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# BeachGrit: Ultra Hard Surf Candy

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- [Drone operator saves Santa Cruz surfer from getting eaten alive by great white shark](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/drone-operator-saves-santa-cruz-surfer-from-getting-eaten-alive-by-great-white-shark/): Be it climate change, government protection, over-fished seas or just the way things are, incidents of great white sharks eating people, or at least parts of people, have skyrocketed. It seems as if every day there is a new horror story involving death, or dismemberment, from below. There has been a wild spate in Australia with calls for culling the beasts growing louder, though New South Wales premier Chris Minns, not to be confused with the wonderful Chris Binns, has other ideas. Namely, drones.
- [“Hot diggity dog” Fans melt over surfer Mikey February’s turn for Louis Vuitton ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/hot-diggity-dog-fans-melt-over-surfer-mikey-februarys-turn-for-louis-vuitton/): Once, not so long ago, I advised BeachGrit readers to think of South African surfer Mikey February, not as the pro surfer who once upon a time ran on the world tour, but surfer as a beautiful object, a beautiful thing, worthy of worship. 
- [Horror down under as tech giants erase young Australian surfers’ social media accounts](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/horror-down-under-as-tech-giants-erase-young-australian-surfers-social-media-accounts/): A nightmare scenario is unfolding for young mates and sheilas in the world 12th largest economy. Namely, surf hopefuls around the age of sixteen are getting their social media accounts scrubbed without any way to get them back. At issue is Australia identifying, rightly I think, the cancer that is Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok etc. and disallowing youngsters to participate, holding the tech giants responsible for any juvenile caught posting or reposting.
- [“Absolute legend” Surfer killed at Teahupoo named as La Jolla’s Patrick Phillips](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/absolute-legend-surfer-killed-at-tahitis-teahupoo-named-as-la-jollas-patrick-phillips/): It was, in some ways, a freak accident but it still didn’t come as a hell of a surprise when news broke that a recreational surfer had busted his neck and died at Teahupoo on Thursday. 
- [The Rise of Leonardo Fioravanti](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-rise-of-leonardo-fioravanti/): I was not paying attention to competitive professional surfing whilst abroad, I'll just be very honest. Two contests ran during the not-quite two weeks away, an almost unheard of phenomenon, though I did not watch nor did I care. Today, however, I looked at the dynamic World Surf League Championship Tour rankings, stroked my stubbly chin and thought "Well look at them mele. Leonardo Fioravanti in second place with a fine opportunity to jump Italo Ferreira and claim the top spot."
- [Live chat, Finals Day, Vivo Rio Pro, “Birds, music, dancing!”](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-finals-day-vivo-rio-pro-birds-music-dancing/)
- [Californian surfer dead after snapping neck at Teahupoo](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/californian-surfer-dead-after-snapping-neck-at-teahupoo-we-are-all-in-shock-from-this-accident/): Hell of a joint Teahupoo, the famously lethal joint at the end of the road, although, as fate would play it, only two souls have split this coil there, local Brice Taerea in 2000 and, now, a fifty-six-year-old and yet to be ID'd Californian surfer. 
- [I am in the middle of a 33 hour Father’s Day binge and this is what I have learned](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/i-am-in-the-middle-of-a-33-hour-fathers-day-binge-and-this-is-what-i-have-learned/): The remaining bits of the family, wife, young daughter and I, woke up in Paris on June 21, the third Sunday of the month therefore Father's Day. I didn't think the French celebrated fathers, seeing that Temu Mother's Day was invented in the United States back in 1910, but there was a sign at Charles de Gaulle wishing fathers happiness etc.
- [Argentinian man attempts to make Olympic surf qualification at 41!](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/argentinian-man-attempts-to-make-olympic-surf-qualification-at-41/): Picture a crummy beach on the Argentine coast in the guts of winter, snow on the sand, the kind of cold that makes a brother bang the dang snooze button or, at the least, dive into an hour of death scrolling while the earth warms a little. 
- [Live chat, Day 2, Vivo Rio Pro, “Is tasting life cheating?”](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-day-2-vivo-rio-pro-is-tasting-life-creating-a-little-magic-cheating/)
- [The agonizing joy of watching Morocco win and lose and win all in one day](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-agonizing-joy-of-watching-morocco-win-and-lose-and-win-all-in-one-day/): This Moroccan adventure is fast coming to a close and what an adventure it has been. Winding (greater) Middle Eastern roads traveled, stomach-wrenching sickness vanquished, Hollywood film enjoyed abroad and waves, ocean waves, ridden. I shall get to the last bit, later, but I am in no state, currently, as my heart, my poor ticker, went for a ride, yesterday, that I once imagined impossible. The highest of highs spiked with heretofore unheard of highs crashed back to earth rudely and aggressively.
