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Nov 16, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Brendan Buckley
Spoiler alert: Some do. Get Stab Premium Home to the greatest films, series, and editorial in surfing. Already a member?
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Brendan Buckley
Twiggy Baker, Surfline, and various surf photographers discuss digitally nuking swells. Get Stab Premium Home to the greatest films, series, and editorial in surfing. Already a member?
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Brendan Buckley
The Swatch Nines Surf was a marathon disguised as a series of sprints. It was a three-day event featuring 19 surfers — and a melange of humanity, including a BMXer, the Swatch CEO, Greyson Fletcher, a mainstream influencer-type, and Stab’s favorite former Trader Joe’s employee. With that much time in the pool, it only took one day for all of the surfers to exhaust themselves. However, on Day 2, it only took one wave for them all to get back straight in the swing of things.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Brendan Buckley
It takes months to plan something like the Swatch Nines Surf. A glance around the event site makes this truth readily apparent. You’d notice an orb getting carried away in the white water and an oversized mat lingering near an air section. A DJ cranking tunes and skate ramps flanking the pool. Humans from all over the world, all around the premises. And then somebody trying a double-spin (sorry, not doing degrees).
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Brendan Buckley
What might it look like for Matt Meola to get winched into Waco Surf’s widely adored ‘Sissy Sauce’ air section while Greyson Fletcher simultaneously tries something massive on a quarterpipe in the shallow end of the pool, with a few flares lighting up the background? This is just one of the many questions the Swatch Nines event will answer next week. It’ll be the first time we see The Nines in surfing, but the concept has been around for a while.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Brendan Buckley
How one type of fin led to 77% of CT wins in 2024. Get Stab Premium Home to the greatest films, series, and editorial in surfing. Already a member?
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Sun Bum |Kona Big Wave |Brendan Buckley
Despite being a surf contest, the vibe at the Quiksilver Festival doesn’t feel very competitive. People share waves in heats. Competitors spend the nights out together. There are no exercise bikes in sight. Of course, everyone wants to win — it’s just that they don’t present their desire to win as if it’s a personality. But when you think about it, the format is quite a clever way of deciding who did the best surfing throughout the waiting period. One bad heat won’t send you home.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Sun Bum |Kona Big Wave |Brendan Buckley
Some people confuse the skill of surf forecasting with the act of checking ten different sites for no reason. Miky Picon exists on the opposite end of the spectrum. All he must do is stand on the beach, close his eyes, breathe deeply through the nose seven times, then exhale audibly, and he will know exactly what every bank in a ten-kilometer radius will be doing through every tide for the next 24 hours.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Sun Bum |Kona Big Wave |Brendan Buckley
If not for events like the Quiksilver Festival, the old-fashioned custom of not allowing a surf competition to get in the way of a proper night out would risk extinction. Last night, a few hundred people gathered at Le Surfing in Seignosse to watch new edits from Milla Brown and Kael Walsh. Some of those people happened to be wearing comp jerseys a few hours earlier. Both projects are easily among this year’s most impactful and thus will be in the running for Stab Edit Of The Year.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
stabmag.com | Sun Bum |Kona Big Wave |Brendan Buckley
You could walk outside this morning and immediately tell that the Quiksilver Festival would be on. Daybreak brought clear skies and light offshore wind while yesterday’s short-period swell hung around. Why not run some heats? Miky and Jeremy once again chose a theme of ‘big turns’ for today’s round. But remember, in 2024 turns are non-binary. A turn can be a turn, but an air can be a turn, too. In other words, the brief was to go as big as you can.
