Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2017 i Surfing World Magazine

I was chatting with a mate from West Oz recently about the current mood in the water on the NSW Far North Coast. Having surfed a lot around Suffolk Park (just south of Byron and the scene of our most recent shark encounter) in the past year, I told him I’d definitely become spooked at the thought of going for solo sessions, or worse, being stranded on the back banks at dusk when my mates had been lucky enough to get a wave in first. “You can’t shake it,” I told him. “All the media, the angry public debates, the convos with ya mates, it’s so constant, and when you’re sitting out there all alone with your legs dangling in the water... your imagination kicks in and you start thinking…

WEB SERIES Surfing World’s Weak Wrap Every week on Coastalwatch our very own Daniel Johnson takes to the groundbreaking and revolutionary idea of wearing a suit and sitting at a desk while commenting on all the best clips of the week as they play in the corner. He even makes jokes. And sometimes he wipes the hair out of his eyes. But it’s also actually the best and most irreverent of surf analysis getting around in the weird world of the internet at the moment, and the first to really nail the variety show style thing so many have tried (and failed) in surfing. Check Coastalwatch around the time you start clocking off your working week to find it. – coastalwatch.com INSTAGRAM Surf Core 2001 “High performance internet content for…

Iconic cover... Michael Peterson’s morning gold by Dan Merkel. Straight talking intro... “It’s nearly fourteen years since the inaugural magazine, and apart from the many sophistications in format and presentation, the magazine still adheres to the same basic aims that it had at its inception. We don’t aim at starting off sub-cultures, or claim to know the philosophies of surfing, all we try to do is present the world of surfing.” – Bruce Channon Unusual story on the formation of the Panache surfriders club... “I had to look up what it meant in the Chambers Dictionary, which is the 300,000 word one, it gives a good explanation. I can’t recall it exactly, but it basically means an air of excellence and to perform with theatrical grace. It’s a really groovy…

What I like about John John the most is that he’s just a normal kid. He grew up like a normal kid at the beach and even though he was always getting beaten by Carissa Moore, he had the dream to be a World Champion and it’s so good that now he’s made that dream come true. I reckon it’s the best thing that he’s the World Champ because he would have been told from when he was such a little grommet that he was really good. When kids get told they’re really good at something they can start to believe and act like they’re better than they are. Like, I’ve had people tell me I’m better than some of the girls on the World Tour and that is so…

How often does a child prodigy fulfill the speculation? We heard about Kelly Slater way early in the piece, and they were right then. There’s that same sense about John John and his World Title. Here’s a kid who grew up with Kelly as his hero and more recently as his neighbour and now there’s a universal respect for the way both these guys ride a wave. When you reflect on Kelly, it’s also about the person he is. The same goes for John John in the way that he handles himself, in how he presents our sport. Nothing ever seems hard, it never seems forced; he always wears a smile. I don’t know that I’ve seen a World Title with so many people hoping one bloke would win. Perhaps…

JANUARY 01. FRIDAY – DAY 1 The dawn of a new year, Carissa Moore and Adriano De Souza wake up in different parts of the world cradling their World Championship trophies. Kelly Slater wakes up cradling his shiny new wave pool, footage of which broke the Internet just before Christmas. BREAK THE INTERNET 04. MONDAY – BETHANY CHARGES JAWS Beth Hamilton makes news by tow surfing 40-foot Jaws just seven months after giving birth to her first son, Tobias. She is one of only a handful of women to surf the big wave spot, and certainly the only one to achieve the feat with one arm. Legend. 10. SUNDAY – CREED MCTAGGART WINS A COMP? The fantastically rad annual event that is the Burleigh Single Fin Classic goes down…

Gerry Lopez Pipeline Guru ...having the perfect wax for wherever you happen to be and the Dahl family has my secret formula. Noa Deane Lead singer of Blister ...straight Fu all over. Luke Egan Lead footed Newy Legend ...get Mike Parsons to wax your board! Lisa Andersen X4 World Champion ... apply in a cool area and use Sex Wax. Peter Townend 1976 World Champion ....start off softly building little wax nodules as you go. That was a tip I read from Nat Young. Taylor Steele Reelers Story Category Judge ...patiently applying it with slow small circles.…

ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEW URBAN FRAGRANCES? Records for the surfer’s mood MILD HIGH CLUB – SKIPTRACING Up and down the beach stairs of all over with their blonde hair-out and sun burned skin is todays’ undercurrent switchboard of freewheeling taste. It’s a celebration. They hang around the beat. I recognise the emerald breeze offshore, but I have no guru. Can you see the twinkle in the eyes of the new school class of 2016? They call them the strangies. And EVERYONE is talking about MHC. What is MHC? Sounds like an eye-opener says someone. Mild-High-Club said The Doctor, turning up the speaker that then rocks them (those all over the beach stairs of forever in the sun) with gentle but moving progressive beat. Sort of like MGMT I…

His style comes from skate. Pure skate. You can see it from miles away. Watch a skateboarder load up to go into a turn and everything is really quiet, the arms are low and to the side and everything is really still and stylish. It’s almost like there’s no movement in the body at all, they do this incredible explosive turn, then they stick it and there’s no movement again. It’s a real skateboard like feel, which I reckon is amazing in that it looks effortless. There’s no excess movement before or after it, just this explosive turn in the middle. There’s no one I can compare him with, there’s no one who surfs like that. Maybe Margo in that he didn’t move his arms a lot, but Margo came…

" IT DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER WHETHER KILLING THE SHARKS AND HANGING THEM OUT ACTUALLY WORKED. THE IMPORTANT THING WAS JUST THE KILLING... " Nobody knows where this story began. But there are hints, buried in the bush-rock of the Australian coast. Notes from a time before we surfed, maybe before anybody surfed. If you climb up the ridge line behind Coaster’s Retreat on the western shore of Pittwater, for example, you might find your way to a rock platform high on the ridge, where at some point, presumably after the last major sea level rise 7,000 years ago, an Indigenous Australian has carved the unmistakeable outline of a great white shark. The shark is just… there, instantly recognisable: triangular dorsal fin, big sweeping pectorals, tuna-like body, crescent tail curve…

“BEING MALE AND AUSTRALIAN, PEOPLE THINK IT’S A WEAK MENTALITY TO ASK FOR HELP, BUT THERE’S HELP IF YOU WANT IT, AND IT’LL ONLY HAPPEN WHEN YOU GET THE BALLS TO PUT YOUR HAND UP...” – Nathan Hedge Narrabeen then and now… In the early 90s, Narrabeen was the epicenter of pro surfing. Everyone in the industry, all the way up to world champions came from there. As a grommet, watching that level of talent kept you pretty humble. If you surfed a wave really well, no one was hooting or carrying on, you just stuck your head down and paddled back out. You had encouragement, but it wasn’t like getting smoke blown up your arse, which is different to some of the kids from overseas, where they just…

What’s the point of art? What’s the point of surfing? What are the point of dolphins? What’s the point of making a Stevie Wonder Woman dolly? What’s the point of anything? Exactly! There is no point, other than to do stuff because you can, because it makes you feel good, and maybe because it might make other people feel good too. And if doesn’t, if people hate what you do, and they cry and cry and cry about how shit your art, music, surfing, haircut, blog, clip, life, or Stevie Wonder Woman dolly is, do it anyway and make them even angrier, because then at least you’ll have a reason to do it. Maybe the only point of doing anything in the first place is to piss people off! Ah…

SW: You can only ride one board for the rest of your life what’s it to be? OC: Twinny with channels by Luke Daniels. You wake up inside the body of Rob Machado. Describe your day? I’d probably get a haircut for one. Number one, skin all over. Then I’d drive straight to Rincon and go right. Which number is better 12 or 37? 37 because the way I look at it is when you’re 12 you can’t be an adult but when you’re 37 you can be an adult and still be a child. You’re the editor of SW… Who’s on your first cover and what’s the cover line? I’d probably just put myself on the cover and on every other page. Actually no I’d put something so out…