"In Kuta we were all brothers and he wasn’t. We were all doing something outside the law but Mike Boyum was the most inept of us all. These days he has this image of some super smuggler, but he was a fucking idiot."

Before the morning of the earth, was the season of the scammers. In these excerpts Phil Jarratt takes us back to Bali’s pioneer surfing era.

Been a week plump full of waves up on the Gold Coast, and no place was better than Kirra. By all reports, and also going on this video evidence, the bank is better than it has been since early last year.

Watch a lucky punter power through section after section before sitting sweetly in a perfect, bowly Santa Barbara pit.

Submissions are now welcome for the inaugural Sydney Surf Film Festival. The festival is three weeks of surf film screenings, photographic exhibitions, and live music events. Click for more details.