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- [First surfer around the moon reveals horror toll of space travel](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/first-surfer-around-the-moon-reveals-horror-toll-of-space-travel/): This very April, surfers around the world (but mostly screwfoots) cheered robustly as Christina Koch became the first of our kind to slingshot around the moon. The inspirational 47-year-old was part of the four person Artemis II mission that momentarily united the United States. The goal was to take photographs of the moon's backside and prep for another moon landing to prove, once and for all, the first one was real.
- [Bondi Jews’ Refusal to be Broken by the Weight of History Left an indelible Mark on my Character](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/bondi-jews-refusal-to-be-broken-by-the-weight-of-history-left-an-indelible-mark-on-my-character/): As an Australian father of three grown children, my reflections on the state of our world are rooted not in academic theory, but in lived experience.
- [Live chat Finals Day Margaret River Pro, “I can’t look away!”](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/live-chat-finals-day-margaret-river-pro-i-cant-look-away/)
- [Kelly Slater shares how a bout of wicked self-loathing made him the greatest athlete of all-time](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/kelly-slater-shares-how-a-bout-of-wicked-self-loathing-made-him-the-greatest-athlete-of-all-time/): Life hacks, cheat codes, secrets to success have long been sought by regular folk too dumb, stuck, basic to ever get ahead. We see the yawning cavern between "us" and "them" and so attend conferences or subscribe to Masterclasses in order to learn, from them, how to reach our full potential (which might, at the end, be dumb, stuck and basic).
- [Three-time world surf champ Joel “Tinkerbell” Tudor releases video, “How to choke an escaping man”](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/three-time-world-surf-champ-joel-tinkerbell-tudor-releases-video-how-to-choke-an-escaping-man/): Yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, ooowee, life sure is flying right on past, quad surfer Jesse Billauer told the terrific story of how Joel Tudor, the hot-button three-time world log champ, nicknamed Tinkerbell 'cause he was real pretty thirty years ago, choked out big-waver Garrett McNamara for dropping in on him at Malibu. Very dangerous etc.
- [How I learned to cure my acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/how-i-learned-to-cure-my-acute-case-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/): After more than two decades of sitting in 12-step meetings, I’ve become familiar with a certain rhythm: the nods of recognition, the nervous admissions, the gentle laughter when someone manages self-deprecating humour. But every so often, something happens that throws the whole room off its axis. That’s what happened this morning at AA.
- [Coach implores surfers to avoid using “gross” word kook](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/coach-implores-surfers-to-avoiding-using-gross-word-kook/): Of all the slurs out there, "kook" has always seemed relatively benign. It does not reference sex nor race, age nor ability. Anyone can be a kook regardless of skill, hair color, the amount of professional surfing trophies on the mantle. In a word, or, or two, "kook" is equal opportunity.
- [Jack Robinson sells Margaret River surf shack for bullish $3.6 million, debuts Chanel sponsorship](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/jack-robinson-sells-margaret-river-surf-shack-for-bullish-3-6-million-debuts-chanel-sponsorship/): The perennial world title contender turned pearl necklace merchant Jack Robinson, famous for rocketing down the ol mail chute and wafting through the exit door at Teahupoo and Pipeline, has sold his Margaret River compound for a bullish $3.6 million. 
- [“Scientology Speedrunning” trend threatens to strip more potential surf stars from ranks](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/scientology-speedrunning-trend-threatens-to-strip-more-potential-surf-stars-from-ranks/): Days ago, surfers both near and far were disheartened to learn of young AJ Iredell's defection. The 14-year-old was once a rising surf star with sponsors and an eye on the competitive tour, according to CBS Weekend News. Now, however, he is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu champ, having swapped out surfing for the much more exciting, and fulfilling, activity wherein people roll around on the ground in pajamas.
- [Panic in Lemoore after Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch nearly tagged by a tornado](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/panic-in-lemoore-after-kelly-slaters-surf-ranch-nearly-tagged-by-a-tornado/): A wild Tuesday up in California's surf-rich Central Valley after a tornado nearly took out one of the state's most consistent righthanders and, I suppose, lefthanders. Yes, Kelly Slater's fabled Surf Ranch, where celebrities and wealthy folk are coaxed into tubes by the one-and-only Raimana van Bastolear, might have been obliterated after some powerful storms produced ultra-rare twisters mere miles away from the Big Blue Plow.
- [Triple world surf champ chokes out Hawaiian big-wave star in Malibu after imbroglio with quad-surfer Jesse Billauer](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/triple-world-surf-champ-chokes-out-hawaiian-big-wave-star-in-malibu-after-imbroglio-with-quad-surfer-jesse-billauer/): Ain’t it great that, for most of us, in a world full of curveballs our worst problem is a sticky rail, a pinched stance or, maybe, a long-term relationship with a girl who recoils at your twitching womb-scraper and dirty fingernails?
- [California surfers apoplectic after Five Guys bests In-N-Out for nation’s top fast-food burger chain](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/california-surfers-apoplectic-after-five-guys-bests-in-n-out-for-nations-top-fast-food-burger-chain/): Surfers in America, though especially California, celebrated National Burrito Day, only a few weeks ago, taking time to pause and appreciate a favorite post session bite. From the breakfast varietal to standard carne asada, the burrito has long held a very top spot in the California surfer heart bested only, and sometimes, by In-N-Out hamburgers.
- [“We became really close” Prince Harry’s secret friendship with Tahitian described by Cindy Crawford as Human Viagra revealed ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/we-became-really-close-prince-harrys-secret-friendship-with-tahitian-described-by-cindy-crawford-as-human-viagra-revealed/): Only days after feting Bondi Massacre hero Jimmy McIntosh, the gesture overshadowed by his wife’s Holocaust Chic striped pyjama top, the most tragic of all royals, Prince Harry, has been feted himself by the Tahitian super coach Raimana Van Bastolaer.
- [Cult classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High nearly slapped with X Rating for showcasing naked men](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/surf-cult-classic-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-nearly-slapped-with-x-rating/): The coming of age comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High is not a surf film, per se, though must be included in the surf film conversation as it is the vehicle through which the most iconic cinematic surf character arrived. But who could ever forget Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli? His Southern California drawl, glazed eyes and re-ordering Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, placing tasty waves and a cool buzz on the very top.
- [MMA fighter goes viral trolling “ego-driven, entitled” surfers after waveless session ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/mma-fighter-goes-viral-trolling-ego-driven-entitled-surfers-after-waveless-session/): The Gold Coast-based MMA featherweight Zac O’Brien, an aggressive five-seven, one forty five pounder, went viral over the course of the last week after posting a damning treatise on the emotional makeup of surfers. 
