He's known as Ignacio on the streets of downtown Punta Hermosa, but they call him Spud in his adopted home of Maroubra.

Great waves in England are rare. This Ben Howard album is rarer. Show us one, then win the other.

Yesterday the women were forced to complete Round 2 of the Roxy Pro in tiny waves at Snapper Rocks. It was a long way from Round 2 in 2014 when the women scored the best surf of the contest in a day heralded as a red letter day for women's surfing.

It was the first elimination round of the World Surf League and despite the diminutive surf the women put up huge performances.

How much do we know about sharks? It's a question worth asking following another shark fatality in Australia. Surfers and ocean users are looking for answers.

From Aaron Lieber's '4K Monday' series comes this lively clip of Brett Simpson blasting his home beach of Huntington and staking a claim as the Californian Parko.

Having recently broken a favourite board blindboy was moved to ponder the implications of our relationship with our most beloved boards.