Stab Podcasts

Mikey is figuring out how to be a dad, so BDPS talks Cloud 9 with an experienced father (Stace, who packs his kids sushi for school lunch). Then he chats with Holden RVCA about all things Stab, including the new film 'Inflation Point,' and whether or not keeping an impact vest in your car keeps you safer in the water.

The winningest surfer in Stab High history, freshly qualified for the Championship Tour, a prodigy of two densely populated, heavily militarised territories — the United States and Snapper Rocks — opens her laptop and calls into a studio in Ventura. Later, another prodigy, and one of only five surfers in history to win three CT events in a row, in just her second season on tour, no less, opens her laptop and does the same. Both women are 19 years old, and if the prophecy holds, could become two of the most dominant surfers the sport has ever seen, reigning over the sea with the sort of authority once wielded by the pirate queen Ching Shih. Their only credible challenger, in time, may be each other. Their names are Sierra Kerr and Erin Brooks. Last week, we summoned both to discuss their recent conquests: Sierra qualifying for the CT, Erin winning three events on the trot, for episode 35 of StabMic. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, and Vaer for making StabMic possible.

It's not who you think... Mikey and Buck discuss the recently departed Rip Curl Pro Portugal, a new Stab film, a Stab Edit of the Year entry, WSL vs. ISA beef, the Australian storm and more.

Dave Rastovich has travelled the globe campaigning for porpoise welfare. He helped pioneer Shipsterns, appeared in some of the most impactful surf films of a generation, and managed to make surfing pay without getting too involved in the business of making surfing pay. He's also managed to go uninfected by internet brain rot. Never been exposed to the psychic debris of being online. He knows nothing of the daily nonsense that occupies the rest of us, and seems to have suffered no great loss as a result. Anyway, Rasta has made it to the StabMic desk. It’s a rare sighting beyond his Northern Rivers property of abundance, this time in California to tour Sensing Home, his new film with Patagonia. Dave talks about getting stoned in Mundaka and realising he wasn’t going to pursue the tour, the parallels between surfing and sex (and why the viewing experience of both can be a little disheartening), and how surfing can be simultaneously meaningless and essential to a good life. Mostly, though, it’s two of surfing’s more fascinating specimens, Dane and Dave, both famously elusive in their own ways, in the same room talking shit for two hours. A double feature for the romantically inclined, eye candy for the surf nerd. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, Colby +, Patagonia, and Vaer for making StabMic possible.

Everything we know (for now) about the allegations against Al Cleland Jr, and a Rip Curl Pro Portugal preview.