- [Surfing loses yet another prodigious young talent to Brazilian jiu-jitsu](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/surfing-loses-yet-another-prodigious-young-talent-to-brazilian-jiu-jitsu/): When Brazilian jiu-jitsu first entered the surf scene, some two decades back, it was seen as a wonderful boon. When not in the water, surfers could stay in surf shape by dressing in pajamas and rolling around with each other on the floor. Everyone, it seemed, got in on the game, even the greatest surfer to ever do it, one Kelly Slater, who has risen to the lofty heights of make-believe blue belt.
- [Surf influencer Peter King returns to cinematic roots with Pipeline feature already being hailed as “documentary of the year” ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/surf-influencer-peter-king-returns-to-cinematic-roots-with-pipeline-feature-already-being-hailed-as-documentary-of-the-year/): The former pro surfer, photographer, bandmate of Kelly Slater and surfing’s original vlogger, Peter King, has returned to his cinematic roots with a documentary already being hailed as the best surf film of the year. 
- [Live Chat Day 2 of the Margaret River Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/live-chat-day-2-of-the-margaret-river-pro/)
- [Australia’s Jacob Wilcox and Brazil’s Yago Dora stun world with wanton display of peacemaking](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/australias-jacob-wilcox-and-brazils-yago-dora-stun-world-with-wanton-display-of-peacemaking/): Feelings of consternation and discomfort are spreading around the globe, this morning, after Australia's Jacob Wilcox and Brazil's Yago Dora made peace instead of closing each other's Straights of Hormuz. People in every corner, from high up in Alaska all the way down low to Tasmania, have become used to enmity during the last decade plus. Right fighting left, country fighting country, president fighting pope.
- [Meghan Markle channels “Holocaust Chic” in meet and greet with Bondi massacre hero Jimmy McIntosh](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/meghan-markle-channels-holocaust-chic-in-meet-and-greet-with-bondi-massacre-hero-jimmy-mcintosh/): You’ll recall the gorgeous story, told on these pages one month back, where two first responders to the Islamic terror attack at Bond Beach, old folks and kids gunned down by a couple of Indian migrants with shotguns and a dislike for Hebrews, fell in love and are now set to be married, likely this November. 
- [El Porto Will Teach You Nothing, Until it Does](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/el-porto-will-teach-you-nothing-until-it-does/): Most mornings in El Porto start with optimism.
- [Kelly Slater slammed by surf fans after injecting himself into foil vs surfer wars](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/kelly-slater-slammed-by-surf-fans-after-injecting-himself-into-foil-vs-surfer-wars/): Two days ago, you’ll recall, the street was alive with bitter argument after vision appeared of a foil-boarder delivering the Strike of Wrath to a surfer and subsequently claiming he was “looking for a hole” and “a passage home” and therefore entitled to fade the surfer into oblivion. 
- [Etiquette sign divides surf world](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/etiquette-sign-divides-surf-world/): Surfing's rules and regulations have generally been an oral tradition, passed from mother to daughter, father to son, grouchy local to kook via either calm explanation or spitting invective. How to behave in the lineup learned thusly. The Covid-era surf participation boom eroded much etiquette, as adults came in without surfing parents and did not care what the grouchy local had to say and the aforementioned lineup a mess.
- [Flabby former surf icon, 50, reveals astonishing before and after photos!](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/flabby-former-surf-icon-50-reveals-astonishing-before-and-after-photos/): The second-most famous surfer ever to emerge from England, a sodden island just went of France famous for its many picturesque mosques, has taken to Instagram to reveal an astonishing series of before and after photos.
- [Live Chat Day One of the Margaret River Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/live-chat-day-one-of-the-margaret-river-pro/)
- [Slaughter off Sydney as Cape Solander roars to life](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/slaughter-in-sydney-as-cape-solander-roars-to-life/): Cape Solander, that terrifying mutant breaking oddly close to Sydney's airport, is one of the waves I do not want to surf. Derek Rielly, on the other hand, has been barreled out there though it is uncertain if he was in the water, days ago, when the slab roared to life.
- [“I was simply trying to come home” Foiler-surfer war reaches boiling point at Snapper Rocks](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/i-was-simply-trying-to-come-home-foiler-surfer-war-reaches-boiling-point-at-snapper-rocks/): The steppes of Instagram are alive this morning after vision appeared of a foil-boarder delivering the Strike of Wrath to a surfer, although surfer is putting it generously, a stubbornly intermediate long boarder if we’re to be precise, at Queensland’s famous Snapper Rocks. 
- [Taj Burrow shares devastating news regarding upcoming Margaret River Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/taj-burrow-shares-devastating-news-regarding-upcoming-margaret-river-pro/): Taj Burrow is one of the most beloved surfers of all-time. The now-47-year-old burst onto the scene, nearly three decades ago, as a do-it-all phenom out of wild and wooly Western Australia. Burrow enjoyed a long Championship Tour career as a bridesmaid, coming second much, but also never seemed to take it too seriously and gracefully exited at the appropriate time, leaving surf fans wanting more.
- [50,000 Dried Shark Fins Disguised as Car Parts seized by wildlife officials](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/50000-dried-shark-fins-disguised-as-car-parts-seized-by-wildlife-officials/): U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors intercepted almost 50k of delicious dried shark fins across 20 separate shipments at multiple American ports, authorities announced on Monday.
- [Surfers cry “bridge too far” after Trump posts image of himself “curing Joel Tudor of grumpiness”](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/surfers-cry-bridge-too-far-after-trump-posts-image-of-himself-curing-joel-tudor-of-grumpiness/): President Donald J. Trump has been in political circulation, now, for some decade plus and over that time he has said many things and published many things that would have undone anyone else. His supporters, including those who self-describe as "surfer," generally excuse the outlandishness as Trump giving the people what they want. A sort of nod to the common man. And/or genuinely appreciate his brazen crack at "polite culture."
- [Question: Does familiarity breed professional surfing contempt?](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/question-does-familiarity-breed-professional-surfing-contempt/): Bells Beach ended, a few days ago, and Margaret River is starting in days, but let me be honest with you. I didn't and don't care. I tried to muster some interest for finals day, there in Torquay-by-the-Sea, and intently watch, but Joe Turpel n Friends was legitimately too much to bear and so I poked in and out of the broadcast instead, only paying slight attention.
