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Italo Ferreira Tests Out Brazil's Most Exclusive Wave Pool by PerfectSwell® (2023)

A 10-minute surf montage where Italo Ferreira, Samuel Pupo, Miguel Pupo, Adriano De Souza, and youngster Cruz Dinofa hop, skip, and jump in what Miguel ...

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“My ego and my common sense still argue with each other.” <br /><br />For someone who’s spent decades stress-testing the edge of what’s survivable, Nate Fletcher talks about his surfing career like it was mostly something that just happened around him.<br /><br />His impact on surfing is undeniable, across airs, big waves, and board and fin design. And though he carries it like a man overdue for a cigarette, nursing a permanent headache, each sentence beginning with a reluctant exhale, he also seems largely without ego, even as he admits it still tends to argue with his common sense. <br /><br />To muse on the impact he’s left behind is to treat his career as a finished painting, something to step back and admire, as if he isn’t still out there at 50, dragging a wet brush across the canvas. <br /><br />He does, however, admit to being done with big wave surfing, after a life spent learning intimacy with death, including being towed into one of the heaviest waves ever at Teahupo’o, and producing one of surfing’s more deranged frames: suspended for a second, then gone.<br /><br />“I have nothing left to prove,” says Nate. “The only reason I did it was for the rush. I don’t get that rush anymore. At some point you’ve got to ask why you’re doing it. I don’t really care what people think. I helped set the bar, but you can’t do it forever.”<br /><br />Nate has never seemed to care much what people think. He was laughed at for riding colourful boards and for experimenting with four fins, even by Kelly Slater, who later ran the setup in competition and said he hoped it might stand as his legacy. <br /><br />“I like colour,” Nate says, simply.<br /><br />This week, Dooma and Dane talk to Nate about the state of surfing and its drift toward wealthy hobbyists, how he became a pro surfer by accident, the debt he owes his mother for surviving him and Christian, and the generations of background misogyny she endured, the impact of social media on kids, and his continued admiration for Kelly Slater. We also debut a new segment with a WSL insider. <br /><br />Enjoy the episode.

Is Surfing For The Rich? | StabMic Episode 10 Nathan Fletcher

17th April, 2026

“My ego and my common sense still argue with each other.” For someone who’s spent decades stress-testing the edge of what’s survivable, Nate Fletcher talks about his surfing career like it was mostly something that just happened around him.His impact on surfing is undeniable, across airs, big waves, and board and ...

The roasting of Mikey C masquerading as a contest preview/gambling advice… what’s not to like?<br /><br />Here’s Stace Galbraith and Josiah Amico overlaid over West Australia freesurfs, making sense of the Main Break forecast, the (very strange) men’s current top 5 and the sudden disappearance of Stab’s Editor-In-Chief after finishing Bells with gambling debt to pay (it was about time he took an L). <br /><br />Thanks to a tip-off, the WSL is reportedly thinking of running the contest as early as tomorrow, and trying to wrap the thing in just two days. Think: overlapping heats from sunrise to sunset, women and men alternating rounds and a commentary marathon for those in the booth/on the glass.<br /><br />Other topics covered here include: SITD star Ethan Ewing’s tough start at Bells, Miggy Pupo in yellow, the Aussie Treble leaderboard, why Hawaiians connect with WA, Jordy Smith’s boomerang transit path from Bells→J Bay→WA, underdogs and overdogs, wildcards, Griffin’s post-breakup spite run, the return of Jason Stevenson to the contest site and much, much more.

Can You Finish A CT Contest In 2 Days? Stab High Commentators Dissect WA Freesurfs

15th April, 2026

The roasting of Mikey C masquerading as a contest preview/gambling advice… what’s not to like?Here’s Stace Galbraith and Josiah Amico overlaid over West Australia freesurfs, making sense of the Main Break forecast, the (very strange) men’s current top 5 and the sudden disappearance of Stab’s Editor-In-Chief after finishing Bells with ...

