Stab Magazine

2 days ago | stabmag.com | Ethan Davis

Cornish big-wave surfer Tom Lowe is in hospital in Papeete after a violent wipeout at Teahupo’o left him unconscious and requiring CPR in the lagoon. The session was described by those in the lineup as “as good as it gets” for paddle-in Teahupo’o — until it turned into a nightmare. “It was solid 10-foot, with maybe a couple 12-footers nobody caught,” said Hawaiian charger Kala Grace, who was in the water at the time.

4 days ago | stabmag.com | Ethan Davis

Made in partnership with Rip Curl. You might remember Willow Hardy from the Margaret River Pro highlight reel—where the Trials wildcard paddled into a wave that looked like it was trying to gargle bricks. She made it to mid-face, then got obliterated. “It didn’t look that big when I paddled in,” she laughed. “But when I fell, I didn’t penetrate the water and just got rolled forever.”It was gutsy though.

5 days ago | stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt

During World War II, the United States established a naval base in Kenitra, a town in northern Morocco. After the War, surfing caught on in the States, and servicemen began noticing suspiciously good lines steaming down the myriad Moroccan headlands. This, matched with a mass influx of proto-trustafarian hippies and beatniks in the 1950s and 1960s, lead Morocco becoming ground zero for ex-pat surf activity.

5 days ago | stabmag.com | Christian Bowcutt

In 1981, Simon Anderson officially released the “thruster” — the first recorded instance where a shaper designed a board with three identically sized fins. We all know this. What we as a surfing collective mightn’t talk about as much is the reason why Anderson built the thruster in the first place: to surf Pipeline better. It wasn’t, ostensibly, designed to surf Lowers better, or Burleigh better, or even Bells better, where he first unveiled the tri-fin design and rode it to a win.

5 days ago | stabmag.com | Holden Trnka

Yesterday, Northern California filmmaking staple Powerlines Productions posted a video on Instagram showing surfer Jens Heller after an apparent shark attack at Montara Beach in Half Moon Bay. “Well, I was sitting on the board and then I felt something under my foot kick me off,” said Jens, unscathed on the beach. “I looked back and saw this big mouth grabbing on to my board.