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VID: Layne nails Ours

If you haven’t seen it yet, Layne Beachley at Cape Solander (video hosted on surfline.com)(aka “ours”). It was shot by none other than Tim Bonython. Very, very impressive pit!

Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing

Screen Australia chose the Bondi Icebergs for its gala launch of Bombora, a two-part TV series that aims to tell the definitive history of surfing in Australia. As the last rays of the setting sun illuminated the offshore but tiny waves of south Bondi, Producer and Director Paul Clarke invited Bob McTavish, one of the […]

Surfing’s Stan Couper Inducted Into Australian Surfing Hall of Fame

        Stan Couper was today posthumously inducted into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame at Surf World, Torquay. Vi Couper, Stan’s wife was on hand to accept the Inductee trophy along with daughter Gail and son Geoffrey. Stan Couper is the 31stInductee into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame and now joins […]

Gerry Lopez & Jock Sutherland talkin’ Pipe

Came across this very interesting video of Gerry Lopez and Jock Sutherland talking about the history and their experiences of Pipeline. It’s part one of six and in this episode they give us brief bios before Gerry talks about trying to surf Pipe the first time in 1962 – and meeting Jock, who already had […]

Where’s Gerry?

Ever wondered what happened to Mr Pipeline? Well, it turns out that he’s been living inland since the early 90’s. A long way inland as it happens. Last year he published a book of essays entitled Surf Is Where You Find It and, according to a profile piece in his hometown paper, he’s going to […]