His latest edit ‘Fear the machine’ is very much reflective of his mindset. “Fear the machine, and then take the vial,” he ...

Noa Deane, Rob Machado, Clay Marzo, Balaram Stack, Bruno Santos, Aritz Aranburu, Craig Anderson, and Noah Beschen are already primed to go toe-to-toe in the tube. “We set the prize money at an ...

For a revered musician and songwriter who found inspiration and purpose in surfing, psychedelia and nature, it took a darkened cinema, the teenage camaraderie of fellow surfers and musos, the first ...

Some people are too sensitive for this world. It only takes a couple of really bad things to happen in a row and they become discouraged. Injury, expectations, bad luck. They visualise, all too ...

Competing in the Pipe Masters, surfing XXL Jaws and finishing 18th at the Eddie are all extremely commendable accolades on their own. Most pro surfers would be chuffed just to tick one of those off in ...

Every surfer knows what it’s like to be caught inside by a freak set. There’s nothing to do except try to survive it. The LA fires are no different. Amplified by a warming climate and clearly of a ...

Solo travel and relationships are perhaps two of life’s most transformative experiences. Each is like a mirror, reflecting the deepest and most hidden parts of you back to yourself. For the past six ...

Pulling into the Kirra car park, we obsess over Big Groyne Kirra pumping in late February of 1975. Max Bowman and I had driven up from Byron Bay. Walking out to the point, Michael Peterson called out ...

50 years ago, Dick Van Straalen made a board for Andrew McKinnon (Andy Mac), to compete in the annual, 1975 Rip Curl Bells Easter contest. Andy Mac, as he is commonly known, finished ninth at Bells ...

The news came after the release of R Cal’s latest edit ‘Ripples in the Void’, which was essentially a sponsor me tape ...