In 1988 the Hawaiian season got off to a patchy start. Tom Carroll won the Hard Rock Cafe World Cup at ten to fifteen foot Sunset

"When you tread in other peoples footsteps you leave none of your own."

In the interests of 'knowing thyself' I have spent much time in self-reflection and believe I have risen above the socially cultivated qualities that would cloud my judgement

I was hungover like a bastard and needed to surf. The night before a couple of friends were wed on Clarkes Beach

Bribery and graft: if you've spent any time in Indonesia you know how the system works

Like a sign of the apocalypse, right then I knew we were doomed.

Progressive surfing and competition will never work well together

The Australian coastline is being loved to death

There is a litany of tragic figures in Australian surfing and it's not hard to see why

Surfing can't change the world