- [Live Chat, Opening Day, Vivo Rio Pro!](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-opening-day-vivo-rio-pro/)
- [My Preacher Daddy Gave Me the Gift of Surfing](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/my-preacher-daddy-gave-me-the-gift-of-surfing/): My dad wasn’t a surfer.
- [The Simple Joy of Hollywood Abroad](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-simple-joy-of-hollywood-abroad/): A brief interlude, here, to extoll the pure joy of watching whatever English-language film happens to be on random television channels whilst traveling far afield and especially in the greater Middle East. At home, be it America, Australia, Europe, entertainment is basically infinite. Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Apple. YouTube, Hulu, ChatGPT, etc. et. al.
- [Sexy senior Shane Dorian gives aged surfers  chilling wake-up, “Ridiculous and silly” ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/sexy-senior-shane-dorian-gives-aged-surfers-chilling-wake-up-ridiculous-and-silly/): The sexy senior Looksmaxxer Shane Dorian, whose Instagram account is followed in equal measures by envious men, thirsty homosexuals and frustrated mammies, all in thrall to the way the muscles in his arms and waist ripples as he pushes and pulls on gymnasium equipment, has delivered a chilling wake-up call to all aged surfers.
- [The immutable joy of stomach-wrenching sickness](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-immutable-joy-of-stomach-wrenching-sickness/): It came on swiftly, for some, more slowly, for others, but eventually stomach-wrenching sickness came for the entire family. It was the classic varietal, gripped guts, sweating, waves of nausea punctuated by either frontside or backside vomiting followed by heavenly relief, rinsed with more fevered sweat, washed with an attempt to choke down water, repeated from the top. It is a fool’s errand to wonder where disease comes from when traveling to or through the globe’s most interesting bits, including, but not limited to, Morocco. Some food-borne naughtiness? Ice gone wild? An exotic virus just lingering, waiting to pounce on the hygienically pampered? It could be any or all but the result is the same.
- [“There aren’t enough of them” NSW Minister makes shock claim following spate of Great White attacks](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/there-arent-enough-of-them-nsw-minister-makes-shock-claim-following-spate-of-great-white-attacks/): Four days after a Sydney mum was mauled by a Great White in a flagged swimming area yards off Coogee beach, nine months after Mercury Psillaski was bitten in half by a Great White near Dee Why and four years on since Simon Neillist was eaten alive by a Great White in front of a bank of phone cameras at Malabar, the NSW Minister for Agriculture has told an interviewer there ain't enough Great Whites out there.
- [Gay Surf Champion Tyler Wright Divides Fans With Scissor Finger Gesture](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/gay-surf-champion-tyler-wright-divides-fans-with-scissor-finger-gesture/): The two-time world surfing champ Tyler Wright, the gal with the heaviest layback in the game, was last heard in these pages in March revealing how she was handling life after skull expansion surgery as well as her myriad back, hip and pelvis issues just prior to the Bells event. 
- [The singular joy of the Middle Eastern Road Trip](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-singular-joy-of-the-middle-eastern-road-trip/): Longer road trips get rarer and rarer as one ages or maybe as one ages in an American metropole. I remember a childhood filled with endless driving. Driving the seven-ish hours north, to Kent, Washington, to visit the paternal grandparents. Driving the fifteen-ish hours south, to Moreno Valley, California, to visit the maternal grandparents. Up and down, down and up, over and over again interspersing sleeping with staring out the window with letting the mind wander to wherever it might as various scenes slipped by outside.
- [“They Will Attack in One Foot of Water” Great White shark myths exploded ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/they-will-attack-in-one-foot-of-watergreat-white-shark-myths-exploded/): The Newcastle-based shark fisherman Joel Nancarrow, whom you’ve come to know and possibly love over the past six months on these pages, just dropped a vid that explains more about Great White behaviour than the previous thirty years of of expert papers.
