Surfing
‘You wait your whole life for these days’: Big-wave surfers enjoy Sydney’s huge swell
A rare, extended period of large surf is pummelling the NSW coastline and while most people are staying well clear, a few surfers are cashing in.
- by Josh Dye
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Could this Aussie surf drama be the next teen hit for Netflix?
Shot over 10 weeks on Victoria’s Surf Coast, Surviving Summer is the latest series from the creator of the internationally successful Dance Academy.
- by Debi Enker
The twin projects that will transform Sydney’s Bondi Beach
Plans to overhaul the heritage-listed Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club have been approved as work forges ahead to restore the beach’s famed pavilion.
- by Megan Gorrey
‘You don’t feel the size. You feel the power’: The largest wave ever surfed
It took 18 months to measure, but Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner has officially ridden the biggest wave ever surfed.
- by Noah Smith
The largest wave ever surfed
German Sebastian Steudtner set a new Guinness Word Record for the largest wave surfed by riding this 86 foot (26.21m) monster at Nazaré.
Riding the world’s biggest waves, without a surfboard
Kelly Slater described Kalani Lattanzi’s performance of bodysurfing a notorious break as “one of the all-time great rides in the surf world”.
- by Kelley Manley
Leonardo broke his back at Pipeline. Now he’s back surfing and a face of Gucci
Italy’s first pro surfer is in town, by way of a career-threatening Pipeline wipeout and celebrated outing at Milan’s Fashion Week.
- by Dan Walsh
Leonardo Fioravanti breaks his back after wiping out at Pipeline
The Italian surfer suffered a devastating injury at the Hawaiian surf sport in 2015. Credit: Red Bull
Surfing greats seek to set Midget Farrelly’s legacy in stone
Surfing legends including Kelly Slater, Layne Beachley and Tom Carroll are campaigning to erect a statue of the late inaugural Australian world surfing champion Bernard “Midget” Farrelly in Palm Beach.
- by Millie Muroi
‘The Cali dream was a bit tarnished’: How Australia’s surf culture became the envy of the world
While the ‘surf’s up, tools down’ attitude reigned supreme in the early 1970s, a cohort of entrepreneurial thinkers spent enough time on dry land to build what would become the world’s biggest surf brands.
- by Kimberly Gillan
World surf champion Pauline Menczer back on the board at Bondi
Bondi-born and bred world champion surfer Pauline Menczer took her first surf there in 36 years on Sunday. Now a mural at her former home will immortalise her and a surfboard will take her name.
- by Helen Pitt