The Home Coming

It’s no secret across the globe that New Zealand is a magical place, full of stunning scenery and friendly as people, and when it comes to surfing, untouched, uncrowded isolated waves set in a backdrop often compared to Never Never Land.

- Cory

As Kiwis we are a proud nation of people, that hold our country of birth in high regard regardless of where life will take us. And for many of our country men and women who just so happen to have wound up working, living or growing up elsewhere on the planet, there isn’t a day that goes by that they aren’t thinking about the lifestyle back home or boasting of how great the Land of The Long White Cloud is! Often claiming to friends and colleagues that “We should do a trip home one day and you can see all the epic places and meet all my epic friends and fam.” Well that’s exactly the kind of prompt that saw kiwi lad Coby Perkovich throw together a little ‘Homecoming Tour’ and invite a few friends along for the ride to his birthplace and NZ surf hotspot Taranaki or Taradise as they so rightly refer to it locally.

We featured Coby in a recent issue where we profiled his life from growing up in Taranaki to heading over to the Gold Coast like so many other Kiwis. And if you’ve checked in to any surf media in the world in recent times you’d realise that Coby is being touted as one of the most exciting free surfers in the world, specialising in aerial surfing and releasing video clips in association with his sponsors to showcase his surfing prowess. Part of these film projects focusses on the life of Coby and his story, so after beating on for years to his surfing bro’s in OZ, all about how epic the Taranaki coastline is, he managed to twist the arm of another high profile free surfer in Chippa Wilson along with a few other mates and boarded a plane bound for Auckland and ’The Homecoming Tour’.