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Swell Alert - Weekend Surf Forecast
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Weekend Surf Forecast 21 - 23 February, 2020
There's more late summer goodness in the forecast this weekend.
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SWELL ALERT: Big SE groundswell inbound across the NSW Coast
A power-packed SE groundswell is brewing for the entire East Coast this weekend.
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SWELL ALERT: Huge South Swell Looms for the Entire East Coast
A final, humungous South swell for the 2019 winter is brewing for the East Coast.
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SWELL ALERT: The Entire East Coast Is About to Turn On
The East Coast is on the pump, for days and days.
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Bali, Indonesia Surf Forecast 11 - 25 September, 2019
Goldilocks zone surfing conditions set in across Indonesia into mid-September.
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Bali, Indonesia Surf Forecast 28 August - 5 September, 2019
There's no let-up in SSW groundswell over the winter/spring transition across Indonesia.
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Forecaster Blog Updated: Tropical Cyclone Gretel Develops This Weekend
Tropical cyclone Gretel is about to form over the Coral Sea this weekend.
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Forecaster Blog: Potential Coral Sea Cyclone Hints at Large/ Heavy Easterly Swell Mid February
Easterly swell goes from one level to the next into mid February.
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Forecaster Blog: Sustained NE windswell for the East Coast
There's NE swell on tap across the NSW coast for the opening days of November.
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Forecaster Blog: A Large Easterly Groundswell is Taking Shape for the entire East Coast
Epic winter conditions are on the horizon across the Eastern Seaboard.
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Forecasting Tutorial: Reading Wave Models
Gain a deeper understanding into how wave models work and how to read them.
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Forecasting Tutorial: Air Masses
Welcome to our first installment on meteorology basics: Swell is generated by wind and wind is the result of air pressure.
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Forecasting Tutorial: Wave Period Explained
Coastalwatch's chief swell forecaster, Ben Macartney, scratches beneath the sea surface looking at wave period.
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Swell Forecast: It's Happening, The Great Indian Ocean Double Up
Incoming double swell for Vic, WA & Indo
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SWELL FORECAST: Incoming Southern Ocean Bomb Low
Deep low-pressure system dramatically deepens generating swell
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Forecast Video: Major Swell Event For South Australia & Victoria
An insight into what conditions to expect
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More Mental Cyclone Gretel Action From Snapper Rocks
Still sifting through unseen magic of Mick, Joel, Occy and more
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More Mental Cyclone Gretel Action From Snapper Rocks
Still sifting through unseen magic of Mick, Joel, Occy and more
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A Cinematic Viewing of Cyclone Gretel at Snapper
Fanning, Freestone, Kerrsy, Crews, Soli, Carmichael, Mikey Wright and more indulge
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Wave of the Week: Nick Vasicek's Backhand Funnel
The backhand barrel master at his very best only a week or so ago near home on the Gold Coast.
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Rip Curl's Doing a "Mick Week" and It's Really Good
Especially that clip of Mick bottom turning around Mikey
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Jamie O'Brien Just Won O'Neill Wave of the Winter, Reef McIntosh 4ocean Wave of the Decade
Jamie-O's the first to win it twice!
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FEATURE FILM: The Biggest East Coast Swell Of A Generation
The waves, the people and the stories Once'A Swell
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50 Shades Of Blue - Featuring Medina, Wilko, Ho & Santos
Pulling-the-plug in the search for a simpler stoke
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Alex Gray Cops A Massive Cloudbreak Flogging
When it's this big in Fiji you really want to make these ones
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How A Real Food Diet Can Affect Our Surf Performance For The Better – Surf Coach Series With Nic Laidlaw
Simple things you can look for to get yourself into better food patterns.
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The Importance of Breathing Correctly – Surf Coach Series With Nic Laidlaw
When we’re breathing incorrectly it can have adverse affects on our posture, on our mood and on our energy.
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Finding The Why – Surf Coach Series With Nic Laidlaw
Understanding why we're out there, could lead to better, more fulfilling surfing.
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More Mental Cyclone Gretel Action From Snapper Rocks
Still sifting through unseen magic of Mick, Joel, Occy and more
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Mick n Mikey's Shared Bomb, Macy Callaghan Rips, & is Griff Colapinto's Clip the Best Surfing of 2020 So Far?
