Come and join us Friday night (13th March) 5:30 - 8:30pm for local Japanese import & surfer/ artist Kentaro Yoshida's solo exhibition "TIME FLIES" at The Steyne Hotel.

S19 is all about ultra refinement with a little summer pop. If you want to stand out from the black-on-black army we have fresh colours in our 1mm Jackets in Vista & Eden. New to the NCHE fold is our dope 2mm GBS ZipFree Long Arm Spring. The usual suspects of our 1.5mm Black White Jacket + 2mm GBS Premium Jacket inc. jugular graphic round out the stable.

The “Fight for the Bight” is not a new struggle, but the longer it lingers the more chance there is of disastrous consequence. The Bight’s one of the most beautiful and scarcely populated places in the country, and big oil money’s got a sniff that there’s black gold lurking under the surface. Now this isn’t one of those instances where the uninformed masses are getting on their soapboxes, ranting and raving about something that they haven’t fully looked into.

Pama Davies has been chop-hopping over backpackers caught in the rip at south Bondi he was in his mid-teens. He’s 22 now, and the only thing that’s really changed is the consistency of his facial hair. It’s gone from a wispy offering that he described as an “unwise, wise man’s beard” to a thick conquistador-style mustachio and goatee combo. And he’s grown a bit, proportionately, one of those people who look like you’ve pressed “command +” a few times. It’s always baffled me that Pama hasn’t received more love from the surfing industry. A handsome kid from Bondi Beach, the most recognisable stretch of sand in the world, who happens to be a world-class freesurfer seems like a marketing dream, but for years Pama didn’t receive the support he deserved.

When it comes to cars, it is in surfing as it is in life. Only amplified. Meaning? Like your shoes, the car you drive not only says a hell of a lot about you, but also effects how you conduct yourself. But it’s ok, we’re here to help, and thus we give you, your guide to surfers going surfing. In cars.

The marketing of surfing as a pursuit best enjoyed on tropical isles has been going since the Endless Summer, longer even. But that was over half a century ago, and since then the world’s changed beyond recognition. The population’s more than doubled, and the percentage of that who surf has inflated more than Bruce Brown would’ve dared dream. There’s not much that remains the same as it was 50 years ago, especially culturally. Global fashion and financial capitals have shifted, several times, hip hop’s revolutionised popular music, shit’s different now. So why are we still going to Bali?