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The Life Australian: No “Connest” Today, Mate
“Sick, at least there’s nobody out,” Timmy Reyes yelped as he spun around for a thigh-high game of connect the dots at Duranbah. Timmy paddled out just before dark today to share some tiny,...
View ArticleFit for Surf: How Taylor Knox Got Addicted to Yoga
From the archives of Peggy Hall’s Yoga for Surfers series, here’s Taylor Knox describing his ascent from good surfer to good surfer + yoga-nik. How Taylor Knox Got Addicted to Yoga
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The Life Australian: Essential Surf Equipment
Here in Coolangatta – latitude 28 degrees, roughly the same as the Bahamas – the pervasive warmth of air and water really pares down what gear you need to get by. Being a bit of a vagabond, hopping...
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Best on the Goldie 2009 w/ Timmy Reyes
Timmy Reyes - when the contest is still running, the best night out is a night in. BEST RIGHT: Luke Davis off the Duranbah wall, flare tail to flare tail to air. He was ripping. It was a fun...
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Best on the Goldie 2009 w/ Luke Davis
OC's Luke Davis likes techno more than guys in Speedos BEST RIGHT: I’ve seen Kelly get a couple crazy ones, like a week ago. BEST FLIGHT: I saw a girl do a cool air in her heat. I don’t know, I...
View ArticleFit for Surf: Heal Your Back + How Exactly Yoga Helps Surfing
Along the spectrum of things you can do to surf better, there are the clearly positive, the obviously negative, and – much more common – the ambiguous gray areas that yield an iffy +/-. Surfing more...
View ArticleThe Life Australian: Foreign Broadcasts
As the onshore wind started to really huff on us yesterday afternoon – later bringing rain, thunder and lightning, just in time for the walk home from the Modern Collective party around midnight – I...
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Best of the Goldie 2009 w/ Brighton “Bones” Brandenburger
Bones from Newport Beach has a scar like Harry Potter from the UK BEST RIGHT: Timmy Reyes on a bonzer at Snapper (Editor’s Note: Timmy is one of the guys on tour who will ride whatever the...
View ArticleBest of the Goldie 2009 w/ Three Brothers Gudauskas
BEST RIGHT: Tanner: I saw Parko get one our first day at D-Bah and do like four big, upside down turns and end it with an alley-oop. Pat: Parko, off the wall, that little wedge in Duranbah. He was...
View ArticleThe Life Australian: Focus on the Females
There’s a reason they don’t invite Dwight Howard to practice dunks courtside during WNBA games. It might distract the audience. If, in fact, WNBA games have an audience. With the women running heats at...
View ArticleBest of the Goldie 2009 w/ Julian Wilson
BEST RIGHT: Probably Kelly in his first round turn, he just did that one really cool turn on his fishy board – a layback hack thing. BEST FLIGHT: Taj in the heat after me, he did a couple of cool air...
View ArticleThe Life Australian: Top 10 Tuesday
After finally seeing The Late Show with David Letterman for the first time two nights ago, I feel compelled to do a copy-cat Top 10 list, and to pair it alliteratively with this particular day of the...
View ArticleFit for Surf: Tips for Healing Surf Injuries Faster w/ Peggy Hall
How To Heal Surfing Injuries Faster Not that I ever wipe out, mind you — but there are those among us who do get injured while surfing. And of course, most of us deal with common aches and pains in our...
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Top 10 Tuesday: Top 10 Tips for Staying with the YHA Australia
Sunset Strip backpackers' guesthouse - get tubed at Snapper without even leaving your room The YHA (Youth Hostel Accommodations) of Australia is a network of backpackers’ joints spread...
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Fit for Surf: Foods for Flexibility w/ Peggy Hall
Here’s one I get a lot of questions about — “Foods for Flexibility” Did you know that certain foods can actually help improve your flexibility? It’s true! You see, different foods affect us in...
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Surfboards: Eight is Enough?
Shed a tear for our shapers. They were poor before poverty became the new Family Guy (more popular than ever, but nobody laughs at it anymore). And now? Where does that put the board-building...
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Adriano Impresses
Our Benevolent Dictator, Evan Slater, is – among other things – a good person. He’s been calling Shenanigans! on the anti-Brazilian sentiment since before even Jimmicane, but he was wise enough to know...
View ArticleFit for Surf: Strong Lower Body Joints w/ Peggy Hall
As promised, here is one of the best moves to keep your feet, ankles and knees strong and flexible. Be sure to check out the rad balance pose Brian Conley demonstrates (and his 360 ain’t bad either…)...
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The Life Australian: Tales from the Tour w/ Noodles
Noodles the bikie (Guilty Jesus) Nathan “Noodles” Webster rode the World Tour merry-go-round for a decade, from the Early Kelly era through the Kelly Gone Walkabout phase and into the First...
View ArticleFit for Surf: To Stretch, or Not To Stretch? w/ Peggy Hall
There seems to be some debate as to whether you’re supposed to “stretch” before going surfing or not. I actually agree with those who say you shouldn’t stretch before surfing. What? What’s that? Don’t...
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