- [Australia’s premier shark hunter to test efficacy of Sharkbanz bracelets off Tweed Heads and Yamba beaches ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/australias-premier-shark-hunter-to-test-efficacy-of-sharkbanz-bracelets-off-tweed-heads-and-yamba-beaches/): The Newcastle-based shark fisherman Joel Nancarrow, a man who admits to a deep hatred of bull sharks and who famously pulled a half-ton bull out of the drink just off the beach at Camp Cove near where a kid was killed a few days earlier, is prepping to test the real world efficacy of Sharkbanz magnetic bracelets.
- [Surfers in unhappy relationships take note of “Alpine Divorce” trend](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/surfers-in-unhappy-relationships-take-note-of-alpine-divorce-trend/): Well, in Austria a whole method has been developed called the "Alpine Divorce." Quite basically, an unsatisfied partner with hiking or mountaineering skills marches the now-unwanted partner up a hill or out in the wilderness, storms off ahead then just flat out leaves them.
- [World #2 surfer Lakey Peterson buys $2 million eight-acre compound near Bells Beach](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/world-2-surfer-lakey-peterson-buys-2-million-eight-acre-compound-near-bells-beach/): There ain’t many things better in life than finding the person you want to build the foundations of a family with and then, shortly after, pouring your heart and cash into a home base. 
- [Australia faces national reckoning after no native born male surfer makes it to Bells final day for first time in history](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/australia-faces-national-reckoning-after-no-native-born-male-surfers-make-it-to-bells-final-day-for-first-time-in-history/): Australians are waking up this morning blaming both each other, the government and the global home of surfing after the wrong kind of history was just made at Bells Beach. The iconic competition has run a record 63 times, wrapping its latest iteration, yesterday, with Brazil's Miggy Pupo defeating countryman Yago Dora in the final frame.
- [Fairytale scenes as Daddy of Four Miguel Pupo wins Bells Beach Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/fairytale-scenes-as-daddy-of-four-miguel-pupo-wins-bells-beach-pro/): The Brazilian journeyman Miguel Pupo, a surfer who has long struggled to keep his place on the world tour, has led the Brazilian charge, as they call it, or Storm or Hurricane, depending on your meteorological preference, to win the first-ever all-Brazilian final at the Bells Beach Pro.
- [Live Chat Finals Day of the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/live-chat-finals-day-of-the-rip-curl-pro-bells-beach/)
- [Postcard from Lebanon](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/postcard-from-lebanon/): I've been to Lebanon more than a dozen times, in good and bad. It's gorgeous, diverse and fantastic, my second favorite joint in the world after Yemen. People amazing, food delicious, surf, oddly, fun. Israel perpetually hates on its northern neighbor due, I think now, pure jealously. Here's a postcard, anyhow, from when Israel tried to smoke the place two decades ago, back in 2006, as found in Reports from Hell.
- [Live chat day six of the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/live-chat-day-six-of-the-rip-curl-pro-bells-beach/)
- [Bells Beach surf fans incredulous after “air of the century” marked as less than excellent by unimpressed judges ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/bells-beach-surf-fans-incredulous-after-air-of-the-century-marked-as-less-than-excellent-by-unimpressed-judges/): One of the perennials of the pro surfing system, which is as much a permo-state as the bureaucrat controlled EU or the Commies in China, is its insistence that five well-placed re-entries and a floater, risk factor close to zero, will always score more highly than a wild, corked-out air completed with a desperate finger-clawing landing.
- [Oregon beach town turns desperate eyes to Shane Dorian after elk go berserk](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/oregon-beach-town-turns-desperate-eyes-to-shane-dorian-after-elk-go-berserk/): Cannon Beach, Oregon is a bucolic coastal town, some hour and a half west of Portland and five hours north of Coos Bay. It is a typical Oregon coastal, green, grey, untamed Pacific lashing long sandy beaches, picturesque rocks, just off shore, bulging to the sky. The locals, there, don't experience much hot action, which is why an invasion of berserk elk has rattled.
- [Hot-button Stab podcast slams Israeli “privilege” describes Jewish state as genocidal and “detestable”](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/hot-button-stab-podcast-slams-israeli-privilege-and-describes-jewish-state-as-genocidal-and-detestable/): The noted surfboard tester, Michael Ciaramella, once a popular writer for BeachGrit before pivoting, correctly in my opinion, to the more popular and successful Stab magazine, has lit up about the Jewish state in a recent podcast, describing it as genocidal and “detestable.”
- [Live Chat Day Five of the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/live-chat-day-five-of-the-rip-curl-pro-bells-beach/)
- [Regular footed surfers lose space race as goofy Christina Koch makes history](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/regular-footed-surfers-lose-space-race-as-goofy-christina-koch-makes-history/): Those who surf with left foot forward were dealt a devastating blow, this past week, as a goofy astronaut Christina Koch slungshot around the moon. The battle for cultural superiority between regular and screw foots has been being fought since wo/man first stood on a surfboard.
- [Gabriel Medina dumps Rip Curl for brand famous for sexy bodysuits paired for “erotic tension” beneath trench coats](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/gabriel-medina-dumps-rip-curl-for-activewear-brand-famous-for-sexy-bodysuits-paired-for-erotic-tension-beneath-trench-coats/): The three-time world champion surfer Gabriel Medina, who is set to battle Italo Ferreira tomorrow at the Bells Beach Pro in a wildly anticipated round three heat, has revealed his new clothing sponsor, and it ain’t what y’thinking. 
- [Live Chat Day Four of the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/live-chat-day-four-of-the-rip-curl-pro-bells-beach/)
- [Culture war re-flares as American surfers at each other’s throats on National Beer Day](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/culture-war-re-flares-as-american-surfers-at-each-others-throats-on-national-beer-day/): The brief truce experienced by American surfers just days ago is shattered this morning, as wave sliders from San Diego up to Seattle, Kennebunkport down to Key West are back at each other's throats. Yes Pax Burrito, experienced most fully on National Burrito Day, observed the first Thursday of April. Surfers, of course, love burritos and don't much mind if filled with carne asada or al pastor, grilled fish or fish battered and fried. A burrito is a burrito," as the old surfer saying goes and peace reigned until this morning as the sun rose on National Beer Day.
- [Kelly Slater-owned surf brand pledges up to 15K of sales, excluding taxes and fees, for North Shore flood victims](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/kelly-slater-owned-surf-brand-pledges-up-to-15k-of-sales-excluding-taxes-and-fees-for-north-shore-flood-victims/): Hot on the heels of BeachGrit’s missive earlier today where it was revealed Billabong, Quiksilver and others in the Surf Brand Alliance had donated $500 of clothing to flood victims, per person that is, and totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars, is news that Outerknown has donated an entire day’s takings, capped at 15k and excluding fees and taxes, to the Lahui Foundation. 
