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Fiji, As Seen From A Kiwi Photographer’s Perspective

Hayden CampbellNov 13, 20190

Southern surf photographer, Hayden Campbell, ditches his hood, steamer and booties in favour of some Pacific Island charm in the form of the crystal blue waters of Cloudbreak. Camera in tow, here’s his first story for New Zealand Surf Journal, directly from the coral heads of one of our most...

Watch: Jamie Civil’s Masterclass In Backhand Barrel Riding

Derek MorrisonNov 13, 2019July 25, 20240

He may prefer to hide away from the limelight, but Jamie Civil keeps drawing attention to himself in pumping hollow waves. Civil would have to be one of New Zealand’s best barrel riders and this edit by Tim Shaw and Oscar Johns attests to that. Filmed over a winter in...

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...

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Fiji, As Seen From A Kiwi Photographer’s Perspective

Watch: Jamie Civil’s Masterclass In Backhand Barrel Riding

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