Aintthatswell Surf Radio Podcasts

It's back to the mouldy old wormhole that is Deadly's garage for an ATS Classic that sees Smiv and Deadly tackle all the goings on from around the Oz leg of the world tour and the greater surfing universe, including Chippo vs Zeke, pro surfing's darkest day, the Woz v the WPS, Makua Rothman's run for office, the disconnect between the surf industry…

There was more drama at Main Break than a day time soap marathon as the guillotine finally fell on the CT dismissing big names and rookies alike to the Challanger Series while elevating others to a glory run back-half of the season and a shot at the Woz finals. But it's really all about Jack Robbo, Bella Nichols, Neckbeard Florence and Gabriela Bry…

The Children of the Corn tour - proudly brought to you by Billabong - goes deep into second belly button territory, the home of penile shrinkage, to unveil the truth at the centre of the corn. Hold onto ya cobs Swellians! This one is a head spinning, thumbscrew rompahhhhh.. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Smiv and Deadly go deep plunge on all things BOWL as Australian surfing makes its long awaited resurgence on the rails of Tyler Wright and Callum Robson. It's the perfect road song as we put the pedal to the metal and burn our way to Margies for the dreaded mid season guillotine! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

It's show one of the new tour and GET FWAAAARKED its a hmaaad as a cut snake. Ross Clarke-Jones returns to the Central Coast with his old buddy Thomas Victor Carroll to discuss getting flogged on the rocks at Nazare, breaking his back at Backdoor, winning the Eddie and more! Special guests Molly and Micro break down the Women's Bong Pipe Pro and wh…

Inside Gabriel Medina's meltdown, Marzo's bid for max CT cone-age at G Land, Koa Smith's mushy powered brain injury recovery, how to deal with demons, when not to send it on giant slabs, and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

Parko and Toby Cregan on joining the tinny army, miraculous tales of survival, and #Scummo blows it again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

Hmmmmmmmmmmaaaddddd!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

Smiv and Deadly scoff some laced dried fruit and journey to Snapper Rocks for the final day of the Usher Cup to dive deep with Rabbit, Pauline, Rocky Rawlings and Dingo Morrison on Slater’s ocean IQ, the timelessness of Hog, how meditation saved Dingo’s life by shutting down the head noise, women at Pipeline, Dingo’s Quik Pro win, how to properly s…

Hmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

The tempestuous beast that is Sunset lived up to its mantel as expected dishing up a Whitman’s sampler of warps, wobbles and big, blue Polynesian bowls. For the second time in as many events, a Hawaiian wildcard rose to the occasion, taking out the Elite Tour event and with it the Jeep Gold Leader’s jersey. In the women’s Brisa Hennessy capped a mo…

Smivvy sits down with the 1970s surf legend, Steve Cooney - the first man to surf Uluwatu, as depicted in the seminal surfing and counterculture film, Morning of the Earth, now in its 50th anniversary. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

Dive Deep into this Mini Episode as Connor O'Leary takes us inside the Tomb at the Pipe Masters, while 3x West Peak Champion Joel Parkinson Nose the hidden secrets of Sunset! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

Kelly Slater produces the most spellbinding performance in surfing history, taking out the best Pipe Masters event in living memory. Womens wildcard Moana Jones Wong does the cakewalk and stuffs her face with tubular glory at the end of it, taking out the women's. Liam O'Brien opens up about breaking his leg at Backdoor, the Brazilians battle again…

All-time Hawaiian surfing great and Pipe lunatic, Jamie O'Brien sacks up and answers to The Swellians! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

It’s pure pro surfing nerdism at it’s most psyched as Smiv and Deadly leave no piece of blood soaked lava unturned in their preview the greatest show on Ocean and the first event of 2022 WOZ season. Will Da Goat arm bar father time and make the cunt tap out? Will Carissa, Steph and Tyler get royally served by the next Gen of Hawaiian rookies? Will …

Venture back to 2011 as Deadly travels up the old F3 from Sydney to the Steel City of Newcastle to watch Matt Hoy shove a home made meat sock straight into his pie hole. Oh....and he shaped a surfboard as well. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

Absolutely torched from the day of festivities beforehand, under the influence of a cosmic apricot, wilting like dried lettuce in the sun, energy levels dangerously low, hovering in the red zone, enter the G(A)OAT, the Rabbit, the spirit animal of Australian surfing, Rabbit Bartholomew. Sit back, light some incense, say your oms, spark a buddha sti…

Merry La Nina, Happy New Years and I hope you get the lot Rona ya mutt! Smivvy and Deadly are back to break down all the shenanigans and chicanery from Tropical PSYclone Seth, including Vaughan’s now infamous First Australian fade. Smivvy and Stace Galbraith eat a cosmic apricot and go toe-to-toe with The Great Rabbit Bartholomew at the Burleigh Si…

