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When Your Mates Are Injured - Surf Without 'em!

On the bench, not arrived, laid up, missed their flight, girlfriend issues... Whatever. Go surfing anyway, like Bernd Roediger does with his little Naish Hokua LE

NKL Hits Melbourne City Square!

The NKL was launched this week in the heart of Melbourne with a couple of team riders and some kiteboarding gear - it's going to be huge!

Lenny's still got it. Hookipa goes off for the Aloha Classic

The swell is pumping and the wind is cranking. It's the conditions that Hookipa is famous for

How to make a hydrofoil completely irrelevant. Or is it?

Could SUP foils be the new norm for surfing glassy tidal bores? Ludovic Dulou has footage to prove it might be...

Would you buy a boat made by Toyota?

The all-round Japanese car maker has turned its hand to the marine industry, with big plans to create a strong line of 24- 40ft cruisers.

Could you REALLY surf your flat screen TV?

Everyone has thought about surfing their broken appliances.... But this guy actually did it!

Ride with the Shop Owners at the Naish Dealer Conference

Watch the highlights of the 2017 Naish World Dealer Meeting on Maui, where 'real' riders test the new gear and score some epic surfing conditions.

Foiling IMOCA 60's in this years Vendee Globe

This years Vend?e Globe is taking sailors to new heights - literally!

WAKSA Redkite Charity Downwinder

Get involved in this famous downwind kitesurfing event as rider or sponsor

Taking the SUP Backflip to the Next Level

Ever wondered what happens you strap a trampoline to two SUP's? Backflips!!!

Work as a SUP Instructor in NSW

Here's your chance to work in the great outdoors & in the watersports industry

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Do You Need Footstraps On Your SUP?

An interesting video has popped up this week of Laird Hamilton surfing a standard Starboard GoFoil - but he's added one little thing.

Fishing Gear: Now Targeted by Theives

Think twice before you leave your car or boat outside the local fish and chip shop. Because someone else might be taking a second look at your gear!

Watch a Wing Sail Break on an AC45

Wing sails are fast, but when they go boom - boy do they go!!!

Make Good decisions. Catch More Bumps. Downwind How-To Vid

Chase Kosterlitz shows you how to improve your downwind paddling technique, by making better decisions about where to paddle.

It's the Era of JJ - But it wasn't supposed to be this way!

It was meant to happen at Pipe!!!! Instead, John John has won his first world title in Portugal.

North Launches Kiteboarding Academy - Free Instructional Vid

Learn everything about the sport of kiteboarding online, with these free kitesurfing instructional videos from North Kiteboarding.

Kiteboarding Safety Tips with Lenten and Zoon

Kitesurfing instructor needed for immediate start

West Oz Kiteboarding requires a kitesurfing instructor for an immediate start.

Would You Eat Mouldy Shellfish?

Toxic Algae Blooms in Southern NSW are causing concern in edible shellfish during the leadup to summer.

What's it REALLY Like to Surf A Modern Wave Pool?

Here's three reasons you're going to totally stoked on your first ride at a wave pool, from two guys who's surfed two of the best!

Keahi's back! Takes WIN in Dakhla on his first comp

After spending the season off the water with injury (again!), Keahi is back, and he's shown the world that he's still got it.

Heavy Weather in San Fran - Connor Earns 20k!

10ft Wave Faces, backwash, wind-wash, ground-swell, and current. That's what it was like out there during the Red Bull Heavy Weather, and Connor Baxter proved that he is in fact, the ultimate waterman...

Sabres put on a Show

The WA Sabre Fleet has just finished up their inaugural Opening Day Series. The series was held to promote Sabre sailing in WA and support Sabre yacht club opening day events.

It's Gone Fishing NSW Day!

Get out there and wet a line for free, because it's the first ever Gone Fishing NSW Day! No fishing permits required...

Sailing Around the World In 10ft - Update!

Get More Money for Your Used SUP Gear: Here's How!

A little effort goes a long way when it comes to listing your used gear, and it's almost certain to help you get more money!

Pre Season gear checks for kiteboarders

Save a session this season, by doing a quick once-over before you launch next

Where are your pants mate? Kite Rescue Gone Wrong!

A rescue in good faith turns out to get a little ugly for this guy, when both the guy and girl he drags in start grabbing the bar.

Out with Bamboo - Beaver Fur Wetsuits are coming!

Would you wear a wetsuit that was made with hundreds of thousands of little fur fibers sticking out of it? What about if it kept you totally dry, and toasty warm?

A Short History of the Merimbula Classic (and the poster)

Almost as famous as the event itself, the Mambo Poster (as it was formerly/still known) is a living legend, drawn by a bloke named Stan Squire.

Paddling ski and SUP making waves on the Gold Coast

In good news for board riders, SUP is now joining surf ski in a combined event at the 2016 Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games (JPPMG) on the Gold Coast to be held on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November.