We started our 1,500-mile, 288-hour, nine-state journey in the swamp-laden paradise of Florida. <br /><br />Stab Highway East Coast USA features 16 surfers split into four teams, each made up of three men and one woman, who serves as team captain.<br /><br />Over the course of 12 days, the teams will drive from Miami, Florida to New York City, New York (approximately 1,500 miles/2,414 km) while trying to complete 130 surf and land-based challenges worth varying point values.<br /><br />The challenges are broken down into three regions: Florida, Georgia to Virginia, and Maryland to New York. Hanging over all of it are six “Monster” challenges, which don’t respect geography and span the entire course of the trip. <br /><br />At the end of each region, the lowest-scoring team is eliminated based on cumulative points. The winner will be decided by a surprise final challenge between the last two remaining teams.<br /><br />Got it? Good.

16 Surfers. 12 Days. 1,500 Miles | Stab Highway East Coast Ep. 1

14th April, 2026

We started our 1,500-mile, 288-hour, nine-state journey in the swamp-laden paradise of Florida. Stab Highway East Coast USA features 16 surfers split into four teams, each made up of three men and one woman, who serves as team captain.Over the course of 12 days, the teams will drive from Miami, ...

“We could never pay back Kelly Slater for what he did for Channel Islands. That’s the truth of it. What does he want? The whole company?"<br /><br />As you’ll remember in SITDX, Britt Merrick spoke to the fracture left by Kelly’s departure from CI - something that registered, at least to him, as something of a betrayal, and perhaps one he felt more acutely than his father ever did.<br /><br />Kelly, when given the space to explain himself, offered a different version of events. He’d spoken to Al, there was a blessing, and, by his account, even affection on the way out, and an “I love you” to seal it.<br /><br />Britt claims it wasn’t Kelly leaving that broke his heart, that part he understood, but rather the Firewire business approach, the offshore model, and the way it has diminished domestic board building, eroding the respect that once sat alongside it.<br /><br />Britt, in his typical calm and considered tone that softens the edges of everything he says, phones in from Torquay to join Dooma and Dane at the desk. They move through Medina ordering CIs, his rivalry with DH, his belief that Ethan Ewing is the best surfer in the world, first memories of Dane, and, of course, the question of the age: whether or not Kelly knew.<br /><br />Enjoy the episode.

Have High-Performance Surfboards Already Peaked? | StabMic Episode 09

10th April, 2026

“We could never pay back Kelly Slater for what he did for Channel Islands. That’s the truth of it. What does he want? The whole company?"As you’ll remember in SITDX, Britt Merrick spoke to the fracture left by Kelly’s departure from CI - something that registered, at least to him, ...

Stab In The Dark Ethan Ewing Episode 01 Trailer

8th April, 2026

https://stabmag.com/stabcinema/watch-episode-01-of-stab-in-the-dark-starring-ethan-ewing/LFG. The first episode of Stab in the Dark with Ethan Ewing (SITD) is live, and to kick it off we’ve got a three-way heat between Channel Islands, Dan Mann of Firewire and Chilli Surfboards. You can thank Taj Burrow for the matchups. He architected the 'heats' on the plane over ...

Dane is back. Mercy. Things resume.<br /><br />Dane has become almost synonymous with anti-competition, his exit at the peak of his powers romanticised, mythologised even, into a Reynoldsian legend. An episode dedicated to the start of the WSL season, then, seems an odd fit. <br /><br />But Dane was a competitor once, which gives him a rare vantage: an outsider’s mind once lodged inside the system. His eyes are sharp and wisened from walking the floors himself, which makes talking competitive surfing with him an interesting experiment. <br /><br />Josiah and Dooma sit him down and prod for his take on the Aussie Treble, what competing at every stop taught him, why shaper non-monogamy is weird, trading boards with Andy Irons, and more.<br /><br />Enjoy the episode.

Dane Reynolds On Shaper Polyamory, Tour Politics + The Aussie Treble | StabMic Episode 8

2nd April, 2026

Dane is back. Mercy. Things resume.Dane has become almost synonymous with anti-competition, his exit at the peak of his powers romanticised, mythologised even, into a Reynoldsian legend. An episode dedicated to the start of the WSL season, then, seems an odd fit. But Dane was a competitor once, which gives him ...

