AIN'T THAT SWELL

Stone & Wood Presents... A Blitzed Bonus Mini Ep with the X4 World Champ and Australian GOAT Mark Richards. MR shares his thoughts on Reginato's famous win and the resurgence of true blue, you beaut, rip their fucken heads off Aussie competitive Mongrel! Must listen! Stone & Wood and Billabong Presents...  ATS LIVE! TORQUAY // MARGARET RIVER // COOLANGATTA // RAGLAN Tickets On Sale To...

Stone and Wood Presents... The final dispatch from one hell of a journey of a C.S contest at Newcastle. We discuss the big winners and losers from Finals Day.  Go to  https://surfshark.com/swellian  or use code SWELLIAN at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stone and Wood Presents... A Day of the purest drama at the Newcastle Challenger Series event with careers and qualification hopes hanging in the balance.  Go to  https://surfshark.com/swellian  or use code SWELLIAN at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stone & Wood Presents... Blitzed Daily Dispatch Surfest 40... A huge day for Australian surfing as our TRUE GRIT YOU BEAUT AUSSIE FUCKEN WEAPONS Morgan Cibilic, Oscar Berry and Callum Robson claim their spots on the 2026 CT. Deadly sits down with Richie Lovett to celebrate and pontificate on the days action and what it means for Lobby and Mateus Herdy who will be doing bed karate for the next...

Stone and Wood presents... a radical emotional roller coaster at Day Three of the Newcastle Changaz with Chippo Willcox's CT Qualification hopes in the balance after an early loss, Morgz narrowly avoids a melt, and Sophie Mculloch mounts a late charge for qualification.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stone and Wood Presents...Day Two Newcastle Changaz Dispatch! High drama on day two of the all important final Challenger Series event at Newcastle with several Aussie Qualification hopefuls losing, including Liam O'Brien.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stone and Wood Presents... Our daily wrap of the final WSL Challenger Series event plus a deep dive into what many are calling the greatest Australian Boardriders Battle Final ever, won by North Shelley Boardriders for the second time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Billabong Throw Ons Presents...  Cop the amount of primo shit going down in surf this week! The ABB Grand Final at Burleigh promises insane waves and blood feuds deluxe! The Chang winds up in Newy and the Aussies are well placed to claim every qualifying spot left! Goat wins his own Stab in the Dark on a board that looked a 3rd at best. And Shane Dorian has recharged the rig and is ready for...

Brought to you by UP! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs... Jed Fasso is a surfer and filmmaker from Byron Bay, Australia. His debut film, Beyond Borders: Patagonia traces his journey from the far north of Chile’s wave rich coastline all the way to Patagonia.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chasing beachbreak bliss in Prohibition-era India. The second-leg of the Swellness Pilgrimage to India featured a mission to find waves. First published in Stab Magazine in 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brought to you by UP! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs... Kipp Caddy is a pro surfer from the South Coast of NSW and one of the world's best heavy water exponents. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NEW SHOW! The Tangata Whenua ("People of the Land") Crew II is a show dedicated to Asia-Pasifika surfing, politics and culture, featuring community leaders from across the region (Melanesia, Polynesia, Indonesia, and Australia). For our first ever episode, we are joined by Hawaiian pro surfer and scientist, Dr Cliff Kapono, who was recently the feature of this Vice documentary, The Smartest Surfer...

B3 Social Remedy & The Swellness Power Up Presents... The heaviest Ain't That Swell interview of all time!  When Elliot Foote and Steph Weise took off on a classic surf adventure to the Ments little did they know they were about to be thrown into a harrowing tale of life and death when a storm capsized their boat during a night time crossing between islands. This truly is the most fucked...

Backhand surfers to have the advantage, onshore and 3-5 foot is fun as, Kiwis to turn up in throbbing numbers and other things we’ve learned after chatting to the 8-time NZ national champ in the lead up to Pro Surfing's arrival in NZ! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Billabong Presents… ATS with Smiv and Deadly! Light a candle and say a prayer folks the Brazilian Storm is dead… according to two high profile Brazilians! We reflect on the long road to glory for Toquay Boardriders the newly minted World Club Champions. Merrick Jr goes swinging arm deluxe on Goat with a verbal coat hanger for the ages! And our boy Dane “the Tooth of Seal”...

Usher Group Presents... ATS LIVE from the World Club Championships President's Dinner. It's Scoops De Ville as Smiv and Deadly host proceedings at the Usher Cup World Club Championships Presidents Dinner. Featuring Steph Gilmore on how she'll tackle old rivals, uppity youngsters and backside cones on her return to the the Woz and global surfing icon Felipe Pomar who is 82 years young and plans to...

Sun Bum The Official Sun Care of the Swellians Presents. .. Steaming Heats with World Number 12 and Nuclear Peach... Connor O'Learyzy Brah! From dusting R-Cal, Banting and Avoca Jesus in a Rip Curl Grom Search to dropping backside bombs all over J-Bay to win his first CT and shoot into the top 16 Connor O'Leary shares the battles that crafted the warrior within.    See omnystudio.com/lis...

Former Final Five Contender and Australian Challenger Series campaigner, Morgan Cibilic, takes us inside the unprecedented Australian domination of the recent Pipeline Challenger Series event.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Billabong presents… Smiv and Deadly get down and dirty in the seedy world of surfing’s drug testers who have no qualms demanding a public squirt from our nation’s finest at 2 in the fricken morning! Plus we reveal why Johnny Johnny Floz Floz is heading back over the horizon, take a look at how Our Sal will fare now she’s officially back on tour and we investigate just how...

Callum Robson and Morgan Cibilic finish first and second at the inaugural Pipeline Challenger Series event amidst an Australian onslaught across the board.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie O'Brien called it the day of the year and Shane Dorian was spellbound by Backdoor's "super nuggets" for the round of 64 at the Pipeling Challenger Series Event. We break down the death or glory action from days one and two of the men's and women's events.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Billabong Presents... ATS with Smivvy & Deadly!  It’s been the busiest surf week since Elo got his farewell kick up the coit with X3 World Champ John Florence giving the Woz a severe case of blue balls, J-Bay gets the fuh-lick, Rags goes to the big show and Goat trades nubile princesses for burnt out South Tweed units on mobility scooters. The Pipe Chang fires up, and the Swellians...

Brought to you by UP! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs... Russel Ord is one of the most respected and hard working water photogs in the world. Willing to get back slammed on dry reef or risk getting eaten alive by a giant Great White for the shot, he's had countless magazines spreads and covers, and has just put out book of his favourite shots and stories (written by Al Workman), called Li...

Surf cam operators, surf schools, surf industry sell-outs, and Swiss-owned ‘Yoga Surf Retreats.’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The prickly faced, mango sucker from the Australian Sunny Coast delivers yet another sermon of core philosophy, sharing tales of deep conical pilgrimage, and communing with surfing's spiritual elders, the long suffering, carcinogenic-dust-huffing shaper. Check his  Stab Edit of the Year Award Winning Film, ROASTED, here.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.