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How To: Pop Up Like The World’s Very Best

Derek MorrisonNov 8, 2018November 8, 20180

During the Founder’s Cup in 2018, YouTube star and photographer Brent Rose decided to film the event in slow motion. Analysing the footage afterward revealed some incredible insights into one of the most basic, yet most important techniques in surfing: the pop up. “I’ve always wanted to see the top...

Three Tips To Build Speed From Your Pop Up

Matt ScorringeNov 7, 2018March 1, 20190

Perfecting the basics can sometimes be the toughest part of surfing. Even something as simple as gaining a few more seconds on a wave isn’t actually that simple when you’re learning to surf. Professional surf coach, Matt Scorringe, of The Art Of Surfing, offers you his top three tips to bring you...

Finding Work Life Balance With Auckland Artist Greg Straight

CPLNov 7, 2018February 8, 20190

You may not have heard of artist Greg Straight, but chances are you’ve seen his work. His art is prolific and right now he’s completely on trend. He, and his wife Hannah, have landed his art into galleries throughout the country. And he’s in demand for commercial illustrations. Craig Levers...

Five Minutes With: Filmmaker Damon Meade

CPLNov 4, 2018March 1, 20190

While channeling his creative side in a fine arts degree at Massey University in the early 2000s, Damon Meade stumbled across filmmaking. That set him on a course that intersected with Maz and the Gisborne hotbed of surfing talent, and launched the career of one of New Zealand’s most successful...

Film Review: Andy Irons – Kissed By God

Derek MorrisonNov 2, 20182

On September 3, 2010, Andy Irons won the Billabong Pro at Teahupoo, Tahiti. Two months later, on November 2, 2010, one of the world’s greatest surfers was found dead, lying on his back in a bed, sheets pulled up, in a hotel in Grapevine, Texas. That’s about the centre of...

Five Minutes With: Surf Photography Master Ted Grambeau

Derek MorrisonOct 31, 2018February 8, 20190

When I first picked up a camera and started pointing it at the ocean nearly 24 years ago, there was one photographer’s work that dazzled me, inspired me and daunted me. Australia’s Ted Grambeau was one of the absolute masters of capturing surfing in the best light. And his intrepid...

Surf Lakes Reveal “5 Wave” Technology In Queensland Mountains

Derek MorrisonOct 28, 2018February 8, 20190

Think Queensland is all about the Gold Coast’s right-hand points and punchy beaches firing to life? Well if Surf Lakes International has its way then your next surf trip there may just include a trip to the Queensland mountains to surf the recently prototype tested 5 Waves technology. Good enough...

New Zealand Junior Surfing Team Primed for World Champs

Derek MorrisonOct 23, 2018November 8, 20180

The twelve-strong New Zealand Junior Surfing Team heads off to the United States next week to compete at the 2018 VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship. Held at Huntington Beach, California, the New Zealand team is fresh out of the National Scholastic Surfing Championships event where nine surfers competed. Three of...

Unruly Caverns: Chasing Slabs In The Deepest South

Derek MorrisonOct 15, 2018March 1, 20190

A late-season swell offers one last roll of the dice for New Zealand’s big-wave riders and the stakes are high. As the winds swing through the ideal bearing the focus falls on a reef on a remote corner of coastline. Four teams of surfers get the session of a lifetime....

Vege Power: How One Surfer Owned His Wave-Miles Guilt

Derek MorrisonOct 15, 2018April 22, 20260

It’s 10:30am on a Tuesday and Matt Jenks is pulling up outside Japanese restaurant Jitsu in lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, parking his bike and heading inside with a 20-litre container to drain the kitchen of its used vegetable oil. It’s a 10-minute side-trip on his way to work at Dunedin...

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

Code Brown: Why Does Dunedin Still Pump Its Sewage Into The Sea?

Jack Tyro: Chasing the North Star

How To: Pop Up Like The World’s Very Best

Three Tips To Build Speed From Your Pop Up

Finding Work Life Balance With Auckland Artist Greg Straight

Five Minutes With: Filmmaker Damon Meade

Film Review: Andy Irons – Kissed By God

Five Minutes With: Surf Photography Master Ted Grambeau

Surf Lakes Reveal “5 Wave” Technology In Queensland Mountains

New Zealand Junior Surfing Team Primed for World Champs

Unruly Caverns: Chasing Slabs In The Deepest South

Vege Power: How One Surfer Owned His Wave-Miles Guilt