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was April 3 2020
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Nick Carroll: How to Cope With Suddenly Not Being Able to Surf
Richard Bennett, surfing’s best known psychologist, gives us a few ideas about how to cope with the moment
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More Mental Cyclone Gretel Action From Snapper Rocks
Still sifting through unseen magic of Mick, Joel, Occy and more
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Rip Curl's Doing a "Mick Week" and It's Really Good
Especially that clip of Mick bottom turning around Mikey
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A Cinematic Viewing of Cyclone Gretel at Snapper
Fanning, Freestone, Kerrsy, Crews, Soli, Carmichael, Mikey Wright and more indulge
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Nick Carroll: We Know About the Sharks, What About the People?
A UTS research project aims to find out how people — not sharks — on the North Coast have changed their behaviour since 2015’s nightmare
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Bondi Beach Closed As Big Shark Stalks Surfers
At least one shark was stalking the Bondi lineup today.
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Nick Carroll On: Ballina's Turn On The Whale Carcass Merry-Go-Round
Bury it, get yelled at, then quickly dig it up — is this any way to treat a mammal?
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Sean Doherty: The Bight Bites Back
"It certainly wasn’t the phone call I was expecting on a lazy Tuesday morning."
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Have Your Say on the Future of the Superbank
A Message from the NSW and Queensland Governments about the Tweed Sand Bypassing Transition Project
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Here Are a Bunch of Ways You Can Help Our Coastal Communities During this Bushfire Crisis
Get around them and donate if you can
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Sean Doherty: Australia Cooks as Bight Oil Field Approved
NOPSEMA announced that they've given Equinor the nod to drill in the Bight
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Mick n Mikey's Shared Bomb, Macy Callaghan Rips, & is Griff Colapinto's Clip the Best Surfing of 2020 So Far?
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was April 3 2020
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A Bunch of Young Aussie Legends Made a Classic Surf Vid, the Olympics Be Cancelled, and Imogen Caldwell Shaaaacked
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was March 27 2020
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Pro Surfing Gets Cancelled, Julian's Rail Slide (Wasn't the First), and What Do We Think of the New Palm Springs Wave Pool?
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was March 20 2020
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The WSL Shuts Down Pro Surfing, So Snapper Should Be Crowdless, Right? Plus the Best of Steph Gilmore and Ryan Callinan's Banger Highlights Clip
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was March 13 2020
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Sean Doherty: The Bight Bites Back
"It certainly wasn’t the phone call I was expecting on a lazy Tuesday morning."
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Sean Doherty: Davey Cathels and the High Country Fire
“It's been a pretty strange start to the year, that’s for sure.”
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Sean Doherty: Italo Crowned 2019 Champion of the World After Epic Pipe Masters Medina Showdown
Finals Day at the 2019 Billabong Pipe Masters
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Sean Doherty: Australia Cooks as Bight Oil Field Approved
NOPSEMA announced that they've given Equinor the nod to drill in the Bight
- Nick Carroll
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Nick Carroll: How to Cope With Suddenly Not Being Able to Surf
Richard Bennett, surfing’s best known psychologist, gives us a few ideas about how to cope with the moment
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Nick Carroll: Surf School's Out
With the steady closure of many surf schools thanks to COVID-19, Australian surfing approaches a state it’s never experienced
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Nick Carroll: How are the Boardmakers Coping?
An Ongoing Series on How the Pandemic Affects Our Coastal Lives
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Video: The Fizzlot kids – SW Grom Bash
A stoked out portrait of Australian Junior Surfing in the year 2018.
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Surfing World Magazine: Issue 386
Rip up this magazine and stick it to your walls because Australia pumps
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Tested: Quiksilver Mens Highline Pro 1mm Zipperless Steamer Wetsuit
The world’s most expensive wetsuit
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A Wear and Tear Follow-Up Review of the O'Neill PSYCHOFREAK Zen Zip 3/2
How Did This Wetsuit Hold Up Ten Months Down The Track?
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Surf Music in Paradise - the Soundtrack to Our Fabulously Misspent Youth
The Sunnyboys or Xavier Rudd by an epic Maldivian righthander?
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The Hinako Islands and Six Need to Know Facts
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The Top 3 Places You Have To Surf In Indo Before You Die
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Donald Trump throws shakas in the Mentawais!
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Gallery: Samoa – November 2014
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