Take Five: EP 32 Is Jack Robbo Australian surfing’s return to greatness?

Can Jack Robinson lead Australia back to surfing greatness? There has been much hand-wringing as to the recent, seemingly impotent...

Take Five: EP 30 Kanoa Igarashi just destroyed all preconceived notions

Quite a few people didn’t like a young, brash boxer by the name of Cassius Clay. Continuing along a pugilistic...

Take Five: EP 28 It’s on our watch

As surfers, we often hear stories about various coastal erosion issues simply because that’s where we roll. But it’s also...

Take Five: EP 27 John Florence is back, and then some

Did you feel it? Because today at around 11:30 Hawaiian Time, John Florence initiated a sonic reverberation of which reset...

Take Five: EP 26 The North Shore may never be the same.

An interesting ordinance is making its way through the City and County Council of Honolulu that could change the Hawaiian...

Take Five: EP 25 It was a pretty good year at the movies

As we wind down the year, we thought we’d take a minute to reflect on a few of the more...

Take Five EP 24: Is it time for surfers to unite in the cause of ocean health?

Here we go again. As has been widely reported, a major oil spill has occurred off the coast of Huntington...

Take Five: EP 23 Who is deciding what is good surfing?

The topic has been tossed around for years, more like decades actually. What is good surfing? So when Kelly ripped...

Take Five: EP 22 Gabriel Medina is the best competitive surfer in the world.

One of surfing’s popular media outlets dropped a bit of a stinker recently. Something about how the current Brazilian domination...

Take Five: EP 21 Is surf localism racism?

“Hey haole, beat it!” If you’ve surfed certain regions in the South Pacific to any significant degree, you’ve probably heard...

TAKE FIVE EP: 20 Buy Now or build a brand

In case you missed it, French-born woman surfer, Johanne Defay, won the ladies‘ side of things at the WSL event...

Take Five: EP 19 Observations from the pool

It seems like a long time ago but it’s only been six short years since Kelly rained on Adriano’s WSL...

TAKE FIVE: EP 18 Are you a local?

Do you consider yourself a local at a surf spot somewhere? No really, serious question. We ask because an interesting...

TAKE FIVE: EP 16 ‘Rona be damned, the WSL is going to Rio

While the WSL had our attention watching the comp in Newcastle last week (Congrats to Italo and Carissa by the...

Take Five: EP 15 Noa Deane’s transcendent moment

Hard to believe it’s been seven-plus years already since Noa Deane’s uncomfortable to some moment at the Surfer Poll Awards....

TAKE FIVE: EP 14 Who’s content is it anyway?

From what we understand, things were different back in the day regarding usage rights to creative content. Or more specific...

Take Five: EP 13 What the F**K are we even riding?

Surfing, as we mostly know it – riding a wave while standing upright on a surfboard – is a fairly...

Take Five: EP 08 RIP Surfer Magazine and Michael Tomson

As we mentioned last week, the granddaddy of surf media, Surfer Magazine, has been shuttered. After 60 years of continuous...