After seven years in a listen-only format, our first video ep of The Drop is here!<br /><br />Don't expect all Drop eps here — it will likely just be the ones BEFORE major surf events where we have raw warmup footage to share.<br /><br />In this ep, Mikey and Stace break down the first event of the 2026 Championship Tour season while live-reacting to 60 of the world's best. <br /><br />Who ya got?

Medina Or Ewing, Who's Ringing This Bell?!

1st April, 2026

After seven years in a listen-only format, our first video ep of The Drop is here!Don't expect all Drop eps here — it will likely just be the ones BEFORE major surf events where we have raw warmup footage to share.In this ep, Mikey and Stace break down the first ...

You can’t help but love Chippa Wilson. <br /><br />Old school hog enthusiast. Loves bikes. Big ones. Barely a speck of skin left without ink. Looks like he could ruin your afternoon. Doesn’t. Soft-spoken, thoughtful, and disarmingly decent. One of the nicer humans drifting around surfing.<br /><br />Left small-town Cabarita behind for even less populated Tasmania, lived there peacefully, calm of mind, or close enough to it, before meeting his now fiancée, marine biologist and surfer Brinkley Davies and shifting, once again, further out, to northwest Australia. More of a cockeyed coastline, more serious waves, more serious fish. <br /><br />Doesn’t bother Chip, though. Heaps of food for them to eat, he reckons. <br /><br />Chippa’s a Little Weeds winner from way back. The second-ever Stab High champ. One of the most progressive aerialists to ever walk the earth, now preferring, in his words, to piece a wave together — six, seven turns, more like a skate line. That’s what the waves up north hand him, so he obliges.<br /><br />In this episode of Stab Mic, Chip joins Dooma and Josiah in the studio, runs through all of the above, and talks about his new sponsor, Forecast, building high-tech, unsnappable boards in Sardinia, Italy. <br /><br />He also names his top five aerialists of all time, remembers passing out and waking to a pitbull licking his face, getting fired from JS, and walks us through the video parts that messed with his head and left him surfing the way he does now.<br /><br />Enjoy the episode.

Chippa Wilson Ranks The Greatest Aerialists Of All Time | StabMic Episode 07

27th March, 2026

You can’t help but love Chippa Wilson. Old school hog enthusiast. Loves bikes. Big ones. Barely a speck of skin left without ink. Looks like he could ruin your afternoon. Doesn’t. Soft-spoken, thoughtful, and disarmingly decent. One of the nicer humans drifting around surfing.Left small-town Cabarita behind for even less populated ...

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StabMicEp6 Patti Koa

20th March, 2026

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StabMicEp6 Patti Koa

20th March, 2026

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Welcome to the Chris Christenson Joyride, where we might have found the best twin fin ever made. <br /><br />Lane Splitter twin: 5'5 x 18.5 x 2.31<br /><br />OP3 shortboard: 5'7 x 18.5 x 2.13<br /><br />Board tester: Michael Ciaramella <br /><br />Location: Kandui Resort

A Twin Fin For Pumping Waves?!

16th March, 2026

Welcome to the Chris Christenson Joyride, where we might have found the best twin fin ever made. Lane Splitter twin: 5'5 x 18.5 x 2.31OP3 shortboard: 5'7 x 18.5 x 2.13Board tester: Michael Ciaramella Location: Kandui Resort ...

