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  Drifting Breathless

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 43 Comments | 1 hour ago

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  Russell Ord and the light-fingered Facebook fiends

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 7 Comments | 10 hours ago

  "I'd just love to take 'em out in the water and drown 'em"

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  The Buoys Light Up: The wonderful Directional Spectra

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 23 Comments | 3 minutes ago

  The Directional Spectra is a great place to stop, do a bit of chin-stroking and wonder about it all.

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  R U SOCIAL?

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 26 Comments | 16 hours ago

  We're all individuals!

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  Surfing magazines and the slow march into oblivion

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 147 Comments | 16 hours ago

  Surfing in 2013 is so much bigger and richer than what the magazines would have you believe

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  Surfing and alcohol sponsorship: Do we really care?

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 37 Comments | 8 hours ago

  It's all well and good to decry alcohol sponsorship when the government is stepping in as substitute.

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  Leave the ocean garbage alone: we need to stop polluting first

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 24 Comments | 2 hours ago

  Only once we have stopped plastics entering our oceans in the first place, can we sensibly make the decision whether and...

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  Brett Archibald and the code of the sea

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 16 Comments | 4 hours ago

  What would you do if you fell overboard and nobody saw or heard you?

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  Billabong reduced to a ripple

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 190 Comments | 16 hours ago

  From $5 billion down to $287 million

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  Wavegarden about to bloom with new wavepool

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 34 Comments | 12 hours ago

  "The version that we're bringing to Australia will generate a 1.9 metre high wave"

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  Longboarders, Legropes and the Law

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 219 Comments | 13 hours ago

  "You looking for a lawsuit, mate?"

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  Kelly Slater dealt blow as investment company falters

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 15 Comments | 4 hours ago

  Company goes into voluntary administration

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  Small win for big fish: convention moves to protect sharks

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | | 10 hours ago

  Even with the new listings, only about 2% of shark species are protected.

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  Priority Rules, OK?

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 70 Comments | 4 hours ago

  It was the defining moment of the Quiksilver Pro final: Joel Parkinson, standing tall in a clean Kirra barrel, sticking his...

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  No Limits? Know Your Limits!

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 62 Comments | 4 hours ago

  Changes in the surfing population have dramatically changed the culture in the water

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  Bob McTavish: Under The Influence

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 25 Comments | 4 hours ago

  Where Bob measures the immeasurable

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  Richard Grellman: A chat with the outgoing head of the ASP

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 23 Comments | 4 hours ago

  "I don't really know what we're doing here, Stuart."

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  Surfing Celebrities: A Hypothetical

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 76 Comments | 13 hours ago

  Do surf companies need to sponsor surfers?

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  The Society of the Spectacle: The Association of Surfing Professionals and Corporations

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 33 Comments | 13 hours ago

  Rebellion is packaged and sold back to us

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  The Crowd

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 15 Comments | 4 hours ago

  We are all part of the crowd and we all loathe it at the same time

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  Give me danger or give me death: Why big wave measurement is a swinging dick

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 20 Comments | 4 hours ago

  Why were surfers underwhelmed by G-Mac's latest effort?

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  Blowing It

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 36 Comments | 10 hours ago

  "How long am I out of the water for, doc?"

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  Happiness and madness and phantom forecast charts

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 16 Comments | 10 hours ago

  Give yourself over to the madness

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  The next 10 cyclones: A bold prediction

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 32 Comments | 13 hours ago

  Cyclone Bruce will do a fridge-to-fridge tour of the Queensland coast finishing at the Point Lookout Hotel for an extended...

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  Maverick's Invitational: The XXL swell that shrunk in the wash

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 42 Comments | 1 hour ago

  If Slater were there he would've ridden a 5'11"

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  Daly Head and the National Surfing Reserves cause

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 20 Comments | 4 hours ago

  The Swellnet team were clearly outsiders among a heavily local crowd

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  Shark bite prevention should be led by evidence, not politics

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 6 Comments | 4 hours ago

  The risks will continue when people go in the ocean, no matter what the government catches or does not catch

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  On Drugs

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 33 Comments | 11 hours ago

  If we believe our own mythology, surfing has always been riddled with drugs

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  Making sense of Evan

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 6 Comments | 4 hours ago

  The words 'cyclone swell' are enough to get an east coast surfers' heart racing

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  Damion Fuller is: The Board Collector

  In: Surfpolitik | by stunet | 4 Comments | 10 hours ago

  Buy high, sell low, enjoy the ride

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