"My name's Mikey Brennan, I'm from Tasmania and more than anything I like getting barrelled." There's no messing about in this short vid about Tassie's lion-hearted elastic man.

After recently winning awards at film festivals around the world, the Aussie documentary that breaks the silence about homosexuality in surfing is coming back to Sydney for one night only.

The islands in the background, the oil rigs in the middle ground, so much of this video is classic Californian fare.

"Growing up I've always been a bit of a hippy. I wanted to contribute to society but not get tangled up in it." Cyrus Sutton and the lads from Korduroy.tv corner Neal Purchase Junior and prise his mind on a raft of topics.

During Easter Cowaramup Bombora sprung to life under a clean 15-20 foot swell. The regular crew of chargers, including Antman and Zac Haynes, got stuck in, as did big time blowins, Greg Long and Twiggy Baker.

"It went wrong when he hit a bump mid-face and lost his balance. But he still didn't grab rail, he committed to that thing like a BASE jumper." So says photographer Leroy Bellet of this ill-fated barrel ride by Ben Serrano.