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Nico Beighton

Wave of the Day: Chris Friend showing power and subtlety in a Sunshine Coast cutback

Luke Dorrington hopes to lead club to back-to-back QLD Titles

Friday, 17 January 2014

"I’ve been in the mines since 2009 so I’m pretty stoked to get out of there and sleep in my own bed and get a few waves."

Swellnet Sessions

New Zealand

Simon Hayward

Fri 17 January 11:52am

Who needs happy pills when you can road trip?

Swellnet Dispatch

Dave Kalama and Jamie Mitchell talk story about Belharra and big waves

Stu Nettle

Friday, 17 January 2014

"I just knew I was in the right spot spot," says Jamie Mitchell about his 60-foot Belharra bomb. "So basically I just swung, put my head down, and paddled my arse off."

Listen to Mitchell and Dave Kalama as they kick back on Kalama's Hawaiian lanai and talk story.

Simon Hayward

Wave of the Day: Join the queue - New Zealand

Swellnet Analysis

US cold wave implies nothing about global warming

Stu Nettle

Thursday, 16 January 2014

After an extreme cold snap, the US media are making claims that this event is linked to anthropogenic global warming. Sceptics suggest that it's clear evidence that global warming is nonsense, while believers explain the cold wave as another example of extreme weather forced by increased greenhouse gases.

The truth? Both are wrong.

Jack Dekort

Wave of the Day: Jackson Winter riding the green shoots of a new swell at Noosa

Swellnet Analysis

Tropical Cyclone Dylan blowin' in the wind

Craig Brokensha

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

After one of the slowest starts to the Gold Coast surf season in recent memory, the first tropical cyclone for the year is expected to develop over the coming days in the Coral Sea.

Surfpolitik

Attack of the drones: Aerial surf photography takes off

Stu Nettle

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

The most striking footage of Pipeline this year came from Eric Sterman, a young videographer from Hawaii who perched cross-legged on the sand with a remote control in his hands as Kelly Slater paddled into a set during the Pipe Masters.

Nico Beighton

Wave of the Day: The pleasure of displacing water - Jack Reginato, Sunshine Coast

Ben Shepherd

Wave of the Day: Damien Hobgood with spit on his back and sunshine on his face - Pipeline

Swellnet Sessions

Taiwan Surf Report: Winter season, so far...

Neil 'Moonwalker' Armstrong

Mon 13 January 4:16pm

While the much-hyped Eddie swell failed to live up to expectations in Hawaii, we reveled in the early formation of this system before it slid east to Hawaii. And this has been but one of many.