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You might not have heard of Tahlija Redgard, but her surfing is, in a word, spectacular. She's a surfer, through and through.

On July 21, 1984, the J-Bay Open Country Feeling J-Bay Surf Classic was held at Supertubes, Jeffrey's Bay, and Occy won it in resounding fashion.

It's wildly difficult to get as good as Ari Browne is on a finless surfboard. Here he is in Bali, sliding around sans kegs. It's a beautiful thing, isn't it?

In 1998, former world champion Wayne Rabbit Bartholomew took over what was then known as the ASP and was handed a World Tour that was going into cardiac arrest. The majority of surf contests were being held in urban surfing centers, often in sub-par waves. Six times world champ Kelly Slater had ...

Albert Falzon, who directed 'Morning of the Earth,' makes the King’s Birthday Honors List. Quite an honor for a surf filmmak

Dane Kealoha seemed destined to become Hawaii’s first pro-tour champion. The system had other plans.

Occy breaks down notable Pipeline heats, mental health, wave pool technology, and more as TSJ 29.3's interview subject.

Ben Marcus is a natural born writer who worked at Surfer Magazine as an editor for 10 years, and now has 15 published books with his name on them - well most of them, anyway. Born in San Francisco in 1960, Ben lived in the Santa Clara Valley until he moved to Santa Cruz with his mother Sue and younger brother Michael in 1970. Ben was a "Valley" trying to fit in with the cool kids during a time when Santa Cruz was a smaller, quieter, inexpensive hippie beach town. While walking home fro...

Coming Soon: "Triptych" -- Two Decades With Mick Fanning An interview with filmmaker Vaughan Blakey about his new, sprawling edit Photo: Ryan Miller Link copied to clipboard In some ways, it feels like Mick Fanning has been around forever. He won his first major tour event in a previous millennium, aged just 17, coming from nowhere. In the years since there have been several distinct Fanning eras. Snowy-haired, rubber-limbed little ratbag. Founding member of the Cooly Kids. Minister for Good Ti...

Paul Evans How a melancholic 90’s indy surf film championing middle aged outliers revealed Hawaiian style surf in the Emerald Isle, and changed what everyday surfers have ridden ever since. Andrew Kidman and Jon Frank’s 1996 surf film Litmus was nothing if not original. Against a background action clip parts films or the more polished and cinematic, yet fairly formulaic McCoy/Billabong films, Litmus stood out in terms of surfers, themes, storytelling and locations. “The riders, the boa...