If not for an innocent lunchtime lie to her schoolyard mates, Jodie Cooper wouldn’t be recognised as one of Australia’s greatest surfing products. She stars in new documentary Girls Can’t Surf.
Eliza Reilly
As terrified onlookers call for help, Aussie pro surfer Mikey Wright runs straight for the victim, before diving out into the water.
Catherine Healey
Two-time world surfing champion John John Florence has become the first Hawaiian to win the WSL's Pipeline Masters since the late Andy Irons in 2006.
Ed Jackson
Australia's Tyler Wright is back on top of the surfing world after winning a historic Maui Pro WSL event at the iconic Banzai Pipeline.
Western Australia’s Margaret River Pro will continue on the elite World Surf League tour calendar until at least 2024 after securing a three-year extension.
Justin Chadwick
The Margaret River Pro has earned another three-year extension, meaning the event is locked in on the World Surf League tour calendar until 2024.
Semi-finalists Sally Fitzgibbons and Tyler Wright face an anxious wait with low swells forcing two lay days at PipeIine, venue for the WSL's Maui Pro.
Finals day of the WSL Tour event at Pipeline in Hawaii has been delayed for two days as event organisers wait for better swell.
Pamela Whaley
Australian rookie Jack Robinson has set up a heat against surfing legend Kelly Slater following a dominant display in the WSL Tour event at Pipeline in Hawaii.
The WSL season-opening women's event will conclude at Banzai Pipeline, the first time a women's tour event will be held at the venue.
A shark attack followed by COVID-19 cases among World Surf League staff have stalled Tyler Wright and Sally Fitzgibbons in the Maui Pro semi-finals.
Murray Wenzel
Australian Julian Wilson says he feels refreshed and ready to recapture his best form ahead of the start of the 2021 World Surf League season.
Owen Wright will skip the Pipeline Masters in Hawaii in order to stay in Australia for the birth of his second child.
Surf Life Saving WA is keeping ahead of the rest as it launches its fourth Surf League competition at Trigg beach today, with 250 athletes in 14 teams from 10 clubs to compete.
Nick Taylor
Youngsters carve up waves
Reuben Carder
Dave Macaulay looks from his balcony to his hometown cliffs that hold such great sadness and will always wonder what would have happened if, on a fateful day in 1996, he had made a different choice.
Steve Butler
At just 13-years-old, WA surfer Willow Hardy is making waves in the sport internationally, attracting a Rip Curl sponsorship deal and attention from the world’s top board riders.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Champion surfer Mick Fanning and his fiancée, Breeana Randall, have welcomed their first child together.
When Aidan Privilege felt his spine crack as he was dumped onto a sandbar at Yallingup’s famous Rabbits surf break, he immediately feared he might not walk again.
Rourke Walsh
WATCH: Last year, North Beach ruckman Callum Jamieson was aspiring to be a pilot. This year, he’s being gifted wet suits from one of Australia’s greatest ever surfers.
Bonnie Raynor
The Dockers captain is currently sidelined with a hamstring injury, but in his spare time has been able to go board shopping with surfing legend Mick Fanning.
Margaret River pro surfer Jack Robinson has tied the knot with his Brazilian girlfriend in a low-key WA ceremony.
Lily Hoffmann
The players rode the waves at Burleigh Beach and were joined by the likes of Matt Taberner, Lachie Schultz, Brett Bewley, Nat Fyfe and Connor Blakely.
It seems the AFL is going to allow the SA teams to play each other before they head into the proposed hub on the Gold Coast - so why not West Coast and Freo?
Karl Langdon
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