Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2016 i Surfing World Magazine

REELERS 2016 The Surfing World Short Film Competition is back! After experiencing unprecedented success in its first year, Reelers – The Surfing World Short Film Competition – is back on for 2016 with over $20,000 in cash and prizes once again up for grabs. And this year we’re going global with the event open to filmmakers worldwide. With its unique three-minute format, Reelers offers an exciting easy access platform for the next wave of creative talent to exhibit their work and tell their stories. Best of all the Reelers judging panel is without peer consisting of the most influential surf movie directors of the past five decades, including Taylor Steele, Kai Neville and Jack McCoy. Every entrant will have the opportunity to have their work seen by these titans of…

Surfboards exist for no other reason than to give us pleasure, so why do we turn our backs on them? Why do we sell them, give them away or chuck them on the council clean up pile? And what becomes of the broken hearted? Recently Surfing World got together with team Arnette’s Chippa Wilson, Ben Godwin, Pama Davies, Kalani Ball and Jackson Baker to scour the hock shops, garage sales, swap meets and junk yards to find out if the dogs that inhabit these spaces deserve a second shot at being loved.…

BEN GODWIN: THE OWNER/SURFER The Col Smith is a deucey! It was originally my Dad’s board, custom shaped for him by his good mate Col Smith from Newcastle and glassed down at Bob Brown’s, who was the big legend shaper around Newy back in the day. Dad and Col travelled around a bit together and Dad surfed the board in competitions. He even rode it at the Om Bali Pro at Ulus, which seems a bit wild for back then considering the board is only 5’8”, but here’s the thing, it’s got a pintail, so the bigger the surf gets the better it goes. Sadly Col passed away from lung cancer at a young age, maybe 31, and Dad put the board away after that. It was pretty dinged up…

ROBBIE WARDEN: CURRENT OWNER It was just your average Sunday morning and I’d just finished doing your average dingo Sunday morning stuff – abseiling down Avalon headland, building a fort out of driftwood on Mona Vale beach, riding around Australia on my motodingo – you know, average stuff. Anyway, after I’d killed and eaten breakfast I decided to go for a wander and about 38 kays from home I came across this garage sale with a beaten up vintage Simon Anderson tri-dingo on the front lawn for only 35 dingoes. Needless to say I snapped that thing straight up and, next thing you know, I’m out at the Basin throwin’ look-back reos on the sickest bit of foam and glass I’ve ever had the good fortune to come across. I…

In the late-80s to mid-90s there was that crop of really hot Cooly kids looking to make it in contests, and China (Jason O’Connor) was right up there amongst them. I think he was with Kirra Boardriders originally and then maybe he went to Snapper Boardriders for a while… either way, he was a super hot talent in his teens, but he’d actually been ripping from as early as 12. In those early years, China had this rivalry going on with Jason Buttenshaw. Butto, of course, went on to do really well. He got good contest results and that fed into a profile explosion at a very young age. He featured in Billabong movies like Surf Into Summer as this little platinum headed pipsqueak getting barrelled off his head at…

Way back in the early 90s, when rollerblading was awesome, Kurt Cobain was alive and Dolly the sheep was busy being cloned, Rip Curl sent a crack team of surfy dudes consisting of Tom Curren, Damien Hardman, Chris Davidson and Frankie Oberholzer deep into unchartered Indonesian waters in search of never before surfed perfection. What they found was even better than a Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place Tuesday night marathon. Monster swells with almost no wind created two weeks of flawless conditions everywhere and the boys surfed everything from 12 foot Sunset Beach-like peaks that rolled into a pitching inside bowl, to six foot, below sea-level, black-water double sucks breaking on an inch of water. It was game-changing stuff, not only from a performance perspective (think Curren foam-ball riding…

CHIPPA WILSON: THE SHAPER/PRO Little Frankenstein was born at least ten years ago, way back in the day when Matty Hurworth was still making boards for the Shaping Co with Greg Webb. For whatever reason I felt like shaping a board one day so I walked in and said, “Give me the planer, I’m gonna smoke this shit.” I thought it would be easy but I was tripping. I tore this blank apart, shit was flying everywhere and by the end it looked like what it was – a blank that had been completely ruined. Thankfully Matty was in there to smooth things out and once he took the rough edges off we were actually pretty stoked on the final design. Not that there were any design elements considered at…

CORBIN NASH: THE CURRENT OWNER I’d just gotten home from an all-nighter at Northies, a popular drinking establishment in The Shire made famous by the reality TV show The Shire. There’d been a hen’s night on and someone had mistaken me for a male stripper. At first I was like “you have the wrong guy” but then they started shoving $50s in my undies so next thing I was up on the bar with my shirt off putting on a show they’d never forget. So I had all this money and as luck would have it the Space 44 guys were having a surfboard swap meet and I thought I may as well go and get me a new whip. There was a heap of craft down there and the…

