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Five Minutes With: Surfing Filmmaker Jonathan Smit

Derek MorrisonDecember 24, 2018December 24, 2018

by Derek MorrisonDecember 24, 2018December 24, 20180

Surf filmmakers in New Zealand tend to be passionate creatives lured to surfing by the curiosity of a colourful culture. They shine a light on surfing that is often a beautiful as it is compelling. Christchurch and Gold Coast-based filmmaker Jonathan Smit epitomises this ethos. He turns the creative dial......

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Making History With Paige Hareb

Derek MorrisonDecember 12, 2018July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonDecember 12, 2018July 25, 20241

Paige Hareb is New Zealand’s most successful surfer and her achievements, as the World Surf League (WSL) season for 2018 come to a close, stand testament to her competitive character and determination. The 2018 season was her seventh year competing on the WSL Championship Tour and she was thrown every......

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Book Review: The South Seas Revised Edition

Derek MorrisonDecember 9, 2018February 8, 2019

by Derek MorrisonDecember 9, 2018February 8, 20190

The South Seas Revised Edition features the work of some of the best photographers in New Zealand. These are combined with short pithy stories that offer a glimpse into our favourite beaches, surf history and characters of New Zealand’s surf culture. The South Seas Revised Edition came out of the......

Iconic Mangamaunu Point Break Gets Reprieve, Carpark Axed

Derek MorrisonNovember 26, 2018July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonNovember 26, 2018July 25, 20243

The iconic Mangamaunu Bay earns reprieve from NZ Transport Agency’s shared use cycle path plans following the Surfbreak Protection Society’s judicial review mediation. It’s a win for all surfers in New Zealand and testament to the power of the people when working together for a cause. UPDATED: November 27, 2018......

Saving An Icon: Inside The Mangamaunu Saga

Derek MorrisonNovember 26, 2018November 26, 2018

by Derek MorrisonNovember 26, 2018November 26, 20181

We have few treasures around our coastline as iconic as the arcing sweep of coastline known as Mangamaunu just north of Kaikoura. On a flat day it’s beautiful: a shimmering blue sea lapping up to a dark rocky shoreline that is separated from the jagged snowcapped peaks of the Seaward......

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......

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......

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......

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......