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Friday 20 January 2012 Just like road rage, all surfers have experienced it. Crowded conditions, disrespect for rules and big egos are all it takes to start a war of words that can spill onto the beach as fisticuffs. In hindsight, and looking at this video, its lame fighting over a wave, but it happens more often than you think ... in Oz!

Friday 20 January 2012 Exercise your democratic mandate as a citizen. Support the Weather Bill speakers, including Spike, at the SA Parliament in Cape Town this WEDNESDAY 25 January. Wavescape submission between 2 and 2.40pm.

Tuesday 17 January 2012 An extended run of cyclone swell will continue in KwaZulu-Natal well after Tropical Depression Dando made landfall in Mozambique yesterday, writes Spike. Looks like a bumper East Coast cyclone season lies ahead.

Tuesday 17 January 2011 What do you get when you cross a helicopter and a Kommetjie surfer? Brendon Gibbens, that’s what. Simone Robb captures the action frame by frame as Brendon and friends turn their boards into rotor blades and fly away.

Monday 16 January 2011 Could the scent of a slowly decomposing whale buried years ago be attracting sharks to Second Beach? Spike talks to Mark Addison of Blue Wilderness Adventures about a story that might provide the key to a spate of six shark deaths in five years.

Monday 16 January 2010 This clip depicts Jeb Corliss (remember the crazy-assed "Grinding the Crack" wingsuit flight?) smashing his legs halfway down Table Mountain today during an illegal BASE jump, for which it is rumoured he will be arrested.

Monday 16 January 2010 Royden Bryson started his 2012 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) season with a morale boosting runner-up finish in the historic Hainan Classic, the first ASP event to be staged in China, this weekend.

Monday 16 January 2012 The whole summer holiday, the winds were wrong and the swell was on vacation. The first week of the new work year starts and guess what happens. It’s cooking bru! Ian Thurtell got stuck in his office to bring us the proof that Murphy is a cruel joker.