Surfing Aotearoa

Collection items

• New Zealand A to Z - Surfing

  22 Jan 2015

  With surfboard craftsman Roger Hall, Taranaki-based pro-surfer Paige Hareb and Raglan surfing instructor Ryan Bellamy. Audio

• Girls on board: Wellington ladies learning to surf

  18 Mar 2015

  "Exhilarating and addictive…" that's how UK-born, New Zealand-based Francesca D'Oriano describes the feeling of riding a wave. Based out in Lyall Bay, the yoga instructor and founder of Wellington… Audio

• Surfing pioneer and advocate Jonette Mead

  27 Dec 2010

  Jonette 'Jonny' Mead is a pioneer and advocate of surfing who has worked for Surfing NZ for 20 years. She talked to fellow surfer Liam about the sport in New Zealand. Audio

• Surfing for the disabled

  26 Nov 2008

  Marty Clarke is an amputee-surfer and one of the organisers of a surfing for the disabled organisation in NZ Audio

• Surf's up at Raglan

  18 Jan 2012

  Raglan Area School has a surfing academy which attracts some of the country's top young surfers. Audio

• Surfing - not just a young person's sport

  19 Jan 2012

  While hanging ten on a surf board is normally a young person's game, surfers nowadays are still riding waves in their 60s, and beyond. Audio

• Roy Stuart - surfboard maker

  28 Jan 2014

  Putaruru man Roy Stuart is a surfboard maker of two decades experience, who is among the first in the world using 3d printing technology to help create a new wave of surfboards. Audio

• Raglan artist Aaron Kereopa

  15 Aug 2011

  A keen surfer, Aaron Kerepopa began carving snapped surfboards and his work developed from there. Now one of his works can fetch thousands of dollars and he is a full time artist. Audio

• Beach Pigs

  21 Jun 2014

  Young Northland/Auckland quartet Beach Pigs have emerged from months of enforced silence with their debut album, the enigmatically-titled Grom Warfare. The product of punishing live schedules, serious… Audio

• Surfing

  8 Feb 2014

  Peter Westwick is co-author of 'The World in the Curl'. The book looks at the history of surfing and explains its popularity today. Audio

• Feature Guest - Shaun Tomson

  28 Jan 2009

  Shaun Tomson is one of four Southern hemisphere surfers who helped change the face of surfing forever. Audio