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You've seen Scott 'Whippy' Dennis in many a gaping cavern. Each time a swell smashes his little south coast hamlet footage appears of Whippy taking off deep, pulling in late, and toying with the rocks. He plays a big game, does Whippy, but what about all those in between swells?

Last week the RVCA JBU Super Trial went down in excellent six foot waves at Jeffreys Bay. Featuring 16 of South Africa's best surfers the Super Trials offered the sole local wildcard into next month's ASP Jeffrey's Bay Open.

While testing his GoPro Kelly Slater clocks more barrel time than you or I have had in the last year.

The first swell of the season hit on the weekend with wild reports filtering in. "It's the biggest and heaviest I've ever seen it," said Sean Holmes, while South Africa's Zigzag Magazine is reporting one set "feathered and closed out right across."

Stu Gibson wiggles his digits and brings us an overarching view of Cloudbreak. From 50 feet high the various sections of the wave become visible as the swell lines bend and focus.

Just a month after the controversial Western Australian shark cull ended a local company has unveiled a product that may make future culls redundant.

A video in which everyone's favourite Basque hermit - because we all know heaps of Basque hermits, right? - travels north of Namibia, deep into the Angolan desert, to experience his best surf session ever.

You may be unfamiliar with his name but Santa Barbara's Andrew Bennett recently had the trip everyone wants - six days in the Mentawais, six days of perfect waves.

The timing is bad. The Indonesian swell season has just begun with surfers filtering into the archipelago, while on Bali an outbreak of Dengue fever has struck. Dr Joel Menzies provides sound advice to all surfers intending to make the trip.

"My name's Mikey Brennan, I'm from Tasmania and more than anything I like getting barrelled." There's no messing about in this short vid about Tassie's lion-hearted elastic man.