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A Thing Of Great Cultural Power While the pros struggled for a three foot wave on Rotto, it was life and death in the shorey at Newcastle Beach. Mike Clayton-Brown, doing it for Merewether. All photos: Ethan Smith. Sean Doherty Link copied to clipboard Australian surfers will bleed for their club. From the second Tyler Wright was washed into the ocean pool at Cronulla back in 2014, her legrope snagged around the guide chain, Tyler getting smashed against the concrete wall while chasing an extra point for her hometown club of Culburra, you knew the idea of a national boardriders’ event was ...

The Box: WSL Pros (and a Few Locals) Score an Epic Free Surf Wednesday April 28, 2021 Staff Of all the many waves that litter Western Australia’s coastline, a few really stand out. The Box is one of them.  It stands out because it’s a wave that’ll take your head off just as easily as it will give you a ride you’ll never forget. Italo Ferreira can attest. It was just a few years ago that he managed to snag a wave there that blew everyone’s minds… and he did it without ever having surfed the place before. He’d never surfed there in a contest, in a free surf, n...

Hotel Quarantine For Australian Tour Surfers Think they have room service here? elsewhere // Jan 14, 2021 Words by Jed Smith With the Hawaiian leg of the rejigged 2021 World Tour coming to a premature end, most of Australia’s tour talent has returned home and begun their two-week stay in the hotel quarantine.  Julian Wilson is shacked up with filmer Jimmy Lees. Wade Carmichael is quarantining with filmer, Jess Little. Connor O’Leary is flying solo, though with the added luxury of an exercise bike arranged by Surfing Aust...