Surfing

"I couldn’t hold my emotions in. People picked up on that." Nichols talks about the simple changes that helped her turn her surfing career around.

'It was a special feeling when someone sent through a pic of the three of us - Ash Barty, Hannah Green and myself - just that realisation that we’d all had cracker nights and everyone was frothin’ on the Aussie women.' The world's new number one surfer, Sally Fitzgibbons, on a magical night in Australian sport.

Life on the world surfing circuit is riddled with pitfalls. It’s part of the reason Sally Fitzgibbons treasures a message she received from Sunny Garcia.

'She has mentored me from a distance and she doesn’t even know it.'

Sally Fitzgibbons spent ten years listening intently to Mick Fanning. This is what she learned.

'You feel emotionally and physically exhausted. You kind of grieve over the moment a little bit.'

Ever wondered how to surf an 80 foot monster? Aussie big wave legend Ross Clarke-Jones shares the secrets of his incredible life as a 51-year-old still chasing and taming the world's biggest watery beasts.

'They're not angels down there. But there's so much more to it than the media ever covered.'