If the WSL can extend the waiting period then Ben Howard can postpone the tour.

What is pro surfing if the participants don't care about winning or losing? If they don't care when a call goes against them?

Just a surf video, that's what.

Surf films traditionally follow a template of fun-in-the-sun globetrotting, but the latest film by Geoff Clark bucks that trend. Swellnet chats to Clark about 'Isolated' and how surfers should be aware of the plight of West Papua.

Long as it breaks they can ride it. Long as they can ride it we can take photos of it.

The day saw its share of upsets with Gabriel Medina, Kelly Slater, John John Florence and Joel Parkinson all being eliminated from competition in Round 3 at the hands of their lower-seeded opponents.

Gary Green's gun, Damien Hardman's too, the most important surfboard of the modern era, and a mysterious Lightning Bolt. It's the latest instalment of the Board Bazaar!

If the surf is rideable it's contestable, and this surf was ridable - just.

Competition at the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast recommenced today after 11 consecutive lay days and ran through Round 2 at Snapper Rocks.