- [Legacy surf brands heroic in aftermath of Hawaii floods](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/legacy-surf-brands-heroic-in-aftermath-of-hawaii-floods/): It has not been a great decade for surfing's legacy surf brands. Back in the before time, Billabong, Quiksilver, et. al. were gilded darlings. Worn by surfers, craved by posers, valuations soaring into the hundreds of millions and even billion. Shifting consumer tastes and questionable decision making gutted them all, though, and they were lumped together then sold for scrap to the likes of Authentic Brands Group and Bluestar Alliance. Once proud logos slapped onto fingernail clippers and pool toys.
- [Jewish LGBTQ surfer Anat Lelior silences anti-Israel protesters at Bells with performance of the day](https://beachgrit.com/2026/04/jewish-lgbtq-surfer-anat-lelior-silences-anti-israel-protesters-at-bells-with-performance-of-the-day/): The surfer Anat Lelior, who made history when she qualified for the Championship Tour a few weeks back, the first time ever by an Israeli, has shut down a small group of protesters calling for the effective annihilation of the Middle East’s only democracy with the performance of the day at Bells Beach. 

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- [The Girls T-Shirt (Red) by Paul McNeil](https://beachgrit.com/the-girls-t-shirt-red-by-paul-mcneil/): BeachGrit's newest and boldest graphic yet… All prices in US dollars. 
- [The Girls T-Shirt (Army) by Paul McNeil](https://beachgrit.com/the-girls-t-shirt-army-by-paul-mcneil/): BeachGrit's newest and boldest graphic yet… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit T-Shirt (Army)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-t-shirt-army/): Show the world you like but don't love BeachGrit with discreet chest print… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit T-Shirt (Blue)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-t-shirt-blue/): Show the world you like but don't love BeachGrit with discreet chest print… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit T-Shirt (Red)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-t-shirt-red/): Show the world you like but don't love BeachGrit with discreet chest print… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit Great White Shark Bath Bomb!](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-shark-bath-bomb/): For both shark lovers and those who'd prefer 'em on a sushi train caboose, neatly sliced, the BeachGrit Great White Shark Bath Bomb will thrill and delight. The size of an oddly shaped baseball, your BeachGrit Great White Shark Bath Bomb turns the water of your tub a bloody red, and with a fruity tingle, as it dissolves. Handmade in Atlanta, Georgia. Strictly limited numbers etc.
- [BeachGrit Tail Pad (Navy/Blue/Red)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-tail-pad-in-navy-blue-red/): A three-piece tail pad with striking design that calls to mind the super graphics of Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit Tail Pad (Black/Blue/White)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-tail-pad-in-black-blue-white/): A three-piece tail pad with striking design that calls to mind the super graphics of Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit Tail Pad (Black/Red/Blue)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-tail-pad-in-black/): A three-piece tail pad with striking design that calls to mind the super graphics of Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit Tail Pad (White/Red/Blue)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-tail-pad-white-red-blue/): A three-piece tail pad with striking design that calls to mind the super graphics of Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon… All prices in US dollars. 
- [“I Want My BeachGrit” Coffee Mug](https://beachgrit.com/i-want-my-beachgrit-coffee-mug/): Show the world you mean business with your own BeachGrit coffee vessel. Comes in special opaque finish to enable discreet sipping of spirits during work hours. All prices in US dollars. 
- [“I Want My BeachGrit” Car Air Freshener](https://beachgrit.com/i-want-my-beachgrit-car-air-freshener/): Bring the anti-depressive smell of BeachGrit into your car, office or home! Comes embedded with special cheap perfume scent reminiscent of teen parties! All prices in US dollars. 
- [“Country Club Surf Club” T-Shirt (White)](https://beachgrit.com/country-club-surf-club-t-shirt-in-white/): Celebrate a world of walled-off, exclusive surfing! All prices in US dollars. 
- [VAL T-Shirt (White) by Paul McNeil](https://beachgrit.com/val-t-shirt-in-white-by-paul-mcneil/): Show the world you stand in solidarity with the Vulnerable Adult Learner surfer! All prices in US dollars. 
- [Ultra Hard Surf Candy T-Shirt (Black)](https://beachgrit.com/ultra-hard-surf-candy-t-shirt-in-black/): Bold typography evokes lightning-flashes and fearsome thunder… All prices in US dollars. 
- [Ultra Hard Surf Candy T-Shirt (White)](https://beachgrit.com/ultra-hard-surf-candy-t-shirt-in-white/): Bold typography evokes lightning-flashes and fearsome thunder… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit T-Shirt (Black)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-t-shirt-in-black/): Show the world you like but don't love BeachGrit with discreet chest print… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit T-Shirt (White)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-t-shirt-in-white/): Show the world you like but don't love BeachGrit with discreet chest print… All prices in US dollars. 
- [BeachGrit T-Shirt (Yellow)](https://beachgrit.com/beachgrit-t-shirt-in-yellow/): Show the world you like but don't love BeachGrit with discreet chest print… All prices in US dollars. 
- [The Girls T-Shirt (Black) by Paul McNeil](https://beachgrit.com/the-girls-t-shirt-in-black-by-paul-mcneil/): BeachGrit's newest and boldest graphic yet… All prices in US dollars. 
- [The Girls T-Shirt (White) by Paul McNeil](https://beachgrit.com/the-girls-t-shirt-in-white-by-paul-mcneil/): BeachGrit's newest and boldest graphic yet… All prices in US dollars. 
- [The Girls T-Shirt (Marigold) by Paul McNeil](https://beachgrit.com/the-girls-t-shirt-in-marigold-by-paul-mcneil/): BeachGrit's newest and boldest graphic yet… All prices in US dollars. 
- [More Fun Than Coke Tank!](https://beachgrit.com/more-fun-than-coke-tank/): This sleeveless tee is the ultimate summer go-to. It is 100% cotton (made from the softest of China's genetically improved cotton bolls) and the cut reveals enough skin for gals to be "sexy" but not so much as to appear "slutty" or "whorish". For men, it shows the curve of the upper pectoral and any protrusion of the latissimus dorsi. The print "More fun than Coke, Acapulco and Fleetwood Mac" is by the noted New Zealand-born artist Paul McNeil, celebrated, lately, for his work in setting up The Art Park, a gallery-artist's residency in Byron Bay, Australia. The phrase "More fun than Coke etc" comes from a cartoon by New York satirist Tom Wolfe. The fit of this tee is quite slim but is true to size.
