Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2015 i Surfing World Magazine

The history of rock jumps in Australia is lost in the mists of time. It seems reasonable to conclude that the practice came into its own with the shortboard revolution: it’s hard to picture the Duke scuttling over a rockshelf with his thirty-five kilo redwood behemoth and nimbly flinging himself and the giant lumber onto the incoming surf. A rock jump first appeared on film in McCoy’s classic 1978 flick A Day in the Life of Wayne Lynch, in which Lynchy and Maurice Cole fling themselves off one sandstone cliff near Port Campbell in order to deceive you about the fact that they’re actually surfing off another. For a second the jump looks like going awry: both men are clobbered by a series of foamy set waves before they get…

When asked about this dream trip to the Maldives I heard the words more literally than usual and figured “Hey, what if I took down the dreams of this bunch and gave them to a dream reader to gain insights into the surfer’s subconscious?” Some of us care about our sleep dreams, and some of us don’t. Others care about our day dreams, you know, the kind that culture suggests we follow via the term live the dream. But whatever dream style we jazz to the fun thing is that it’s nothing to take too seriously... ‘cause it’s just a dream. Us wake walkers say we dream not just in day, three to nine dreams a night flicking REM eyes left and right moments passed and…

SHOCKTRE AT MENT By Mick Higgins South Australian surfer, MP’s flatmate and SE Asian travel companion When he went through all that trouble I went out and saw him in the mental institution. You know, he was okay for a while. I reckon if he had of got out of jail quickly he might have been okay and bounced back and away from the inevitable. It was the shock treatment that changed him, and the reason he had the shock treatment was that he thought he could put it over the doctors. He was of the opinion and the belief that once he’d done his 14 months he was getting out. The first time I went and saw him his Mum and sister picked me up from Burleigh because they…

I first saw some footage of Cans when I was about 14. I was doing some coaching with Martin Dunn who really had his finger on the pulse in terms of new talent. I quizzed him on who he thought was exciting in my age group. He showed me this footage of Shaun surfing at home in Mullaway and I just freaked out on his maturity, timing and ability to read a wave. Not too long after that we both signed with Billabong and did a bunch of memorable trips together. We started meeting in State, Australian and World Junior Finals and had a great rivalry. It was a cool trade off because Shaun was definitely the guy that pushed me the most to improve as a surfer and I…

Halloween is just around the corner and thanks to Tony Abbott making a deal with the US government men to get our kids addicted like little junkies to processed sugar, Australian’s are now embracing this once despised custom like never before. While I’m opposed to almost everything in the entire world, I have to admit I don’t mind drawing, sculpting and writing songs about dead shit, especially dead shit that comes back to life. So I figured “Hey, Rocky needs a mask for his year two Halloween school parade and I have a column due on making stuff… let’s kill (or bring to life if you will) two pigs with one stone and make a pink zombie pig mask.” It was logical so that’s what I did. Everyone knows the…

Cool cover… Joel ‘Jobsworth’ Fitzgerald by Frank Funk Cool ad… Kutalines “Get your Free Surfgod with every pair of winter pants.” Cool quote… “At crowded Kirra I saw a tiny teenage girl drop in on Luke Egan on a grinding Big Groyne barrel, pretty well stuff him into the pit and race off down the line, menace burning in her eyes.” – Kidman Cool musician… Jewel Kilcher at The State Theatre, Sydney. Cool lifestyle shot… Layne Beachley in her grommet days, complete with local sponsors hand-drawn in texta. It’s not hard to see why she was nicknamed Gidget. Cool pre-freesurfer era confusion… “Rasta’s made some interesting career decisions lately. He bailed out on the Jetty Surf Pro Junior at Bells, to go home for the singlefin contest at Burleigh, which…

