Exploring Australia's Biggest City: Sydney | NO CONTEST OFF TOUR
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- If Australia is one of surfing’s greatest nations then Sydney might just be the world’s greatest surfing city. With four-million people sharing the world’s largest natural harbour and 50-miles of coastline, blessed with incredible waves year round, Sydney is a modern metropolis on the water, with a storied, gritty surfing underbelly.
From Isabel Letham famously riding waves with Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku at Freshwater Beach in 1915 through to a string of world champions including Tom Carroll, Mark Occhilupo and Layne Beachley, and on down the line to modern stars like Molly Picklum and Jarvis Earle, Sydney’s competitive bloodline runs deep. While the greater surfing community might know and toast the world champions, it is the hardcore local boardrider scene that is the DNA everything is built upon, and from Maroubra to Avoca and Newport to Bondi, host Ashton Goggans meets a cross-section of crusty locals, and explores the world class waves they live and breathe.
On the back of radical surfing Sydney was not only responsible for the surfboard revolutions of the Brookvale Six and the invention of Simon Anderson’s thruster, but spawned an irreverent and sardonic multi-million surf industry of its own. If that’s not enough, the good old Aussie cafe, complete with avocado toast, washed down with a flat white, has become a global phenomenon, and they were largely born of the beaches too.
None of this exists without the waves however, and from Cape Solander to North Narrabeen, Deadman’s to Voodoo and beyond, Sydney boasts world class surfing around every headland. Press play above and explore it for yourself. #nocontest #sydney #australia
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I live in Bondi and I love it with all my heart, but my advice is to save it for tanning and making new friends! On a good day you can expect dozens if not hundreds of surfers on the same peak. The banks are wildly unpredictable and even if you find a nice peeler, you'll have to navigate all manner of body surfers, swimmers and semi-drowning tourists! If you wanna surf, head round the corner to Bronte, Tama or even further South to Maroubra, or across the bridge to the Northern Beaches!
Good advice! North Bondi is a great place if you want to learn though
Lets face it bondi does have nice slow rolling whitewash for beginners on foamboards on small days 🤙
Maroubra also has dozens on the same peak, 100 per peak on weekends
Highly recommend freshwater beach, just north of Manly
@@joshuahorwitz6458 I surfed Bondi a fair bit southern end there s a bit of reef when the swell direction is right and only 3foot no bigger you get nice little wave if it's any bigger it close s out
So good to see Tom well and still ripping …bloody legend 👍💪
I had a few days off tour in 2010 in Sydney and was awestruck of the urban-coastal vibes. Borrowed a board and took the ferry to Manly every day, just nowhere else like it in the world. Lucky Country indeed!
This series is one of the very best
great vid.
you and the people you interviewed give a great insight into what its like living in beach areas of the sydney basin.
a bit of fact checking on the info you provided would have been good.... a few boo boos...!....
you nameed a beloved norrhern beaches slab as being in the cronulla region.
😮😂😊😊
Love this, watching as the sun rises on a glorious spring morning from the northern beaches of Sydney. It truly is Gods country.
gods not real
Yer bro. Love it too. Truely.
I lived down the road in Rose Bay 20 years ago. It was humming then, too.
What? 20 years ago Bondi was hardly "desolate" lol. I remember it being crowded and trendy.
Yeah more like 40 years ago
Yeah this guys full of shit ay ahah
Exactly
Yep. 20 years ago was 2004 and it was trendy and expensive then. Maybe he’s thinking of 1974
Give it a rest.
40 years ago, the Star, the Astra, Bondi wasn't the same, way wilder and less polished, loved it!
tbh just loved how the dude said all the spots might have to go to more when I get better at surfing
Such a well documented insight into sydney! W!
Central Coast is not a Northern fringe of Sydney it is a regional area between Sydney and Newcastle
It's for international audiences
3:03 "palm beach" with a drone shot of avoca, ignorance breeds ignorance
Thank you Sydney for the great times, Thanks Red Bull for always inspiring us!!
Epic, my town!!!!
