Kai Otton takes time out from the CT chasing mid-winter swells near home. First stop is the perfect training ground for Chopes and arrest his mid-year slump.

First time on a single fin and he wins the division. Taj Burrow is going OK in retirement.

On the first of August the WA coast was pleasantly smashed by a large south-west swell. John Barton perched himself on the hill and watched the local maniacs go about their business.

Elliot Marshall struggles through numerous perfect barrels around his South Coast home plus the odd desert jaunt.

Mick Fanning and Mason Ho find cold waves and clarity in the frozen north.

Dead bodies, effluent, and one incredible tidal bore - a Brazilian documentary team finds the lot on the Ganges River.

It's mid-season and the Indo edits are coming thick and fast. This one features Jay Davies and co. swinging both ways in Java.

Mick and Jarryd roll the dice over the Shippies step with mixed, yet always entertaining, results.

Surfing's first world champion has died overnight. Bernard 'Midget' Farrelly was 71-years-old.