Sean Doherty, Author at Surfing World

All you need to know about The Bight and why deepwater oil drilling is a very bad idea. Monuments in two very different moods – Dan Ross on a clean six foot day. Image: SA Rips

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 4 weeks ago

A LINE IN THE SAND

The Surfers Of Australia Have Stood Up For The Great Australian Bight

Pic: Corey Wilson/Rip Curl

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 5 months ago

WORLD TITLE: Medina Claims His Second World Title

“Gabriel Medina is a boss like pro surfing hasn’t seen in a long time.”

Pic: Slater. WSL/Cestari

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 5 months ago

SEAN DOHERTY: Pipe Day 2 – A Brutal Pantomime

The stretch was bombing, the biggest day they’ve run here for a decade at least. Whatever it was doing, it was compelling. Whatever you were seeing through a screen did no justice.

Pic: WSL / Cestari

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 5 months ago

SEAN DOHERTY: Pipe Day 1 – War Pigs

While there’s plenty of swell coming, it doesn’t look like we’ll get a classic Masters.

Pic: Billabong

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 6 months ago

” I just want to surf for the complete and utter enjoyment of it.”

Why Joel Parkinson is walking away from the World Tour.

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 6 months ago

An epic day of surfing

Here was Honolua, pulsing. There was Peahi, confrontingly real. On a rainy Monday morning today, women’s surfing got its day in the sun.

Pic: Corey Wilson

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 6 months ago

Chapter Two: The Next Chapter

What Mick Fanning Did… Before Whatever He Did Next

Pic: Ted Grambeau

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 6 months ago

The Quiet Messiah

John Florence and a world that won’t stop talking about him.

Pic: WSL/ Poullenot

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 7 months ago

In the Blood

The last realistic chance of anyone beating Medina was Italo – and he did it.

Pic: WSL / Masurel

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 7 months ago

Is a world title just a day away?

Has Joycey given Medina too much of a head start?

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 8 months ago

Joel Parkinson On Andy Irons, After The Tell-All Documentary

“A lot of the reasons why he’s not with us today are pretty dark and real and quite hard to hear.”

Photo: WSL/Cestari

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 8 months ago

Lemoore Will Be Allentown: Surf Ranch Pro Finals Day – Sean Doherty Reports

What Did We Learn?

Photo: WSL/Cestari

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 8 months ago

Salad Days: Surf Ranch Pro Day 2 – Sean Doherty Reports

“No one – man, woman, animal, mineral – has that middle tube section better dialled.”

Photo: WSL/Cestari

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 9 months ago

The Tour In a Tub: Surf Ranch Pro Day 1 – Sean Doherty Reports

So yeah, about the pool…

Photo: WSL/Poullenot

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 9 months ago

Gabriel Medina Wins Tahiti Pro Teahupo’o – Sean Doherty Reports

“Owen – in a classic case of life imitating promotional clip – took the first one, and turned around to see Gabby getting drained on the second.”

Photo: WSL/Poullenot

By Sean Doherty POSTED: 9 months ago

Almost Tahitian: Sean Doherty On The Beginning of the Tahiti Pro

It crumbled like onshore Trestles on a dying, long period swell.