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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.

Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... Perspective matters. Take this statement: I had a good August. I got engaged, I adopted some kittens, and I caught up with an old surf buddy from college. Nice, but awfully boring. Let’s repeat that same statement, but as my 4am sleep paralysis demon: I had a terrible August. I spent all the money in my checking account, a feral idiot named “Paulie Walnuts” assaulted my testicles, and I personally know the guy who ultrasounds balls at my local ER.

Loading Audio Player By Instaread, Please Wait... “There is a tide in the affairs of men,” Shakespeare scribbled, “which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” 20 years old is a particular “flood” in a budding professional surfer’s coming-of-age. There are extreme examples of this: Kelly Slater and Gabriel Medina both winning their first world titles at 20, for instance.

Perfect 10s, ankle sprains, and a rising swell 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.