BEST of 2023! Core Lords: Kohl Christensen
Kohl Christensen is a Hawaiian heavy-water specialist and Patagonia Ambassador. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kohl Christensen is a Hawaiian heavy-water specialist and Patagonia Ambassador. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dane 'Gudang' Gudauskas is a professional freesurfer, big wave maniac and style master. Along with his two brothers, Pat and Tanner, he also fronts the Positive Vibe Warrior Foundation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Martin Daly is an ex-salvage diver, surfer, adventurer, and sea captain famous for, among other things, pioneering the Mentawais. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sterling Spencer is a former professional surfer from Pensacola, Florida, who suffered a series of serious brain injuries during his career. We spoke with Spencer ahead of the release of a feature documentary, by Stab Magazine, called Are You Serious , which charts his decline following his most recent and severe traumatic brain injury. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Presented by Ocean and Earth...Smivvy catches up with underground Sydney South Side Icon Wayne Cleveland, who helped pioneer slab surfing throughout the 90s and early 2000s scoring plenty of magazine covers and spreads in the process. Then at the height of his charging he was suddenly gone, locked up for 10 years in one of the most notorious prisons in Australia. Strap ya selves in Swellians, some rip roaring yarns from a wild surfing existence coming right up! See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
Nick Colbey is an ultra-talented surfer, filmmaker and musician, born and bred in Byron Bay. His latest album, Journeyman, is available wherever you get your music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ocean & Earth Board Covers Presents... A Blitzed Vans Pipe Masters Kebab with the Lot featuring 30 Point Cone Pig Harry Bryant live on the blower from Waikiki. Relive the cone fest before Christmas! Download the ‘Up’ app and sign up in minutes. Use code 'UTFS' for $10 on signup (do it all from the comfort of your phone, no need to go to the bank or any of that bullsh*t). T&C's @ up.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Ocean & Earth Board Covers Presents... Rando Conversations with Artisan, Publisher, Lens Kween, Senior Woz Photog and Core Lord Cait Miers. Cait grew up on the Mornington Peninch and now travels the world shooting A List surf stars on tour, campaigns for top brands and tripped out salty surf mess for her own stoked out pleasure. Enjoy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ray Collins was raised by a single mother in the Bulli public housing estate before becoming an award-winning surf photographer, waterman, and artist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Billabong Presents... After a month off the tools grinding the Q through South East Asia, Deadly returns to join Smivvy on a wild jaunt through all the best and worst of surfing over the past month including: Bierke's new brain melting clip, Laura Enever's Guiness World Record, and what it might be like to make love to Brazilian wild man Neco Padaratz. Garn get into it! Download the ‘Up’ app and sign up in minutes. Use code 'UTFS' for $10 on signup (do it all from the comfort of your phone, no n...
Subhi Awad is a Palestinian refugee who was born in a refugee camp in Lebanon before emigrating to the United Kingdom and finally Australia, where he lives today. He is a human rights advocate and activist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jughead is a big wave surfer and pioneering slab shaman from the NSW Central Coast. He works full-time as a Fireman, a job he has held throughout his career. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bin Laden’s post 9/11 letter to America, White House Security Chief’s bizarre Islamophobic rants caught on camera, Charlie Kirk’s theory that the Israeli Defence apparatus deliberately let Hamas ransack the communities home to peace-loving Israeli activists, and Da Goat, Kelly Slater, smells a GOATspiracy. With special commentary by pro longboader, Palestine/Israel traveller, and Greens media advisor, Lucy Small. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Welcome to Ain't That Swell's Lord of the Week: Kelly 'The Nord Lord' Nordstrom. A 26 year old chippie slash core lord, cone fiend, hellman from Tasmania, he recently paddled a filthy death trap at massive Pedra Branca, 50km off the coast of Tassie - and lived to tell the tale. Find him and his wave on Instagram, here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Smivvy turns out to see Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Northern in Byron Bay and cops one of the worst gigs of all-time. This is his review. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Yamba's rangey, super-grom, Dakoda Walters, has the world at his feet. Will he chase a World Tour birth or a freesurfing career - or both? Ain't That Swell is proudly supported by, Healthy Hammered Kombucha , Smart Leash Co , and Swell CBD Oil. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jacob Wilcox is a revered slab shaman, from South-West Australia, now in his rookie year on the World Tour. Find our Youtube Channel here. .. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Liam O'Brien is a World Tour surfer, astute bogan classic, and acid jazz enthusiast from Benowa, west Gold Coast, via Burleigh Heads. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ahead of the premiere of 'Calypte,' we revisit our chat with surfer and adventurer Torren Martyn, recorded halfway through his nautical journey from Thailand down the length of Indonesia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
James ‘Taipan’ Wood is a two-time world junior champion, elite surf coach, shaper, and surfing mastermind from Lennox Head, on the NSW North Coast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mega Semadhi is literally a lord. The Balinese pro surfer and two-time winner of the Rip Curl Cup, Padang, is also a Hindu Priest (Mangku) in waiting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Smivvy yaks and nearly craps his daks on a torturous semi-skunk mission to southern India. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Johnny Gannon is a leader in the field of strength, conditioning and wellness from Maroubra Beach, Sydney. He also served as Taj Burrow's coach and confidante for seven years on the World Tour. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We revisit our chat with Gerry Lopez and Stacy Peralta. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Award winning journalist, Tom De Souza, is halfway through a radical surfing and motorcycle adventure across Indonesia. He phones in from Sumba to bring us up to date. You can watch his documentary series at Scenic Route TV. And read about it on Tracksmag.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to System Failure, a no-holds barred exploration of the global fuckery that defines our time. Today we hear from a Palestinian and an Israeli about life in the Middle East in the midst of war. As mentioned in the show, if you'd like to reach out to Yotam and help him achieve his surfing dreams, y ou can find him here. UTFS! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Kipp Caddy is an Australian slab-specialist from the NSW South Coast, who recently suffered a near-fatal injury. Prior to that he undertook one of the great conequests with the great cone-conquerer, Nathan Florence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chris Brock is one of Australian surfing's great unsung heroes. A product of Bondi Beach, he travelled the world surfing in the 1960s and 70s, featuring in Morning of the Earth and the Inner Most Limits of Pure Fun. He lived in a nudist colony in Kauai, in the famed Angourie treehouses, sailed from California to Australia with George Greenough, and so much more. Find the documentary about Taylor's Camp in Kauai, here. And listen to the Celibate Rifles rendition of Kev The Head - as mentioned in ...
First published in News.com.au back in 2016, this story features the late great, Peter Tripovich, and his attempt to walk across Australia to raise money for impoverished children in South-East Asia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Billabong Presents... a good old fashioned Smiv and Deadly ATS breaking down surfing's most pressing and topical issues... including: Friend or foe: who is the new Woz head judge, Chippo and Our Sal locked in for the 24 CT, can the Goat's Foreskin save humanity and is Mason Ho surfing's John Pilger? Also; what sort of burgeois reptile would pay 18 million dollars for a prime piece of Lennox Head? Carn get into it ya mutts! UTFS See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....