People have asked us, “Why do we do this?” If the pictures aren’t enough of an answer here is what Surf Emporium founder Roxy Davis has to say about the Surf Emporium Media Adaptive Day that took place this weekend.
Over the past few months, some amazing people have been working very closely to develop a unique fundraising campaign for the 9Miles Project. The goal? To raise enough money to buy a minibus which will allow the organisation to safely transport their 50 Strandfontein students who currently walk to their clubhouse and back.
To the casual passers-by on a blustery day on Durban’s famed beachfront, it’s just a surfing lesson in the Indian Ocean’s warm seas. But a closer look reveals a story that’s far more interesting and inspiring.
Internet threats are a real thing - and surfing the web on a public connection can result in your personal data falling into the wrong hands. While most VPNs will help you surf undetected, some still maintain logs on your browsing movements, defeating the purpose of getting one in the first place!
Following the elimantion of both Mikey February (Round 2) and Jordy Smith (Round 3) Zag touched base with Alan Van Gysen, our eyes and ears on the ground in Peniche. We wanted to gauge the vibe amongst the South African contingent, search for a silver lining and get a first hand account of what went wrong on the Portuegesse leg of the tour.
The penultimate event on the Men’s Championship Tour, the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal, resumed in firing eight-to-ten foot surf for a third full day of action to decide the event’s first Quarterfinalists at Supertubos.
Last week former Zag publisher and green surfing activists John McCarthy wrote an open letter regarding KZN’s shark nets. The post was well received amongst the community and sparked debate around some of the stats made available on the Sharks Board website.
The MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal completed the remaining heats of Round 2 in three-to-four foot waves and said goodbye to six more competitors by the day’s end. To requalify for the men’s Championship Tour, current competitors on the CT have to be ranked 22nd or better on the Jeep Leaderboard or they must finish 10th or better on the WSL Qualifying Series (QS), excluding those who have already qualified through the CT Rankings.
The Waco-McLennan County Public Health District (WMCPHD) in collaboration with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and the US health authority, have confirmed that the free-living amoeba that killed Fabrizio Stabile (Naegleria fowleri) was detected at the water sports facility.
Dry Wave is an innovative set up that makes ‘ocean-like’ waves on dry floors. The concept, created by Lincoln Neves Junior, was originally designed to make wave propagation on floors such as plastic, grass, sand, snow and even silicone.
A big shout out to all who submitted their Shot Bro Challenge entries this month, our best in terms of numbers to date. There were so many great entries that picking a winner was no easy task but in the end, we chose the dreamy lineup shot you see above.
After calling it a day on the mundane, and escaping the rat race of modern living, Mark Sampson and his family got to work converting a 1978 Mercedes 911 into a carbon-neutral mobile home. A vehicle that would see them through 24 African countries operating off used vegetable oil.
After calling it a day on the mundane, and escaping the rat race of modern living, Mark Sampson and his family got to work converting a 1978 Mercedes 911 into a carbon-neutral mobile home. A vehicle that would see them through 24 African countries operating off used vegetable oil.
Oh, how we love Europe! The old world baby, that’s where it’s at! Cooking waves, good coffee, cobbled streets and a wifi zone not too far away. This is where people should be going on surf trips, not Indo, every second person that goes there get’s their laptop stolen and has to be airlifted out of Grajagan Land to a hospital in Bali.
