Former World Champion longboarder turned politician Cori Schumacher focus of fiery recall effort: “The sort of misbehavior and misdeeds she’s engaged in, it has no place in this community!”
"Pure toxicity."
New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corp. pays out $38m for over 27,000 surfing injuries; Kicks off “Preventable” campaign seeking to help Kiwi surfers calm down, chill out!
“People can avoid most injuries by taking a moment to think – have a ‘hmmm.’”
“Storm of Hate”: KKK flyers blanket surf city USA Huntington Beach as rally organised by The Loyal White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan threatens to destroy town’s famous racial harmony!
"Racist terrorism."
Epiphany: The vomitous spasm of surf fiction and what it means for you, me, World Surf League CEO Erik Logan and our shared future!
Under the Wave at Waimea.
Radical Progression: 3x World Champion Mick Fanning shocks international sporting community by announcing his un-retirement, re-entry into professional surfing at highest possible level!
Lightning Strikes 4x.
Rip Curl Newcastle Pro Finals Day analysis: “Reality slaps judges in face; tailwind can’t push local heroes; Italo Ferreira weaponises pace!”
And, oh yeah, No J-Bay, back to Barra in Mexico.
Carissa Moore and Italo Ferreira win Rip Curl Newcastle Pro, “Surfing is a beautiful thing, the sort of beauty we want to surround our lives with!”
“It was almost mystical, I had a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to-me, nothing-can-harm-me, nothing-can-touch-me.”
Open thread: Comment Live Rip Curl Newcastle Pro, Finals Day!
Come into the clubroom, shuck your inhibitions.
Listen: Is there another sport on the face of this earth where, as a true fan, you can sit, watch and ruthlessly mock every single moment?
Genius?
Rip Curl Newcastle Pro, Day Four, “Newy’s blue-collar dreams will be smashed to smithereens by a Brazilian; anyone of them, Medina, Italo or Toledo can do it!”
And Carissa Moore, narrowing the gap…
Beloved New Jersey Vlogger and Instagram star responds to charges of being a “freeloading grifter”, a “Biden voter” and “thirty-year-old man-child” with tear jerking to-camera piece for 142,000 followers
"Join the marines!"
Need an invigorating sneer of lager-breathed misery? Come see the grim-faced antithesis of WSL sheen at Great Britain’s Olympic Surf Team qualifiers!
Not a bikini or boardshort in sight. No sunbathers or flip flops. Just a faded bottle of Irn Bru bobbing along in the bollock haemorrhaging North Sea chill.
