Derek Morrison

Ricardo Surges To The Podium At Hawaiian Pro, Now Seventh In QS

Derek MorrisonNovember 18, 2018March 1, 2019

by Derek MorrisonNovember 18, 2018March 1, 20190

Ricardo Christie laid down a new chapter in New Zealand surfing history today when he went blow-for-blow with three of the world’s best in the final of the Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa. His third place finish catapulted Ricardo from 14th to seventh on the WQS rankings and puts him in......

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Surf Athletes

Paige Hareb Re-Qualifies For 2019 World Championship Tour

Derek MorrisonNovember 12, 2018February 8, 2019

by Derek MorrisonNovember 12, 2018February 8, 20190

Taranaki’s Paige Hareb has re-qualified for the 2019 Championship Tour today at Birubi Beach, Port Stephens, NSW, Australia. It was here last year that she re-qualified for the World Surf League Championship Tour with an outstanding quarterfinal result. Today she’s once again booked herself a starting spot in the 2019......

Technique

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

Derek MorrisonNovember 8, 2018November 8, 2018

by Derek MorrisonNovember 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......

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Film Review: Andy Irons – Kissed By God

Derek MorrisonNovember 2, 2018

by Derek MorrisonNovember 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......

Artists

Five Minutes With: Surf Photography Master Ted Grambeau

Derek MorrisonOctober 31, 2018February 8, 2019

by Derek MorrisonOctober 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......

Australia

Surf Lakes Reveal “5 Wave” Technology In Queensland Mountains

Derek MorrisonOctober 28, 2018February 8, 2019

by Derek MorrisonOctober 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......

Surf Athletes

New Zealand Junior Surfing Team Primed for World Champs

Derek MorrisonOctober 23, 2018November 8, 2018

by Derek MorrisonOctober 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......

Sessions

Featured Unruly Caverns: Chasing Slabs In The Deepest South

Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2018March 1, 2019

by Derek MorrisonOctober 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.......

Ideas

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

Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2018October 15, 2018

by Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2018October 15, 20180

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......

Issues

After The Quake: Hope Springs In Kaikoura

Derek MorrisonOctober 12, 2018

by Derek MorrisonOctober 12, 20180

In a sheltered bay off the end of the Kaikoura Peninsula columns of bubbles spill out of the sea floor like shimmering mercury and make their way to the surface. It’s a dazzling display, like a scene that belongs in Wonderland. This is Hope Springs, aptly named, and just one......