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Watch: Stormwater Deep South Strike Mission

Derek MorrisonSeptember 30, 2024September 30, 2024

by Derek MorrisonSeptember 30, 2024September 30, 20240

Like all good sessions, it was a last minute decision to give chase. I didn’t even know if there would be surfers on the hunt. The chance to shoot a clean, long-period swell with perfect winds at dawn was enough to invoke that sense of hopeless FOMO – the type......

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The Bittersweet Arrival Of A Cyclone Swell

Derek MorrisonFebruary 23, 2023

by Derek MorrisonFebruary 23, 20230

From a dark cloud of calamity emerges a swell like no other. This is the story of Cyclone Gabrielle … It’s a bittersweet tale for the surf community. While Cyclone Gabrielle tore communities apart throughout the North Island, days later its swell brought communities together. The ominous sight of Cyclone......

Watch: Eimeo Czermak’s Meko Time

Derek MorrisonDecember 5, 2022

by Derek MorrisonDecember 5, 20220

Our Tahitian friend Eimeo Czermak celebrates turning 19 with an edit that will make your palms sweaty. Meko Time follows Eimeo in Hawaii and at his beloved Teahupo’o. Grab a coffee (or an Emersons) sit back, hit play and enjoy … Editing:Eimeo Czermak @eimeo.czermak Filming: Paul LavoineManea FabishMorgan MassenBogus Sta......

A Fickle Beast Awakens

Derek MorrisonMay 16, 2022May 17, 2022

by Derek MorrisonMay 16, 2022May 17, 20220

This was the scenario: There’s a 50-50 chance a marginal swell forecast might be enough to lure a fickle reef break to life. It’s a hell man slab that few can really do justice to. Do you roll the dice? We did (but one of us paid the price). I......

Watch: Eimeo Czermak Scores Late Season Teahupo’o

Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 2021November 10, 2021

by Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 2021November 10, 20210

There’s something very exciting happening at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games venue of Teahupo’o in Tahiti. The local surfers are stepping up to the plate in a big way, led by a mixture of the older guard and the new rising stars in the Tahitian lineup. In this film teenage......

The Reef: Shadows of Doubt

Derek MorrisonAugust 18, 2021August 26, 2021

by Derek MorrisonAugust 18, 2021August 26, 20210

It was a 50-50 call. The swell could be too small, the long period, at 15 seconds, not enough to compensate. But in the heads of the 10 people assembling in the early morning darkness at the launch point, that was a gamble worth taking. And so another day in......

Inside The Swell Of The Year … So Far

Derek MorrisonApril 16, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonApril 16, 2021July 25, 20240

The Southern Ocean is choked with swell energy right now, but it was an early season long-period pulse that turned the Southern reefs inside out. Dave Lyons managed to document one of the best sessions to take place in the south east corner of our country … so far. Dave......

Featured Emerson’s Search For New Zealand’s Underground Chargers

Derek MorrisonJanuary 25, 2021July 25, 2024

by Derek MorrisonJanuary 25, 2021July 25, 20240

New Zealand Surf Journal is excited to launch our nationwide Search For New Zealand’s Underground Chargers … powered by Emerson’s Brewery, of course. Yep, you read that right. We’re on the hunt for those surfers in New Zealand who drop tools when the swell starts maxing out. We’re talking big-wave......

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,......