Surfing World Magazine November 2017

How many times in your life have you come in from a surf and thought, “Wait a minute... I think that was the best surf I’ve ever had?” If you’re anything like me, (easily pleased, realistic about performance, happy to be out there, old enough to wear a surf hat without being ridiculed) it might be as often as every surf. If you expect slightly more of yourself or your equipment, or of the behaviour of other people in the line-up, or of the conditions… then perhaps those “best surf ever” moments are a little fewer and further between. Regardless of how often or not they happen though, they definitely exist for everyone. However, I was recently reminded that there is a significant difference between sitting in the line-up feeling…

Chelsea Georgeson 2005 WSL World Champion That’s just too mean! Otis Carey Artist, Surfy, Sophie’s Baby Daddy John John. Doug Lees Surfing World Publisher Glen “Micro” Hall. So I could get an endless supply of Super Coach sessions from the master. “How did that bottom turn look?” Damien Hardman X2 WSL World Champion Tom Carroll would have to be top of the list. He’s the most renowned drop in artist ever. Greg Webber Shaper, Wavepool Visionary All mankind hating greenies who self-righteously ignore the fact that man is just as much at the mercy of his primal makeup. Toby Cregan Filmer, Skegss Maniac Kelly Slater. I feel like he has already gotten a few, ay.…

I went surfing with Wrenchy one day because we’re mates and that’s what mates do. We hit a little reef close to where he grew up. I’d never surfed the wave before but there were some really nice tubes. They were big and hollow and pretty bloody terrifying truth be told, but not so scary that you’re totally shitting your daks. It’s a pretty well known secret wave, if that makes sense. It’s not a crazy, crazy slab, but because I was a bit lost out there I spent a fair bit of time trying to find a good entry. I was doing my best to take Sam’s lead, watch how he was getting into them and learn it all because he’d obviously surfed there a bunch. Well, let me…

AUS WEB SERIES Fighting ISIS It’s an Australian cartoon about a bunch of knockabout dickhead blokes in stubbies and singlets who concoct an idea while sinking tins in a suburban garage: Let’s fly to the Middle East and take on ISIS. There’s just three episodes that clock out at less than 30 minutes in total, but it’s a pretty mighty effort at some offensive original Australian content all the same. – youtube.com/fightingisis WEB CLIP Premium Violence by Dane Reynolds It’s a tad redundant to recommend a web clip in a print magazine. Internet content goes stale in days, and it takes over a month to make a magazine. But when a web clip is this good, and stands out this much, which it does, we can say, “Hey, how sick…

People think making stuff is hard, but it’s easy! All you have to do is start. That’s the whole reason I began doing this column, to encourage all of you who want to make stuff to give it a go. Remember when we made the chocolate and banana Slayer cake? Or what about when we shaped and glassed and surfed a surfboard in 25 minutes? Do you remember when we made Stevie Wonder Woman? All that stuff started out as an idea and only became real once we started making it. So this issue I’m putting making stuff to the test. I want you to make some stuff and if it’s stuff I like, we’ll run it right here in Surfing World and I’ll sling you a Volcom pack and…

Indigenous surfing in this country moves in and out of prominence through the years, from a high point in the early nineties to the more recent notoriety of surfers like Dale Richards, Soli Bailey and Otis Carey. But the heartbeat of the Indigenous surfing community in Australia is as strong as it’s ever been: few, if any, other communities of surfers can boast such a seamless integration of culture, mutual support and close personal bonds around the surfing. Contests like the Indigenous Surfing Titles at Bells and the Juraki event at Fingal keep the flame alive. And this winter at Coffs Harbour, something strong and new sprouted from the base: the Naru Surf Gathering. The name tells you a lot – this was a gathering, a bringing together of like-minded…