- [Kids size! More Fun Than Coke Tee!](https://beachgrit.com/kids-size-more-fun-than-coke-tee-copy/): This sleeveless tee is the ultimate summer go-to. It is 100% cotton (made from the softest of China's genetically improved cotton bolls) and the cut reveals enough skin for gals to be "sexy" but not so much as to appear "slutty" or "whorish". For men, it shows the curve of the upper pectoral and any protrusion of the latissimus dorsi. The print "More fun than Coke, Acapulco and Fleetwood Mac" is by the noted New Zealand-born artist Paul McNeil, celebrated, lately, for his work in setting up The Art Park, a gallery-artist's residency in Byron Bay, Australia. The phrase "More fun than Coke etc" comes from a cartoon by New York satirist Tom Wolfe. The fit of this tee is quite slim but is true to size.
- [Typhoid Fever Red Surf Trunks!](https://beachgrit.com/typhoid-fever-red-surf-trunks/): I’m conscious of a genuine fellow-feeling for surfers who don’t want to wear knee-length surf trunks. Y’ever try and buy a pair of surf trunks that contained just a little sophistication of shape and length? I’ve been hit for $300 (Orlebar Brown) and it wasn’t because I wanted to imitate the celebs who live in the things.
- [Lacoste Green Surf Trunks](https://beachgrit.com/lacoste-green-surf-trunks/): I'm conscious of a genuine fellow-feeling for surfers who don't want to wear knee-length surf trunks. Y'ever try and buy a pair of surf trunks that contained just a little sophistication of shape and length? I've been hit for $300 (Orlebar Brown) and it wasn't because I wanted to imitate the celebs who live in the things.
- [Promiscuous Blue Surf Trunks](https://beachgrit.com/promiscuous-blue-surf-trunks/): I'm conscious of a genuine fellow-feeling for surfers who don't want to wear knee-length surf trunks. Y'ever try and buy a pair of surf trunks that contained just a little sophistication of shape and length? I've been hit for $300 (Orlebar Brown) and it wasn't because I wanted to imitate the celebs who live in the things.
- [Superlative House of Bourbon Surf Trunks](https://beachgrit.com/superlative-house-of-bourbon-surf-trunks/): BeachGrit places a great emphasis on surf trunks. We believe that a pair of trunks must be flattering, a little sophisticated, has some edge and follows these design principles:
- [White(ish) Eunuch Surf Trunks](https://beachgrit.com/superlative-white-ish-eunuch-surf-trunks/): BeachGrit places a great deal of emphasis on surf trunks. And these trunks, in an off-white with an inner-lining so obscenity is avoided, will give its wearer a perpetual orgy of esoteric bliss.
- [Black Eunuch surf trunks](https://beachgrit.com/superlative-black-eunuch-surf-trunks/): BeachGrit places a great deal of emphasis on surf trunks. And these are all black! With a little fade, a little something taken away. Like the fabled eunuch of history.
- [Kids size! Ultra Hard Surf Candy Tee!](https://beachgrit.com/ultra-hard-surf-candy-summer-tee/): Ultra Hard Surf Candy. Now don't that have a ring to it! This sleeveless t-shirt (in basic black only) is decorated with art from the noted Paul McNeil, celebrated, lately, for his work in setting up The Art Park, a gallery-artist’s residency in Byron Bay, Australia. This is a t-shirt for the motivated and the driven, for the highest type of male and female sexual identities. It is the t-shirt that worships the physical prowess of its wearer, amplifying, paradoxically, super-masculinity and ultra-femininity. One hundred per cent cotton (natch) and of the slimmest cut. It ain't short in length, either, so cut it (raw edge!) if that's your thing.  Don't be a prisoner of your frigidity!
- [Black Virgin Mary surf trunks](https://beachgrit.com/superlative-black-virgin-mary-surf-trunks/): We just had a re-stock of our Superlative Black Virgin Mary surf trunks. Four extra pairs. Two in a 31-inch waist, two in the 32-inch waist.
- [Ultra Hard Surf Candy Tank!](https://beachgrit.com/coke-acapulco-4/): Ultra Hard Surf Candy. Now don't that have a ring to it! This sleeveless t-shirt (in basic black only) is decorated with art from the noted Paul McNeil, celebrated, lately, for his work in setting up The Art Park, a gallery-artist’s residency in Byron Bay, Australia. This is a t-shirt for the motivated and the driven, for the highest type of male and female sexual identities. It is the t-shirt that worships the physical prowess of its wearer, amplifying, paradoxically, super-masculinity and ultra-femininity. One hundred per cent cotton (natch) and of the slimmest cut. It ain't short in length, either, so cut it (raw edge!) if that's your thing.  Don't be a prisoner of your frigidity!

## Videos
- [Senior citizen Tom Curren shocks with jaw-dropping show at Spanish wave pool ](https://beachgrit.com/video/senior-citizen-tom-curren-shocks-with-jaw-dropping-show-at-spanish-wave-pool/): Time don’t slow for no man and, for some among us, the revelation that Thomas Roland Curren, the three-time world surfing champion, who was unbeatable for most of his carer and who popularised the modern Fish, is a stately sixty-one years old might come as, well, an existential shock. 
- [World record surfer Dylan Graves examines Surfers Paradise’s “bizarre” man-made wave](https://beachgrit.com/video/documentary-world-record-surfer-dylan-graves-examines-surfers-paradises-bizarre-man-made-wave/): First, the less said about the lily-livered fiends at Guinness, whose book of records is seen as the gold standard and who recently refused a claim by an Israeli charity which helps people make kidney donations because of, you know, “the situation”, ie screw the Jews, the better, I think. 
- [New documentary follows surfer Harry Bryant’s transition to “woman in her fifties”](https://beachgrit.com/video/new-documentary-follows-surfer-harry-bryants-transition-to-woman-in-her-fifties/): If you didn’t know, Harry Bryant is an almost thirty-year-old male Australian surfer with a blunt-cut hairdo who is often mistaken for a woman in her fifties despite an albino moustache that twinkles like glitter on a burlesque dancer’s corset.
- [Dylan Graves chooses Skuxx Life in wild, cold-water surf trip through Dunedin, New Zealand](https://beachgrit.com/video/dylan-graves-chooses-skuxx-life-in-wild-cold-water-surf-trip-through-dunedin-new-zealand/): I believe in purity and goodness and there's something about Dylan Graves' total beauty, the restless and lonely independence of manner, the proud serenity in the way he moves, that make a man fall in love over and over and over again.