Worlds Weirdest Looking Superyacht Breaks Design Records

With three carbon fiber masts reaching 900ft in height, and NO stays, this superyacht is just as incredible, as it is ugly!

Join the Game of Foams at the Merimbula Classic

If you're into fun downwinders, testing new boards and surfing pristine beachies, then the Merimbula Classic is the event for you!!

Shark attacks - are you a target?

While sharks are scary, so are stand up paddle boards, so here's three reasons why you are NOT going to be attacked by a shark on your next session, or the one after that, or the one 5 days from now.

Shark attacks - are you a target?

While sharks are scary, so are stand up paddle boards, so here's three reasons why you are NOT going to be attacked by a shark on your next session, or the one after that, or the one 5 days from now.

Crocodile in the Lineup Halts Surf Contest

Surfing into a closeout to avoid the modern day dinosaur, Tyler Gunter sparked a search of the lineup in this weeks QS3000 Essential Costa Rica Open.

Disappear with Pete Cabrinha, Keahi and Chapter One.

Go behind the scenes with Pete and Keahi as they travel around Fiji on board the Cabrinha Quest - a luxury catamaran designed for kiting!

A Snowball in the Face, and a Kite on the Side of the Road..

The team from NP go exploring in spectacular South Dakota, in the dead of winter.

Fishing bans LIFTED from Newcastle Region

12 months after a ban was placed on fishing the Tilligerry Creek and Fullerton Cove, the NSW DPI have lifted it once again, proving that contamination from Williamtown Air Force Base has subsided.

Are you wasting your time with sunscreen?

Smearing that sunscreen all over your face this summer might be a fruitless endeavor.

Are you wasting your time with sunscreen?

Smearing that sunscreen all over your face this summer might be a fruitless endeavor.

Team NZ? They're "goin' OK" for the Americas Cup.

In Glenn Ashby's famous Aussie style, he says the Kiwi Team is going great guns with their in house designed and built AC45 - and this video proves it.

Starboard are going Green in a BIG way!

Don't worry, the traditional 'Starboard Blue' colour scheme stays, it's board production and shipping that's going green with Starboard, and Director Svein Rasmussen is shouting it from the rooftops.

What Does Strawberry Picking Have To Do With Kiting?

It turns out, that Strawberry Picking is the glue that holds many kiters and their time in Australia together, thanks to a little place on the Sunshine Coast in QLD. Danni Durant knows all about it.

Everybody's Welcome In The Nu Church of Surf

These two guys will surfing anything that floats, but so will everyone else in the lineup these days. Surfing as a sport isn't about the performance thruster anymore, it's about the lifestyle and having fun. Just how it should be...

Be at the 2016 Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games

Compete in sailing, ski, SUP and outrigger canoeing at the 10th biennial Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games, to be held 4 - 13 November 2016, on the beautiful Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

104.6kmph on three wheels. Blokart World Record

On a windy day, out on a dry lakebed, one guy sat in a three wheeled buggy with a GPS taped to his handlebars. That guy was doing over 100kmph, powered by nothing but wind, and it looks just as fast on camera as it would have in real life.

Red Bull Water Maze Returns to the Gold Coast

After a successful launch event in 2015, the Red Bull Water Maze returns to Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast in November - bigger and better than before!

Your 'choppy day' is cute. Compared to this!

These whitewater paddlers tackle some of the most extreme conditions possible on a stand up paddle board...

An in-depth look at the North Click Bar

North's Jeremie Tronet unboxes the new North Click Bar, and takes you through how it works, how it rides, and why North say it's a 'Game Changer'.

How do you catch a completely invisible fish?

This fish was caught in the Maldives, but amazed the world.... All you can see is his eyes, brain and little tiny spine!!

Dolphin flies head-first through groms board!

A book about fishing in 'Kid Speak'

If you've struggled to teach your kids about fishing in an easy to understand way, then 8 year old Hailey from the Sunshine Coast has written a book for you!

This is what happens when a gymnast goes sailing on a Nacra.

Ever tried standing on foot while you're out on trapeze? This woman takes it to a whole new level!

Forget bikes - SUP's are the way to get around Copenhagen!

The waterway cutting Copenhagen in half is the perfect oasis for the metropolitan SUP paddler. Interesting, clean enough to swim in and full of great things to see...

Twenty One SUP Models in Maui - JP's got the right stuff...

Watch the new 2017 SUP range from JP in action in their promo clip shot on Maui, and around the incredible coastline of Croatia.

Shorebreak Shenanigans on Foamies!

When the shorebreak was threatening to break shortboards, this bunch went to Costco and grabbed a cheap foamie each!

Painted Toenails and Longboards... Vic Vergara in Australia

In March, one of surfing's most beautiful surfers came to Australia. Victoria Vergara. On her trip she surfed the legendary point breaks and stole the attention of every surfer in the lineup those days, and now you get to watch.