Owen Wright – the Gathed-up, Chopes-conquering, skullet-wielding, tube pig degenerate hmaaaaaaaaaaadman – gets tied to a chair inside Coopers Surf Shop Coffs Harbour for an all-Swellian waterboarding of epic proportions. Included within: The time Slater iced the Big O’s 11-year-old face off, the greatest wave he ever saw surfed at Aussie Pipe, his …

It's the heaviest wave on earth. The locals, the wave, the reef, all signs point to danger. So how did 43 year old Japanese man get a piece of Pipeline named after him? And why is he alive to tell the tale? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

A surf trip holiday disaster the whole family can enjoy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

The Swellian Army take over the airwaves as Smiv and Deadly dedicate an entire episode to the whims and curiosities of surfing’s most committed corelords. Deep-diving on topics such as reptilian Musk, the benefits of macro, Vortex Shaman’s World Title prospects in 2022 and Da Goat, Da Goat, and more Da Goat! Eddie Rothman and Smiv have a full-blown…

It’s a fully charged bolt of Pro Surf Nerdism fired straight from the Haleiwa toilet bowl deep into your Challenger Series-loving corn hole. Featuring Whacko Jacko Baker and Connor O’Learyzy Brah phoning in from Honolulu, a breakdown of JJF’s Haleiwa masterclass, a look at Swellian Queen rookie India Robinson’s meat hack domination, and a full revi…

It's a Sensory Cornhole Blowout Deluxe! Smiv and Deadly ring in the festive season with a visual, aural, corneal schvitzing of hmaaaaad proportions! Featuring the winners and losers from Haleiwa, early season Backdoor cone-offs, the face melting wave carnage of Snapt4, Re-Pulse, Ethan Ewing in Mex and Stab Highway. Theres Goat Watch, Tulsi Watch an…

Abandoned by his mother at six, beaten and bloodied in brawls for respect at the beach and in the streets, an adolescence surrounded by drugs and violence, Jamie O'Brien might be at the top of the heap at Pipeline but it hasn't come easy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

All the stats and facts that matter as the Challenger Series climaxes at Haleiwa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

It’s been a checkered run that’s delivered former World Tour surfer Dustin Barca from Kauaiian street fighter to politics. More checkered than any politician you’re likely to find. The difference is he doesn’t hide from it. Nor is he ashamed of it. Jed Smith follows the Kauaiian hardman, turned World Tour surfer, turned MMA star, turned environment…

They don’t come any more iconic than Albe Falzon. Born and raised in a tenement in Redfern, deep in the industrial heart of Southside Sydney, he went on to have arguably the single biggest impact on Australian surfing culture through his seminal surfing and counterculture classic, Morning of the Earth, as well as Tracks Magazine, which he founded w…

Join Smiv, Deadly and Mark "The Raging Bull" Occhilupo for the very last show of the ATS Up in Smoke Tour live from the home of the Big Banana, Coffs Harbour. Find out who bit a chunk out of Occy's board during his first session at Sunset Beach, why he and Munga didn't go for earlies during the iconic Pump! Reunion Island Sessions and the sorcery b…

The Red Bull x WSL Big Wave Award winners are in and our man, Pete 'Condor' Mel, has taken out the Ride of the Year gong for his Mavericks Mondo Cone of Mortal Conequence. We thought it worthy of re-living. Here's his spine-tingling blow-by-blow account of a wave many have called the greatest ever ridden at Mavericks. See omnystudio.com/listener fo…

More grit than you could fill a Gina Rinehart neck-flap with in this Ain’t That Swell celebration of Australian surfing character. ‘Whacko’ Jacko Baker, ‘Geddit’ India Robinson, and Connor ‘O’Learyzy Bra’ O’Leary grit their cheeks and give it a full blown crack in the European Leg of the Challenger Series. No shore break is too gritty to rinse corn…

Join us live at the Bondi Bowling Club for an old fashioned schimozzle featuring a paralytic (and heavily redacted) Rod 'Kerrbox' Kerr, the charismatic journeyman and former world number two, Brad Gerlach, and the unflappable, iconic, iridescent '93 World Champ, Pauline 'Naughty Pauls' Menczer. Stick around for the impromptu freestyle from the mout…

What not to do the night before one of the most historic days in professional surfing: take four times the recommended dosage of hardcore trance grade LSD and head to the last night of a three day trance festival titled "Conscious Convergence" held in a commune called "Wacky Woods." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

We’re going off the deep end Swellians and who better to take us into the underworld of demons, drug addiction, jail cells, and redemption stories than Ain’t That Swell’s very own CORE SHAMAN, former Pipe Master and world number six, Robbie Page. A veteran of the Bellambi housing commission and a survivor of more horse shit than you can poke a pitc…

