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We find out what Mark Richards, Gary Elkerton, Rob Machado and Hawaiian big wave charger Jamie O’Brien have in common…

Nick Muntz from Pistol Surf Co talks about what its like to be a part of today’s surf industry and gives us an insight into their latest range of deck grips, traction pads and gear. We also discuss the Pistol Surf Crew’s recent epic trip to the North West Coast of Australia which resulted in […]

Gut feeling…. You’ve heard the saying, well now gain a little more understanding of what it means. Alex Benaud talks with Jess Gardner, a qualified naturopath who is furthering her studies into human nutrition about how our diet – and certain foods we eat – can not only affect us physically but also emotionally. Jess […]

Dave talks with legendary surfboard shaper Mark Rabbidge and fibreglass maestro Neal Cameron about all manner of stuff from the evolution of surfboard industry through to the emergence of the modern day longboard, the merits of surfer shapers, the guise of protech finishes and what’s maintaining their surf stoke nowadays.  More information on Mark Rabbidge

Internationally acclaimed and award-winning photographer and former editor of New Zealand Surfing Magazine, Craig Levers, gives us his perspective how the surf media landscape has irreversibly changed over the past decade. In turn we talk about Craig’s favourite Kiwi surf breaks, what freaks him out, the white shark named KZ7, his photography and his equipment […]

Newcastle’s master shaper has been making surfboards for close to 50 years. Today he specialises in nothing but custom designs.

There in a Jiffy Smorgasboarder’s New Zealand correspondent Jeff “Jiff” Morris talks about growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, delivering t-shirts in a Rolls Royce, his love for Boomerang Beach and what prompted his move to semi-retire in the Land of the Long White Cloud. More information on the Surf Collective

LIFE INSIDE THE CURL Sit back and enjoy our chat with resident Smorgasboarder artist and creator of the Aloha Barry cartoon, Darren Marks, the man otherwise known as Curl, about the inspiration behind his work and why to this day he remains such a crap surfer. Please be warned this podcast has a fair dose […]

Swimming Against the Mainstream Today we talk surf business and entrepreneurship with Mark Ranucci… About what it means to be a part of a collective, the Surf Collective specifically. In the space of two short years this united front for independent surf businesses has been able to attract the likes of some 70-80 grassroots exponents […]

What happens when you combine a professional free surfer with an AFL player?

Jye Gudenswager is the fourth generation of his family to be a pioneer in surfboard design – hence the business name Gen4 Surfboards. The tradition began with Jye’s great grandfather Frank Adler who built some of the first plywood surfboards know as ‘toothpicks’ during the 1940s. Frank was followed into the surfing world by his […]

Here Comes the Rooster A self-described Hillbilly from Tennessee, The Rooster has worked with legends of the surf industry, surfed against the likes of CJ and Damien Hobgood on the NSSA, partied with Jay Adams in Hawaii and even learned to screen print from none other than Lords of DogTown legend Skip Engblom. This man […]