Hi from Germany. Let‘s Face it. Sydney is the the best City in the world. Everything is so close for everyone. You have it all ❤
Idk why but your comment made me tear up and really appreciate the city I live in, thank you for reminding me how lucky I am. I just wish my friends could see it this same way.
Not at all
Eastern Sydney is one of the best places on earth
@@andreasdemokrat7253 no mountains though
@@mjor6406we have the blue mountains not far away, stretches for over 11000 km
Sport champs rarely come from upper class socio economic background.
Many of the coastal spots were working class in the 60-90s. Nowadays living within 15-20km from the coast across all Australian cities has become unaffordable for most people.
While you still have good surfers,
rich/well-off kids just don’t have the same level of “hunger” and also have access to other options in life. Brazil still has some level of accessibility to the beach for the lower class (also changing fast), they also have over 200M people like the US and while they may not have world top spots they have a very long surfable coast all along the country
best show ever
you're the best Lucy!
Fabulous episode ❤
I can never decide if I should stay in bondi or move to enmore but i love it here
Been living in Manly and working events in the city for the past two years.
Had epic times and waves.
Moving to NZ in December and can’t wait.
Will look back with good memories.
Grew up in Newcastle and also lived in Wollongong for a few years in between living in my van.
A lot of places in NZ can be very fickle at times but we do have some quality waves. Most times on the weekend if the local spots are crap you can find good waves by driving 2 or 3 hrs and hiking across farmland. Watch Under the Weather NZ surf movie for some idea of the NZ surf scene, its a good watch. Chur...
Bring your wettys bro , freeze and shrivel them gonads cuzz and at times that's summer
Ashton, love the production my friend. Keep it going and keep on keeping on!!
Thanks, Matt! Appreciate the kind words!
15:19 that guy got pounded for surrreeee
So nice to see a bit of surf history around Sydney! 🌊🌊🌊
Love the BF band tee :-) 🏴
The central coast isn't Sydney's 'northern fringes'. It's 100% outside of Sydney and a decent drive to get there too!
Well done, Ash!
Thanks guys!
It´s the most complete city in the world i would say!! Has everything, but today i would have gone to the Gold Coast...better climate and shaped waves...but i love you Sydney
Each to their own.. Born and bred in Sydney, now live rural NSW on the coast. I have everything I had in Sydney but more, fresh air, parking, great food and produce, better waves.. would never live in a city again in my life..
Where abouts are ya
@@thomjanson9644 which city u living now
Best tv show
As a local Maroubra's my local but the best beaches in Sydney are by far up north
In the very last shot, you can see a patch of grass.. well, before it was just a patch of grass, it used to be a '60s era house, and it was recently bought for $50mil. crazy
Wild times over there when it comes to real estate and cost of living.
Mornings in Bondi are lit!
I’m sorry the palm beach tape is avoca beach
I have surfed with Molly
In Sydney right now trying to find the best surf, this was perfect timing!!
Yeh bro garie warie burning palms yirra point sharky s little pipe just south of sydney is wild aswell
bodysurfers actually pioneered many sydney slabs
Avo on toast has been around for a lot longer than the 90s.
Yeah this pissed me off too - Bill Granger didn't teach us to put avo on toast ffs! 🤦♂👎
best city in the world
Amen- not a day goes by I don’t give thanks for being here 💙
No Newcastle in Australia
@@BoogieWithMoz ok bro
@@goddamaddog for beaches/surfing
Best city! Come, spend time in Sydney, you will find out.
Good Doco! But I have to tell you the Northern Beaches where I lived for many years was crowded but acceptable as a local back to the early 80’s!!
Grayson was an ISA junior World Champ
so cool
Jarvis is the bomb. Big hopes for him in future man!
Such a talented, driven, but down to earth kid.
this was so sick, wish it was longer
cool to see some og's that will scream at someone for bringing their mate to a spot without permission feature on a redbull doco promoting the local breaks.
