FeaturesClose Call at the Berries – Surfer Survives Shark Encounter in East London by zigzag / posted on 7 hours ago
This past Sunday Zag posted an unconfirmed report of a shark encounter at Queensberry Bay in East London. The report suggested that it was the surfer’s board that took the brunt of the encounter, and that the surfer suffered ‘a grazed thigh’. And while the first part of that report was indeed true, what were [...] Read More...Frank Solomon – 8 Months on the Road by zigzag / posted on 1 day ago
Big Wave World Tour surfer Frank Solomon had barely touched back down on home soil in Cape Town after 8 months on the road, before we chatted to him to hear the details of his marathon surf trip that saw him visit South America, North America and Hawaii. So, with his feet up (for the [...] Read More...The Golden Monkey – 5 Reasons To Watch The Oakley Pro Bali by zigzag / posted on 1 day ago
The Oakley Pro Bali has officially kicked off, with Round 1 in the water as we speak. The event follows closely after a dramatic final day at the Volcom Fiji Pro, where Kelly Slater, who’s vying for a twelfth world title, not only reached the peaks we’ve come to expect of the 11-time champ, but [...] Read More...Find the Golden Ticket & Win a Quiver from Spider by zigzag / posted on 5 days ago
Three Zag addicts have already been stoked out with fresh new quivers in our Golden Ticket giveaway, after finding a winning ticket in their copy of the mag. They are Michael Moller from the Boland, Bruce Wise from Cape Town and Jerome Rautenbach from Salt Rock. Better still, Zag’s going to keep going Willy Wonka [...] Read More...Surf Ninja – Jeremy Johnson by zigzag / posted on 6 days ago
The name may ring a bell and conjure up thoughts of massive waves and late drops – as they should because he’s one of this country’s hardest charging goofyfoots – but we still classify Cape Town’s Jeremy Johnson a ‘Surf Ninja’, simply because he’s performing his art far and away from the eyes of the [...] Read More...Clean Your Beach and WIN with Tuffy and Ocean Minded by zigzag / posted on 12 June, 2013
Why’s there a garbage bag in the new Zag? Well, waves aren’t the only thing we like clean. We like our beaches clean too, which is why we’ve partnered up with our good amigos at Tuffy Bags once more to include a state of the art garbage removal device gratis with this mag. And we [...] Read More...From Darren Scott to Heats on Demand – A Look at Webcasts in 2013 by zigzag / posted on 10 June, 2013
It feels like yesterday that everyone living outside of Durban or J-Bay had to wait three months to see footage of the Gunston 500 and Billabong Classic on M-NET. This was normally aired at lunch time on a Tuesday, wedged between Egoli reruns and Verimark infomercials. Unless you had one of those fancy video machines [...] Read More...Sowing the Seeds in Namibia by zigzag / posted on 7 June, 2013
Surfing has been used as a medium to bring people together increasingly over the past few years. Whether it’s to entice homeless children off the streets of Durban, like the Umthombo Street Children Project; or to teach kids from the townships of the Cape Flats important life skills and about the dangers of HIV, like [...] Read More...And the Winners Are… – Zag Survey Winners Announced by zigzag / posted on 3 June, 2013
Pieter Cronje from George, Ishmaeel Cassim from Milnerton and Laurence Midgley from Glen Beach are all the new owners of a custom-shaped board from Spider Murphy, courtesy of the Zigzag Reader Survey. To win one of the three Safari surfboards which were up for grabs, all you had to do was fill in the survey [...] Read More...Stretch Before You Shred by zigzag / posted on 31 May, 2013
Zag, for one, used to laugh at the thought of stretching before a surf. “We feel GREAT, and there’s no time to waste…” we’d tell ourselves before hurriedly paddling out into cooking surf. But now, 37 years down the road we’re feeling each and every cramp and niggle sustained while trying to go hard in [...] Read More... |
