"You heard about it or saw a picture. It's perfect! Right size, right wind, right for you...and you simply can't stop dreaming about it. You might as well leave school or quit your job now - because you need to go and turn that rumour into a reality. Right now!"
The latest web clip from Rip Curl's Search series.
A sailing and surf exploration of Tasmania.
The Lifeline Surf Classic is back for its eighth year.
Sid gets inducted into Surfing Australia's Hall Of Fame.
A new column where a surfboard sage, otherwise known as Murray Bourton, answers everything you want to know.
Surfers are on alert as an eight-metre humpback washes onto rocks near Scarborough.
Is surfing just another sport? Have we been deluding ourselves?
Rare showing of 2018 film, plus live music and conversation.
The turnout exceeded all expectations for Merc's paddle out.
Comments
Right at this moment, somewhere on this planet, is breaking a perfect wave.
It might never have been surfed, but more likely it is a sweet secret possessed by a few lucky souls that cherish the gift of great waves not overrun by hordes of disrespectful , over entitled fuckwits.
This wave exists in this pristine state....but not for much longer .
It's the return of The Search !
Joy!!
Soon enough some locale will be exposed and pimped out in order to shift a few more board shorts and wetties because a couple of multi millionaires want even more money.
Spots won't be named initially, so Rip Curl can wank themselves to sleep with a deluded clear conscience, but the surfers will know, the photographers will know, the team managers will know.
And they'll all bro down with guys on tour, or talk themselves up on the piss or tell mates just to let them in on the dream.
Then the magazine editors will know and the travel agents and the managers of the other teams that need a new location to pimp T Shirts and a new wave of exposure will occur.
After a while, the Bros will forget that this information is even on the down low and name the joints in photo captions or interviews about themselves .
Then it's just a short period till the joint is destroyed by punters that have seen the latest advertorial - not unlike the Aura surf resort fuckwits, or the pricks that push and push and push and push their surf camp in a formerly quiet area ( Highlights from last month video !) or anywhere else they stand to make a dollar selling out spots they don't have a right to sell.
Fuck the Search.
100% true Blowin.
This should be post of the year.
La Jolla
Blowin, you sure you're not Good Will Hunting?
You know it Zen.
Sorry about the grammar, I've been up all night mopping floors at the local primary school and anonymously and enigmatically solving the single digit times tables left unanswered on the two foot high blackboards.
You know, you could have contributed to website forums anywhere. But you chose to come to the most prestigious surf forecasting website in the world and solve other peoples problems.
But you can't answer one simple question:-
What's the GDP of Nicaragua?
That is literally the single question I cannot answer.
But i can recite the TV guide like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman if you'd like.
Cool, anything interesting on TV tonight after midnight, been having a bit of insomnia of late.
Do you like apples? Well I go the coordinates of that glassy right. How do you like them apples?...
Kaiser, look at me son, it's not your fault.
No no, it's not your fault .
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault .
Don't fuck with me Zen, not you.
Oh god I'm sorry. (sobs) I'm so sorry Zen...
Blowin good post.
I've got a question, could be tricky to answer.
What's the name of the fuckwit Manly Council Lifeguard that deliberately ran his plastic torpedo of death into me last week because I was in the buffer zone and not moving out as quick as he liked?
Still a bit pissed off I didn't give him a serve I was too stunned then caught a wave. No witnesses unfortunately.
Attn : Neil Ridgeway
Re : The Search
Neil, fuck your search.
You want to sell boardshorts, then make the best boardshorts.
See Need essentials for advice on supplying the world with shorts to surf in without ruining the surfing experience for surfers.
Or alternatively -Get a real job you muppet.
Kindly
Blowin
Forget the Search ... Let's start engineering the multiple headlands and slabs so we can surf local. May not be the same as a true Search but heh may keep the pristine wave pristine.
Not just locally.
Take Indo for example there is countless set ups that get consistent swell are almost a wave but not quite just need a little reef grinding or add some reef, and in Indo its realistic because you don't have the public jumping up and down saying no you can't do that and the good thing about coral is its often softer than rock to grind or where you fill in can actually grow on added areas.
Surfing was more interesting when surfers had no money.