As we recently said in our Bells Beach preview, Taj Burrow is probably the most consistent surfer of the last decade besides Kelly Slater. Unfortunately for Burrow, his career happened to coincide with the age of Slater and Andy Irons. Otherwise, he would have won a world title by now. His rookie year,…
Adam Melling, the name doesn’t carry the cache that say Joel Parkinson or Taj Burrow does, or even Bede Durbidge for that matter, but truth be told, he’s just as dangerous as the lot of them, maybe more so. Without garnering much fanfare, and little to no media hype, the quiet Lennox Head local has […]
Something had to give. A stellar week of weather, waves and surfing, but it couldn’t last. Fortunately for competition, it wasn’t the waves that packed in, but a severe low pressure system caused the heavens to open.
Like so many people are learning to do in this compromised economy, Jed Noll knows how to wear multiple hats all at once. It’s just that his extra hats just happen to be a lot cooler than everybody else’s. He hasn’t had to pick up an after-hours waitering job or stoop to ding repair to […]
In the immortal words of Kelly Slater, “It is the morning of the final.” Told in a scene from his 1991 film “Black and White,” a bright eyed and bushy tailed teen Slater wakes up and mumbles the sentence that would launch the greatest career in pro surfing history. I wonder if he’s saying that […]
Does fear not exist in surfing anymore? Are there any boundaries left to be pushed? Doesn’t seem like it