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Chris Malone, Zhana Hutchieson Claim Aotearoa Maori Titles  

Derek MorrisonNov 10, 20190

Chris Malone and Zhana Hutchieson surfed to victory at the Aotearoa Maori Titles at the end of October and in doing so claim two of the coveted trials slots for the Piha Pro scheduled for March 2020. Malone and Hutchieson fought off some tough opponents with excellent surfing on the...

Waikato Surfers Use Home Wave Advantage To Dominate At Scholastics

Derek MorrisonOct 12, 2019November 27, 20190

Waikato surfers dominate at the 2019 National Scholastic Surfing Championships claiming the team title, winning two of the seven titles on offer and boasting six surfers in the finals. The five-day event wrapped up yesterday in a 1.5m swell at Manu Bay, Raglan. Finals day saw the biggest surf of...

Sustainability And Innovation Key Drivers At Seventhwave Wetsuits

Derek MorrisonOct 10, 2019October 11, 20190

Lying on a table in Seventhwave’s Ferrymead factory in Christchurch is a fluffy orange wetsuit that doesn’t look anything like the wetsuit manufacturer’s flagship Yamamoto suits. Sarah smiles, she lifts the wetsuit up and explains the prototype to me. “I haven’t surfed in this one yet,” she admits with a...

Kathmandu Buys Rip Curl For $368 Million

Derek MorrisonOct 2, 2019November 27, 20190

New Zealand company Kathmandu yesterday entered into a binding agreement to acquire 100 percent of the Rip Curl Group Pty Limited for NZ$368 million. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of 2019. The sale should come as no surprise, Rip Curl’s founders, Brian Singer and Douglas...

Saffi Vette and Tane Bowden Win Jan Juc Pro Junior

Derek MorrisonSep 25, 2019July 2, 20200

New Zealand surfers Tane Bowden and Saffi Vette have dominated the final event of the Hydralyte Sports Surf Series, winning the men’s and women’s divisions at Jan Juc, Victoria, today. With a small swell on offer on the final day of competition, the event again shifted from Bells Beach to...

Remembering Pete And Danny

Derek MorrisonSep 25, 2019July 25, 20240

Kaikoura turns it on for the semi-annual Pete and Danny Memorial Contest recently. Glassy conditions and waves in the 3-6-foot range ensure competitors are fizzing at a local righthand point break, but it is the smoky campfires and laughter between two tribes that steals the show. Back in 1995 two...

A Daily Practice: The Philosophy Driving Sadhana Surfboards

Derek MorrisonSep 24, 2019September 25, 20190

I knew it was Jay standing there in the parking lot. It wasn’t because he wore the hair of a rocker, or that he stood in dusty jeans with a plain, unbranded mushroom-coloured jersey. It was the fine gradient of foam dust on his fingers that gave him away. Since...

Jonas Tawharu: An Indonesian Edit

Derek MorrisonSep 18, 2019July 25, 20240

Rusty surfer Jonas Tawharu blazes a trail through Indonesia with filmmaker Oscar Johns capturing the powerful goofyfooter’s every turn, reo and barrel. Twenty-year-old Jonas may call Mount Maunganui home, but it has been the waves around Dunedin, where he is currently studying marketing and communications, that have helped him to...

Review: 300 Surfs In Rip Curl’s New Heat Seeker … Here’s What Failed

Derek MorrisonSep 16, 2019September 16, 20191

At the start of 2019 Rip Curl launched an all-new wetsuit aimed straight at the top end of the market and billed to incorporate technology that would change the wetsuit game forever. We got our hands on a Flashbomb Heat Seeker 4:3 and thrashed it to death. Here’s what we...

Stairmand Eighth, New Zealand Seventh At World Surfing Games

Derek MorrisonSep 16, 2019October 8, 20190

Billy Stairmand finishes in eighth place at the ISA World Surfing Games presented by Vans completed in Japan yesterday, New Zealand’s best ever result at the event. Stairmand’s performance advanced the New Zealand Team to a seventh overall finish. Staged in Miyazaki, Japan, from September 7-15, the New Zealand team...

Kelly Dust: Slater Shines His Light On Kiwi Board Shaper Scotty James

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Jack Tyro: Chasing the North Star

Chris Malone, Zhana Hutchieson Claim Aotearoa Maori Titles

Waikato Surfers Use Home Wave Advantage To Dominate At Scholastics

Sustainability And Innovation Key Drivers At Seventhwave Wetsuits

Kathmandu Buys Rip Curl For $368 Million

Saffi Vette and Tane Bowden Win Jan Juc Pro Junior

Remembering Pete And Danny

A Daily Practice: The Philosophy Driving Sadhana Surfboards

Jonas Tawharu: An Indonesian Edit

Review: 300 Surfs In Rip Curl’s New Heat Seeker … Here’s What Failed

Stairmand Eighth, New Zealand Seventh At World Surfing Games