NZ SURFING MAGAZINE - Issue 188

In this issue

Issue #188 October /November 2019 of NZ Surfing focusses on surfboard design with the latest rides from our best manufacturers. All-time Raglan session, Billy Stairmand and Ella Williams qualify for the Olympics. Inside the Gladiator Pit with Richard Christie at Teahupoo. Plus much more.

Trigger Finger

Ask any top surf coach and the two elements they will concentrate on and recommend are a solid bottom turn and being able to develop speed - as they say, speed is your friend, and many of the best surfers on the planet also happen to be the fastest surfers.

2 mins

Licence To Score

The adventures behind the wheel of Mount Grom Luke Griffin.

3 mins

The Olympians

Over 50 years ago surfing’s greatest ambassador of all time, the legendary Duke Kahanamoku, had a vision that one day surfing would become an Olympic sport.

10+ mins

The Gladiator Pit

Born from the era of the Roman Empire, armed combatants known as gladiators would enter the arena also known as the Gladiator Pit to face up against other gladiators, animals and criminals in fierce battle in what was seen as entertainment often ending in death to one or the other.

4 mins

THESHAPESHIFTER ROGER HALL

Ladies and Gentleman Choose Your Weapons: How to decide on your next surfboard.

7 mins

Rising Grom Asia Braithwaite

There are those young athletes that get into sport who possess natural talent, even the X-factor, yet as the road is usually a far-too-easy passage, they either take it for granted or don’t push beyond their capabilities.

6 mins

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NZ SURFING MAGAZINE Magazine Description:

NZ Surfing Magazine is dedicated to New Zealand surfing. NZ action photos, NZ surfer profiles, NZ interviews with champions and the guy at the beach. New Zealand Surfing magazine is New Zealand longest running and most READ surfing magazine (New Zealander's have produced surf mags since the early 1950s, but New Zealand Surfing is the only one to have been continuously published for TWENTY EIGHT years). Each issue is wave after wave of hardcore surf action.