- [DIY: I Built an Off-the-Grid Wave Pool in my Own Backyard](https://beachgrit.com/video/diy-i-built-an-off-the-grid-wave-pool-in-my-own-backyard/): Not all wave pools gotta cost fifty or a hundred mill, take years to finance, plan and build, eat up power and water, spend a significant time getting fixed and sting customers a couple of c-notes for an hour of fun. 
- [Surf fans react to Gabriel Medina feeding Kelly Slater “the strawberry of love”](https://beachgrit.com/video/surf-fans-react-to-gabriel-medina-feeding-kelly-slater-the-strawberry-of-love/): In one of the lighter moments featuring Gabriel Medina and Kelly Slater, the Brazilian has thrilled surf fans by feeding the greatest surfer of all time a Morango do Amor, or Strawberry of Love, a delightful Brazilian treat that captures the essence of the country’s vibrant dessert culture.
- [Mikey February delivers latest riposte to the New Yorker’s claim his style is “as self-conscious as the duck-face selfie.”](https://beachgrit.com/video/mikey-february-delivers-latest-riposte-to-the-new-yorkers-claim-his-style-is-as-self-conscious-as-the-duck-face-selfie/): (Editor’s note: Five years ago, The New Yorker ran a very good, and uncharacteristically raw, story by Jamie Brisick called, “Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera”, which described Mikey February’s surfing thus, “His hand jive, soul arches, and toreador-like flourishes play to the camera in a way that breaks the spell of the itinerant surfer in far-flung solitude. His style is as self-conscious as the duck-face selfie.”)
- [Surf film masterminds Blakey-Pollet leverage teenage vaping anthem for new Rip Curl movie DUNNO](https://beachgrit.com/video/surf-film-masterminds-blakey-pollet-leverage-teenage-vaping-anthem-for-new-rip-curl-movie-dunno/): There are many things to be thankful in this beautiful world – a woman baring her pearly teeth as she rubs her sex nest against your rod, for one, a fiery diamond ring worn on a pinky finger, for another – but nothing comes close, I will argue, to the films of Nick Pollet and Vaughan Blakey.
- [World-record breaking surfer Dylan Graves stuns world with video of four-mile long wave in Africa](https://beachgrit.com/video/surfer-dylan-graves-four-mile-long-perfect-wave-africa/): For over one decade BeachGrit readers have enjoyed the sunny and generous persona of Puerto Rican Dylan Graves travelling hither and thither in search of weird, wonderful and perfect waves.
- [Slacker surf god Dane Reynolds unlocks secret stash of unseen footage](https://beachgrit.com/video/slacker-surf-god-dane-reynolds-unlocks-secret-stash-of-unseen-footage/): If you want to feel the passage of time, or at least have it hit you in the guts, consider that Dane Reynolds, cultural engineer, hits forty in a few months.
- [Tour truant John John Florence and less famous brother Nathan navigate perilous ocean voyage](https://beachgrit.com/video/john-john-florence-surfing-navigate-terrifying-seas-nathan-florence/): While the world tour staggers along, led by the almost forty-year-old South African albatross Jordy Smith, John John Florence has been creating an ode to life, assembling his life, wife Lauryn, baby Daz and brother Nathan down there at the bottom of the world in New Zealand.
- [Rage 5 Review: Kai McKenzie’s One-Legged Comeback Steals Show in Toby Cregan’s Raw Surf Epic](https://beachgrit.com/video/rage-5-review-kai-mckenzies-one-legged-comeback-steals-show-in-toby-cregans-raw-surf-epic/): Rage 5, the latest surf flick from Toby Cregan and co's Rage brand, is an unpolished middle finger to the glossy surf cinema that’s been clogging our screens.
- [World record-breaking surfer Dylan Graves conquers rare Sea of Japan swell](https://beachgrit.com/video/world-record-breaking-surfer-dylan-graves-conquers-rare-sea-of-japan-swell/): The adventures of Puerto Rican Dylan Graves in his pursuit of the strangest waves on earth have been assiduously documented on BeachGrit, a website that may be counted as Graves’ biggest fan, first in his ongoing series Weird Waves and, now, as he traverses the world solo.
- [Watch: Trans-surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson rides Melbourne wave pool before joining John John Florence in NZ](https://beachgrit.com/video/sasha-jane-lowerson-surfing-john-john-florence-wavepool-new-zealand/): It’s been several months since BeachGrit last reported on the inspirational trans surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson neé former men’s longboard champion Andrew Egan. 
- [Stephanie Gilmore joins Hawaii’s “queen of crazy” Mason Ho at wild North Shore bacchanal](https://beachgrit.com/video/surfing-mason-ho-stephanie-gilmore-harry-bryant-dion-agius/): The world’s greatest-ever female surfer Stephanie Gilmore and the Chinese-Hawaiian surf superstar Mason Ho, along with little sis Coco, have been filmed together in an all-star “sandbar party” at Rocky Point on Oahu’s North Shore.
- [Kelly Slater joins BIPOC surfing icon Mason Ho and pals in, “Poly wanna party!”](https://beachgrit.com/video/kelly-slater-joins-bipoc-surfing-icon-mason-ho-and-pals-in-poly-wanna-party/): In this nine-minute short from the studio of Riordan Pringle, the viewer is gifted Kelly Slater and Mason Ho, as well as Mason's daddy Mike and guy-pal the Baby Bear, manipulating waves, one after the other, at a chip-shot reef east of Sunset Beach.
- [“World’s sexiest surfer” Koa Smith charges like a bull at perfect out-of-season Cloudbreak!](https://beachgrit.com/video/koa-smith-worlds-sexiest-surfer-surfing-cloudbreak/): The runner-up to Zeke Lau’s Ultimate Surfer, Koa Smith, has thrilled surf fans with a long-form edit of chasing down and barebacking the hell out of an out-of-season swell at Fiji’s Cloudbreak. 
- [Surfing enigma Bruce Irons cameos at Pipeline 20 years after being named “best surfer in the world!”](https://beachgrit.com/video/surfing-enigma-bruce-irons-cameos-at-pipeline-20-years-after-being-named-best-surfer-in-the-world/): One week ago, the too-good-to-be-true rumour that Bruce Irons was the mystery surfer making a return to surfing at the highest level turned out to be, yeah, way too be good to be true.