It was a stacked house back in April for a wild old night of ATS Live in the Cenny Coast Ice Rink. With a panel featuring all-star freesurfing icons Dion Agius, Creed McTaggart and Craig Anderson it’ a bummer that most of this ep had to be cut at the risk of endless defamation and litigation suits. Still it's worth trawling for nuggets like an 11-y…

Five world titles worth of knowledge break down the WSL grand final fantazmo fandango at Trestles, in the form of three time world champ, Michael 'Mick' 'Micktory' 'Eugene' 'White Lightning' 'Liquid Lightning' Fanning, Pauline 'Naughty Pauls' Menczer, and Barton 'Cosmo' Lynch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

We get the scoop from Gabe Medina's coach and Swellian iconoclast, Andy King, on his way back up the Trestles track, following a week of high fidelity shralping and high drama. We get the lowdown on the unfolding Filipe Toledo drama at Trestles. Nic Von Froth buries his face in the best bush since Dirk Diggler was getting around. We go deep on the …

The most unbiased analysis in surfing history is about to be schvitttttssst straight into your third eye via the pineal gland, as ya boys Smivvy and Deadly break down the chances of the 10 World Championship hopefuls a week out from judgement day. Who will win? Spoiler Alert: MORGS WILL WIN! OUR SAL WILL WIN AND FEMME GOAT WILL IMPOSSIBLY WIN TOO! …

The world's gone hmmmmmmmad! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

We mighta taken out the womens and mens divisions in Mexico but did you see the core lord blood bath at the other end of the Tour rankings? The Big O, the Surgeon, the Gosford Grug, Olearyzy bra, all gone. Gone! GOOOOOOOOOOONE! The Punch Drunk Pikey and Rinsed Corn go deep on what might be the darkest day in Australian Tour History. We demand a ROY…

In 1974, three men set out on an epic journey in search of a perfect left in the West Australian desert. Their map was a beer coaster with a set of crudely drawn markings. They had enough supplies for a week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

Australian surfing's first ever Olympic Medallist Owen Wright joins the Swellians live from the Tokyo Games, fresh of winning the bronze. Da Big O takes us on an emotional journey through one of the biggest achievements of his career, and the biggest spectacles in world sport. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information…

As Tokyo’s five ring circus kicks into gear ya boys Smivvy and Deadly break down the chances of our much loved Aussie Olympic surfing hopefuls the Iru.. Ira.. Irudu… fuck it! UP THE GELATINOUS BLOBS! The boys also deep dive into the not-much-discussed possibility that if successful, it’s the Olympics that could dismiss the WSL into the dustbin of h…

A MENAGERIE of CORE Live from Bourgeoise (Byron) Bay ft. MOTE GOAT, Chris Brock, BY-GOAT, Danny Wills, Swellian Spirit Animal, Tom Carroll, Slab-Nerd-Cone-Freak ex-WSL Commish, Kieren ‘Chronic’ Perrow, and Lenno LORD, Jimmy ‘Taipan’ Wood See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Aintthatswell surf radio

The Battler from Baia Formosa and reigning Brazilian world champ, Italo Ferreira, joins the beating heart of the Brazilian Storm, Jadson Andre, LIVE from Narra De Janeiro. What a story it is. From starting out surfing on his fisherman father's esky lid to dominating Gabriel Medina in a Pipe Master's Showdown to claim his first World Title, Italo is…

Join Smivvy on a warts and all journey through the House of Foo. In a moment of altruism that far outlasted his short but exceptional life, it was opened by the legendary Hawaiian big wave surfer, Mark Foo in the 1980s. It remains the only affordable lodging on the North Shore of Oahu today. "I felt like I'd stumbled into some kind of nirvana. A ni…

The catacomb of core has been prized open revealing the walking hellman himself, Chris Davidson. The North Narrabeen hmmmmmaniac joins fellow Rip Curl Search stalwart and Bonnie Hills World Tour battler, Darren O’Rafferty on the mike. Occy makes his debut as the quiz master on everyone’s favourite gameshow, OCC or NOT! Port Mac prodigy, Matt Bantin…

Hold onto your corn holes Swellians! Smivvy and Deadly have outdone themselves yet again, bringing together a panel of Australian surfing legends more steeped in sweet sweet oceanic glory than a bagful of puckered calamaris. Thats right, Mick Fanning ("He's that fucken good!"), the Penrith-born, Ballina-raised, Coolangatta kingpin, and winner of th…

Two of Cronulla's favourite sons, Occy and Dog Marsh, join Cronulla's prodigal son, Dylan Longbottom for a hall-of-fame chron'd out froth-off of crontacular proportions. We're talking pioneering slab hmmmmmadman, stealing cars to surf Aussie Pipe, eighties tour shenanigans, tsunami survival stories, Shippies mayhem, Nazare wipeouts, Tahitian Roulet…