Style

This episode features the surfing and lifestyle of three Byron Bay surfers, Dain Thomas, Gareth Donovan and Beau Young. We also follow Jye Byrnes and Dane Wilson as they chase the long walled lefthanders of Raglan in New Zealand. As a bonus we've included a piece shot at Pipeline in Hawaii.

New Zealand
Jye Byrnes and Dane Wilson have shared many surf trips. On this occasion they headed across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand to ride the fabled long walled lefthander at Raglan. Jye's father, Mick, spent time living and surfing at Raglan in the early seventies so this trip holds particular interest for Jye.

Dain Thomas
Dain Thomas leads a seventies surfing lifestyle living in an old farmhouse out the back of Byron Bay surfing whenever the mood strikes and shaping boards in a shed out the back. For Dain, surfing is all about the feeling rather than the look. Dain's search for the feeling sees him riding all manner of surf craft from 9' 6" old style logs to 6'0' Steve Lis fish.

Gareth Donovan
Gareth Donovan is Byron Bay born and breed, so once he started surfing it was inevitable that he would be drawn to longboarding. Gareth proved to be a bit of a natural and quickly became a strong contender on the Australian longboard circuit with an Aussi title to his credit. Gareth has also proved his skills in business, and is now part owner of LJ Hooker Real Estate in Byron Bay. Even with the responsibilities of a young family and heavy business commitments Gareth is still a surfer. Always on the lookout for the early and the late, Gareth hasn't lost any of his old style.

Beau Young
Beau Young epitomizes the word style. Twice world longboard champion he has now retired from competitive surfing to pursue his other passion, music. If the songs that accompany this section are anything to go by then he just might have an even bigger future in store as a singer/songwriter than as a professional surfer.

Pipeline
Put perfect Pipeline, slow motion photography and a surfer with some style together and it can all look like a cakewalk, as Jerry Lopez once described it. Surfers sliding gracefully down the face and pulling under a pitching lip, disappearing for seconds at a time before reappearing down the line can make it seem almost cuisey when it is anything but.

Producer: Greg McCarthy