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Isabella Nicholls surfing as a stunt double.

A Hollywood stunt double in high school, Izzy’s Bells triumph the tale of a lifetime

Stepping in for Blake Lively in a horror movie, designing wave pools and winning iconic surf contests: it’s all just part of the Isabella Nichols story, past, present and future.

  • Dan Walsh

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Celebration time: Jack Robinson and Isabella Nichols after their success ay Bells Beach.

Australian surf stars Nichols and Robinson stun on home shores to ring the bell at Rip Curl Pro

Isabella Nichols and Jack Robinson have made it a double triumph for Australia with thrilling victories in the Rip Curl Pro finals at Bells Beach.

  • John Salvado
Xavier Huxtable was all smiles.

Australian wildcard Huxtable knocks out world No.1 at Bells

And Ethan Ewing has powered into the quarter-finals at Bells Beach with the highest heat score so far among the men or women at the Rip Curl Pro.

  • Roger Vaughan
Sally Fitzgibbons with a young local surfer before keeping her season alive at the Bells Beach Pro.

Fitzgibbons stared down surfing’s cruellest fate, again. Then she beat the world No.1

For three straight years, the Australian veteran has faced her own pro surfing mortality and the gruelling road back to the big time.

  • Dan Walsh
Happy and healthy: Tyler Wright.

Surfing’s ‘crazy aunt’: Happy again after 15 years of illness, concussions and chaos

Tyler Wright has battled through injuries, illness and intense focus on competing in Abu Dhabi as an openly gay athlete. But she’s smiling again.

  • Dan Walsh
Rip Curl founders Doug Warbrick and Brian Singer rolling pic gif.

Rip Curl’s founding fathers – Bells royalty, sitting in a plywood palace

They first surfed in garbage bags and footy jumpers. Now they’re in their 80s and happiest in a tiny wooden box at the world’s longest-running surf contest.

  • Dan Walsh
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Molly Picklum and Caity Simmers: the future of women’s surfing.

‘Rip your head off’: The yin and yang rivalry that will change surfing forever

Two salty, freckled opponents will dominate women’s surfing for a decade. Even as the rivals literally skip, hand-in-hand, to a photo shoot.

  • Dan Walsh
Bells Beach Pro final gif with Australian Crawl’s James Reyne.

Bells Beach, a history: Australian Crawl, brawls and a brooding beast

The world’s longest-running surf contest was once sponsored by a rock band and is held at an icy cold break that surfing greats love to hate.

  • Dan Walsh
Teahupo’o wipeout,

No more monsters: Olympic surfing downsizes after the thrills of Teahupo’o

The 2028 Olympics will host surfing at an often criticised location, but squash will make its debut in a Hollywood film location.

  • Dan Walsh
Portrait of 12 year old Byron Bay surfer Leihani Zoric.

The 12-year-old rising star with her sights set on surfing greatness

Indigenous Australian surfer Leihani Zoric is tipped to shine at this year’s Seas the Day festival in northern NSW.

  • Emily Kaine

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