https://stabmag.com/stabcinema/watch-stab-in-the-dark-2016/<br /><br />Two thousand and twelve. Kony. The predicted apocalypse didn’t come, as foretold. Spewing. 18-year-old John John Florence and 26-year-old Dane Reynolds meet in Japan for Dear Suburbia, scoring what they both still swear are the best waves they’ve ever seen.<br /><br />“The perfect combination of power and shape,” says Dane. “It felt like you could do anything you wanted.”<br /><br />“It was barreling off the takeoff, and you came out with so much speed and just had this perfect bowl bending at you,” adds John.<br /><br />It was the first and only time they ever went on a trip together, and possibly the last time they talked.<br /><br />John chalks it up to them moving through time at different paces — John getting on tour the year after Dane had already left it behind. Dane dove into filmmaking, John grew into the world title chase.<br /><br />Now, 14 years later, both have left the tour. Both left the mainstream surf industry’s big payouts to launch businesses that speak to their own vision of what surfing should be. Both of them now reunite on a one-hour talk show, StabMic, to discuss all of it.<br /><br />Except, John’s on a boat. A fancy new one, too.<br /><br />There are, of course, many differences in their paths, different choices and conflicting visions of the surf industry. They get into it, though, talking about Dane’s time on tour and their shared aversion to certain aspects of competition. Some of it might surprise you, like Dane admitting his favourite part was the attention, and then there’s this quote from John:<br /><br />“I just wanted to destroy everyone and win everything.” <br /><br />Almost Machiavellian, don’t you think?<br /><br />This is Episode 5 of StabMic. Enjoy.

John John + Dane Reynolds Remember The Best Session Of Their Lives | Stab Mic Ep5

13th March, 2026

thousand and twelve. Kony. The predicted apocalypse didn’t come, as foretold. Spewing. 18-year-old John John Florence and 26-year-old Dane Reynolds meet in Japan for Dear Suburbia, scoring what they both still swear are the best waves they’ve ever seen.“The perfect combination of power and shape,” says Dane. “It felt ...

StabMicEp5 JohnJohn

12th March, 2026

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Brody Mulik is now fifteen and very good at surfing. <br /><br />In 2026, that sentence alone doesn’t hold much weight, but he just happens to be very good at waves that most fifteen-year-olds’ parents won’t allow them to go near.<br /><br />The Box, Tombies, North Point, and other waves of that ilk do not care which year you were born, nor who your dad is. They’ve humbled and broken older, larger, more decorated surfers. None of these waves scale themselves down for youth, and there’s a very fine line between the instinctively perfect trajectory Brody draws from behind the peak and into the channel at the infamous slab adjacent to Main Break Margs, and disaster.<br /><br />Brody seems comfortable with the arrangement.<br /><br />He grew up just there, in Margaret River, which helps explain a lot. “Ever since I was two, I was hanging around the beach,” he says. He started surfing around five or six. By eleven, he was paddling into Tombies and North Point. “Dad always pushed me into the big bombs,” he says with a cheeky laugh. “I started surfing in WA when I was thirteen,” Leif Mulik counters, “but I didn’t have a dad pushing me in.”<br /><br />The Muliks are one of those Western Australian units that seem to operate slightly outside normal societal settings. Brody is loosely homeschooled. “He’s number one in our class,” his dad says, sounding both proud and a little unserious. “I’m homeschooled, but I don’t do it a lot,” Brody confirms with a chuckle.<br /><br />Winters aren’t spent waiting for the inhospitable meteorology of the region to magically change its patterns. Instead, the Muliks pack up, step into a caravan, and drive north to Gnaraloo, where the family has gone every year since Brody was one. Mum, dad, brother Blake — who shoots photos from the water — and the dog. “I love the vibe. We just sit around the fire and enjoy the sunset. It’s completely different from normal life, and you’re completely off the screen,” he says.<br /><br />Last year they stayed for two and a half months. This year, the routine remains the same. Bali, or somewhere in Indo, are valid options too. <br /><br />Back home, Brody surfs with a small circle. Ace Flynn is one of the regulars. “He pushes me a lot,” Brody says. Occasionally Jack Robinson reappears, like a local myth. “I’ve surfed with him a few times at Slingshots and Gnaraloo,” Brody says. Robbo doesn’t spend as much time around home as he used to, but the influence lingers. When asked who he looks up to, Brody doesn’t hesitate. “Definitely Jack. He came from here and showed us what’s possible. It feels like everyone else doing well comes from the East Coast,” a place Brody is ironically heading to in 2026 to participate in the Surfing Australia program in Casuarina (Northern NSW) “to do some training and coaching.”<br /><br />His new edit, fourteen., was put together over about four months with Rex Nink, who edited it. Brody would go over to his house and sit in on the edits, which is admirable dedication and a telltale sign of a grom genuinely invested in his talent.<br /><br />One session stands out. A Box day that wasn’t meant to be good, so it was naturally uncrowded. Only Brody, a couple of friends, brother Blake shooting from the water, and one bodyboarder who charges Teahupoʻo. “It was the best session I’ve had out there,” Brody says. “We got so many sick waves.” Far from wanting to be the tall poppy, he never seems to oversell this particular edit or his talent.<br /><br />Asked if he’s ever scared out there, he answers, “I get a little bit nervous until I get my first wave. Then I get into this mode where I just start to go.”<br /><br />Stace Galbraith, calling in from the Philippines where he’s on duty at the World Junior Championships, is less restrained. “It’s a hammer clip,” he says. “He’s a fucking psycho at surfing.” We think that’s praise, at least in Stace’s dialect. He’s seen a lot of Western Australian prodigies come through. Every few years, someone appears and resets expectations: Jacob Willcox, Jack Robinson, even Taj Burrow before them. “He’s a compliment to that region,” Stace says. “A young kid going after it, and the cycle never really ends.”<br /><br />Brody is still largely managed by his parents, which feels appropriate. There’s no overshared sense of urgency around his career. He seems cool and calm about its trajectory for now. As far as contests go, he’s done Stab High (he’s no slouch at airs either), Taj’s Small Fries is coming up, and he’ll do others just to see where it leads. But for now, he says, “I just want to keep making more clips.” fourteen. is out now, and if his past habits are any indication, it won’t be the last time we hear from him this year.

