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Five Minutes With: Luke Griffin

Isaac ChadwickOct 28, 2021July 25, 20240

Luke Griffin sits down to discuss growing up in the Mount, working with his older brother and shaper Jordan Griffin, and experiencing a Dunedin winter. Luke is one of those surfers who is unfairly gifted. He has equal parts raw talent and great style on top of a board. I...

Barton Lynch Launches Blast Off 2021

Derek MorrisonOct 15, 2021July 25, 20240

Dust off your video camera, bribe your parents and get filming! Now in its 16th year, Barton Lynch’s Blast Off global video challenge returns for 2021 bigger than ever and with GoPro as lead partner. For 2021 every video will receive feedback from BL Blast Off’s top coaches. The event,...

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...

Breaking News: 2021 Scholastics Cancelled, Primary School Champs Postponed

Derek MorrisonSep 21, 2021July 25, 20240

The 2021 Primary School Championships have been postponed and the National Scholastic Surfing Championships have been cancelled. The Sticky Johnson Primary School Champs were due to take place October 2-3 in Gisborne, while the National Scholastics Surfing Championships – one of the biggest events of the surfing calendar – was...

Watch: Chasing Winter With Paige Hareb

Derek MorrisonSep 9, 2021July 25, 20240

Pro surfer Paige Hareb visits the South Island in the middle of winter to explore the southern waves between snowfalls in the mountains around Queenstown. Paige also takes some time to pass on some of her knowledge to the Queen’s High School Surf Academy girls. Along with a lot of...

Rising Grom: Indica Knox Corcoran

Derek MorrisonSep 8, 2021July 25, 20240

When it comes to professionalism in surfing, few groms compare to Indica Knox Corcoran. The Mount Maunganui based surfer and skater may just be 11 years old, but he operates with every intention of becoming a pro. He’s guided in his dream by his mum and dad, Renée and Phil...

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,...

Surf Survival Week With Dr Will Allen

Dr Will AllenAug 31, 2021July 25, 20240

Spurred by his involvement in the dramatic rescue of a family whose boat overturned on the Taieri Rivermouth Bar in April 2021, Dr Will Allen has set out to empower surfers everywhere to improve rescue outcomes. He’s determined to make something of the tragic incident that claimed the life of...

Jack Tyro: Chasing the North Star

Kiwi Shaper Simon Jones Integral To Italo’s Raglan CT Win

Watch: We Are Coral Gardeners – Film 2.0

Five Minutes With: Luke Griffin

Barton Lynch Launches Blast Off 2021

Review: Billabong Custom 4:3 Synergy

Inside Camper Life With Craig Levers

Chasing Unicorns With Jean Pierre Guillotin

Breaking News: 2021 Scholastics Cancelled, Primary School Champs Postponed

Watch: Chasing Winter With Paige Hareb

Rising Grom: Indica Knox Corcoran

Mental Health: How Surfing Is Winning The War

Surf Survival Week With Dr Will Allen