As a grown man, and a proud and crabby ol’ bastard, it’s hard to describe the feeling of being outsurfed by a 10-year-old girl. After the initial denial that it was actually happening, it made me think deeply and depressingly about my life. I knew this moment would come, a sad sign of inevitable decline, but I expected I might be at least 70 years old when it did. Instead here I was, seemingly in my prime, my ego being shredded by the forehand turn of a killer smurf. My sense of self-loathing, however, was soon overwhelmed by a sense of unbridled joy. It’s impossible, you see, to watch Sabre Norris surf and not be spellbound. “Cute” isn’t the right word for her surfing. She’s too damn good to be…

SW : You can surf one session as any surfer from history in their prime. Who is it and where? RM: Tom Curren. J-bay. Experienced every feeling you could feel riding a surfboard. Speed, flow, power, tubes, perfect lines... Or Gerry Lopez at the Pipeline. One of those sessions in the 70s where he got blown out of a stack of 10 footers all day long. Bald on top with ponytail or thick black curly hair all over your entire body? Always been a fan of hair but not body hair. I’ve shaved my head and I’ve had a ponytail but I’ve never had both at the same time. Might be kinda sick. You’re the editor of the New York Times for a day. What’s tomorrow’s headline? NO BAD…

Tom Carroll X2 World Champion Don’t freak. Observe the creature’s movements and your own response. Allow space. Act accordingly. Shane Dorian Big wave lunatic, hunter Go underwater and swim straight at it while screaming like a crazy person. Rob Machado Pipe Master, Drifter Hope that you’re in the water with Mick Fanning. Wayne Lynch Evolutionary Don’t panic, don’t splash, be really strong. If you feel like you need to go in, go in very calmly. Always keep an eye on the shark. Simon Anderson Pipe Master, Photographer Tell those around you and then go in… unless you feel comfortable staying out. Sally Fitzgibbons X2 Bells Winner, Wide World of Sports Host Scream “Ahhhhhhhh Shaaaaaaaaarrrk! Help!”…

Camera – 360fly Imagine if you had eyes not just in the front of your head but also in the back of your head. Imagine if you also had eyes in your ears and on top of your head and covering all the rest of your skull for that matter too. Now imagine all those eyes were looking through video cameras and filming every which way whenever you took off on a wave. Welcome to the world of 360fly, a new camera that will change the way we view what we do forever. This camera is smaller than a tennis ball, clocks vision in Hi-Res (big enough to print a billboard of your nose hairs on Sunset Strip pin sharp) and literally sees everything within a 360 degree radius. Which…

THE OBSERVER EFFECT There’s a scientific principle which says there are some things in the natural world that you can’t observe without simultaneously influencing them. This is known as the Observer Effect; grounded in physics not biology, it nevertheless seems an apt way to think about the current crisis engulfing the north coast of New South Wales. I’d travelled to the north coast to watch people watching the water for sharks. That’s more or less what was happening there: eyes on the sea like never before. There’s an inevitable feedback loop to this behaviour: people do indeed start seeing sharks. Which tells them there are more sharks in the water, which causes more people to start looking for sharks. And so on. The notes that follow are a record of…

Few things in surfing have the capacity to inspire fear like a ten footer on the head at Shipsterns Bluff. Mick Fanning knows this. He copped exactly that after blowing the first wave of his first set at the slab recently. “I just wanted to get one really quick and I paddled for one, hit the backwash, and the step, and went straight over the falls and then came up and copped probably a ten footer straight on the head. So yeah, that was good introduction,” he laughs. If there is a more fearsome sight in surfing, Mick has experienced that too. But if you think a run in with a great white or a ten footer on the head at Shippies is enough to rattle his cage, you don’t…

Just back from a trip to Indonesia with rising photographer Woody Gooch, Ryan Callinan and Kai Hing were floating around their hometowns at the beginning of this spring for a little bit before going off on their respective ways. Ryan Callinan, 23, would be heading to Portugal for two Prime events that could move his current 5th place on the WQS into a confirmed start place on the 2016 World Tour – a success that would reconcile the two career halting injuries he’s undergone in the transition from juniors to the big leagues. Hing, five year’s Callinan’s junior, to a different part of Europe. Wales. To compete in the first high profile surfing wave pool competition since the infamous inland Surfing Championships won by Tom Carroll in 1985. While at…