Latest Blog Posts

"Pssst Mick, check this out… I’ve got this wave and I really want you to surf it with us."

Style and Innovation: The New RFID Wallet.

Giving back to the surf community, in the biggest way possible.

Mick Fanning revisits his past and looks toward his future in Ireland.

They are innovators, dreamers, role models and Searchers. They push the limits, and when they reach the top they just keep going. From global elite athletes to regional rising talents, no matter where you are in the world, the best surfers, snowboarders, skiers and wakeboards will be riding with a Rip Curl sticker on the nose of their board.

...and the pitfalls of not having one. Although it might make for a great yarn, surfing in a bikini that wasn’t actually MADE for the surf, kind of sucks.

Join Dillon Perillo, Jacob Willcox and Ry Craike on a Rip Curl Search trip into uncharted oceans, chasing unknown slabs and charting their course as they go.

They’ve been heading north for four days now in this remote and vast landscape of nothingness, and this is just the beginning. This is, The Search.

Unexpected. Distant. Isolated. Unknown. There are a million different ways to describe this trip, but perhaps the most fitting is to say that it was unlike anything else.

60 World Tour events. Six full years on tour. A lifetime of training, focus and preparation, all the while overcoming personal trials and tribulations in the public eye. This is just a fraction of what it’s taken to reach this moment.

With each era our passion has known, people have pushed the limits of exploration and innovation to new boundaries. Like a snowball thrown over the ledge before a cliff drop, they laid the paths to our Search and sent us in new directions.

Undulating plains of dust, plateaus dominated by single agave species, and mountainous slopes punctuated with the bizarre, Dr Suess type cirio trees, creating a truly alien impression.