“What geopolitical shockwaves would an Israeli on the podium send through the pro surfing world?” The surfer Anat Lelior, who made history when she qualified for the Championship Tour a few weeks back ...

“I’ve never met a more arrogant, self-aggrandising person in my life.” Two of the lovelier surfers I’ve known in my life, Layne Beachley, seven-time world champ and one of the greatest ever, and Keala ...

"Here's the thing: it's not laziness. It's not the conditions. It's not how you feel that day." It’s one of the damndest things I’ve ever experienced, that thunderous downward spiral from ...

Also, a surprise appearance by Kelly Slater! A very fine, informative think piece on Hawaii, its place in surfing and its place in reality, appears in The New York Times today and well worth a read.

"It was really exciting to catch 150 waves in four hours. That was out of this world." Four years back, three-time world surf champ Mick Fanning, whose real estate, beer and wellness investments can ...

“I was in the line up. He showed no respect. He went for every wave claiming he was deeper even when he wasn’t.” Some terrific theatre at Waikiki yesterday after a visiting surfer did a Goggans, as ...

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." https://www.youtube.com/live/sRTMqRhal50?si=bfgANeJ3VcRzcih- ...

“For a relatively ugly dude, it’s one good way of pulling yourself out of a rut.” Unless there’s a four in front of your age, Nathan Webster is a name that rings no bells. But what a transformative ...

"I'm convinced anyone of moderate skill level could wax this board up and ride it for the first time in hollow waves with total confidence." Year ago, almost to the day, I wrote a Mentawai travelogue ...

The 11-time world surfing champion goes all in on law and order. Kelly Slater, the world’s greatest competitive surfer, has finally weighed in on the mass deportation of undocumented folk living ...

In a decision reminiscent of Idris Alba’s idea to blunt kitchen knives to stem the British knife crime crisis, the NSW government is throwing everything, the wallet, the bird in the sky, the sink, ...

To show or to no-show, that is the question. Surfing is, obviously, an activity done shoeless though life outside of the water demands at least some attention given the foots. Now, there are two broad ...