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The fact that the lockdown coincided with the first significant J-Bay swell of 2020, had all the town’s surfers on edge, crying into their coffees and pacing their living rooms. Those with a view were ...
Make yourself a warm beveridge, yeah, we don’t care nothing that’s Spring, grab your fave duvet, the one that’s seen you through the most intense of break ups, curl up on the floor, and have a deep ...
It was a significant finals day. With Billabong merging with Quiksilver, who knows what will happen with the Billabong Junior event at Seal Point. What has been an institution in South African surfing ...
Getting to J-Bay is a South African surfer’s rite of passage. East Coast or West, with the country’s biggest surf event waiting for you at the destination, there are many good reasons to head up/down ...
Twenty months, that’s how long it’s been since a white shark had been spotted cruising the shallows of False Bay, until today! Reports indicate that the 4m white shark was spotted around seal island ...
First Chapter by Dane Reynolds Oh man, if you’re a millennial, First Chapter was one of the most revolutionary films of the mid-2000s. Dane’s first profile film saw him traverse the globe in search of ...
RULE NO.4 Ah yes. How to turn your brain into a computer model. Develop your own feedback loop, or validation cycle. Build your own profile of theory vs reality. Take your prediction and hold it up ...
Day one of competition at the MEO Rip Curl Pro and the waves have been HEAVY. Isn’t it absolutely delightful enjoying the worlds best getting flogged!? While you sit comfortably on your lounge sofa, ...
Before SA Champs, we called Brandon Benjamin up and invited him on a Zigzag strike mission to Mozambique. We promised him cooking right hand barrels and good times. Brandon was frothing, his soul and ...
The Big McG currently lies 14th on the Q. That’s 3 places outside of CT qualification. He’s had two back to back results at the two QS10 000s in Europe. A 5th place at the ABANCA Galicia Classic Surf ...
I recently went to Mozambique on honeymoon. The car rental agency messed up our booking and we ended up with a normal bakkie instead of a 4×4. As a result, we had to park at the end of the tar road ...
As a parting shot, and this is my own personal take here, surfers have never begged permission to surf. If you must surf, accept the fact that it’s currently illegal to do so, shoulder the ...