We are proud to announce the release of our own Big Sun fin range. We have spent the past year testing and developing shapes to find the perfect templates. The results are fins of the highest quality, hand foiled using the best materials. We have brass pin details and tool-less screws. Introducing the Big Sun 10.5' Inch Logger, the Big Sun 10' Inch Rake, the Big Sun 70's Single, and the Big Sun 80's Twin. The Big Sun 10.5 Inch Logger has been refined as the perfect logging fin. The wide base creates a broad surface area perfect for nose riding. The generous rake tapers back to a sharper, narrower tip, designed to create more drive and maneuverability while turning. An excellent...
We've all been told to get a grip at some point in our lives. Well the Velvet Grip Co. boys from Mt Maunganui really took that advice and got their act together. The result is the nicest deck traction around. This surfboard grip is thin and soft, but sturdy. The design is flawless. Comes in three primal colours right now with more to come. To follow the boys on the gram check out @velvet.gripco To shop follow this link to the Big Sun online store.
Jarrod Saville is a young up and coming cinematographer. Standing on the shoulders of master director Jean-Luc Godard, Jarrod puts his own spin on the 'New Wave' movement. But until he finds his own Anna Karina, Jarrod will have to make do shooting the boys around his home town of Mount Maunganui.
Surfers: Jack Mander, Ryan Glover, Jordan Griffin, Tim Broadhurst, Mitch Broadhurst, Guy Thompson.
Above: Diver John Foster wears two of Bradner’s early neoprene wetsuit prototypes, circa 1952. Images courtesy of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego Library. When Bob Meistrell started surfing in Northern California during the early 1950s, 20 minutes was about all he could stand in the frigid coastal waters. Despite the constant rush of adrenaline, after three or four good waves, the late Body Glove co-founder was hightailing it back to a dry towel in the warmth of his car. With water temperatures near Santa Cruz hovering in the mid-50s, the surf was cold enough for a swimmer to catch hypothermia in an hour. “He’d be surfing at Ocean Beach basically in rubber overalls filled with water.” This...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. His writing is compared to Hemingway's on bullfighting, Burroughs on drugs, and recommended by Obama himself. William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf; and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous...