- [Kourtney Kardashian’s surfer neighbour Dane Reynolds releases back-to-back “crass and discordant” films](https://beachgrit.com/video/dane-reynolds-kourtney-kardashian-surfing-carpinteria/): It’s been three years since the bucolic idyll of the former world number four Dane Reynolds was shattered by the noisy arrival of the homeliest of the Kardashians, Kourtney, and her husband, the punk-lite drummer Travis Barker. This change in the neighborhood has brought about a significant shift in the community dynamics, particularly for a world champion surfer like Reynolds, who has always valued his serene surroundings to focus on his craft.
- [Fifty-year-old surfer-artist Ozzie Wright proves age shall not weary with epic new short film!](https://beachgrit.com/video/ozzie-wright-turns-50-surfing/): The surfer, musician and artist Ozzie Wright, the model for a thousand imitators, has stunned surf fans with the release of an epic short that proves age is just a number and that fifty years old is the new fifteen.
- [Middle-aged surf vet Jordy Smith thrills fans with back-to-back hall of fame edits](https://beachgrit.com/video/middle-aged-surf-vet-jordy-smith-thrills-fans-with-back-to-back-hall-of-fame-edits/): Only eight months back, surf fans were stunned when the almost forty-year-old surf vet Jordy Smith swung into world title contention at the tail end of the season. Although he would eventually finish 11th, it was an impressive effort for a man entering his harvest years. 
- [Chinese-Hawaiian surf superstar Mason Ho venerates Fish creator Tommy Peterson in tribute film](https://beachgrit.com/video/chinese-hawaiian-surf-superstar-mason-ho-venerates-fish-creator-tommy-peterson-in-tribute-film/): A few days back, ol Tommy Peterson, a man who helped rebirth the fish surfboard craze but better known as being the little brother of a mysterious surf legend who was conceived during a boarding house gang rape in 1951, checked out with a busted heart, aged seventy one. 
- [Surf gods Tom Curren and Dane Reynolds in wild wave-for-wave shootout at perfect Rincon!](https://beachgrit.com/video/tom-curren-dane-reynolds-rincon-surfing/): Reynolds employs a stall, load-up and explode style that includes many experimental and aerial manoeuvres while Tom Curren is cool minimalism, a man who influenced a generation of American surfers including the noted Kelly Slater, himself a world champion surfer of renown.
- [Stephanie who? Caity Simmers releases girl-surf masterpiece!](https://beachgrit.com/video/caity-simmers-surfing-stephanie-gilmore/): Have you missed Caity Simmers? It’s been a long time since Trestles and the latest world champion has kept a low profile.
- [Surf vlogger Ben Gravy films near-death 20-second wipeout at Waimea Bay!](https://beachgrit.com/video/surf-vlogger-ben-gravy-films-near-death-20-second-wipeout-at-waimea-bay/): Ben Gravy is a high-end intermediate surfer from New Jersey whose pivot from drinking to vlogging saved him, he says, from a life as a drunk.
- [Nathan Florence proves why he’s surfing’s king of POV in newest glimpse behind the wet curtain!](https://beachgrit.com/video/nathan-florence-surfing-john-john-florence-koa-rothman/): For a man who, likely, spent his earliest youth playing dress-up in his mother's frocks, Nathan Florence has become the surfer upon all others judge themselves, a man who is greeted effusively by the best and bravest surfers in Scotland, Ireland, Hawaii and Australia.
- [Guinness World Record winning surfer Dylan Graves gets barrelled in Poland!](https://beachgrit.com/video/guinness-world-record-winning-surfer-dylan-graves-gets-barrelled-in-poland/): BeachGrit readers have long thrilled to the weird wave follies of Puerto Rico’s Dylan Graves, the holder of the Guinness World Record for most turns on a wave, a leg-trembling forty spasms.
- [John John Florence releases deeply personal account of Hawaiian winter](https://beachgrit.com/video/john-john-florence-releases-deeply-personal-account-of-hawaiian-winter/): If popularity can be measured by collective madness, board short sales and sales of hijabs for men, weeping women and the adoration of middle-aged surf fans, then there is without a shadow of a donut that John John Florence, three times a king, is the most popular surfer in the world.
- [Nathan Florence releases hotly anticipated POV footage from Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational](https://beachgrit.com/video/nathan-florence-releases-hotly-anticipated-pov-footage-from-eddie-aikau-big-wave-invitational/): It ain’t over to the fat lady has emptied her lungs or, in the case of the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, the contest ain’t done until Nathan Florence has dumped his point of view footage.
- [“I was scared out of my mind!” Jamie O’Brien releases behind-the-scenes video from epic Eddie Aikau Invitational](https://beachgrit.com/video/i-was-scared-out-of-my-mine-jamie-obrien-releases-behind-the-scenes-video-from-epic-eddie-aikau/): In this video, Jamie O'Brien brings a touching vulnerability to the big-wave game whispering to the camera, "Let me tell you something, I was scared out of my mind."
- [Notoriously private triple world surf champ John John Florence gives rare glimpse into life on road](https://beachgrit.com/video/notoriously-private-triple-world-surf-champ-john-john-florence-gives-rare-glimpse-into-life-on-road/): The big American with the even bigger ass, triple world champ John John Florence, has pulled back the curtain on his private life with a finely crafted sixteen-minute edit of this year's Australian leg of the pro tour.
- [Oy vey: Ventura’s happiest Jew Eithan Osborne releases long-form surf film for Hanukkah!](https://beachgrit.com/video/eithan-osborne-surfing-jewish-israeli/): Ventura surfer Eithan Osborne is twenty-four now. His mammy is a “French-speaking Jewish humanitarian” with a Motorhead sticker on the back of her Volvo stationwagon.
- [Florence brothers pioneer use of “push-ins” to surf wave too heavy to paddle!](https://beachgrit.com/video/nathan-florence-john-john-florence-ivan-florence-surfing/): In the latest vlog instalment from Nathan Florence, which includes Olympian John John and slinky baby bro Ivan aka Crazy Bob, the trio visit a republic where the soil is loamy and the people are currently embroiled in a wild dispute over open borders.
- [Watch Mason Ho’s first-ever session at eight-to-ten-foot Teahupoo!](https://beachgrit.com/video/watch-mason-hos-first-ever-session-at-eight-to-ten-foot-teahupoo/): How many surfers can you stand watching, like, really, real talk etc? I'll take Noa Deane, Dane Reynolds, John John, Nathan if he being crazy, Griffin Colapinto, Yago Dora and Mason Ho.
- [Brothers Ivan and Nathan Florence set internet on fire with “eerie” big wave session in unnamed country!](https://beachgrit.com/video/brothers-ivan-and-nathan-florence-set-internet-on-fire-with-eerie-big-wave-sessions-in-unnamed-country/): Watch as Waterman of the Year Nathan Florence enters waves at such an angle he comes down vertically with acceleration produced by sheer gravity, the wave hissing and whizzing all around. The moments are captured on land and on a little POV camera.