- [The Exquisite Joy of Watching Brazil Become Depressed](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-exquisite-joy-of-watching-brazil-become-depressed/): I climbed into a waiting car, behind the family, yesterday morning drenched in sweat. Marrakech had dialed up its heat, gloriously, and the driver was panicky, as he was parked in a “forbidden” zone thus requiring extra rushing whilst carrying bags whilst he continued to nervously glance at a nearby police officer who seemed otherwise occupied. I wondered if Moroccans were more sensitive to “rules” than Egyptians, Yemenis, Syrians and Lebanese or, and more likely, if the poor man was simply acting out of sorts due the impending matchup against Brazil set to literally and figuratively kick off in twelve hours.
- [Shark attacks are becoming more common – and a cull will work](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/shark-attacks-are-becoming-more-common-and-a-cull-will-work/): (Editor's note: In today's Sydney Morning Herald a child-like essay appeared in the op-pages claiming that shark culls don't work because "sharks swim vast distances". The author, the paper's environment and climate reporter who has "crunched the numbers" on attacks, describes any killing of sharks as "cruel and pointless". This, despite evidence, click here etc, that Great Whites have a thing called "fear induced mass exodus" which keeps em away from an arrival of orcas or, say, a Great White hanging off a baited hook. So I asked Dan Webber, from, yeah, the fabled Webber clan, a man who's had a front row seat to an attack to write a rebuttal. It ain't quite a rebuttal of the story that appeared in the Herald but hits most of the same behaviours the writer of the piece exhibits.)
- [Live Chat Finals Day of the Surf City El Salvador Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-finals-day-of-the-surf-city-el-salvador-pro-2/)
- [Woman Saved by Swimmers after Great White Attack — 4 Weeks After Shark Nets Removed](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/woman-saved-by-swimmers-after-suspected-great-white-attack-4-weeks-after-shark-nets-removed/): A little after eleven this morn, and just as your ol pal DR was exiting the water a few clicks north, a woman was attacked by a suspected Great White at Coogee Beach, one of the few waveless beaches in Sydney’s east. 
- [The enduring joy of oppressive heat](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-ceaseless-joy-of-oppressive-heat/): Marrakech, Morocco is not an oppressively hot place, with mid-day early June temperatures scraping 100° F (37° C), but it is hot enough to begin visually separating those who will survive the coming apocalypse and those who will not. Red-cheeked Germans dabbing foreheads with handkerchiefs whilst swaying, dangerously, between souq stalls, usually stout Poles transformed into lilting linen-clad wastrels, the odd American announcing, "I'm cooking" at high volume, not meaning it in the Gen-Z slang sense but literally.
- [“Brudda got cracks” Witnesses describe visiting surfer’s violent assault at Waikiki](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/brudda-got-cracks-witnesses-describe-visiting-surfers-violent-assault-at-waikiki/): Some terrific theatre at Waikiki yesterday after a visiting surfer did a Goggans, as its correctly termed, and called the police following an altercation in the water. 
- [The unceasing joy of jet lag](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-unceasing-joy-of-jet-lag/): Eventually one has to leave the time-suspended joys of the airport terminal, and its various adjacencies, that magical space where time and customs vanish, and pass through actual customs where "morning" means morning and "evening" means evening and whiskey for breakfast is rightly frowned upon once more. The family did such at 2:00 AM into a surprisingly cool Marrakech. A driver was waiting, the house was close and sleep came easy, because it always does that first night. The thought percolates the next morning over time-appropriate tea.
- [Big-wave hall of famer stabilised by paramedics, rushed to hospital after surfing accident](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/big-wave-hall-of-famer-stabilised-by-paramedics-rushed-to-hospital-after-surfing-accident/): The big-wave superstar Ross Clarke-Jones, Slick Willie to his pals, and whose witch-like long-haired appearance reflects a part of his Dayak DNA, has been rushed to hozzy after an accident while surfing down in Port Campbell, Victoria, a couple hundred clicks south-west of Melbourne.
- [Live Chat Day 5 of the Surf City El Salvador Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-day-5-of-the-surf-city-el-salvador-pro/): https://www.youtube.com/live/9CD1YOjmYTc?si=RXT30MDP9fkRdyxE
- [The perpetual joy of endless travel days](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/the-perpetual-joy-of-endless-travel-days/): I woke up on a day I can no longer remember, showered, shaved, finished house cleaning, packing, etc. then followed the family out to the waiting Uber, locking the door behind me, ready to go to the airport and enter that particular portal between life and death where all customs, save customs, are suspended.
- [Great White Trial: NSW Threatens Prison Over Bold Shark Deterrent Plan](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/great-white-trial-nsw-threatens-prison-over-bold-shark-deterrent-plan/): A plan to independently test a shark deterrent approved by shark expert Ocean Ramsey on Great White sharks has fallen at the first hurdle after the NSW government threatened to fine and imprison the tester if he "interfered" with the supposedly endangered fish.
