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Vacation: Stab Highway Winners Trip To Kandui Watch Stab Highway California Presented By Monster Energy here: https://stabmag.com/premium/stab-highway-california-presented-by-monster-energy-episode-1/ Seeing as Stab is in the storytelling business, we rarely get the chance to create straightforward surf cinema. In contrast, this trip was meant to be straight out of the Kai Neville* playbook — really good surfers in really good waves, a few funny moments in between, catchy tunes on top, aaaaand cut. Everything was on track for a seamless production. We had a top-tier cast, five filmers on deck, and the location was a guaranteed score (famous last words). Cue the worst Ments forecast of the season, our main filmer’s RED crashing upon arrival, and one of our marquee surfers pulling out at the last minute. As Danny J told us, surf films are hard. But this was some Murphy’s Law type shit. Of course, the remaining surfers couldn’t have cared less. This trip was the reward for winning their respective Stab Highway series in Australia and California. And in their minds, lounging around at a tropical resort, deleting beers, spearing fish, and surfing when it suited was hardly a dilemma. But, it also wouldn’t make for a compelling piece of content. So our production team started scheming. Conspiring. Coconut-rumming. And when the surfers were properly lubricated, we pitched them on a slightly different type of film. One that relied less on world-class waves and feats of aquatic excellence, more on…vacation things. Sunbathing, super yachts, existential introspection. Maybe a high-stakes relay race or two. I’m not sure if the surfers ever fully agreed with our pivot, but they went along with our stupid ideas for 10 days with very little push-back — and for that, we’re grateful. The resulting surf film is goofy and satirical, of course, but it’s also a fairly accurate depiction of our stay at Kandui Resort. There’s some surfing, plenty of drinking, a whole lot of laughs, and all of it flanked by a shameless wannabe trying to convince pro surfers to play his silly games. So thanks to our surfers (Jaleesa Vincent, Shaun Manners, Wade Goodall, Coby Perkovich, Eric Geiselman, Eithan Osborne, Ian Crane, Ivy Miller, Noah Wegrich, and Balaram Stack) for having a hell time and indulging our very worst ideas, filmers (Mikey Mal, Ben Judkins, Fede Vanno and the Kandui crew) for putting in the long hours, our editor (Will Stiles) for putting in the work and making sense of this helter skelter hard drive, and of course Monster and Kandui Resort, without whom none of this would have been possible. ‘Vacation’ presented by Monster Energy mightn’t the hi-fi surf film we’d promised, but we hope that this taste of Stab Highway makes you nostalgic for series past and excited for what’s to come — Monster has just confirmed that we’re back on in 2023, and this time we’re heading to Europe!

25/04/2025   |   video icon

Electric Acid Microdose With Lungi Slabb: Oil-Made Tubes In The Middle East Not many people look good on a surfboard doing nothing. Lungi Slabb does — which is part of the reason we tasked him with surfing the largest, longest, and saltiest man-made wave pool on the planet, Surf Abu Dhabi, which will host its first ever CT event next week. Days after Jeremy Flores’ Quik Festival bustup finished in Hossegor, Lungi, who had been ambushing hungover pros and industry big wigs with a baguette stuffed with a lav mic, received a phone call from Stab to surf the newly-built KSWC pool on three boards from past Electric Acid projects. Among them: the Ian Byrne Fangtail – which won Shaun Manners’ EAST, a Simon Jones twin fin made for Kelly Slater, and a board co-shaped by arch nemeses Peter Schroff x Hayden Cox for Mick Fanning in the Maldivian atolls. Following a series of car rides and planes, Lungi arrived in UAE airport at midnight. “I was so tired, I bought some KFC and ate it in the bathroom because Dyl [Roberts] (filmmaker) was sleeping,” he laughs. When Lungi rose the next morning, he was confronted by the “surreal” landscape of Al Hyduriat Island – a dedicated ‘sporting island’ furnished with soccer fields, cycling tracks, skateparks and of course, KSWC’s latest wave tank, piled atop the oil rich Arabian Gulf. Lungi explained, “You walk into this sleek, air-conditioned building and from there, I didn’t lift a finger. The staff took the boards off me and led me inside into this little locker room where you can watch the waves — it’s full luxury. I felt completely out of place, and a little uncomfortable being treated like a princess, but I suppose that’s just how they roll. Taj had surfed it the day before and was just grinning watching me react to it. Chris Hemsworth’s kids were out trading waves — the luckiest kids in the world — and I just stood there tripping, unsure what to say or do. It looked like home — long, perfect tubes —but being guaranteed tubes was a spinout. The machine makes these wild whirring noises, and the countdown before each wave is so nerve-wracking. I surfed it for three days straight, and every time I stood up, I had butterflies. I think Taj would say the same.” “I actually loved all three of those boards,” said Lungi, who’s no stranger to riding different shapes and sizes between his homebreak Fingal and the surrounding world class pointbreaks. “They all had different fin setups so I tried my best to surf them all uniquely.” And uniquely he did. During the World Junior Championships in the Philippines, Stace showed a draft version of Microdose to the WSL’s Head Judge, Luli Perreira, who will be factoring in the uniqueness of tube riding technique into the CT judging criteria to prevent another incredibly monotonous wavepool CT. Something about Lungi educating Alejo Muniz on how to bend his back knee feels both poetic and long overdue. Over the years, Stab has seen Microdose cameos from Ian Crane, Parker Coffin and Jai Glindeman. Lungi’s inclusion this year comes both as a result of 1.) Quik paying us (yes, we’re coin-operated) and 2.) him being one of the most creative and instinctive barrel riders of his generation – refer to The Most Spectacular Waves of 2024 for his under-the-lip Houdini takeoff at all-time Kirra, which landed in our top 10 waves last year. See more of Stab's Microdoses here: https://stabmag.com/tag/microdose/

18/04/2025   |   video icon

Cheat Codes With Stephanie Gilmore: How To Surf Crowded Waves 8 World Titles and 33 CT victories. How do you like them apples? Steph Gilmore is the anchor of our latest Cheat Codes: a classic Stab Mag department, revived in video form to create a series for the modern age. The premise is simple — surf tutorials can be some of the most dry, painful, and flat-out confusing endeavors in the history of information. Cheat Codes is designed to be both fun and functional — the world’s best surfers deliver life-changing nuggets in a (hopefully) entertaining way. Gosh, Steph makes it easy. Sign up for Stab Premium here to get all-access to surfing's most obsessive journalism: https://stabmag.com/pricing/ For more Steph, you can watch her Electric Acid Surfboard Test here: https://stabmag.com/stabcinema/electric-acid-surfboard-test-with-stephanie-gilmore/ And more cheat codes here: https://stabmag.com/tag/cheat-codes/

12/04/2025   |   video icon
 
 

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