91 it was busy & trendy.
do melbourne next or brisbane
It’s never been desolate there’s always been Aussies there in the beginning but when the 2000s came around then came American visitors
From previous comments- sorry Sydney IS Australia’s largest city!!!
Out of curiosity, did Tom Carroll drop in on you?
Great place to live and surf if you’re a multi-millionaire! 😃
Calling bondi desolate 20 years ago is nuts lol
No mention of Layne Beachley… only 7x world champ, current chair of Surfing Australia, Manly local…and a woman
Yep, glaringly missing the women’s side of living on the beaches.
They had Molly and it's a red bull video focused on Red Bull athletes, why would they include athletes sponsored by competing brands? @@evieelderkin8346
fr this was a total bro-fest
Is Layne sponsored by Redbull? lol
Yeah, i tuned out when I realized Layne was not featured
Some people are just born in a place it's gonna take you life dedication to move to
you speak from my heart but I've been so lucky for past 12 years
Sydney the ultimate surf city in the world, when you see groms charging heavy slabs and not even fazed, from the nulla too palm beach ,every variety of breaks that will truly test your mental, from small(crowds) too heavy (consequence)at every break in Sydney,if you truly wanted too be a pro surfer thats where you'd move too
i want to be in a boardriders club! also though :: you guys needed more ladies in this episode ... molly is amazing but more women in the next eps please!
Palm Beach - show's drone view of Manly?
Come on Redbull. Ashtons is a knock off Bourdain. How can we forget bad-vertorial Oakley plug article and channeling his inner Will Smith slap.
lol go to mount druitt 20 yrs ago, give you something to talk about
Ashton biggest kook ahahah how is he a surf presenter
"with cute names like Dead mans" lol
With all of these competitions and leagues in Australia, yet the Americans and Brazilians are still more creative surfers.
because australians lack an aggressive competitive mindset generally
Creative hahaha brazzo’s have no style
@@HI-pi1er then why are they winning?
@@mjor6406 competition surfing hahahaha Australia has the best slab surfers in the world and the craziest waves to. The brazzo’s love winning comps in 2 foot slop hahaha and Australia only has 25 million People compared to Brazil And America .
@@HI-pi1er there are less surfers in America and or Brazil. But they keep on winning.
I feel like this episode could have been an hour long and still too short
Bondi was desolate 20yrs ago😂😂😂 ok yep. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, well done.
Sick clip! Sydney's not the cultural capital of Australia though. That title goes to Melbourne. No waves close to the city and temperamental weather, so they focus on the indoor sports 🎭🎨🎶
Sam Coombes nailed it.. 20 years ago, in my heyday, it was the place to be.. grew up on the northern beaches, ventured south to Bondi and surrounds often..
it’s not that now. Over hyped, over crowded, over priced hell hole now, despite this video.
I live rural NSW now on the coast. I have space, better surf, less people, great produce and food.. would never get me back to a city again…
Bye bye.
The Good Days are LONG past!
Everyone Knows.
Black Flag t shirt and an old single fin… who would have guessed?
Apparently, you didn't know that Cape Solander has been known as Piker's Hole since the 1960's. It has been surfed since the 60's, too.
Everyones a bizarely obsessive fact checker in UA-cam comments.
Best city for surfing in the world, by some distance
Surely you're joking
@@teighandoughty1573 name me a better one
@@teighandoughty1573 Let's hear some contenders.
@@teighandoughty1573 dude take a look around, does any other major city in the world have the same amount or variety of breaks as Sydney? What this city has is pretty unique
haha can we get this straight board riders clubs are a divisive and turn surf communities into hostile environments, basically a glorification of localism .. 🌊
Had a laugh when they mentioned the building of community. If your family line wasn't in the inner circle of these clubs don't expect to even make the outer circle.
Sydney cultural hub? Melbourne hold my beer.. 😂😂😂😂
where is the song??
No intro music ☹️
Interesting hearing the accent change as you got further south. The more working class it got the more ocker it sounded.
