fairly thick on the ground these days. Drew Kampion in one of his more memorable quotes said “The best thing about surfing is doing it.” With that insight in mind every new trip takes on a life of its own.” Quote that still rings true from 92… “I’d love to buy a little house in Avalon, but they’re too expensive.” – Mike Rommelse. Keen observation…

Why am I about to paddle through Snapper Rocks to the lethal drum lines just behind the waves at sunrise with a fluoro circus wig on my head, a bright tie-dye shirt on surrounded by forty other bright eyed and neon surfers? It’s Fluoro Friday and the One Wave Is All It Takes movement has coordinated paddle outs like this all over the country to shine a bright, fun, compassionate light on the fact that mental illness is a part of our modern culture that needs attention. Each year, one in every five Australians will experience mental illness. Our gathering here at Snapper is also coupled with our intention to paddle out to the lethal drum lines and nets that lie behind the line up and extend all the way…

Getting changed in the car park in winter totally sux, unless you’re like our skeleton friend here and possess a Surfing World Trim Reaper Poncho! This hooded body blanket is the ideal pre and post surf car park change room. Not only will your bits stay warm and be protected from bitter winds and Peeping Toms, you’ll also be able to pretend you’re the personification of Death, swinging your scythe every which way as you collect the souls of those who drop in or snake up your inside. Every subscriber to SW this month receives an SW Trim Reeper Poncho and that’s $159.95 value for just $109.95 Subscribe now, get the best mag in the world* delivered to your post box 12 times a year and the limited edition SW…

Tom Carroll X2 World Champion Physical imbalance from chronic deterioration of my right knee. Original injury at 16 so that’s 37 years of dealing with it – but it has taught me a lot. Shane Dorian Big wave hunter Knob rash. I’ve had it so bad I’ve had to arch my back and put my butt in the air while paddling. I’m not puttin’ out the vibe, I just wanna keep surfing. Rob Machado Pipe Master, Drifter Sunburn, rash, dehydration, etc... But it’s all worth it because you remember the waves more than the pain. Wayne Lynch Evolutionary Exhaustion can be unhealthy if you push it too far. I learnt a long time ago not exert myself past a certain point. To come in before that happens. Simon Anderson Pipe…

Not long after I first met Paul McNeil, he showed me some posters he’d been working on, for The Rolling Stones, who were apparently quite a big band once. He wasn’t just showing them off to name drop, he actually did want my opinion on the art, so I tried to be helpful. I said “I like that one”, but felt this assessment hardly mattered when measured against Paul’s own, clearly more advanced artistic sensibilities. It was nice that he included me though, and a year or so later he rather providentially came to visit me while I was working on my first cover for SW. I had hit a wall and felt like crap and thought everyone would hate my drawings, so I showed him my concepts and asked…

There’s an era that’s slipping away from us now, one that we’re barely acknowledging. Time is slowly but surely closing the doors that opened with such optimism in the late 60s, all along Australia’s coasts. The sons and daughters of the larrikin speculators who opened up Torquay, Byron and Margaret River are themselves now middle-aged. Perhaps the clearest example of this generational shift is the slow demise of the hand-shapers: while the likes of McTavish, Wayne Lynch and Dick van Straalen are still at it, their ranks are thinning as age and physical wear take their toll. At some stage, it’s worth asking ourselves – what’s emerged to replace that burst of creative expression? This year, another of the greats is hanging up the planer: at 72, Newcastle guru Sam…

SW: If you could only eat only one food for the rest of your life what would it be? SN: Oh. My. God. The hardest question I ever get asked is what do I love better, surfing or skateboarding, but this question is way gnarlier. Pass. Which number is better, 12 or 37? 12 is better because it’s younger. I’m 11 now so I got one more year until I’m 12, the last year of being a kid. If you could talk to animals what would you guys talk about? I’d just talk about Newy Burger Co. It’s a local buger shop and they do the best burgers. I’d talk about burgers with a Sabre-toothed Tiger. If you could change one family rule what would it be? Skateboards are allowed…

Phones are dumb. People think they’re smart but they’re dumb. They’re dumber than dirt. They’re dumber than rocks. They’re dumber than Lloyd Christmas. Phones look shit in tight jeans. Phones turn your kids into Angry Bird lunatic zombies. Phones send photos meant for your girlfriend directly to the government men who pass on your personality profile to big business who target you with advertising that subliminally forces you to purchase mountains of Chinese plastic that eventually goes into the sea and then a dolphin eats it and chokes on it and the dolphin dies. As far as I’m concerned phones are only good for two things. 1. For throwing at magpies that try to swoop Goldie on the walk to pre-school. 2. For having impromptu art exhibitions to raise money…

“THE MORE WE TAKE, THE FURTHER WE STRAY FROM THE ESSENCE OF SURFING.” Martin Potter  When I was World Champion, surfing to me meant… Money. Surfing at that stage to me was a business. I was trying to make a living the only way I knew how, which kind of ruined the actual feeling of what surfing really means to me. As a kid growing up, it was about riding waves, and the experience that you shared with your mate on a road trip. It was grass roots. Once you turn professional and you start doing it as a job, as a living, you want to make money from it. You want to be the best, you want the best contract and you want to win events and win money…