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Watch: Goddesses

Derek MorrisonNov 10, 2021November 10, 20210

Acclaimed filmmaker Morgan Maassen brings us his latest film, Goddesses, which explores the lives of three young Tahitian girls: Vahine, Heimiti and Kohai Fierro. Set in their home against a dramatic backdrop of Tahiti’s jungle, mountains and reefbreaks, this film is as mesmerizing as it is soulful. “My obsession with...

Watch: Eimeo Czermak Scores Late Season Teahupo’o

Derek MorrisonNov 10, 2021November 10, 20210

There’s something very exciting happening at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games venue of Teahupo’o in Tahiti. The local surfers are stepping up to the plate in a big way, led by a mixture of the older guard and the new rising stars in the Tahitian lineup. In this film teenage...

Bask: Volume II

Derek MorrisonNov 9, 2021November 9, 20210

Filmed over the nine months of the university year in Ōtepoti Dunedin, the Bask series returns with a vengeance. Filmmaker Isaac Chadwick has turned up the dial on the party and surf elements of Dunedin’s student surfer lifestyle. It’s clear early on that twice the blood sweat and beers have...

Surfing With Sea Lions: The Cheat Sheet

Derek MorrisonNov 3, 2021December 13, 20220

Surfing on the Otago Coast is a sublime experience most of the time, but the number of surfers who report supposed “near-death encounters” with sea lions is puzzling. According to Doc Coastal Otago Ranger Jim Fyfe, we’re reading them all wrong. In this film he offers us his cheat sheet...

Conservation: How You Can Help Our Hector’s Dolphins

Derek MorrisonNov 2, 2021April 22, 20260

Fisheries New Zealand is asking for feedback on proposed fisheries measures to further protect South Island Hector’s dolphins. Hector’s are the small wee dolphins that love to surf and hang out with humans – especially kids. An encounter with a Hector’s dolphin will brighten up anyone’s day, but they need...

Review: Billabong Custom 4:3 Synergy

Derek MorrisonOct 13, 2021October 13, 20210

We test out Billabong’s custom design your own wetsuit concept using two of its women’s Synergy 4:3 steamers. Yep, you can choose your own panels and colour ways – be the designer of your own suit. Seems so good it surely can’t be true … The idea of choosing the...

Inside Camper Life With Craig Levers

Derek MorrisonOct 4, 2021October 4, 20210

Surf photographer Craig Levers, or CPL, as many will know him by his picture credit, is a bit of a nomad. Like most surfers he likes to travel. That has led him into a whole new world of escapism and the vehicles that deliver us to dream locations. Craig was...

Chasing Unicorns With Jean Pierre Guillotin

Derek MorrisonSep 21, 2021September 21, 20210

Meet the French-speaking Spaniard chasing waves in New Zealand – not to surf them, but to photograph them. Jean Pierre Guillotin is bringing a fresh perspective to the waves and surfers of the North Island. New Zealand Surf Journal’s Derek Morrison caught up with 32-year-old JP during Auckland’s most recent...

Mental Health: How Surfing Is Winning The War

Jack DustinSep 1, 2021September 10, 20210

There is no question that surfing has special properties that few of us can fully grasp … or thrive without. It just is what it is. Immersion in the brine. The rise and fall of the ocean’s surface and real moments of intensity, fear, power and vulnerability. For Gisborne surfer,...

High Line: Inside Teahupo’o With Eimeo Czermak

Derek MorrisonAug 26, 20210

Eighteen-year-old Eimeo Czermak takes us through the mega swell that hit Teahupo’o, Tahiti, on Friday August 13. Locals are calling the peak of this swell to be the biggest day of the last 10 years. In this film Eimeo recounts those three “crazy days” that include his first tow surf...