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Win A GoPro HERO10!

Derek MorrisonNovember 15, 2021December 5, 2022

by Derek MorrisonNovember 15, 2021December 5, 20220

We’ve teamed up with GoPro and Barton Lynch’s BL Blast Off and have a brand new GoPro HERO10 to giveaway to a New Zealand surfer. We’re calling for all aspiring young filmmakers and grommets out there to work together and load up a small (up to 60-second) edit to the......

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Watch: Goddesses

Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 2021November 10, 2021

by Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 2021November 10, 20210

Acclaimed filmmaker Morgan Maassen brings us his latest film, Goddesses, which explores the lives of three young Tahitian girls: Vahine, Heimiti and Kohai Fierro. Set in their home against a dramatic backdrop of Tahiti’s jungle, mountains and reefbreaks, this film is as mesmerizing as it is soulful. “My obsession with......

Watch: Eimeo Czermak Scores Late Season Teahupo’o

Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 2021November 10, 2021

by Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 2021November 10, 20210

There’s something very exciting happening at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games venue of Teahupo’o in Tahiti. The local surfers are stepping up to the plate in a big way, led by a mixture of the older guard and the new rising stars in the Tahitian lineup. In this film teenage......

Bask: Volume II

Derek MorrisonNovember 9, 2021November 9, 2021

by Derek MorrisonNovember 9, 2021November 9, 20210

Filmed over the nine months of the university year in Ōtepoti Dunedin, the Bask series returns with a vengeance. Filmmaker Isaac Chadwick has turned up the dial on the party and surf elements of Dunedin’s student surfer lifestyle. It’s clear early on that twice the blood sweat and beers have......

Surfing With Sea Lions: The Cheat Sheet

Derek MorrisonNovember 3, 2021December 13, 2022

by Derek MorrisonNovember 3, 2021December 13, 20220

Surfing on the Otago Coast is a sublime experience most of the time, but the number of surfers who report supposed “near-death encounters” with sea lions is puzzling. According to Doc Coastal Otago Ranger Jim Fyfe, we’re reading them all wrong. In this film he offers us his cheat sheet......

Conservation: How You Can Help Our Hector’s Dolphins

Derek MorrisonNovember 2, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonNovember 2, 2021July 25, 20240

Fisheries New Zealand is asking for feedback on proposed fisheries measures to further protect South Island Hector’s dolphins. Hector’s are the small wee dolphins that love to surf and hang out with humans – especially kids. An encounter with a Hector’s dolphin will brighten up anyone’s day, but they need......

Barton Lynch Launches Blast Off 2021

Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonOctober 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,......

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Review: Billabong Custom 4:3 Synergy

Derek MorrisonOctober 13, 2021October 13, 2021

by Derek MorrisonOctober 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 MorrisonOctober 4, 2021October 4, 2021

by Derek MorrisonOctober 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 MorrisonSeptember 21, 2021September 21, 2021

by Derek MorrisonSeptember 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......