Dodge the flying boards, negotiate the double-up, and the perfection is yours.

Watch the video highlights from the "best Eddie yet."

While Eddie was going, the Maui crew were...erm, towing.

In 1998 Kelly Slater and Tom Curren tow surfed some of the biggest waves the Gold Coast had seen.

 "It's amazing how people suffer so much at one end, while surfers have so much fun at the other."

As surfers prepare to gorge on the fruits of Cyclone Winston, Fijians clean up the devstation. Donate to the relief fund here.

It all looks so serene: blue water, blue sky, big barrels. But the aesthetic beauty captured by surf photographers belies the ever-present dangers. Last Friday, an enjoyable shoot in WA's south-west quickly turned into a nightmare for photographer Peter Jovic.

"I’m going to take some time off and have a bit of a personal year,” Says Fanning who'll surf select events in 2016.

One has a bung knee the other a seperated sternum, yet if the Eddie runs this week then the two old stagers will put pain and discomfort behind them.

From avant-garde asymmetrical to classical log, Ryan Burch has got all points of the surfboard spectrum covered. 

"I'm not crazy. I didn't just fly out of the womb and surf 70-foot waves; it was a process."

Mark Healey explains how he became comfortable in waves tipping ten times overhead.