Eight time world champ Guilherme Tamega doesn’t surf like an Aussie and he never will. “I don’t give a fuck for criticisms,” are his exact words. He also mentions the spider Mike Stewart once trained to sting him in his sleep (believe it!). Then, we stand and applaud twenty year old photographer Chris Gurney, he’s shot a much deserved feature on the Canary Islands. You should see it.

Eddie Solomon’s got a tumor on his spine, of all things. We visited the saviour of American bodyboarding at his home in California, and there’s good news. Hubb and Romero flap their wings in Maui, Rocky flips onto our front page in P-Pass, camera whiz Shadbolt cruises Samoa with a van of hooligans. Try not to fall in love with their infectious personalities.

Thanks to our unbeatable roster of lensman we’ve loaded gallery after gallery, and it’s all meat, no fat. But we don’t want to spoil it for you here, so listen carefully: remove your fins, run fast to your newsagent, swipe a copy of issue seven and live happily ever after.