Category: Sports

Shark Swarm

On my last local spearfish, at Whale Island, a large Bronze Whaler shark came cruising below me. It swam slowly and yet with great power, gracefully but with intent. Encouraged by the shark’s calm demeanour, I slipped beneath the surface to meet it several metres underwater. Unfazed, the shark swam on, each powerful swing of its tail effortlessly pushing the creature through the water. I admired it as I attempted to keep up. Impressive muscles flexed as rays of sunlight danced upon the shark’s shiny copper skin. This kind of encounter is not uncommon for New Zealand spearfishers and is seemingly becoming a more common occurrence

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Local Action – Isaiah Johnston

This trick is called Shuv Tailgrab Shuv, and it is a great example of creativity because I have never seen anyone else trying it. The Shuv Tailgrab Shuv is one of my most recent tricks. I would give it a 6/10 difficulty, mainly because of its uniqueness and the fact that first, the board spins a 180 under your feet, then you grab the board, and then spin it the other 180. I find the trick a little bit challenging, but that adds to the fun!

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Connor performing a flair trick on his scooter

Local Action – Connor De Gier

Scootering is an amazing sport as you are able to get out side and have fun learning new tricks. Scootering is sport where you have to have to keep trying and give it your best to become good at, it definitely isn’t as easy as people say it is, you have to put in the work to become good. 

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Shark Swarm

On my last local spearfish, at Whale Island, a large Bronze Whaler shark came cruising below me. It swam slowly and yet with great power, gracefully but with intent. Encouraged by the shark’s calm demeanour, I slipped beneath the surface to meet it several metres underwater. Unfazed, the shark swam on, each powerful swing of its tail effortlessly pushing the creature through the water. I admired it as I attempted to keep up. Impressive muscles flexed as rays of sunlight danced upon the shark’s shiny copper skin. This kind of encounter is not uncommon for New Zealand spearfishers and is seemingly becoming a more common occurrence

Read More »

Local Action – Isaiah Johnston

This trick is called Shuv Tailgrab Shuv, and it is a great example of creativity because I have never seen anyone else trying it. The Shuv Tailgrab Shuv is one of my most recent tricks. I would give it a 6/10 difficulty, mainly because of its uniqueness and the fact that first, the board spins a 180 under your feet, then you grab the board, and then spin it the other 180. I find the trick a little bit challenging, but that adds to the fun!

Read More »
Connor performing a flair trick on his scooter

Local Action – Connor De Gier

Scootering is an amazing sport as you are able to get out side and have fun learning new tricks. Scootering is sport where you have to have to keep trying and give it your best to become good at, it definitely isn’t as easy as people say it is, you have to put in the work to become good. 

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