We Haven't Seen A 14 Year Old Surf Like This Since Jack Robinson | Brody Mulik in 'Fourteen'

10th March, 2026

Brody Mulik is now fifteen and very good at surfing. In 2026, that sentence alone doesn’t hold much weight, but he just happens to be very good at waves that most fifteen-year-olds’ parents won’t allow them to go near.The Box, Tombies, North Point, and other waves of that ilk do ...

Was Kelly Slater’s Stab In The Dark An Inside Job?

6th March, 2026

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Watch the latest episode of Stab in the Dark X starring Kelly Slater here<br /><br />https://stabmag.com/stabcinema/watch-episode-03-of-stab-in-the-dark-x-starring-kelly-slater/<br /><br />Any genuinely endearing conversation might hinge on seating Dane Reynolds next to someone improbable and letting the room do the work. Last week: the reigning world champ. This week: Kelly Slater, calling in from New Zealand.<br /><br />Four months post hip replacement, the greatest surfer of all time admits he can barely lift his knee into a car some days, but he insists the robo-hip already outperforms the real one, which had been dragging him through agony for the last four years. He’d been surfing through pain the whole time. Laird Hamilton personally rang to convince him to get on the operating table. A wellness check, from one absurdly fit old-boy to another.<br /><br />He also reveals that during Stab In The Dark X, his back seized up for four days straight. Bedridden and unable to walk without looking like a pretzel. But you can’t keep a good goat down. He still paddled out, still tested six nearly identical boards, all while wrangling Snapper crowds and soft Gold Coast walls.<br /><br />Remarkably, Kelly admits to not having watched a single episode of SITD X. Not one. Just the Instagram clips. That’s it. Is this the surf equivalent of Johnny Depp claiming he’s never seen one of his own movies? Similar star power, frankly.<br /><br />On the topic of SITD, Kel talks candidly about the awkwardness of judging shapers while owning a board company himself, and why he never publicly burned a design, even when it deserved it. More interesting is his philosophy: shapers shouldn’t try to guess what Kelly wants. He wants what they actually make, otherwise it’s just pasteurised performance foam.<br /><br />From there, the gents get into lineup politics, snowboarding double blacks, and the simple economic reality that waves are limited, egos are not, hence grown men hissing over them. The ISA’s new Olympic qualifying system gets a light public flogging. And yes, Kelly is a believer in the machine. Put Olympic surfing in a wave pool. Standardise it, industrialise it, flip the switch and hear the system roar.<br /><br />Enjoy the episode.

