Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2017 i Surfing World Magazine

The Burleigh Single Fin Classic is everything a throwback surf comp should be, i.e. it’s held in Queensland, the comp rashies are actually singlets, the surfboards are all one finners that pre-date 1985, the food is sausage sandwiches, and the entire crowd who pack the headland smell like coconut oil and snap their first beers at around 10:30am. It’s a great big lung busting breath of fresh air to be at a contest where competitors spend the days mingling with the crowd, where live music echoes out over the break during heats, where everyone who turns up can’t help but smile and laugh and get caught up in the genuine stoke the day delivers. And because it’s run by the Burleigh Boardriders, nobody cares that the lineup is out of…

As any one of your mates who has ever been dumb enough to gamble real life money, money you can exchange for real life goods and services, on surfing… can tell you, only a fool would sit down a full season of surfing away from the year’s climax at the Pipe Masters, and call a winner. A complete and utter fool. Making smart predictions in sport should be emotionless. It should be based on statistics and high tech algorithms. But this isn’t the NBA with its scheduled minutes and player rotations, where big sets of data around scoring percentages in fourth quarters of games played on a Thursday can be thrown into a computer to spit back out a correct prediction of 82 games. Could a data scientist predict that…

Nobody needs a calendar to create change in their life, but if it helps you to muster that inner strength… roll with it! If you missed the start of your resolutions with the Western calendar, fear not, there are many other calendars from around the World that signify the beginning of a new year at different times in their own unique way. Find one that works for you and get on the program. When we are indifferent to our own health, disharmony and discontent creeps into our lives. You may feel the desire to get back into shape and form a brilliant plan of attack but somehow never quite implement any real life action. This is the internal battle between the ‘true’ you and your conditioned mind. If we constantly…

What if I told you there was an unknown sand-bottom right that is five kays long, breaks 20 metres off the beach, holds six foot of swell and has only been surfed by four people on the entire planet? Would you believe me? What if good-ol’-having-a-year-off-Mick Fanning was one of those surfers, and he told you that this wave had him haulin’ arse like an F1 driver down a strip of sand that never seemed to end. Would you believe him? “My friend showed me this one little clip of the wave and I could see how insane it was,” said Mick of the initial connection. “He was like ‘Pssst Mick, check this out... I’ve got this wave and I really want you to surf it with us, but I’m…

Surf to hammock to surf. Few things go together as well as surfing and camping. Through some accident of history (there’s no way the establishment deliberately favoured surfers in this) Australia abounds with great camping adjacent to great surf. In fact the only land use more commonly found around Australia’s iconic waves is lawn bowls clubs: another mystery of town planning. But the glorious union of surfing and camping probably has more to do with surfers being tightarses than it does with any noble return to nature. Camping’s cheap. Sometimes it’s plain sneaky. Fishing also goes very well with camping but there’s that awkward sequel if you do actually hook a fish. Does anyone feel like gutting a squid? No. No. No. Right then...countery again? You can’t sleep in when…

Headed into her seventh year on the WSL Women’s World Tour, Laura Enever’s a bonefide veteran of the travelling surfy circus. Though she hasn’t quite hit her stride at the top of the rankings just yet, Laura’s excelled at extracurricular activities, like paddling in at Pe’ahi and getting proper tubed at P-Pass and Cloudbreak. Laura’s unshakable optimism, combined with her willingness to have a go in almost any conditions, make her one of Australia’s most revered women in the water. She’s come to gracefully define womanhood on her own terms, where aesthetics and ability flow in balanced measure. While it’s easy to be taken with her bubbly personality, Laura’s generosity and thoughtfulness are the most disarming of all. We caught up with Laura to chat about finding joy amidst injury,…

Hide your gatorade bottles, the Dunies are back with their new album The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit and a supporting video for the lit single ‘Scott Green’ which may prove to be the band’s alltime greatest dumb idea – an interactive clip where you select which narcotics to cram down their zonked out gobs as they stumble through the hazey mayhem of a good old fashioned house party. Simple yet hillarious. The fellas hit the road with March 11 with fellow guitar grubs Skeggs and Gooch Palms so we decided to pin down bass player Brett Jansch and find out what other sparks of blazed brilliance may be bubbling away... SW: You and Danny surf. Do you guys do anything to stay in shape? Do you yoga? BJ: Ha!…

When I finished writing this instalment of Hangin’ Eleven, I let a friend read it before I filed, and he scoffed. ‘Everyone’s heard that one. You’ve written up an urban myth.’ But I’m here to tell you that I was there when this so-called myth occurred, and while some might’ve heard a version of this story before, very few have heard it direct from the horse’s mouth. I was fifteen in the summer of 1993, and I worked at the town surf shop, 230 km away from the nearest coastline. When I say surf shop, I mean we sold everything you needed to catch a wave, besides wax, wetsuits and boards. Rip Curl backpacks? Yes, sir. Okanui boardshorts? You betcha. Kuta Lines polar-fleece hoodies, Reef sandals, and giant Billabong windscreen…

 I dreamt about me maybe throwing a party and just how great that would be. At the end of 2016, professional freesurfer Dion Agius made his e-mail freely available (dion@epokhe.com), and if you e-mail him he will send you a free download of the movie he’s been working on for nearly two years, The Smiling Bag. The blog pioneering free surfer who’s starred in all of Kai Neville’s groundbreaking films and made a few of his own, finished The Smiling Bag last year, and then toured it around a host of weird European cities, and then, somewhat counter-intuitively, never made it available to stream on the Internet. What’s the deal? “I didn’t feel like it was good enough to make this huge release and push out online or anything,” Dion…