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2 months ago | 
surfer.com | Ben Mondy
Blake Johnstone cooks up another world record attempt
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theinertia.com | Ben Mondy
The Search has been good to Steph. Photo: Pierre Tostee//World Surf League With minimum fuss, and even less fanfare, Steph Gilmore and Filipe Toledo will return to the Championship Tour in a few weeks. Now, they are a pair that aren’t often clumped together, but having won a combined 10 World Titles, and both opting out of 2024, their return to elite competition poses some fascinating questions. As British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said, a year is a long time in surfing.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theinertia.com | Ben Mondy
Erin Brooks is one of two women in the rookie class who have CT wins before they officially qualified. Photo: Matt Dunbar//WSL Psychologists say there are four stages of learning a new skill. The first is unconscious incompetence; here the worst aspect is not that you don’t know how to do the skill, but that you don’t even realize you can’t. The second stage is when you figure out you are incompetent.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ben Mondy
It’s been another big year for surfing. From the Olympics to World Titles, big wave breakthroughs, the GOAT, and pumping Indo, if the dial moved in surfing, we’ve been all over it. That means narrowing down the key moments, across surfing in all its forms over the last 12 months, wasn’t an easy feat. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth trying. Here are seven moments in surfing that really mattered this year.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ben Mondy
NewsAnti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been freed from a prison in Greenland and will not be extradited to Japan, the Danish Ministry of Justice announced today. “It’s good to be out and … good to see that they are not going to send me to Japan and so have a go-home for Christmas,” Watson said on social media after his release in the early hours of Tuesday morning. “The only hard part was that my two little boys.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ben Mondy
In the 11th Century, King Canute united the kingdoms of England, Denmark and Norway into what was known as the North Sea Empire. It was an incredible feat. Especially, as he was known as Cnut at the time. However, he is remembered for setting his throne by the shore and commanding the incoming tide to halt.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ben Mondy
Ten years ago the renowned West Australian surf photographer Russell Ord took a call from his mate, the musician Qynn Beardman. Beardman runs the Grassroots Foundation in remote parts of Western Australia, which provides music tuition, mentoring and emotional support for disadvantaged school kids who would not normally have access to music sessions or instruments. Qynn wanted Ord to document the successes of his program so he could roll it out to more schools.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
surfer.com | Ben Mondy
NewsOne of the great surf cities has become greener with 10 million trees planted by local residents in the Reforest Rio program. It’s a template for a better, cooler world. If you think of Rio de Janeiro, you think of its granite peaks, waves piling into platinum beaches and Atlantic blues seas. Surf fans might recall rabid fans cheering on local surfers, and seismic World title wins by Mick Fanning and Kelly Slater at Barra da Tijuca and Postinho.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
theinertia.com | Ben Mondy
Andrew Stephen Buck, with the right grip and glide. Photo: James Fortman Graeme Webster makes his G-Mat Custom Surfmats in the UK for mat surfers all over the globe. Calling it more like tailoring a suit, than shaping a board, he’s made mats for George Greenough, Bryce Young and Derek Hynd, and is considered the man when it comes to producing truly high-performance surf craft. I chatted with Graeme about one of the most intriguing, and evolving, fringes of surfing.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ben Mondy
Andrew Stephen Buck, with the right grip and glide. Photo: James FortmanGenerate Key TakeawaysGraeme Webster makes his G-Mat Custom Surfmats in the UK for mat surfers all over the globe. Calling it more like tailoring a suit, than shaping a board, he’s made mats for George Greenough, Bryce Young and Derek Hynd, and is considered the man when it comes to producing truly high-performance surf craft. I chatted with Graeme about one of the most intriguing, and evolving, fringes of surfing.
