Taj Burrow today announced that 2016 will be his final season as a full-time competitor on the WSL Championship Tour. The Fiji Pro in June will be his last event.

Watch a highlight reel from one of the stars of the northern hemi winter.

And Wilko again comes flying out of the blocks taking down Stu Kennedy and Dusty Payne in Round 1.

As crowd numbers skyrocket Neil Lazarow thinks it may be time to revisit some of surfing's core rules.

Last week the government passed an amendment making more commercial drone photography legal, however it forbids the use of drones at some of Australia's best waves.

It's not only lids that have the mortgage on maybe waves. In Peru, Alvaro Malpartida and Christobal de Col scrape into a fin deep ledge breaking an arms length off the rocks.

Halfway between Cape Town and J'Bay are clusters of right point breaks, condensed in a popular area known as the Garden Route.