- [Surf film masterminds release Stephanie Gilmore-Tom Curren-Mason Ho instant classic!](https://beachgrit.com/video/surf-film-masterminds-release-stephanie-gilmore-tom-curren-mason-ho-instant-classic/): The surf film duo Vaughan Blakey, writer, and Nick Pollet, editor, are the masters of frank, intimate and revealing portraits of international surfing celebrities.
- [New Jersey vlogger Ben Gravy makes history after surfing “biggest and best ferry wave in the world!”](https://beachgrit.com/video/movie-star-handsome-new-jersey-vlogger-ben-gravy-makes-history-after-surfing-biggest-and-best-ferry-wave-in-the-world/): The New Jersey vlogger, reformed booze artist and high-end intermediate surfer Ben Gravy has created history, of some sort, after riding what calls “the biggest and best ferry wave I’ve ever seen. It’s a Disneyland for adults!”
- [Nathan Florence posts extraordinary behind-the-scenes video of brother John John’s world title win](https://beachgrit.com/video/nathan-florence-posts-extraordinary-behind-the-scenes-video-of-brother-john-johns-world-title-win/): In this video posted by Dirk and Natasha Ziff’s successor as waterman of the year, Nathan Florence, we go behind the scenes of John John Florence’s third world title, which was one almost one month ago in small waves at Lower Trestles in San Clemente.
- [Waterman of the year Nathan Florence admits to “shame and embarrassment” in rare big-wave fail](https://beachgrit.com/video/waterman-of-the-year-nathan-florence-admits-to-shame-and-embarrassment-in-rare-big-wave-fail/): In another frank confession just released, reigning waterman of the year Nathan Florence has said he feels ashamed and embarrassment after attempting, and failing, to paddle into a set wave at The Right, a hard-breaking slab wave in Western Australia.
- [Pro surfer Kai Mckenzie who lost leg to Great White releases video edited from hospital bed ominously titled, “Pay to Play”](https://beachgrit.com/video/pro-surfer-kai-mckenzie-who-lost-leg-to-great-white-releases-video-edited-from-hospital-bed-and-ominously-titled-pay-to-play/): Some of us are born to walk through storms and Kai Mckenzie, the surfer who lost his leg in a Great White attack six weeks back, has emerged from the haze of surgeries and shock of losing a stilt in seemingly brilliant form.
- [World record breaking surfer reveals Sweden’s “world-class” waves!](https://beachgrit.com/video/surfing-sweden-weird-waves-dylan-graves/): In episode two of the just re-launched Weird Waves series, Puerto Rican shredder Dylan Graves reveals the surprising breadth of surfing’s hold in Sweden and provides proof, archival admittedly, the joint really does get world-class waves.
- [Watch: Cult surf star Harry Bryant’s latest rock-and-cock short “Mucho Gringo”!](https://beachgrit.com/video/harry-bryant-cult-surf-star-mucho-gringo/): If you didn’t know, Harry Bryant is an almost thirty-year-old Australian with juvenile dimples and an albino choir boy's haircut.
- [The miracle of Mark Occhilupo, almost sixty and daddy to nine, laid bare at Jeffrey’s Bay!](https://beachgrit.com/video/the-miracle-of-mark-occhilupo-almost-sixty-and-daddy-to-nine-laid-bare-at-jeffreys-bay/): God bless the great Mark Occhilupo, and I mean that sincerely. Surfers come and go, light up an epoch and then disappear, usually without glory. 
- [Re-watch: Nathan Florence’s epic telling of biggest-ever Eddie Aikau event in history!](https://beachgrit.com/video/nathan-florence-eddie-aikau-surfing-biggest-ever/): It was ironic, last January, when the “best day in surfing history,” as big-wave world champ Billy Kemper described it, had nothing to do with the WSL, surf brands or even, as the winner was announced on the beach by Clyde Aikau, a professional surfer.
- [Jewish-Hawaiian surf champ Koa Rothman scores epic eight-foot Kanduis with no one out!](https://beachgrit.com/video/koa-rothman-surfing-perfect-waves-pipeline-kandui/): It’s impossible to be even lightly critical of Koa Rothman, the middle son of North Shore enforcer Fast Eddie Rothman and brother to big-wave world champion Makua.
- [Nathan Florence delivers blood-pressure zooming POV angle at “biggest Lance’s Right we’ve surfed!”](https://beachgrit.com/video/nathan-florence-delivers-blood-pressure-zooming-pov-angle-at-biggest-lances-right-weve-surfed/): Surfer of the year Nathan Florence is like the fabled milkman of yore, never failing to deliver, morning, night, rain, snow, whatever, he’s there delivering his full cream treats which, for the just-turned thirty year old, are his bi-weekly video dispatches from around the globe. 
- [Koa Rothman rediscovers vintage Indonesian surf spot and says, “That’s the craziest wave I’ve ever surfed!”](https://beachgrit.com/video/koa-rothman-rediscovers-vintage-indonesian-surf-spot-and-says-thats-the-craziest-wave-ive-ever-surfed/): The Hawaiian heartthrob and scion of North Shore strongman Fast Eddie, Koa Rothman, recently experienced the joy of Super Suck along with his old friend and former tour surfer Dean Morrison.
- [World record-breaking surfer Dylan Graves says “Wyoming changed my life!”](https://beachgrit.com/video/world-record-breaking-surfer-dylan-graves-says-wyoming-changed-my-life/): He begins, as Weird Waves began ten years ago, at Snake River in Wyoming and alongside snowboard legend Bryan Iguchi. 
- [Florence brothers reveal “score of a lifetime” after chasing May 25 swell to remote Sumatra](https://beachgrit.com/video/florence-brothers-reveal-score-of-a-lifetime-after-chasing-may-25-swell-to-remote-sumatra/): The two younger Florence brothers, Nathan and Ivan, have stuffed their burned-out rods into one of the best swells to slam into Indonesia since the last biggest-ever swell.
- [Kourtney Kardashian’s Carpinteria surfer-neighbour Dane Reynolds releases hilarious wipeout reel](https://beachgrit.com/video/kourtney-kardashians-carpinteria-surfer-neighbour-dane-reynolds-releases-hilarious-wipeout-reel/): The rural idyll of former world number four surfer Dane Reynolds was broken two years ago when reality TV stars Travis Baker and Kourtney Kardashian moved in alongside his Martha Stewart inspired barn house. 

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