A Special Live Podcast from Seas The Day

“Hey mate, I’m a 66 year old woman and I’m struggling! And you’re taking my wave!” Here’s how the fantastic Toni Sawyer describes calling an errant hassler to account recently on a small day at Cabarita, NSW. Toni is part of one of Australia surfing’s great generations — think Pam Burridge, Pauline Menczer, Jodie Cooper — and she’s been finding her place in lineups for over 50 years. Be enthralled as she and the equally fantastic Liliana Bowrey join Nick and Hannah at the recent Seas The Day festival, and clamber through a huge time of change in the water.

One of the great surfing lives recently came to an end with the passing of Hawaii’s Clyde Aikau. On the eve of his memorial paddle-out ceremony at Waikiki next week, Nick and Hannah recall their encounters with the amazing, larger-than-life Clyde, and his astonishing efforts over many years to share the legacy of his brother Eddie with the world, through the Eddie Aikau Invitational, the greatest surf gathering of all time.

You can honor Clyde’s legacy wherever you are, on ceremony day, June 26, just by catching one last wave for Uncle Clyde.

Please post your ride, memories or special video tribute to social media on the day using this hashtag:

#LastRideWithUncleClyde or email your clip (Please limit to 15 seconds) to [email protected] . By submitting or tagging clips on social media you are granting permission to the Aikau Family to include your content in Uncle Clyde’s tribute video.

Seas The Day is the world’s warmest surf festival. Which is weird since it happens on winter solstice weekend. It should be freezing! But it won’t be, because Seas The Day’s purpose is not aligned with cold. On June 21-22 at Kingscliff, NSW, it draws together some of surfing’s smartest and most involved women for two days of inspiration, stoke and fun. But how do things like Seas The Day fit into a surf culture that’s constantly evolving? Nick and Hannah drag in festival pioneer Belén Alvarez Kimble to find out.

Of the world’s many pro surfing tragics, few are as tragic as your unlikely hosts. Maybe that’s why we’re so tweaked by the WSL’s much-surfed yet little understood Challenger Series, where 14 year old supergrommets, old school ex-superstars, and dozens of hopeful nationalities do battle in search of the CT limelight. What little surfing society is this, and how come it’s just been given a ticket to none other than the Coliseum itself, Pipeline? The gracious and super skilled Jacob Willcox joins Nick and Hannah from Newcastle, NSW to help us all understand the Changa that much better.

Learning about each other in the surf is the basis of our wacky friendship. It’s why this poddy even exists! But conversations about the lineup often seem so basic — let’s face it, is there anything more tedious than complaining about crowds? There’s a lot more going on out there. In this fantastic and very challenging episode, Nick and Hannah talk with brilliant surfer/academic Dr Rebecca Olive, who takes us into some very deep water indeed.

After 10 days at Burleigh Heads, Nick and Hannah stagger back home with their heads full of WSL gossip. But what’s actually happening at the sport’s pointy end, what calls are being made and who’s making ‘em? We enlist one of pro surfing’s happiest back room operators, Christian Bessera of the surfers’ organisation WPS, to explore how the surfers make it all work the way they want.

In this very special episode, we head north to the land of right-hand pointbreaks, the southern Gold Coast, and ask four fantastic guests to explain for us what makes it home. Recorded live at the Coolangatta Sands with Jay Phillips, Dean Morrison, Sally Paxton and Jesse Starling. First of a series from Australia’s great surf towns, supported by Flotsam Festival and Surfing World magazine.

When a huge easterly gale forms off New Zealand and points shotgun-like at the whole NSW coast, Nick talks it up like a wildman while Hannah gets ready to shoot her brains out. But Tom’s stolen the jetski! What happens next?

Professional surfing has been around for almost 50 years! It’s like Nick and Hannah’s middle sibling. Here we explore one of surfing’s most divisive yet inescapable subjects, and answer a vital question: why is Hannah such a fan?

Complete with jet-ski and little brother Tom, Hannah and Nick hurtle northward to meet the mighty Tropical Cyclone Alfred head-on, and end up with minor bruising and special guests, Lilliana Bowrey and Clint Kimmins!