Kelly Slater + Dane Reynolds Discuss Why Surfing Is Cooked | StabMic Episode 03

27th February, 2026

Watch the latest episode of Stab in the Dark X starring Kelly Slater herehttps://stabmag.com/stabcinema/watch-episode-03-of-stab-in-the-dark-x-starring-kelly-slater/Any genuinely endearing conversation might hinge on seating Dane Reynolds next to someone improbable and letting the room do the work. Last week: the reigning world champ. This week: Kelly Slater, calling in from New Zealand.Four months ...

The sun is aggressively shining on Yago Dora.<br /><br />World Champion. The Fresh Prince of Vissla. GQ Brazil’s Man of the Year. Stab High Monster Air anointed.<br /><br />The Florianópolis native has every right to peacock and ghost interview requests from Stab. Instead, he drove himself two hours up the 101 from Aliso Viejo (Vissla HQ) to Ventura to sit in a hot studio with Dane and Dooma, and talk everything from his World Title year to his highly specific superstitions.<br /><br />These sometimes involve hopping into freezing Portuguese fountains, wearing WSL jerseys on transcontinental business-class flights, and shaving horrific haircuts in homage to his Floripa homie Ronaldo (the bigger one, IYKYK).<br /><br /><br />He hands out more praise here to Dane, to his Brazilian peers, to his support crew, to the surf films that shaped him than a reigning World Champ strictly needs to. Which only affirms our inkling that he’s a dangerously well-adjusted individual on top of being one of the brightest-burning stars in our cultural firmament. The mutual admiration between Dora and Dane is warm, fuzzy bubbles.<br /><br />It’s a bit of a rapid-fire, speed-dating round this one. Or a TSA interrogation, if you will. <br /><br />If you hate it, you know where to go. <br /><br />See you in the comments.

Yago & Dane Pick Their Favorite Surf Film Sections | StabMic Episode 2

19th February, 2026

The sun is aggressively shining on Yago Dora.World Champion. The Fresh Prince of Vissla. GQ Brazil’s Man of the Year. Stab High Monster Air anointed.The Florianópolis native has every right to peacock and ghost interview requests from Stab. Instead, he drove himself two hours up the 101 from Aliso Viejo ...

We’re always surprised with how much happens over the course of one week in surfing. It was a phenomenon we first noticed when producing The Pick-Up on the North Shore — where it became evident that there was more news happening in seven days on Oahu than we could follow in a 45-minute show. <br /><br />This year, with The Pick-Up in the rearview, Stab co-founder Sam McIntosh and producer Danny Johnson began looking for ways to bring a weekly news roundup to surf culture at large. <br /><br />The result? StabMic.<br /><br />Featuring hosts Josiah Amico and Damien ‘Dooma’ Fahrenfort, StabMic is intended to be a weekly(ish) release where the best surfers in the world can talk about whatever is going on in surfing (or their own lives) at this very moment.<br /><br />As with all of our projects, we’ll be adjusting and evolving our approach to production on the fly — and feedback from our Premium audience is always welcome. Our aim is to provide a platform for different impactful voices throughout the surfing ecosystem, and the above episode is our first attempt.<br /><br />Oh, and we set up the studio in Ventura to ensure that Dane Reynolds can be a regular guest. <br /><br />Click above to hear Former’s owner / creative director / team manager/ order-packer / film star share his thoughts on the latest Rincon Classic, the upcoming crop of CT qualifiers, his new film, and more.

Dane Reynolds On Running A Business, How The CT Has Changed + Former’s New Film | StabMic Ep 1

17th February, 2026

We’re always surprised with how much happens over the course of one week in surfing. It was a phenomenon we first noticed when producing The Pick-Up on the North Shore — where it became evident that there was more news happening in seven days on Oahu than we could follow ...