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Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Sand is a granular material made of tiny chunks of rocks, minerals, and organic matter. It plays an essential role in creating some of our favorite waves. But the trouble with sand is that it moves, and few surf towns are more keenly aware of this than Hossegor, France. Largely thanks to a 4,500-meter-deep sea canyon that points its finger at nearby Capbreton, a little stretch of beach called La Graviere has made itself world-renowned.

Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Almost everyone, in the privacy of their own mind, thinks they’re one of the good guys. The Puritan burning a witch because the alternative was allowing Satan to run loose in the village. A man with three YouTube subscribers trying to warn his family about 5G, because he loves them. Viewed through that lens, humanity becomes slightly harder to hate. Most of us aren’t villains, exactly, we’re just confused little mammals..

Here’s why it makes the next event (Lowers) a helluvalot more important. Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... It’s official: the Abu Dhabi pool is off the CT in 2026.

The 3x World Champ, Golden Dragon and Shellback transits the Panama Canal. Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... First, a glossary for the sailing-naive. Pollywog / Wog — sailor who has not yet crossed the Equator. Shellback — has crossed the Equator and been initiated into Neptune’s realm.Golden Shellback — crossed the Equator at the International Date Line / 180th meridian.Emerald Shellback — crossed the Equator at the Prime Meridian.Golden Dragon — crossed the International Date Line.

Dakoda and Dimitri’s thoughts on facing Parko and Noa for a $100K payday. Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Presented by Pacifico You can’t talk about luck to the self-made man. Grit, patience, perseverance, sure. But luck? The language of losers. After the 2026 Surf100 Grand Finale, one of four surfers will be $100K richer, and whoever wins will presumably have a compelling explanation for why luck had nothing to do with it. Dakoda and Dimitri, pre-Surf 100 Finale preparation.

There’s $100,000 and a couple of JS surfboards on the line. Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Last time we did this, Eithan Osborne was the sole recipient of a ceremonial bath consisting of filtered water, malted barley, unmalted cereals and corn, hops, and yeast. Pacificos rained over the Surf100 California 2025 victor after he beat Bobby Martinez, Julian Wilson, and Sebastian Williams in the final. Kelly thought he was overscored. How dare he criticize our judging panel (you).

Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Erling Haaland earns roughly $3M a month from Manchester City, has 77 million followers on Instagram, and, by all accounts, is quite good at kicking a white and black ball around. Curiously, he was recently seen touting a product that was technically born on a surf trip. In 2009, an engineering student and a famous free skier met while chasing a swell in Norway.

Hosing down wildfires in Big Sur. Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Wyatt Whitman was picked as the Kandui Resort winner entirely at random. Conveniently, he also appears to be a legend. When we launched our recent reader survey, we dangled a fairly persuasive carrot: a free trip to Kandui Resort for two, with two fresh Pyzels thrown in. It worked. Thanks to Kandui and Pyzel, it became the most-completed survey we’ve ever run (10,403 responses).

Cole Houshmand and Erin ‘Don’t-Call-It-A-Title-Run’ Brooks win in Fiji. Get Stab Premium Home to the greatest films, series, and editorial in surfing. Already a member? Sign In Stab In The Dark, How Surfers Get Paid, Electric Acid Surfboard Test and many more. Breaking news, exclusive interviews, untold stories and industry deep dives. Member-only merch drops. Tees, hats and accessories you won't find anywhere else. Like free surfboards and all-expenses-paid surf trips? Here's your ticket.

A 99-minute history of the world’s most magnetic + monstrous wave. Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Talon Clemow’s first trip to Shipsterns came with Laurie Towner, Brendan Margieson, Dylan Longbottom, Joel Parkinson and Andy Irons. 2006. He was Bong’s Audio Visual Manager at the time. “It was my first ever time to Tassie and my first sort of engagement with the wave at Shipsterns,” he says. “It was incredible actually. We stayed at Polly’s Place in Cremorne.