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Five Rides (And a Wipeout) From New South Wales Super Session Pipeline comes to Australia's East Coast, featuring Paul Morgan, Laurie Towner, Matt Dunsmore and more Surfline Link copied to clipboard Video by Spencer Frost As we reported over the weekend, Thursday January 21 was an exceptional day up and down the NSW coast — especially if you like your swells on the bigger, scarier, hairier side of things and knew exactly where to go. Big wave sessions were all over the place, but perhaps this one, captured on camera by filmmaker Spencer Frost – and charged by the likes of Paul Morgan, Lau...

Australia's East Coast Served a Heavy Dose of South/SSE Power Fickle reefs and distant bombies light up NSW Zen Joyce. Photo: Zach Bowden (@bigzphoto) Surfline Link copied to clipboard Aussie surfers have been enduring endless weeks of an Instagram feed flush with giant waves hitting Hawaii and California this North American winter, which is all well and good, but it’s nowhere near home. This week, however, the East Coast of Aus got its own serving of raw ocean power, peaking on Thursday January 21.  “We’re on the cusp of a large and long-enduring run of South and SSE groundswell acros...

The Weirdest WSL Week Ever, Pumping Kirra, and Nate Florence's Backdoor Gem Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 18 2020 Photo: WSL / Bielmann Link copied to clipboard 1. Pipe Masters got the Rona Was this the most bizarre week in the WSL’s time as an organisation? It has to be a contender, right? To recap: on Sunday, Aus time, the WSL announced that they were halting the Pipe Masters “as a result of positive COVID-19 tests within the WSL staff, including WSL CEO Erik Logan”. Who could have foreseen that coming? The running of an international sporting ev...

The East Coast Is Set to Pump, the WSL Gets Rolling, and Was This the Best Maverick's Ever? Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 11 2020 Photo: Billy Watts Link copied to clipboard 1. Maverick’s Was Perhaps the Best It’s Ever Been Here’s one way to know that Maverick’s is kind of a big deal: it’s one of the only surf spots to have a big Hollywood movie made about it. I mean, have you seen Gerard Butler on the big screen surf South Curl Curl? (No, you haven’t.) Have you heard of a movie called