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Monday 09 January 2012 As the New Year arrived so did an unseasonal North Wind. Those in the know capitalised on the wintery conditions and scored waves where there shouldn’t have been. Marcel Habets took the photos.

Monday 9 January 2012 Hot off the press: video clip of Jordy Smith as he warms up for the 2012 contest season with some fat airs and deep tubes shot over the festive season in Hawaii and J-Bay. Lets hope this is the year that our boy cracks it.

Friday, 06 January 2012 2012 kicks off with the question of where is summer? Sure the beaches are packed with tourists and you can’t move at the malls without encountering a GP 4x4 but what has happened to the Cape Doctor? Ian Thurtell takes the first swim of the year at a wobbly beachbreak down south.

Wednesday 21 December 2011 And now their interaction with these freaky planets of earth, fire and air begin. Our young friends plunge through the ionosphere of Terrestria and are dumped into an earthy lineup, where they paddle into the root of interplanetary mystery.

Friday 16 December 2011 What do you get when you add two cinemas, 8 blow-up sharks and 300 people? asks Spike after the world's first public screening of a unique film dealing with a taboo subject for many surfers.

Tuesday 13 December 2011 In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. Justin Kluzner and friends score all of that and more in a recent session.

Tuesday 13 December 2011 Take an innovative use of a GoPro Camera, throw in a remote control helicopter and then add a legend like ex World Champ Shaun Tomson into the mix at New Pier and you have the recipe for something awesome. Pity this wasn’t entered into the GoPro Short Film Contest.

Wednesday 7 December 2011 Presented by Wavescape, Surfing and Sharks is a study of the complex relationship between surfers and men in grey suits starring our own Roosta, as well as Avuyile Ndmase (his brother died after a shark bite in Port St Johns) and Kowie's Lungani Memani.