- [From Sheriff’s Badge to Ghost: Negatron’s Sudden Exit Shocks Surfing Faithful](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/from-sheriffs-badge-to-ghost-negatrons-sudden-exit-shocks-surfing-faithful/): Well, maybe the signals were there if one knew, in hindsight, where to see them: Robbo getting sent in from Longtom’s favorite tour wave at Punta Roca, ironically by a local who was riding one of Robbo’s discarded boards; Trump throwing a hissy and storming off during a Meet the Press interview, when asked to present evidence for continued baseless claims about election interference; no one in the USA giving a shit that the World Cup is about to begin here; BG, avowedly a surf website, or at least surf adjacent, having no 2026 coverage of pro surfing contests.
- [Live Chat Day 4 of the Surf City El Salvador Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-day-4-of-the-surf-city-el-salvador-pro/)
- [Former surf star Nathan Webster joins long list of pro’s pivoting to real estate sales](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/former-surf-star-nathan-webster-joins-long-list-of-pros-pivoting-to-real-estate-sales/): Unless there’s a four in front of your age, Nathan Webster is a name that rings no bells. 
- [Carissa Moore into Surf City Pro quarters as unbelievable run up rankings continues](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/carissa-moore-into-surf-city-pro-quarters-as-unbelievable-run-up-rankings-continues/): Is there currently a better story in surfing than that of Carissa Moore? The new mother came out of retirement ahead of the 2026 World Surf League Championship Tour season in order to give the singlet life another crack. "I’m really excited for the opportunity to compete again on the Championship Tour,” Moore told the WSL at the time. “To put my jersey back on after having a baby feels like such a win. Competing at the highest level of surfing is something I don’t take for granted, and I’m so grateful to be feeling healthy and reinvigorated. I want my journey to show my daughter, and hopefully other women, that we can do anything; we can keep chasing our dreams, even as life evolves. I’m looking forward to sharing this next chapter with her and experiencing it together as a family.”
- [Live Chat Day 3 of the Surf City El Salvador Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-day-3-of-the-surf-city-el-salvador-pro/)
- [Award-winning beachfront treehouse overlooking iconic surf spot officially lists for $US1.3m](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/award-winning-beachfront-treehouse-overlooking-iconic-surf-spot-officially-lists-for-us1-3m/): Two months back, we ran what you might call an emotional pitch for the iconic Webber house in Angourie, a treehouse design  by the architect Paul Witzig notable, among a hell of a lot of other things, for its soaring ceilings and wraparound decks in front of Spooky’s Point there. 
- [Live Chat Day 2 of the Surf City El Salvador Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-day-2-of-the-surf-city-el-salvador-pro/)
- [Western Australia’s Shark Crisis Deepens: Second Diver Killed by Great White in Under a Month](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/western-australias-shark-crisis-deepens-second-diver-killed-by-great-white-in-under-a-month/): Two Western Australian divers killed by Great Whites in two weeks, the latest death earlier today in the waters off a joint called Albany, ten hours or so drive south of Perth.
- [Comedian details torture of living with Surfer’s Ear](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/comedian-details-torture-of-living-with-surfers-ear/): There are two medical conditions that mark serious surfers: pterygium and external auditory canal exostoses better known as "surfer's eye" and "surfer's ear." They are, both, uncomfortable but also the marks of a serious surfer so worn with small pride. The surfer with pterygium looking perpetually stoned as his eyelid grinds like sandpaper over his eyeball. The surfer with exostoses cupping a hand around ear trying not to miss the entire conversation around the dinner table. Each making a little show so others know what they have sacrificed to live the serious surfer life.
- [Live Chat Day 1 of the Surf City El Salvador Pro](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/live-chat-day-1-of-the-surf-city-el-salvador-pro/)
- [Politics: Paul Krugman’s “DeMAGAfication” Is a Call for America’s Second Civil War](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/politics-paul-krugmans-demagafication-is-a-call-for-americas-second-civil-war/): Given that Donald Trump’s approval rating among republications is holding steady at somewhere between 60-80%, Paul Krugman’s call for “deMAGAfication” is nothing less than a call for a second Civil War. Worse, his argument rests on the pernicious myth that Allied “reeducation” (war crimes trials and denazification) transformed the Nazi dictatorship into a constitutional democracy.
- [Stunt pilot super busted after dive bombing South Carolina beach](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/stunt-pilot-super-busted-after-dive-bombing-south-carolina-beach/): It seems that the dangers, associated with our beloved pastime of surfing, have grown exponentially in recent. Once, the only terrors came from sharks or the pointy tip of the surfboard. The latter was worked around via Nose Guard Hawaii. The former rare enough to push back into the recesses and forget.
- [From Surf Havens to Ghost Towns: The Shark Threat to Regional Australia](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/from-surf-havens-to-ghost-towns-the-shark-threat-to-regional-australia/): (Editor's note: This story appears in the latest issue of Surfing World, called Shark Country, which is a comprehensive examination of the dramatic shift in Australian surfing where every other month, a surfer is taken down either by a Great White or a bull shark. Why, how and what the hell? Contained within the magazine, a handsome independently owned journal, just Sean Doherty, Hannah Anderson and the villainous Nick Carroll on the tools, is some of the best writing you'll have the pleasure to soak in, even if it all makes you wanna shelve the fibreglass forever. Twenty bucks plus postage, but not the US.)
- [Huntington Beach surfer pleads for help after beloved Toyota 4Runner stolen during session](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/huntington-beach-surfer-pleads-for-help-after-beloved-toyota-4runner-stolen-during-session/): Lou Sansevero drove to 20th Street, 20 blocks north of Huntington's famed pier, for a sneaky weekend session, per the usual, in his 2025 beloved Toyota 4Runner. “I have a Total Chaos long travel kit on it. I’ve done all the maintenance myself on it. I’ve had no issue with it," he gushed to KTLA news. He was overjoyed when he saw a space on the right hand curb that would easily accommodate his plus-sized utility vehicle and slid right in then proceeded to get ready. Wetsuit on, board waxed, key stashed.
- [Award-winning journalist asks “Is Brazil’s sportsmanship the worst in surfing?” ](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/award-winning-journalist-asks-is-brazils-sportsmanship-the-worst-in-surfing/): The two-time Golden Cone winning sports journalist Jed Smith, a gentleman normally so refined he rarely passes wind in company, at least not in a noticeable way, has publicly slammed what has become the new normal on the world pro surfing stage, the comportment of Brazilian surfers, including world champs Yago Dora, Italo Ferreira and Gabriel Medina.
- [Blood Feud: Onewheel declares surfers who ride e-bikes are “kookiest people on the planet”](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/blood-feud-onewheel-declares-surfers-who-ride-e-bikes-are-kookiest-people-on-the-planet/): Surfers who travel to, and from, the beach via e-bike are reeling, this morning, after Onewheel lowered its barrel and blasted away, calling them the "kookiest people on the planet." But you are certainly familiar with the electronic standing pads featuring one large wheel, hence the name, in its center? There are a few enthusiasts in my town, both really gear up when they go cruising with full-face helmets, knee, elbow, shin and forearm pads etc. Every time they whiz by, I imagine some deep internal malfunction.
- [“I almost died” Matahi Drollet survives wild near-miss with spectator boat at Teahupoo](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/video-matahi-drollet-survives-wild-near-miss-with-spectator-boat-at-teahupoo/): The Tahitian Mahati Drollet, as you know, is a semi-regular on BeachGrit’s pages. 
- [All eyes on Kelly Slater after Serena Williams announces return to professional tennis](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/all-eyes-on-kelly-slater-after-serena-williams-announces-return-to-professional-tennis/): The greatest-ever women's tennis player, Serena Williams, stunned and delighted tennis fans across the globe, over the weekend, by announcing her return to the game. Williams, who will turn 45 this September, stepped away from the game four years ago. Her last match was at the U.S. Open, where she cried after, saying, "These are happy tears, I guess. I don't know... It's been the most incredible ride and journey I've ever been on in my life. I'm just so grateful to every single person that's ever said, 'Go Serena!' You got me here." Adding, "I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn't feel like a modern word to me… Maybe the best word to describe what I'm up to is evolution. I'm here to tell you that I'm evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me."
- [“Ultimate Kook Accessory” AI Drone That Films Your Every Wave Splits Surf Community](https://beachgrit.com/2026/06/ultimate-kook-accessory-ai-drone-that-films-your-every-wave-splits-surf-community/): The vulnerable adult learner surfer community has reacted with a rapture not seen, I think, since Jesus strolled the deserts of Judea, after a tech company release an autonomous waterproof drone that films your waves via a tracking device wrapped around your arm.

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- [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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