Stab Magazine

Andy Irons was spectacular, even in defeat. Rapunzel hair fizzed past his speakers before spiralling onto bare shoulders. Smoke whistled from parted lips. As the sun set on the Globe Fiji tour event, as Damien Hobgood sailed back to Tavarua with a trophy carved by indigenous hands and runner-up Shaun Cansdell sat in the Namotu island spa pondering ways to spend his 15 gees, I asked the champ for a cigarette.

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Lockdown!

In a coupla weeks, Sunny Garcia will be clapped in chains, deloused and sent to the clink for tax fraud. In Stab, he conducts his last pre-sentencing interview. By Fred Pawle.

Hump and the Giant Prong

Here’s the most spectacular hunk of gimcrackery we’ve ever seen, a 10-foot pole affixed to a chubby American photographer affixed to a chubby magazine editor attached to a secondhand Indonesian jetski! A photo spread starring Damo Hobgood, Yadin Nicol and Taj Burrow.

I Went to Fiji and All I Got Was the Clap

Yeah, well, what else are you going to do with all that down time? Hit the gym? Are you hearing me? Seriously, gang, good waves, good surfing, good times

Nacho Libre, motherfuckers!

Just the best damn waves for a surf contest ever, that’s all! Jake Paterson analyses the coming and goings of the Rip Curl Pro in Mex.

INSIGHT AND DAYS OF THE STRANGE

AD Campaigns we love: This month: Insight and the days of strange

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Success: Scott Soens

31. Cinematographer, Photographer, Director. From assisting super fashion photog Bruce Weber to being the Malloy's right hand man, it's been a quick ascension to photographic fame for Californian Scott Soens.

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The Boy Called OZ

A musical of a lifetime! A Rolling Youth Production. Musical Score by Derak Rielly set design by Ben Brown

Issue 14 July / August 2006