I tried one in the early days and made excuses why I didn't like it. Have been using one occasionally over the last few years and it feels and works really well. It's amazing how much impact the ...

The significance of Tony Eltherington is that he exists at all. Eltherington, a fixture and a controller at Burleigh Heads for most of his young life, a media darling, enjoying a bevy of female fans ...

On Sunday, 17-year old Sammy Lowe from Wollongong capped a testing year by winning the Yeti Australian Junior Men's Title. It came exactly thirty years after his dad, Mick Lowe, began his career the ...

A day at Cheyne Horan's surf exhibition sees the past, present, and future linked together in a continuum of surf craft. Cheyne Horan's origin story as a surf star is a classic. Kingpin boardmaker ...

Kuda Huraa, Maldives (September 10, 2025) Tahitian powermonger Michel Bourez stole the show on the final day of the 2025 Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy, winning the Thruster division ...

It was a relentless summer in the west, the best in recent memory, and the action is rolling into autumn. The first day of the new season started with yet another XL swell forcing surfers onto the ...

Going into the final event of the Challenger Series there are five surfers - four women, one man - already locked in for promotion to next year’s Championship Tour. Those five surfers are: Eli ...

A much stronger front currently sitting at the tail end of the existing Southern Ocean sequence is strengthening at the moment, and will deliver a strong round of swell for Friday.

Transforming dog surfing into a real sport Abbie is the longest competing surf dog in the world (photo @abbiesurfs) The 10-year-old rescue dog has just taken first place in the World Dog Surfing ...

Overnight, the WSL released the 2026 Challenger Series (CS) schedule. After a number of years with six events on the schedule, and 2025 having a record seven, this year’s series is reduced to five ...

High pressure dominates the Tasman through the weekend and into next week, with a decent trade fetch developing and SE-E winds extending down into the Tasman.

The conveyor belt of gales to severe gales looks to push up towards WA through Tues and Wed with storm force W’ly winds in the fetch.