6 month old baby Hamilton wants to surf like his mum!
Watching from the sideline isn't enough for young Tobias Hamilton, at six months old he's already floating around on surfboards and prepping jet-ski's for some tow-in action...
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Watching from the sideline isn't enough for young Tobias Hamilton, at six months old he's already floating around on surfboards and prepping jet-ski's for some tow-in action...
Since the 1950's, surfers have been cross-stepping their way to the nose of their longboards and dropping their toes off the edge. It was cool then, and it's still super cool now.
Will Kelly Slaters new Wave Pool take the metaphorical drop into the future of surfing?
Whether it was a case of Star Wars mania sweeping the globe, or something fun to do on a Sunday afternoon... These surfers dressed up as Storm Troopers are pretty cool...
Sometimes the organisers of an event just get it right the first time, like the World Surf League's Pe'ahi Challenge on Maui this weekend. Not only did they attract the worlds best big wave surfers to Pe'ahi (Jaws) they scored one of the best days in hist
Now the first solid swells of the winter season are rolling into Oahu's North Shore, all the surf sponsors houses are chock-a-block with professional surfers, and the lineup could only be described as A-list.
When 'The Wedge' decides that it's time for board and rider to become separated, it's time. There is no arguing, and no piece of plastic and Velcro shall keep it from happening. This highlights reel proves it.
Read how Kelia Moniz grew up surfing in Waikik learning to live, and love the ocean.
Incredibly fit girls going for it in the fantastic location that is Tahiti.
A Perth based design firm has proposed Australia's first ever Wave Garden, but in order to build it, they'll have to knock down Western Australia's largest football stadium
This week, Nick Woodman, the genius who devised the GoPro sat down with U.S. talk show host of 'The Late Show', Steven Colbert. Joking around, he shared how the very first GoPro camera came about while in the preparation stages of a surf trip to Australia
Breaking what is surely the longest streak of consecutive surfing days in a row, Dale Webster has hung up his board for a couple of months, ending 14,641 days of surfing.
In August 2016, the worlds elite surfers will either pack their bags and head for the nearest wave-pool, or give up on the Olympic dream, and head back to the lineup...
From longboards to no boards, the Noosa Festival of Surfing celebrates all things surf, at one of the worlds most iconic breaks - First Point, Noosa.
It's been a big couple of months in the surfing world. First the shark frenzy (by the media that is), then the backflip, and this week, it's this thing by Kelly Slater. Nobody knows what to call it.
Ex 'Big Brother' contestant, ex gymnast, current advocate for having fun in the surf: Dor Damari paddles into a tiny wave on a foamy. He pops up, looks around and launches into a backflip.
Russel Bierke is a name you may not have heard before, but rest assured, after this clip of him dropping in to a slabby left in Western Australia, he'll be on screens all over the world.
Two months after giving birth to her first child, Tobias, Beth Hamilton has posted a photo on social media of her going for a surf, but it hasn't all been praise.
The art of noseriding has not been lost, it's just been forgotten by the masses. Luckily there's guys like Jai Lee who's keeping the spirit of surfing alive.
The sun bleached hair of John John Florence is coming to a cinema near you this summer, in what may well be the biggest surf film to be released since the Endless Summer.
While some guy running around in a fire suit is like, so 90's... Doing it while surfing is a juxtaposition to say the least.
One of the worlds most closely guarded nations has opened it's doors to a select few surfers, in the hope that they'll return to the Western world, having discovered some world class breaks that nobody has ever surfed before...
Not 7 days after being attacked by a Great White Shark at J-Bay, Mick Fanning was paddling back out at his home break in Tweed Heads. Alone.
The 22nd of July, 2015 will go down in history as 'the day Niccolo Porcella should have died.' Forget Fanning and his shark attack, this guy was actually millimeters from death when he went over the falls.
The pass-time of surfing has inspired creative minds to produce some pretty weird content since it's beginning. None more so than this video featuring surfing zombies. Braaaaaaaains!
It's got whales, shipwrecks, deserted point breaks and sequence after sequence of the worlds best professional surfers. Guys like Owen Wright, Craig Anderson, Liard Hamilton and Dion Agius to name a few.
"I've always wondered what it's like at that beach now. Were the locals inspired by getting a taste for surfing? The fantasy was, that they created a thriving surf scene." Tells Filmmaker Jamie Tierney.
By no means was it gnarly, rad or fully sick, but nobody can deny that the board was surfing a wave, and it did so with all participants on board. Each one of them were totally stoked, and so were the thousands of on-lookers lining the world famous Huntin
How do you score a perfect 20 you ask? You surf like an absolute bloody legend in Fiji - like Owen Wright did this week at the 2015 Fiji Pro at Cloudbreak.
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The only thing that gives Noa Dupouy away is his fins in this shot. They look freakishly big for such a narrow built guy, and that's because they are!
