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The Great NZ Surf Journal Board Giveaway: How It Works

Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2020January 13, 2023

by Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2020January 13, 20231

As part of our commitment to New Zealand surfboard shapers we’re collaborating with a bunch to bring you the chance to win one of their latest board designs. Here’s how it works … and how you can win yourself one. Step 1: We ask a local New Zealand shaper to......

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The Edge: Chasing Energy With Doug Young

Derek MorrisonOctober 5, 2020

by Derek MorrisonOctober 5, 20200

Doug Young, Dan Smith and Dave Lyons target an unruly wave on the edge of a reef during the last storm of the season. The ingredients were this: two 180-degree south swells, both 4m at 14 seconds, a west southwest wind that may drop to 20 knots, if we’re lucky,......

Watch: Flightless Obsession

Derek MorrisonSeptember 20, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonSeptember 20, 2020July 25, 20240

Flightless Obsession features New Zealand’s elite surfers such as provisional Olympic qualifiers Billy Stairmand and Ella Williams along with dozens of the country’s best surfers in a scrapbook-style edit. It is the first crowd-sourced surf movie that Surfing New Zealand has embarked upon to showcase local talent. It has been......

Watch: Lost Track, A Surf Adventure Through New Zealand

Derek MorrisonSeptember 10, 2020

by Derek MorrisonSeptember 10, 20200

Lost Track follows two Byron Bay mates surfer Torren Martyn and filmmaker Ishka Folkwell as they embark on the journey of a lifetime throughout New Zealand in search of perfect waves and life long memories. Their three-month motorcycle surfing adventure takes them into the depths of our great southern land......

Watch: Solitude, From New Zealand’s Newest Wetsuit Brand

Derek MorrisonJune 30, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJune 30, 2020July 25, 20240

Born of New Zealand, Coastlines Wetsuits, officially pulled up a chair at the global rubber buffet when they launched just a few short months ago. NZSJ discovered they have some heavy hitters on their team and their heart’s in the right place. A few months before the brand launched, former......

Science: The Big Wave Link Between Climate Change And The Southern Ocean

Derek MorrisonJune 11, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJune 11, 2020July 25, 20240

Monster waves in the Southern Ocean could grow even bigger and more frequent under climate change, scientists warn. Science journalist Jamie Morton explains what’s going on in the southern latitudes storm engine. Extreme waves in the wild and windswept ocean below New Zealand, stretching across notorious latitudes dubbed the “roaring......

Buy Local: Help Pump New Zealand’s Surf Industry

Derek MorrisonMay 28, 2020

by Derek MorrisonMay 28, 20200

The Covid-19 health crisis has taught New Zealanders a lot of things, but nothing has become clearer: we need to support local surf businesses. By supporting them we pump the vascular system of our very own New Zealand surf industry. And that reaches deep into the heart of our surf......

Piha Pro Now Cancelled For 2020

Derek MorrisonApril 17, 2020July 2, 2020

by Derek MorrisonApril 17, 2020July 2, 20200

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Surf League (WSL) has made the decision to cancel the 2020 Corona Piha Pro Challenger Series event in Auckland. After postponing the event in the days before it was due to commence in mid-March, it has become clear that the inaugural Piha event......

Watch: Paige Hareb’s Unexpected Journey

Derek MorrisonApril 15, 2020July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonApril 15, 2020July 25, 20240

What happens when the world’s hungriest World Qualifying Surfers are suddenly cut-free from their commitments when the 2020 Piha Pro is postponed due to COVID-19? Well, if Paige Hareb is involved then there is only one solution: grab a handful of good people and indoctrinate them into the ways to......

Billy Stairmand: Inside The Mind Of Our Olympic Hope

Derek MorrisonFebruary 14, 2020July 2, 2020

by Derek MorrisonFebruary 14, 2020July 2, 20200

He’s New Zealand’s Olympic hope for 2020, but only a few short years ago, Billy Stairmand was struggling to light his competitive fire. Now he’s in the best form of his life. This is how the 30-year-old Raglan surfer rebuilt his career. As the World Surf League Qualifying Series came......