ASP Selling World Tour Webcast Rights
Thursday 28/06 76
Sweeping changes to surfing's World Tour appear imminent upon news the ASP
Dumb, Drunk and Racist in Cronulla
Monday 25/06 81
"Just sit here and wax your board, the camera crew is behind the surf club
What is a surf company?
Radical Curves: Sidecuts in surfboard design
Thursday 17/05 28
The sidecut changes the water flow along the rail line of your board. The result is that when on rail the board takes a path of its own following this curve. The feeling is that the board wants to turn on these tighter arcs.
Garrett and Guinness: Pouring cold water on world records
Monday 14/05 13
It's important to note the previous world record, which was held by Mike Parsons for a Cortez Bank monster that measured 77 feet high, just 1 foot – 30 centimetres – smaller than Garrett's.
Billabong on Target for change?
Wednesday 09/05 82
A bit of backstory before we get to those questions: Inman replaces Derek O'Neill, a 20-year veteran of Billabong and the person in charge when the companies recent retail strategy was sunk. For the last five years Billabong spent big on bricks-and-mortar retail space in an ambitious plan to dominate the surf retail market. They were felled by the Global Financial Crisis and diminished retail spending.
Johnny Abegg and the Seven Year Bitch
Monday 07/05 3
After seven years it's Johhny's shout.
Shark experts cagey about link between attacks
Tuesday 24/04 270
Is there a link between cage diving and shark attacks.
Palette & Patellas
Thu 12 April 12:00am
If you've seen the photographic work of Steen Barnes on Swellnet you'll know that his images have an idiosyncratic look. Steen's photos are saturated with the orange hues of early morning surf sessions and the greenish tint of the local Wollongong water.
And then there's the surfers in the frame: almost exclusively kneeboarders, and always tearing the Wollongong waves to shreds. In this batch it's two of his favourite muses, Chayne Simpson and Albert Munoz, busting airs and very nearly breaking patellas (check Chayne's air sequence!).
Palette & Patellas
Thu 12 April 12:00am
If you've seen the photographic work of Steen Barnes on Swellnet you'll know that his images have an idiosyncratic look. Steen's photos are saturated with the orange hues of early morning surf sessions and the greenish tint of the local Wollongong water.
And then there's the surfers in the frame: almost exclusively kneeboarders, and always tearing the Wollongong waves to shreds. In this batch it's two of his favourite muses, Chayne Simpson and Albert Munoz, busting airs and very nearly breaking patellas (check Chayne's air sequence!).
Tsunami: Approaching the Speed of Sound
Thursday 12/04 4
So while a tsunami with a height of one metre doesn't sound threatening, its forward speed of 220 metres per second can cause catastrophic damage as the surge moves inland for many minutes behind the initial impact.