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Review: Solite Custom 3mm Heat-Moldable Booties

Derek MorrisonAugust 13, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonAugust 13, 2020July 25, 20240

Love them or hate them, booties are like the necessary evil when it comes to year-round surfing in New Zealand. Solite reckons its Custom 3mm heat-moldable booties have taken winter surfing to a whole new level. We bought a pair to find our for ourselves. But before we get into......

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Watch: Soli

Derek MorrisonAugust 13, 2020August 13, 2020

by Derek MorrisonAugust 13, 2020August 13, 20200

Take up one super talented filmmaker. Team them up with one of Australia’s most exciting pro surfers. Send them on a lap of the World Tour together and this is what you get: the epic visual story of Indigenous Australian surfer Soli Bailey. 10 years ago, an Australian surf magazine......

Kiwi Judges Confirmed For Tokyo 2020 Olympics … In 2021

Derek MorrisonJuly 28, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 28, 2020July 25, 20240

Surfing will make its debut at Tokyo 2020 on July 25, 2021 when the first competition window opens in Japan. In one year’s time the best surfers in the world are set to become the sport’s first Olympians. The International Surfing Association (ISA) celebrated the occasion by announcing the technical......

Watch: Jordy

Derek MorrisonJuly 28, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 28, 2020July 25, 20240

Filmmaker Morgan Maassen teams up with South Africa’s Jordy Smith to bring this insight into one of the World Surf League’s most stylish surfers. “My longstanding attraction to surfing has always been through the elegance of style,” offers Morgan. “Watching the way someone can navigate a wave, connecting moves, making......

Featured Special Feature: The Ratso Story

Derek MorrisonJuly 27, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 27, 2020July 25, 20240

I’m standing in the garage with him as he sniffles back the taps and shuffles through a rack full of surfboards, his long hair hanging flat. He pulls one after another out and they’ve all got stories: he’s made a bunch of them, rode others to world titles and has......

WSL Unveils New Championship Tour Format For 2021

Derek MorrisonJuly 18, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 18, 2020July 25, 20240

On the back of cancelling the 2020 World Championship Tour and Qualifying Series seasons, World Surf League has today unveiled a radical new format for the Championship Tour. To be introduced for the 2021 season that starts at the end of 2020, the WSL Championship Tour will see key format changes.......

WSL Cancels 2020 Championship Tour

Derek MorrisonJuly 18, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 18, 2020July 25, 20240

The World Surf League has today announced the cancellation of the 2020 Championship Tour season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Citing the health and safety of athletes, fans, employees, and local communities as the WSL’s top priorities, along with the challenges of international travel, the organisation has today cancelled the......

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

Derek MorrisonJune 30, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJune 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 MorrisonJune 30, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJune 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 MorrisonJune 25, 2020September 3, 2020

by Derek MorrisonJune 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......