First comment lets go
The amount of “creative” editing in this vid is bonkers. The surf sessions with cuts of other random sessions at other spots is a weird choice. We can literally see people not wearing the same wetsuit, why pretend it was all filmed on the day?
it literally says exploring Sydney in one day
Melbourne is also Australia's most populas city. Stick to shitty energy drinks not fact checking
No one in Sydney gives a toss about Melbourne it’s full of loonie freaks
Im not sure if people are taking the piss or not in this comment section. Im sure they are but some seem legit happy to live in that shit hole lmao.
It’s a pretty shit hole!
Sydney is a great city, but Melbourne is Australia's most populous city.
I grew up in Bondi ,still have a house on Bondi road......Wollongong has better beache.
Aunty Josie Bra Girl No.1
Gossy!!!
crowded as fuk but
Lived in bondi for 6 months couldnt wait to get out of that hell hole 😂😂
I seriously think the producers and writers of this episode were like "Ugh its chaotic already, and beyond the golden days, lets just blast it up a bit more before someone else does it".
Lets be very honest (Sydney born here). The people saying Sydney is good are either new to Sydney, or are extremely wealthy like top 5%.
The reality is it is expensive, chaotic city filled with some of the most competitive lineups for the wave quality. Ratio of aggressive crowd to bad wave quality is among the worst in the world. Also the overall vibe in Sydney, everyone is competing and has anxiety. Its an expensive place to be, and the pressures of cost of living causes people to project huge insecurities and manipulation into alot of interactions in their daily lives. Its only gonna get worse. But look I like how you showcased Bill and Grayson, they are actually nice guys in the water and not the aggro ones i'm talking about. I hope this segment doesn't bring more people to the place. You should have seen South Bondi Corner the past two months. Literally 100 guys on a tiny left. Totally depressing and aggravating. Sydney's also the 2nd most expensive city in the world for real estate. Young people are completely miserable at the prospect of building their future here.
Deadman’s is on the northern beaches of Sydney not the southern beaches of Sydney. Someone didn’t do their research properly
but, sydney is not the most populated city. umm what? melbourne is
Where's the surf in melbourne
As a narra kindly stay away from the peak at northy
This video is even by a Aussie is American but it’s about a coutnry that isn’t America where’s the Aussie narrator
2 million surfers in Australia....l call baloney 😂
3:06 this is south avoca not palm beach lol
It’s not called ours! Those housos from maroubra who aren’t even locals came over and called it that. It’s called capes or cape solander
this is such false advertising, sydney has some of the busiest beaches to surf at around
THIS IS TRULY THE ANTHONY BOURDAIN show OF the SURFING WORLD. We’ve all as surfers been desperate for a point of view that really understands the soul of thisnis world. Ashton Goggins is the future content impresario of the this production style surf world using his masterful writing and shooting to capture the poetry of what it means to be a person that needs the ocean to be inspired.
Thanks for the support, Jerry. Big fan of Bourdain's ability to break down complex realities, and make space for the local guides and characters to express themselves and their regional identity. Grateful to get to explore this sprawling surfing world and help tell these local stories for an international audience.
Glad Anthony Bourdain isn't around for that. Bondi was well and truly gentrified 20 years ago, as were the two around the corner. It was hassled 35 years ago. You are much more likely to have some kook ditching a mal in your face now though.
Too bad it's a nanny / police state with no nightlife anymore.
Sydney isn't Australia's biggest city.
what is
By some measures Melbourne is the most populous. However, the greater metropolitan area of Sydney is still bigger.
haha can we get this straight board riders clubs are divisive and turn surf communities into unfriendly environments, basically a glorification of localism .. 🌊
The cultural beating heart of Australia my ass. Good surf yes but the nightlife and culture is fucking dead compared to Melbourne
Sydney number 1
no one in Sydney even thinks about Melbourne haha
Jarvis is our "great white hope" against the brazzo storm.
10 percent,1 in 10 people surf!,what a joke,either he's misreading some stat that 10 percent have tried surfing or he's flat out bullshitting to enliven his video.
So many poor generalisations and false information presented within the first couple of minutes.
Yeah I think this was researched with Wikipedia and google search results 😂