Eighteen-year-old Eimeo Czermak takes us through the mega swell that hit Teahupo’o, Tahiti, on Friday August 13. Locals are calling the peak of this swell to be the biggest day of the last 10 years. In this film Eimeo recounts those three “crazy days” that include his first tow surf......
The intake of students at the University of Otago is thick with talented surfers who have had their OE wings clipped by Covid-19. One of them, 20-year-old Isaac Chadwick, has been filming and documenting his mates surfing, the student lifestyle and their rise in the music scene since he arrived.......
It was a 50-50 call. The swell could be too small, the long period, at 15 seconds, not enough to compensate. But in the heads of the 10 people assembling in the early morning darkness at the launch point, that was a gamble worth taking. And so another day in......
New Zealand records its first Delta variant cases and is plunged back into lockdown mode at the highest level, which makes surfing illegal. Level 4 is a frustrating situation to find ourselves in once again, but unlike our first lockdown back in March 2020, the rules around surfing are very......
While the Covid-19 pandemic rages worldwide 18-year-old Eimeo Czermak can’t chase his dream of Championship Tour qualification. He finds the only way to stay sane and motivated is to instill a working routine. This edit follows Eimeo as he is growing up and focusing on all the little details that......
Imagine growing up at Teahupo’o, Tahiti, surrounded by legends of the Tahitian surfing world and with a raw ambition to be a pro surfer, maybe even make the cut for the CT … Meet 18-year-old Eimeo Czermak who is about to become a household name. As much as we wanted......
The raw story behind the Taieri Mouth drowning tragedy of April 2021 and the team of surfing doctors who discovered the fateful capsize. Doctor Will Allen takes us back to a day that still haunts him – but a day that has inspired him to teach other surfers to save......
Big news out of World Surf League headquarters today with the announcement that the beleaguered Piha Pro will be staged November 5-13 as part of the 2022 Challenger Series. That comes amongst a raft of changes to the WSL event framework including a return to the mid-season cut in the......
Two super-creative and talented brothers from Auckland’s North Shore have found their feet in Otago’s student party culture and thumping line-ups. But for Sam and Ollie Charlesworth, life marches completely to their own beat. They’re not afraid to be different and they don’t conform to any one style. That’s a......
We’ve come to expect a lot from a top of the line winter wetsuit, but we didn’t expect Billabong’s Furnace Comp 4:3 chest zip steamer to catapult itself this far into the very top echelon of technology leaders. Billabong has changed. The brand used to be so cool that it......