Mischa Davis, surfer extraordinaire, and sometime bar girl in surf club, has come home from Europe to Piha and shares her reaction, in beautiful prose. Welcome home Mischa, and keep [ Read More ]
Here’s an interesting article about surfing tourism, what it can add to local economies, and where it can all go bad. Piha has its share of surfing events, and since [ Read More ]
As well as a number of Piha Surf Life Saving sportspeople and administrators up for awards in next Friday’s Unitec Sporting Excellence Koru Awards, young Piha surfer Elliot Paerata-Reid is [ Read More ]
In 1976 the Amco/Hauraki (Blast from the Past!) National Surfing Champs were held at Piha. Much of it was filmed and this YouTube clip shows you some of the best competition. What’s [ Read More ]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/5784500/Farewell-to-Kiwi-surfing-pioneer And here’s another photo of Peter that celebrates his involvement with fishing at Piha. It shows a group of young surf club members with their catch at Pakiti [ Read More ]
Great article by Vanita Prasad in the latest Western Leader or Piha’s Mike Jolly, surfer, board builder, board repairer, reporter on state of Piah’s surf. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/5777988/Surfs-up-and-board-makers-there
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/children-of-the-sun-1968 New Zealand on Screen has just made available the entire Kiwi surfing cult classic Children of the Sun. Made by Andrew McAlpine and starring surfers like Wayne Parkes, the film [ Read More ]
Monique Olivier, secretary of Piha R&R and long-time supporter of Piha Board Riders, has been re-elected as secretary of the New Zealand Surf break Protection Societyat the recent society AGM [ Read More ]
Two young Piha surfers, members of Piha Board Riders, have been selected for the Auckland Scholastics Surf Team. Taylor Louie and Ware Wano have made the U16 Boys. They will [ Read More ]
Today (7 May 2011) Herald summarises the illustrious surfing career of local lad Elliot Paerata-Reid. We see him surfing out the back from our bach, and he’s magic. Simply flies [ Read More ]