six foot seven foot eight foot punch!

This is a board I designed and made for myself about a year ago, I call it the Banana Boat.  I try to design boards for my specif…

Photo of the Week

Not normally one for posting too many 'non-nelson' shots, but here is a friend from Waikuku/ChCh to be precise... Taylor …

Norman Harris, one of New Zealand's great sportswriters

Sad to learn today of the death of New Zealand-born athletics writer Norman Harris. Harris, 75, recorded the heady days of the Pe…

Wild. Windy and Wooly!!

(above): Darryn "Dazza" Fitzgerald bringing one around at a lesser known boulderbank break Photo: Jordy Soole. Howdy ev…

Dogged Jennings has had his reward

Sports Classics Review No. 2 Second-hand book sales can be wonderful things. They are marvellous for offering up books that when …

England rugby faces a long haul back

It's official – Eddie Jones' appointment has completed what has long been suspected – England Rugby have run out of ideas…

Dagger Stratos

This week I got to paddle the Dagger Stratos 14.5 .  Dagger touts the Stratos as "A playful, sporty touring boat that makes …

Surf Like A Woman

“My biggest compliment is not that I surf like a man, but that I surf like a woman.  If someone watches me ride a wave, I want th…

After Paris: If We Hate, We Lose

Hate (noun) 1. intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury                    --Merriam …