Holly Beck is a surf instructor extraordinaire. She's also a pro surfer, but today we're marveling at her instruction technique, because she's released one of the best how-to video's for beginner surfers you'll find on the internet.
Surf photographer Chris Burkard tells the world about why he LOVES being a surf photographer, even when he's shivering in below zero temperatures.
You thought stand up paddle boards are huge! Check out this 42 foot monster being prepared at Huntington Beach in the USA to set a new world record for the most people ever on a surfboard.
That little speech at the beginning of a commercial flight is sometimes interesting, but usually not. This one uses surfers as hosties!
"I knew this board was going to work, it feels the best under the arm out of the batch and I kinda felt that straight away. It was fast, super responsive, exciting."
Long boards are cool. Pretty girls are nice. Put the two together at Noosa, arguably the worlds best longboard break and you have yourself a coffee break well spent.
It would be quite a humorous scene if it was in a movie, but unfortunately for Chris Blowes, the situation was real, and he's got one serious job ahead of him as he fights for life in Adelaide.
It was pretty wild and it's big and ugly out there, it's radical but fun - Mick Fanning
Pro surfer Kelly Slater shares his thoughts on surfboard design, and opens up his personal board bag for all to see in this episode of the WSL web series.
With the worlds best battling it out at a wet and windy Bells beach this week, the WSL were on the internet releasing a new web series called Priority, which follows three surfers behind the scenes.
This year Foamlust has changed its name from Surf Expo to "Surf Festival!" After running the event as an expo for the last 2 years, we believe Foamlust with it's music, art, films and surfing displays is more than just an expo but a festival of...
What is the only professional sporting event allowed in Australia on the Easter long weekend? Yes, allowed! There are laws about that kind of thing.
What happens when the World Surfing League spends $100,000 extending the Quiksilver Pro competition window by two days on the Gold Coast? It pumps two days after they all leave! This week TOS, Currumbin and of course the Superbank are going off for the lu
With a cyclone building off North QLD, the head honchos at the world surfing league are putting their money on a decent swell at Snapper Rocks towards the end of the week.
Those surfboards steal the spotlight though, with embedded LED lights under the glass, they're works of art that will surely be replicated in the very near future.
Foilboarding is all the rage in kiteboarding and sailing right now, but for the surfers, foils are still very very niche. Except in Laird Hamilton's case, he is the master of the hydrofoil.
The perfect tropical cyclone would be the one that slides a hundred kilometers off the coast of Queensland, all the way south to the Gold Coast then out to sea again. But alas, they don't work like that, and while Central Queensland mops up after being ba
After an apparent win in the 'Save our Broadwater' campaign to prevent a cruise terminal being built on the gold coast, the popular surfing location TOS or 'The Other Side' is now being included in a proposal to protect some of the Gold Coasts most iconic
In a video released today, professional surfer and all round inspirational surfer girl - Beth Hamilton announced she's pregnant. But wait! She's been surfing Teahupoo!!
Nobody can deny that Kelly Slater is on the move, whether it's the rumoured departure from the world tour, or simply doing getting on with his life outside of the surfing world. Either way, you now have the opportunity to sit on a Kelly Slater inspired co
In a terribly unlucky heat last weekend, Tyler Wright found herself quite literally sitting on the fence at Cronulla, when she went down in a heat of the Australian Boardriders Battle.
After a few months out of the water, Taj Burrow is back in the lineup, and ready to get back on the bucking bronco that is the world tour.
Finally, YouTube mega-star Devin Graham has turned his camera towards some surfers. Kind of, they're flow riders, but it's like surfing, except indoors and with boards that are more akin to skateboards.
The rules are simple. Boards must have one fin, and they must be shaped before 1985. That goes for the grommies too, which provides an interesting juxtaposition when they're holding a board twice their age under their arms! Let alone when they try and pun
While unfortunate that super-maxi Perpetual LOYAL suffered hull damage only 24 hours into their 2014 Sydney to Hobart Campaign, professional surfer Sally Fitzgibbons was thankful for the early arrival on dry land.
If the worlds surfing grommies weren't looking up to John John Florence before, they certainly are now. The 22 year old Hawaiian surfer is as next level as Super Mario down a drainpipe.
It's being called Animal Thursday, the 'Black Swell', or just simply the biggest day of the year. Pumped out by supertyphoon Hagupit (the same one that smashed the Phillipines early last week), the waves were reaching heights in excess of 100ft.
And you thought you'd seen it all. Nuh uh, no way, you've never seen this before! Imagine a surfer having the skills to fall off his surfboard, body surf the same wave, then catch his surfboard as it flicks out of the whitewater to simply get back on and
He was still competing last July, only a couple of months ago, but this week surfers on the Central Coast said goodbye to one of Australia's surfing legends, Barry (Magoo) McGuigan.
Three Aussie girls have paddled out in Maui with guns blazing as they fight for the World Title, but who's it gonna' be?
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