The Great Autumn, Part Two: Gold Coast Prelude
In the week leading up to NSW’s bomb Saturday, coasts further north were surreal.
Sharkies, Tuesday morning.
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It probably shouldn’t have been this good. But it was.
“At the start of the week I wasn’t thinking it was going to be insane,” says Andrew Shield. “But the way it went, the conditions and the sand everywhere were so good.”
Shieldsy’s been surfing and shooting the southern Queensland and northern NSW coasts pretty much forever. He has a finely tuned eye for wind and wave. On Tuesday last week, he checked Burleigh Cove, looked beyond it to the sandy zone just off Burleigh headland known as Sharkies, and realised something interesting was happening.
14-Year-Old Sierra Kerr Steps Off Into a Stunningly Good Tube Sunday May 9, 2021
In his heyday, Josh Kerr was one of the most progressive surfers in the world. He pushed to air game to levels it hadn’t reached yet. And his 14-ear-old daughter Sierra Kerr is following in his footsteps. Sierra’s been weirdly good at surfing for some time now, and at least a few times a year, we’re blown away by what she’s capable of. Here’s her at 12. Here’s her at 13. And in the video above, she’s 14. See the progression? See the comfort on a wave? Sierra Kerr is going to be a serious threat if she decides to chase the tour.
Last Year in Surfing
Mike Jennings
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It’s the 52nd This Week In Surfing
column/blog/listicle for the year. So, as is tradition, rather than looking at the last week of things that happened in surfing on the internet, let’s look back at the whole cursed year of 2020 and count down the 10 biggest things that happened in surfing on the internet. Like I said when we did this last year, and the year before that, and the year before that:
this list is the work of one person, who consulted no-one before hitting publish, so it’s probably missing some giganticly major stuff (like Dane Reynolds’ new website, or the end of Surfer Magazine, or the freaking bushfires that devastated so much of the Australian coasts, or the passings of iconic legends in Aus surf culture like Bob Cooper, Shmoo and Marti Tullemans, or perhaps just any of the hundreds of hours of footage from YouTube surf vloggers that flooded the internet in 2020. So please don’t hesitate t