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“It Feels Mellow, To Be Honest”: Coach Bede Completes His Prep Two days out from Olympics zero hour, the Irukandjis find themselves in a strangely quiet place. Super Sally, psyching to live her dream. Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard “I’ve never seen people froth out so hard over one-foot waves.” Ethan Smith, Team Australia’s media guy, is chortling over the Irukandjis’s session yesterday morning at Shidashita. Julian and Sally got in on Tuesday, Steph and Owen on Wednesday arvo, and they spent all Thursday morning surfing the mini-beachies under the eye of team coach Bede ...

With ‘The Drop,’ writer Thad Ziolkowski explores the connection between addiction and surfing by Ryan McDonald If ever a life called out to be transformed into a podcast, it is that of Rick “Raz” Rasmussen, a towheaded trafficker who jet-setted from jungle to red carpet before being gunned down in Harlem following a botched cocaine deal. He was 27, not far removed from a comfortable childhood in suburban Long Island. He was also a former U.S. surfing champion. Rasmussen’s appetite for danger is apparent from his first appearance in Thad Ziolkowski’s new book “The Drop: How the M...

Interviewing Luiza de Moraes, the director behind The Curious Tales of Italo Ferreira

Late Drop Big Wave Podcast with Laurie Towner If it’s heaving, you just know Laurie’s gonna go. Presented By Link copied to clipboard Welcome to Episode Two of Season Three of Late Drop – The Big Wave podcast. The series was created to showcase conversations with some of the best big-wave surfers in the world — hosted by one of the best big-wave surfers in the world. New episodes will drop on Surfline every other week. Stay tuned here  for more. When Billabong sent 19-year-old Laurie Towner to one of the scariest waves on the planet during a massive swell with top-shelf pros Andy Ir...

The Other Event Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard All photos by Swilly Yeah we all watched the heats. (Well, many of us at least.) We know who won, we know how they did it, and we know where they’ve gone — to the West, to face a totally different game.  But what happens in the water around a CT at a place like North Narrabeen? A lot of people surf brilliantly, jersey or no jersey, pro or local. It’s the event beyond the event. We asked photographer Simon Williams to record what he could of it all. Here’s some of that record, along with a few of Swilly’s thoughts: