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1 week ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
Quiksilver’s two past films, Repeater and Saturn, are proof that a mainstream surf brand can still produce the best films in 2025. Trips, team salaries, filmers, editors, music licenses — it all adds up to…. a lot. At the end of the day, all we as surf fans care about is if a brand invests its cash into creating films. Make the films, and the T-shirt purchases will follow.
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3 weeks ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
Jordy Smith’s win last week at the Surf City El Salvador Pro was significant for him for two main reasons:(1) It was Jordy’s first CT win in eight years. His last victory was the 2017 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach. (2) It’s the first time in 41 years that two South Africans surfed in a CT final together. “To be a part of that history with Matty [McGillivray] is something I’ll never forget and to make a final — let alone win — on one of my dad’s boards a dream come true,” Jordy said.
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3 weeks ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
Just outside of Zion National Park in Utah lies the one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States. Take it from a Mormon: Washington County is a perfect place for a wave pool…The area is replete with young families moving in, freshly priced out of their parents’ coastal elite enclaves. The county is also home to world-class mountain biking, golf, and boating.
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1 month ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
We pitched the question to Album’s Matt Parker and Channel Islands’ Britt Merrick. Get Stab Premium Home to the greatest films, series, and editorial in surfing. Already a member?
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1 month ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
A couple days ago we asked Doug Silva if he could explain his newest buzzword ‘torquenology’ to a five-year-old. “It’s kinda like technology, but with torque,” he said. “So, we’re connecting our toes out to our fingers, and getting that lateral torque.
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1 month ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
Our winning commenter took cheeky aim at the Lady Gaga v. Mayhem case. “People always give us that possessive term: ‘my shaper’,” Lady Gaga’s worst nightmare, Matt Biolos said. “I’m not your shaper,” Matt Biolos laughed in Season Two, Episode Two of How Surfers Get Paid. “I’m Griffin Colapinto’s shaper, I’m Carissa Moore’s shaper, I work for them, yes.
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1 month ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
On surfing’s unexpected contribution to the study of capitalism, humanitarian work, and existential dread. Get Stab Premium Home to the greatest films, series, and editorial in surfing. Already a member?
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1 month ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
Featuring a bespoke soundtrack, a Pipe Master victory, and THAT Teahupo’o session. Hail Mary will be playing exclusively on (1) stabmag.com and (2) the Stab app for the next 48 hours before being released publicly on YouTube for the first time. In 2022, Balaram Stack became a Pipe Master, marking the first time a New Yorker had ever surfed in — let alone won — tube-riding’s Super Bowl.
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1 month ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
Finn McGill and Shion Crawford export your favorite challenges to warmer water You might know Finnegan Thunders McGill as the convivial young fellow who lived in a wetsuit for eight days and won the “worst haircut” award during Stab Highway East Coast Presented By Monster Energy. “I was super bummed on getting eliminated first on the Blue Team so Shion and I spent 24 hours at Rocky Point to see how many of the surf challenges we could check off,” Finn explained.
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1 month ago | 
stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt
68,000 years ago, a herd of Columbian Mammoths died by mudslide together in Waco, Texas — creating the United States’ only place where you can examine an entire herd’s worth of mammoth fossils. 139 years ago, the Dr. Pepper soda was invented in Waco, originally designed to a drink served hot over a lemon. 71 years ago, one of the strongest and deadliest tornados in recorded history — an F5 twister — spun its way through Waco, Texas, killing 114 people.
