Surfing Life

The dogtown legend dies of a heart attack.

And what NOT to do when you get 'em.

Even though this is an instructional video, please don't try this at home.

Your foolproof guide to dealing with coral cuts, brought to you by resident doctor Joel Menzies.

A love story and a ripple effect.

The final touches you'll need to do before taking your newly shaped stick out for a shred.

In part four of our Building A Surfboard series Richard Harvey shows us where to place those fins.

In part three of our Building A Surfboard series Richard Harvey shows us how to fine tune a surfboard.

In part two of our Building A Surfboard series Richard Harvey shows us the second step of shaping your own board.

In part one of our Building A Surfboard series Richard Harvey shows us the first step of shaping your own board.

A well informed man, our pal Senator Whish-Wilson weighs in on the specifics of Barnett's new "initiative". 

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.

An exclusive interview with the first man on the scene of WA's recent shark attack.

One of surfing's happiest surfers has passed away, aged 54.

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.

Today marks a year since Michael Peterson died of heart failure at the age of 59. Nick Carroll takes us through the moment his ashes were spread at Bells Beach.

This photo went viral across social networks overnight. Here's Kelly Slater and Joel Parkinson's take.

With all this talk about wavepools Surfing Life figured we might go for a paddle at memory point, back to 2007 and the Ocean Dome in Japan.

The first episode of Red Bull's 21Days tells the story of Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson heading into 2013's first event, the Quiksilver Pro at Snapper Rocks.

Yowsers!

Watch Filipe Toledo's monster backside 360 air.

DEC 10 2012 - ROCK LEFT'S - HAWAII FILMED BY - DIEGO SANTOS

There might be lotsa bucks out there in the world of big corporates, but will their money change surfing for the worse?

Can surfing afford to say no anyway?

Want the low down on the North Shore?

Who better to ask than six-time Triple Crown champ, Mr Sunny Garcia.

AI goes golfing with Occy and runs into a little bit of trouble. Check out how it all went down...

Narrowly beaten by Jack Freestone in Bali for the 2012 World Junior Title, not long ago Surfing Life interviewed the rising star on losing Andy Irons, the pitfalls of pro surfing as he knows them, and the future of Hawaiian boardriding.

Epic new footage of Shane Dorian, Greg Long, Albee Layer, Ian Walsh and more from the first Hawaiian big wave session of the season.

Want to train to be a better surfer?

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

The Brazilian big wave bandit getting back to how the original Hawaiians did it.