While You Were Sleeping | Bite Size!

Outkast are in Northern NSW right now for Splendour In The Grass, in case you didn’t know. After crushing at Coachella, they’ve brought their reunion tour to Oz’s favourite three-day party. And, Three-Stacks surfs! He rides goofy! Bombs over Burleigh!

Cheap laughs, like cheap thrills, don’t last all that long. But, if we can break you from the ad nauseam that comes from a saturated surf media (#jadedfridays) for just this 15 seconds, then we’re doing our job.

Yet another clip of Shane Dorian getting barrelled somewhere exotic with his GoPro. Gent sure knows how to live. Here’s two-and-a-bit minutes of sublime POV footage from a session with not one breath of wind.

Why does J-Bay constantly have to prove itself as a world-class wave? Let’s just all accept that it’s good, and move on. Thank you. Now here’s 14-year-old Sebastian Williams showing you how to surf it, rather phenomenally might we add.

Oh, you haven’t seen the Coffey sisters ruling social media? You haven’t seen the bikini shots and the brown skin? We think you’re lying, honey. Anyways, The Daily Mail have spotted the sisters and have a story on the Gold Coast surf family. The story is mostly image-based but there accompanying words are great. Here’s a particularly good line from the article: “Just like Kim Kardashian, Ellie-Jean is a big fan of a pouting pose and has so far earned over 300,000 Instagram followers with her bikini snaps.”

Read the entire story here.

Russ Ord is the crazy gent who’s best known for shooting The Right in Western Australia from the water: rain, sharks or 30-foot double-up. He is fearless and is on a relentless pursuit for the perfect water shot, at one of the heaviest waves in the world. This sequence here he shot of Paul “Antman” Paterson is one of his most memorable. And Russ has just posted the story behind the sequence on his site, as well as the whole sequence. Here’s an excerpt: ”Antman goes down hard, Twiggy and ourselves look in the usual spots for a pickup, second wave hits which happens to be as big as the first, no sign of Paul, the third wave caps at the top without breaking, more of a surge, there is an elbow with what looks like a waving hand, Antman cannot correct himself for a breath, blown ear drums, taking a good guess, it had to be close to a minute hold down…”

Read the entire story on his site.

Jed Smith and Vaughan Blakey talk the best event of the season, discuss Aritz Aranburu’s time in a South African jail back in 2007, Puerto changers, the top five surfing comebacks and Mr Jeremy Flores.

There’s always a scene that gathers when Newport Wedge in Southern California does its thing and Brazillian, Stephan Figueiredo digs holding centre stage.

There are a lot of good young surfers in the world and we’re at a point now where it doesn’t matter whether you’re European or Brazilian or African, there is no bias toward Australian and the USA groms. This edit features two of Australia’s better juniors, Harry Bryant and Kai Hing: both good surfers but yet to be great surfers. The next few years are the most crucial in these guy’s careers.

Ya might have seen the new logo floating around the nose of CJ Hobgoods board and wondered, what is this Salty Crew? Wonder no more as this video answers all your questions.