The WSL Pipe Pro started this week and even the best show their fear. Pipeline is the true test of courage and commitment. How bad do you want it and what you got in your heart and soul to go over that edge into glory? I rode it for the first time on a Ben […]

Heritage Day is a South African public holiday celebrated on 24 September. On this day, South Africans are encouraged to celebrate their culture and the diversity of their beliefs and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people. I thought I would celebrate my homeland and also the heritage […]

Today is Surf Shop Day – a way to celebrate everyone in the business of getting people stoked. Fifty five years ago, my father took me into the only surf shop in my hometown of Durban – it was called Surf Center – how about that for a name – the center of surf. I’d […]

One of the oldest surf shops in South Africa is Safari, started by super surf coach Graham Hynes and now owned by shaping legend Spider Murphy. Spider just seems to get younger every year – go down to the beach early in the morning and Spider will come carving out of the dark on his […]