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Surfer, Dude – Blu-Ray Review

09-01-2009 — “It’s a hit, broseff. Actually, more like a slap in the face.” This scathing attack by Laura Burrows at ING Entertainment on Matthew McConaughey’s surf film must be ten times as entertaining as the movie. You decide: “US, January 6, 2009 – Matthew McConaughey’s Surfer, Dude is nothing more than the stoned ramblings of a wayward MTV spin-off. Just like The Real World, this […]

VIDEO:: “Hawaii Surfing” but I’m sure some of it’s Teahupo’o

21-12-2008 — Hawaii and Chopes, and maybe other places too under the one name of “Hawaii Surfing”, this video is still 4:21 minutes of great waves, some of Laird’s momentus waves at Chopes, some of Flea in Hawaii, others. With nearly 2 million views and a ranking of 4.5, this editor agrees it’s worth the […]

Bra Boys, Bandidos and Comancheros clash in turf war at Maroubra

21-12-2008 — Interesting story in the Sunday Telegraph this morning in Sydney. What do RealSurfers think about this?   “A VOLATILE turf war has broken out between the Bra Boys and two outlaw motorcycle gangs that have begun moving into the surfers’ territory in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra.”   Here’s a link to the […]

Editor’s choice from our mailbag

Your correspondent has been spending too much time below decks tinkering with the engine, so it was about time he put in appearance on the bridge. We have a bit of a backlog in the way of suggested links, so I’m calling this round ‘from the mailbag’. Cardboard boards? Sounds mad doesn’t it? Rod D. […]

Artificial reefs?

Who hasn’t watched perfect hundred metre long walls shutting down along a beach and thought ‘if only there was a reef…’? Artificial surfing reefs have recently bobbed up as a topic on our forums, so we thought we’d see what we could find in the way of interesting links on the topic. If you’re not […]

Threatened surf spots

For as long as there have been surf spots, there have been people trying to turn them into marinas, breakwalls, jetties, boat ramps, pulp mills, etc etc. Here are a few sites devoted to threatened surf spots such as Kirra, Bastion point in Victoria, Ollies at Pt Kembla and New Zealand’s Whangamata. Over the last […]

Surfin’ photography #1

If there’s one category of editor’s choice links I’m highly likely to revisit, it’ll be surfing photographers. So let’s kick off with a round up that includes David Pu’u, wozthatyou, aquabumps, waveriders gallery, Sean Davey, Hugh Davis and Andrew Shield. We surfers have an insatiable appetite for pictures of waves, and more than that, for […]

Editor’s picks: Designs on you

I decided my latest editor’s picks should be on a theme… and that theme is design. (sites checked out include: swaylocks.com, Phoresia.org (sustainable design); How to build a surfboard; shaping; collection of board building links) We’ll kick off with Swaylocks.com‘s General discussion Forum which the blub describes thusly: ‘Questions & answers, thoughts & theories on […]

Cold Water Editor’s picks – Sunday evening 2 Nov 2008

What’s looking good for Monday Australian time? Lots of cold water spots, that’s what. Chile looks promising, so does Morocco and might be something in South Africa. Both Westports (USA and NZ) could have something too. For a god-like overview of surf prospects all around our beautiful blue planet, Stormsurf’s global model is pretty cool… […]

Editor’s picks 31 Oct 2008 – An all buoy review

It’s one of those days when pretty much all of Australia is small or near flat. How do I know? Well, I rounded up every link I could find to actual (as opposed to virtual) wave buoy data around the surfable regions of Qld, NSW, Vic and WA – and I checked ’em all. In […]