During the 70s, the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia was a melting pot for surfboard experimentation, development and execution. The heavyweights of the industry gravitated to Brookvale, which ...

We all have our own treasured memories of the waves we’ve ridden, but the image of surfing – the very idea of it – has in many ways been defined by Australian photographers. John Ogden’s striking new ...

First Nation people had been enjoying the surf for thousands of years before the Europeans invaded and stole their lands. It happened here, as it happened in the spiritual home of surfing, Hawaii. In ...

At just 16, Matt Archbold was tipped to be the successor to Curren’s throne until his lust for adrenaline lead him down a path towards self-annihilation.

Almost every surfer who has visited Indonesia in the last three decades has, at some point, thumbed their way through a copy of the ‘Indo Surf and Lingo’ guide. Sadly, Pete Neely, the author and ...

Tracks takes you inside a slab session with Nathan Florence at a mutant left-hander on the Southern Australian coast.

At the start of last month a video of demolition work taking place on the picturesque cliffs of Uluwatu went viral on social media. The Uluwatu escarpment, which is synonymous with surfing in Bali, ...

Over the weekend the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association held their annual ball. In attendance were Dirk and Natasha Ziff, the couple behind the modern incarnation of professional surfing, the WSL ...

If only Kelly Slater, who was in the Oscar’s crowd, had taken his moment and leapt to the stage to intervene before Will Smith landed a wildly swung slap on the ever-grinning face of Chris Rock.

Breaking News: Radical WSL Changes – A reversion to a Cumulative Point Score System, to decide 2026 world title ...

Mike Boyum was still around, and arrangements were made to go to a surf camp he had established at a newly revealed point break in East Java known as G-Land. The actor Bill Murray joined us on this ...

Back in 1991 Martin Daly asked me if I had a name for this amazing discovery that we’d both independently made. I hadn’t really given it much thought except for the huge old hollow tree that still ...