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How To: Dial In Your Pre-Surf Stretch With Dr Oliver Farley

Dr Oliver FarleyJul 1, 2020July 25, 20240

Having a pre-surf stretch routine of some sort is vital for nearly every surfer. For younger grommets and aspiring surf athletes it will let them perform at their best. For older surfers it will ensure they can surf pain and injury free for longer. Who doesn’t want to boost like...

Watch: Solitude, From New Zealand’s Newest Wetsuit Brand

Derek MorrisonJun 30, 2020July 25, 20240

Born of New Zealand, Coastlines Wetsuits, officially pulled up a chair at the global rubber buffet when they launched just a few short months ago. NZSJ discovered they have some heavy hitters on their team and their heart’s in the right place. A few months before the brand launched, former...

Watch: The Allan Byrne Story

Derek MorrisonJun 30, 2020July 25, 20240

Allan Byrne contributed more to surfing than most modern surfers will ever realise. He is considered to be one of New Zealand’s most successful surfers ever, still to this day. In this short film by Clive Neeson, Allan describes in his own words what that era was like. How did he turn...

Aotearoa Surf Film Festival: New Dates

Derek MorrisonJun 25, 2020September 3, 20200

As the Aotearoa Surf Film Festival closed in on the end of its 2020 tour, Covid-19 rose it’s head and scuttled the final events – including a screening at the Piha Pro. Event director, Nick Stevenson, has survived the ordeal and is breathing a second life into the festival for...

Nothing Good About Covid-19 … Unless You’re Billy Stairmand

CPLJun 17, 2020July 25, 20240

We’ve all had a topsy-turvy year, but for seven-time New Zealand surfing champ Billy Stairmand it has kind of worked out okay. Photographer Craig Levers catches up with our Olympic hope and finds out why … NZSJ: Hey Billy, you’re wearing a knee brace, what happened? During the Newcastle 5000 WQS...

Science: The Big Wave Link Between Climate Change And The Southern Ocean

Derek MorrisonJun 11, 2020July 25, 20240

Monster waves in the Southern Ocean could grow even bigger and more frequent under climate change, scientists warn. Science journalist Jamie Morton explains what’s going on in the southern latitudes storm engine. Extreme waves in the wild and windswept ocean below New Zealand, stretching across notorious latitudes dubbed the “roaring...

Watch: National Champ Elliot Paerata-Reid – The Post-Lockdown Edit

Derek MorrisonJun 9, 2020July 25, 20240

Current New Zealand Surfing Champion Elliot Paerata-Reid looks back on his year in this post lockdown release – you can rest-assured this is no ordinary surf memoir. From sublime Indonesian waves to a full-on aerial showcase, EPR’s film Reccy is another solid dose of the hard-charging Piha surfer. Check out...

Buy Local: Help Pump New Zealand’s Surf Industry

Derek MorrisonMay 28, 20200

The Covid-19 health crisis has taught New Zealanders a lot of things, but nothing has become clearer: we need to support local surf businesses. By supporting them we pump the vascular system of our very own New Zealand surf industry. And that reaches deep into the heart of our surf...

The Travis McCoy Story: Nothing Puts Life Into Focus Like Death

Derek MorrisonMay 3, 20200

In 2017 Mount Maunganui’s Travis McCoy went for a surf that ended in an horrific fin gash to his face. But it was what the subsequent scan showed that changed his life forever. Surf photographer Peter Chamberlain sits down with Travis a few years into his recovery to see how...

WSL Redesigns 2021 Tour, Suspends 2020 Events Until July

Derek MorrisonApr 29, 2020July 2, 20200

The World Surf League has today announced a totally revised 2021 Championship Tour, Challenger Series, and Qualifying Series. It has also confirmed that due to the continued evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, WSL is postponing or canceling all events, at all levels of competition, through to the start of July....

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

How To: Dial In Your Pre-Surf Stretch With Dr Oliver Farley

Watch: Solitude, From New Zealand’s Newest Wetsuit Brand

Watch: The Allan Byrne Story

Aotearoa Surf Film Festival: New Dates

Nothing Good About Covid-19 … Unless You’re Billy Stairmand

Science: The Big Wave Link Between Climate Change And The Southern Ocean

Watch: National Champ Elliot Paerata-Reid – The Post-Lockdown Edit

Buy Local: Help Pump New Zealand’s Surf Industry

The Travis McCoy Story: Nothing Puts Life Into Focus Like Death

WSL Redesigns 2021 Tour, Suspends 2020 Events Until July