How-To

Ben Wallbridge of Wallbridge Surfboards tells us what's better to be left unsaid when ordering a surfboard.

The mastermind behind Riley Balsawood Surfboards explains what is useful to tell a shaper when ordering a surfboard.

Ride shotgun with Kelly Slater during the Billabong Pipe Masters.

The third episode of our DIY series is a walkthrough on fixing a nose ding.

The second episode of our DIY series is a walkthrough on fixing a tail ding.

Who's riding what in Fiji.

Surfing Life and Bosch bring you the first part of the DIY series, Fixing A Rail Ding.

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Researchers have found some better ways to improve your performance ... but we don't think aerobics classes are quite the answer.

OK surf kings, May 10 is done and dusted. The results are in…and while they didn’t add up quite the way that mad original forecast chart suggested, the storm did form, it did sling a lot of swell at the coast we expected it to sling at, the winds were good (better than expected actually), and many disgustingly sick waves were ridden.

Here we are within five days of Touchdown, and the whole combo is still flaring away out there in Forecast Land. Big pressure gradient, high over Tassie, low on top of NZ, wind to buggery and back.

With less than a week till Our Magic Day, the forecast chart is growing more and more certain of itself. Strong low in the eastern Tasman Sea, strong high over Vicco-Tassie.

The forecast continues to firm in the direction of Mega Bombshell.

Boom. The forecast wheel’s spun again. May 10 now looks like the crazy swell monster we’d spotted two days back.

Hi there kids! Ever wonder why there’s so much surf forecasting going on these days – but nobody ever tells you HOW?