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Carsey: The Enigmatic Legend

Mark "Curly" ThomasNovember 3, 2022November 8, 2022

by Mark "Curly" ThomasNovember 3, 2022November 8, 20220

Dunedin surfer Jimi Crooks remembers the day well. There was a powerful swell at the Black Head quarry break. The waves were hollow and intimidating. Heavy. So heavy a lot of the young gun surfers from the area chose not to go out. It was about nine years ago. Veteran......

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Salt In The Veins: Crusaders Coach Scott Robertson

Derek MorrisonMarch 25, 2022March 25, 2022

by Derek MorrisonMarch 25, 2022March 25, 20220

The DHL Super Rugby Pacific competition is a pressure cooker. Especially with Covid running rampant – an axe that could neutralise any team at a moment’s notice. For Crusaders’ coach Scott “Razor” Robertson that pressure is best wrangled with a pre-game surf. It is the morning before the Moana Pasifika......

Lee Ralph: The Kiwi Skateboarder Who Vanished

Derek MorrisonApril 1, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonApril 1, 2021July 25, 20240

In the late 1980s, New Zealand skateboarder Lee Ralph had the world at his feet. But right when he seemed poised to join the sport’s elite, he was kicked out of the US … and out of the limelight for good. Our friends at The Spinoff have given us permission......

Featured Special Feature: The Ratso Story

Derek MorrisonJuly 27, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJuly 27, 2020July 25, 20240

I’m standing in the garage with him as he sniffles back the taps and shuffles through a rack full of surfboards, his long hair hanging flat. He pulls one after another out and they’ve all got stories: he’s made a bunch of them, rode others to world titles and has......

How Duke Kahanamoku Helped A Kiwi Surfer Pioneer Murdering Beach

Kim WesterskovApril 1, 2020April 23, 2020

by Kim WesterskovApril 1, 2020April 23, 20200

Most of the kaumatua of New Zealand surfing will tell you that they’ve forgotten more than we’ll ever know. Assembled around a campfire in the post-surf glow of twilight the stories tumble out like moths attracted to the flames. These are stories that should be treasured, told and re-told. Like......