The Magazine

If you’ve ever been fortunate enough to have visited this corner of Java you’d know it’s not your typical Indonesia surf scene. For one thing the place is very light...

With Salsa departing Bali for a little Mexico soirée, and a slice of time before the arrive of Ozzie Wright and co. My work commitments opened up presenting me with...

Not sure why but it’s been an amped 5 day weekend in Bali. Super crazy with things on most days and nights. One really big punctuation point in all that’s...

As I set out to prepare 10 questions for Mylee Wright the wife of Oscar Billy Wright, cancer. I realized that there was one more member of their tribe, their...

The Temple of Enthusiasm has seen the likes of a few different artists who have joined us for the residence artist program. Stevie Gee, Mia Taninaka, Sandow Birk and who...

Some surfers are born with natural talent, and Mencos is one of these lucky few. Just 22 years old, he’s the current ISC longboard champ, an accolade he has held...

More than a couple of blow in’s have past through our doors of late. The dry season brings swell and the swell brings em. Most are very memorable, though, as...

You might remember a couple of weeks ago that we wrote about film maker Jack Coleman. He’s this Californian filmmaker we’re lucky enough to have gracing us with his presence...

Once upon a time, though just a month ago. In a land far far away, amongst the rice fields in Canggu Bali. Noosa shaper, top bloke and all round gentleman...

Nathan Kostechiko & Arielle Pytka are a couple out of Venice Beach, a couple of world nomads that is. For two years they have let circumstance, Nate's tattoo work, and...

We’ve been looking for a place to hang our hats in Jakarta, for some time and finally found a little niche in Kemang. A fashionable, eclectic part of town, the...

Throughout the Sumatran expedition Salsa and Chris put the new clothing range through its paces…from the Canvas Board-bag and RuckSack to button ups and boardies. Salsa said that basic idea...

Fresh off the coat tails from a previous Lombok trip, a swinging SouthWest swell convinced us to venture a little further away from home…To the island of Sumatra. Since we...

Living surf legend Bob McTavish has been hanging around the Deus Temple in Canggu Bali getting his hands dirty. We originally thought ourselves bloody lucky just to entice him to...

We may not all be here to make history but we can live our lives so that we create our own. Adventure is the key. Alone or with likeminded. We’ve,...

A road trip can be a mini extension of matedom. It’s own little eco system if you will. When you get a group of like-minded guys they can ingrate themselves...

Indonesians are, on the whole, an incredibly accommodating and accepting race of peoples. It took us only hours, far less than days, before we felt at home. We had our...

Everybody has their favorite period in time. A bunch of quiff wearing diner lovers have converted a Newcastle warehouse the size of two hangers into one of the most well...

We are more than a bit spoilt at the Deus Temple in Canggu for a whole heap of reasons. One though is really near and dear. We have been extremely...

Deus Temple Sunday sessions are always fun. Made much more so, when combined with a Deus Gallery opening. Last Sunday was such a double barreled billing. Not Applicable or N/A,...

Many different styles of art forms fall upon the grounds of “The Temple”. Random shapers drop in and shuffle about the bay doing the dusty cross-step that they do oh...

Deus Temple Sunday sessions are always fun. Made much more so, when combined with a Deus Gallery opening. Last Sunday was such a double barreled billing. Not Applicable or N/A,...

There’s this kid fooling around in the shaping bay madly mowing foam. Peeking in it’s clear that he’s shaping a board, though it’s not like anything we’ve seen before, And...

No swell… so what better time to take a couple of the bikes out for a ride. Our destination? Bali’s north coast, which was all we needed to know before...