Surfing Aotearoa
A salty sport enjoyed by thousands due to our long coastlines and consistent sea swells.
Photo: Peter Kurdulija (CC BY-NC-NZ 2.0)
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New Zealand A to Z - Surfing
With surfboard craftsman Roger Hall, Taranaki-based pro-surfer Paige Hareb and Raglan surfing instructor Ryan Bellamy. Audio
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Girls on board: Wellington ladies learning to surf
"Exhilarating and addictive…" that's how UK-born, New Zealand-based Francesca D'Oriano describes the feeling of riding a wave. Based out in Lyall Bay, the yoga instructor and founder of Wellington… Audio
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Surfing pioneer and advocate Jonette Mead
27 Dec 2010Jonette 'Jonny' Mead is a pioneer and advocate of surfing who has worked for Surfing NZ for 20 years. She talked to fellow surfer Liam about the sport in New Zealand. Audio
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Surfing for the disabled
26 Nov 2008Marty Clarke is an amputee-surfer and one of the organisers of a surfing for the disabled organisation in NZ Audio
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Surf's up at Raglan
Raglan Area School has a surfing academy which attracts some of the country's top young surfers. Audio
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Surfing - not just a young person's sport
19 Jan 2012While hanging ten on a surf board is normally a young person's game, surfers nowadays are still riding waves in their 60s, and beyond. Audio
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Roy Stuart - surfboard maker
28 Jan 2014Putaruru man Roy Stuart is a surfboard maker of two decades experience, who is among the first in the world using 3d printing technology to help create a new wave of surfboards. Audio
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Raglan artist Aaron Kereopa
A keen surfer, Aaron Kerepopa began carving snapped surfboards and his work developed from there. Now one of his works can fetch thousands of dollars and he is a full time artist. Audio
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Beach Pigs
Young Northland/Auckland quartet Beach Pigs have emerged from months of enforced silence with their debut album, the enigmatically-titled Grom Warfare. The product of punishing live schedules, serious… Audio
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Surfing
8 Feb 2014Peter Westwick is co-author of 'The World in the Curl'. The book looks at the history of surfing and explains its popularity today. Audio
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Feature Guest - Shaun Tomson
28 Jan 2009Shaun Tomson is one of four Southern hemisphere surfers who helped change the face of surfing forever. Audio
Feature Guest - Shaun Tomson
Two surf skis used by the Levin Waitarere Life Guard, on the sand at Waitarere Beach on 17th March 2000. Image: Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.
Artist Aaron Kereopa. Photo: Jane Ussher, courtesy NZ Life & Leisure magazine.
Gallery: Work by Raglan artist Aaron Kereopa
Foxton Surf Club members, 1930. Image: Foxton Historical Society.
Gallery: Old-time surfing in New Zealand