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With Courtney Potter
What new technologies are going to the forefront in accessory manufacturing? Without a doubt, the future is in eco-friendly green technologies and innovation. Lots of the accessories we use haven’t really changed that much. They’ve been tweaked here
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The Lineup
If you’re like me, you don’t trust baggage handlers at airports. I learned this the hard way lugging various ski and surf equipment around the world, only to arrive at destinations with unidentified new channels or grooves in the decks(!). Fortunatel
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Contributors
Josh Allen Kate Allman John Andrews Tim Baker Mat Bell Russell Bierke Chris Binns Will Bendix Daniel Brennan Brad Bricknell Michael Ciaramella Liz Clark Noah Cohan Chris Coté Hayden Cox Ricky Dann Andy Davis Keiran Deck Rambo Estrada David Eurell Jay
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Olympic Game Of Throes
[1988 ISA WORLD LONGBOARD SURFING CHAMPION] As a young grommet learning to surf at Mermaid Beach in the early ’60s, one of my dreams was to see surfing in the Olympics. This would represent true recognition as a fully-fledged sport. When Phyllis O’Do
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Wild Bunch Review
Surfing is a weird balance of stats and not caring about stats. Sometimes, we like to catch waves and forget about thinking or feeling or doing or being. Other times, we press our surf watches to record wave lengths, how many kilometres we’ve paddled
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Twin-genuity
When the tour peeps have hung up their jerseys (for good or a short interlude between comps), an unassuming funster has been taken from the stable and given unbridled attention. They gallop along oceanic pastures on their favourite-shod steed: twinni
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The Weapon
Soli - 6’0” x 183/4” x 23/8” 28.3 L Sophie - 5’7” x 18.1” x 2.19” 22.6 L SOLI: It doesn’t surprise me that the shaper originated from West Oz—solid, windy, powerful waves. I surfed this on the solid six-foot left. I unloaded on the first wave with fo
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Kryptonite
Soli - 5’11” x 187/8” x 2 7/16” 29.1 L Sophie - 5’7” x 181/8” x 2 1/4” 22.91 L SOLI: This board had a fair bit of drive and a lot of pushback, which is a good thing. I rode this at the slab and at the heavy left. I think maybe my first wave was my be
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Cohort I
Soli - 5’11” x 19” x 2 3/8” 30 Sophie - 5’6” x 18 1/8” x 2 1/8” 22.6 L SOLI: Towards the end of the trip, I surfed this board on the wedgy reef break and it felt good. It felt like a classic epoxy, with heaps of float, easy to paddle, and easy to cat
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Good Model
5’11” x 19 1/8” x 2 1/2” 28.4 L 5’7” x 18 1/2” x 2 1/4” 22.9 L SOLI: We rode this on a pretty solid left-hander. It was a double-overhead day with bigger, more-powerful waves. It really liked it. It was coming off the bottom really nice, and it was r
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Voodoo Redux
Soli - 5’7” x 19 1/2” x 2 3/8” 28.2 L Sophie - 5’4” x 18 3/4” x 2 1/8” 23 L SOLI: I rode this as a thruster on the first day and then as a twin fin later in the week. On the first day, it had classic shortboard attributes with a little bit of speed a
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The Keg
Soli - 6’0” x 18 3/4” x 2 5/16” 27.7 L Sophie - 5’7” x 18” x 2” 22.5 SOLI: I’m not a huge fan of EPS, because they normally have more pop than drive. But this had that happy medium, where it still had enough pop, but then when I wanted to drive throu
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Black Viper
Soli - 5’10” x 19 1/2” x 2 3/8” 28.5 L Sophie - 5’6” x 18 1/2” x 2 1/8” 23 L SOLI: I surfed this on a kind-of-fun wedgy reef break. In the sort of conditions I would have imagined taking this board out in. Just the short stumpy width of it made it fe
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The Blackpearl
Soli - 5’11” x 19” x 2 7/16” 28.5 L Sophie - 5’5” x 18 1/4” x 2 1/4” 23 L SOLI: I think this was my favourite board. There were a few boards that were up there, and being the favourite is a personal thing—we all like different things. It just had all
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Aipa
5’5” x 19 1/4 x 2 7/16 26.7 L SOLI: So we rode this on one of the first days. The waves were pretty ordinary, but it had heaps of spring, heaps of pop in it, like out of the lip. I got three or four waves on it and instantly was flying along the wave
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Responsive To Change
BOARDS COURTESY OF SURF WORLD GOLD COAST Surfboards, our magic carpets, the vessels to our pursuit. They are the tools that allow us to walk on water, to harness Mother Ocean’s vast energy, and glide amidst her joyful undulations. They’re our superpo
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Board Bible Backers our Sled Review Hook-ups
Soph and Soli were able to perform at their best on those wild Norf ’k waves because of RYD traction pads and leashes. With styles and colours to suit every board shape and size, these accessories kept our pro athletes safe and surfing all day long.
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First Time
Soli - 5’7” x 20 1/2” x 2 1/2” 31.8 L Sophie - 5’2” x 19 1/4” x 2 1/2” 26.3 L SOLI: The waves were subpar from the beach. We got out there, and it was kind of actually a little bit more there than we thought. I jumped out there without fins, because
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Ando’s Eclectic Quiver
Craig “Ando” Anderson is gliding through his 30s in much the same way he surfs. Laidback, goofy, with a casualness that could be mistaken for lack of focus. But those who know him will tell you it’s quite the opposite: the by-product of a thousand ho
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Competitions
Ever dream of getting published and writing for Australia’s most influential surf mag? Got a great surfing travel tale or perhaps a surf-inspired poem? Well, here’s your chance. Write a poem of no more than 25 lines (it doesn’t have to rhyme). Write
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A Silent Exchange
As an interest-free loangains value over time,a surfer borrows moreenergy from the sea. As the lines on the horizonbuild in height and consistency,the crowds and the hypeincrease to a mind-blowing degree. As an artist paints a canvaswith brushstrokes
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The Drop
Are surfboards as unique as fingerprints? If a shaper followed the same template, method, colour, shape, size, volume—whether it was machine or hand shaped—uncontrollable variables would affect the board: humidity, temperature, density of foam, and t

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