Stab Podcasts

1:49 – The WSL vs Lennox Locals with Jed Smith 20:14 – Winners of 2020 with Sam McIntosh Host: Danny Johnson Theme music: Vinnie Laduce

The Drop is back forever! A weekly news based surf podcast hosted by Danny Johnson. This episode features. 0:00 – Intro 2:00 – Taj Burrow Interview discussing 'Stab In The Dark' 14:59 – Stab Surfer Of The Year 22:45 – Vaughan Blakey discussing Tom Curren in 'Free Scrubber'

Mike and Stace break down Honolua and Pipe, discuss the potential for a 2021 season, and reveal their 2020 Stab Surfer of the Year picks (with some surprising inclusions).

Stace and Mike discuss Pipe, Honolua, and who will win the seemingly forgotten Mikey v Leo superheat.

You asked for it.

Jacob Willcox placed second at Surf100 Western Australia. Could it have been first if he dragged slightly less corn? Let's find out.

Surf100 North Point is wrapped, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the local phenom and recent QS graduate Jack ‘Three-Hundo’ Robinson has won. The results were decided by you—the thousands who judged the event live from their homes. And one of you, a cat named Cam Stedman, won three spankin’ new Arakawa blades for his efforts. Congrats, Cam. If you missed it, check out Surf100.tv now.

The written word apparently still has a pulse, as a few unkind refrains on stabmag.com led to CT veteran Adrian 'Ace' Buchan calling out CUSP co-host Michael Ciaramella on Instagram this week.

This is a pilot for a new podcast on the Stab Podcast Feed, which has stolen the name of an old podcast on the Stab Podcast feed. The Drop (2.0) is a mix of conversations between the Stab staff about most compelling stories from the previous week in surf. Stories covered in this episode are: 00:49 Surfer Dies After Shark Attack At Rainbow Bay, Coolangatta With Ashton Goggans and Stace Galbraith 09...

Did you know that WSL World #5 and recent Surf100 champ, Kolohe Andino, often rides his least favorite boards in competition? Why is that, and what has it done to his surfing? Mike and Stace investigate.

When Dane speaks, we listen.

Surf100 runs tomorrow and Stace and Mike have the keys to get you three free surfboards. Listen and hit them with your best offer in the DMs. Also, we're joined by Surf100 star Ian Crane, who's been up to some interesting business endeavors of his own.

The WSL just revealed their new tour plans for 2020 and beyond. Stace Galbraith and Mike Ciaramella have some thoughts! Topics covered: Will the QS and CT really be able to run in Hawaii this Triple Crown season? Which Tour surfers are anti-vaxxers? What's this about a mid-year cutoff?!

Jake 'Snake' Paterson has a notoriously firm rump, hardened by years sand dune runs and sitting out the back for the wave of the day. While that wave didn't always arrive in his allotted half-hour, Snake always made great use when it did, taking down the Pipe Masters and Jeffrey's Bay event (x2) against admittedly superior surfers. After a decade on the Tour that was successful by most any measure...

Kolohe Andino joins Mick Fanning for the latest edition of Unplugged. They pontificate the biggest changes in the WSL over the past decade: a new look tour climaxing in a final single-day event to crown a world champion. For a video version of this discussion click here: https://youtu.be/KhgexCNZLCM Stabmag.com

This week, 'RISS' star Carissa Moore joins Stab Unplugged with Mick Fanning, who chips away at her armor of optimism in an attempt to mine hidden truths. While relatively unsuccessful (Carissa's armor is forged of triple-plated steel), it was fascinating to hear a three- and four-time World Champion discuss what motivates and derails them, competitively. For Carissa, it's a lack of self-focus. For...

Stace and Mike are joined by a surprise guest who makes the argument for jet skis as a justifiable fetish. The boys also discuss which surfers will come out of Covid stronger than they went in and whether or not the WSL will run events in 2020.

For the third episode of Mick Fanning and Stab's interview series Unplugged, Mick and Stab's Sam McIntosh linked up with Gabriel Medina from his current location in Maresias, Brazil. Mick and Sam were able to unravel the famously mysterious Medina. Here's just some of the things we learnt in this interview: First job: No shit, Gabe Medina used to park cars as a six year old. The biggest waves he’s...

In this episode, Stace and Mike meet with the WSL's Chief Brand Officer, Dave Prodan, to talk about the League's proposed changes, the public's overwhelmingly negative response to those changes, and exactly what is the WSL's core identity (as we can't seem to put our finger on it). Here's a breakdown, for the impatient type: 1:00 How the WSL is structured as a business 4:30 Does the WSL represent...

In this episode, Stace and Mike discuss the WSL's proposed plans for the 2021 Tour and what their idealized versions of a CT would look like. Radical upheaval is the general consensus.

Stab founder and CEO Sam McIntosh gets into the weeds with WSL CEO Erik Logan on the future of surf competitions and content.

After two decades in the game, there are a few commonalities you can always rely on when dealing with a-grade talent: the first is that you need to be prepared to do plenty of waiting. Once a time and day were set for the interview, both surfers committed to a firm time date: 8am Tuesday in Australia and 12pm, in Hawaii. It was 7.53am and my laptop wouldn’t kick over. Frozen. A few resets and it w...

The Stab CUSP is back like a chicken with no head! Because surf comps are officially on hold til mid-2024, Stace and Mike have had to change the angle of the aptly-named Stab CUSP (Currently Untitled Surf Podcast). This week they'll be discussing the surf industry at large and whether or not it will survive our current recession. Because neither Stace nor Mike know anything the surf industry, they...

The Stab MIC: Jamie O'Brien by STAB

In episode two of CUSP, Stace and Mike talk about the highly contentious Pipe Masters finale. Topics covered include: Italo's dominance, Slater's ageless mastery, and Medina's q antics A more detailed look at their discourse, here: 0.00 intro 2.00 pipeline breakdown - Italo 14.00 Wildcard seeding, Billy Kemper 16.50 Gabby & Caio Interference 23.30 Unsportsmanlike Rule 26.50 Is Gabby above the law?...