WILL CARTWRIGHT: THE ORIGINAL OWNER I bought the Bluebird off the rack at Barry Bennett’s in Brooky, straight across the road from the school around 74. It was a beautiful shape but what really stood out to me was the swallow tail. I’d never seen that before so I was keen to give it a go. It was a long board so it wasn’t perfectly suited to short, dumpy Sydney beach breaks but when I’d get a clean wave, the feeling of coming off the bottom and then off the top was unlike anything I’d experienced. I quickly fell in love with riding it. I think the standout session for me would have to be when I went to New Zealand with a bunch of mates shortly before I married…

View From A Blue Moon The John Florence surf-action biopic is finally here and it’s just as good you expect it to be. In fact, raise your expectations, raise them unreasonably high. Now, raise them a little bit higher than that even. View From A Blue Moon is even better than that. For serious, it’s a truly brilliant surfing movie. It stars the best free surfer on the planet. It is the first surf film to be shot entirely on 4K. It is made by JF’s filmer Blake Kueny and the team from Brainfarm who have the reputation for making the best films in action sports. Undoubtedly, it’s the biggest movie of the year – and in a year of surf films that boasts Kai Neville’s Cluster, Volcom’s Psychic Migrations,…

JANUARY 01 –At seven am in Park City, Utah, USA, Mick Fanning wakes to the first morning of 2015. It’s -15°C outside but inside the rented holiday apartment of the three time World Surfing Champion and his wife Karissa it’s nice and toasty. As the sun peeks over the snowy horizon, throwing light and the tiniest morsels of warmth over the slopes, Mick ponders what highs and lows the next 365 days might bring. Maybe… More than likely he’s just thinking about snowboarding with mates Taylor Knox, Corey Wilson, and Beau Emerton, who are also on the snowboarding trip. 26 – Australia Day, 2015. Mick celebrates by posting a selfie with an Australian cultural icon to Instagram. It’s Jeff from The Wiggles. For reasons unknown, AFL Footballer Rory…

“I’m working towards not working for other people.” duncan McNicol rolls into the Railway Hotel, half an hour late. It’s Thursday afternoon and the dusty Byron Bay pub is filled with lost souls from all over the world drinking alongside the ghosts of old Byron. Duncan orders a beer then walks over to smoke a rollie with a whip-thin old “parkie” who has a teardrop tattoo rolling down his cheek and his worldly possessions in a swag of plastic bags. The pair share a joke as Duncan tokes the skinny cigarette. They talk like old mates. They might be. The “parkie” lives in the park. Dunc once lived in his van. All arms and legs and hair and dressed head-to-toe in rock star black, Duncan struts over, seemingly stuck in…

WILL CARTWRIGHT: THE ORIGINAL OWNER I found this board at the Nambucca council tip. I was working there at the time and I walked over to the landfill and saw the tail sticking out of all this rubbish. A bulldozer had already compressed the pile it’d been thrown in so it was really wedged in amongst all this other shit. I pulled it out, took it home and gave it to a mate of mine, Rolfy. He fixed it up, had one surf on it and gave it straight back. “This thing should be put in front of a firing squad,” he told me. It’s been under the house ever since. CHIPPA WILSON: THE PRO All the boards we rode during Junkyard Dogs had the same colour scheme, this gross…

DANNY JOHNSON: THE CURRENT OWNER I bought the Ledge at a surfboard swap meet at the Sugar Mill, a trendy surf shop café at Narrabeen run by a little Mexican guy named Pepe. After I got the shop’s name tattooed on my leg I decided it might be a good idea to get a new board. There were all sorts of boards there, and a lot of them looked fun to ride, but the Ledge appealed most to me simply because it was free. Take it said Blair, a guy who had a million old boards but whose wife didn’t particularly enjoy his collection as much as he did. So he was getting rid of them and I was happy to take advantage of his poor fortune. The first surf…

There’s more scientific research, development and technological applications used in these FCS II Carver Neo Glass Tri Sets than there was during the first 13 Apollo missions to the moon. Check the specs: • Elongated fin for performing long arc turns. • High degree of sweep angle providing exceptional control off the bottom and when carving on the open face. • Designed for power surfers who like to push hard against their fins and draw out their turns. What all that means is that when you score open face, down-the-line waves, particularly pumping points and reefs, your surfing will go totally intergalactic. These particular fins are designed for boards with deep concaves and moderate-to-extreme rocker. So now the good news, if you subscibe to Surfing World today you’ll score a…