Enduring Soul Jeffreys Bay is one of those places that represents the soul of surfing. Exhilaration and intensity melded into a challenge to find the elusive pure and perfect line across its perfect waves. High-speed, long, winding walls held up by a howling South Westerly wind. Truly a place of dreams and a must-surf destination for surfers across the world. That’s why the news this week that the World Surf League’s 2026 Championship Tour will not include Jeffreys Bay hit hard for so many of us

As told by Mark Richards: You can call me an ego-maniac but it is a fact. With surfing (as in all history) time goes on and the story gets rewritten, and elements of it can be forgotten. Many people will not know, or have forgotten how important these twin-fins were in the development of surfboard design and performance surfing. My re-invention of the twin-fin in 1977 changed surfing history and our perception of what high-performance surfing meant. It was a revolutionary design that virtually ‘