With a kiwi on either side of the World Surf League in Ricardo Christie and Paige Hareb, we are adding the WSL into the Niche Cache rotation this year. The first stop is Australia's Gold Coast with the windows for both tournaments starting tomorrow and running to the 13th, with the kiwis definitely in the 'underdog' bracket of their respective tours.

For example, Hareb (#13) is in heat 3 and is listed as coming up against #1 ranked women's surfer Stephanie Gilmore from Australia. Hareb's heat is the only heat with two surfers, the rest have three and if a third surfer isn't added, this would be super niggly or Hareb to come up against Gilmore in the first event of the year.

Christie is in heat 9 on the men's side, along with Australia's Wade Carmichael (#9) and Brazil's Michael Rodrigues (#16). Well down in the pecking order, Christie (#29) has a slightly easier start to the tour on the surface. How the two kiwis perform on the Gold Coast will need to balanced between getting a gauge of their standing in the WSL landscape and knowing that they'll probably take time to suss out life on tour.

Here's all sorts of funky content that I could find from Christie and Hareb to enjoy now and set the scene for a lovely #KiwiWSL campaign...

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🌈🌈🌈 @billy_leepope

A post shared by RICARDO CHRISTIE (@ricardochristie) on Mar 30, 2019 at 2:34am PDT

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Less than a week until it all starts again and I’m back in a big girls jersey 😁🏄🏼‍♀️ #66 @wsl #snapper #goldie 📷 @trentcallaghanphotography

A post shared by Paige Hareb (@paigehareb) on Mar 27, 2019 at 1:12pm PDT

Check out what Paige Hareb got up to over summer in her downtime when she wasn't competing...! Shot on the Kaiser Baas X400 Action Camera!

Thanks especially to World Surf Leage (@wsl) for the courtesy of allowing me to use their videos Videos: World Surf Leage https://www.youtube.com/user/ASPWorldTour Original Photo: Ed Sloane Collage: Pedro Music: Dave Dobbyn "Top Dog" https://youtu.be/o_doBPm4lV4 Katchafire "Get Away" https://youtu.be/SIySfQ6Qurs The Black Seeds "So True" https://youtu.be/2fOFWRqy98k

Ricardo Christie (NZ) wins Heat 7 of Round 2 of the Hawaiian Pro with an 8.93 against Santiago Muniz (ARG),Maxime Huscenot (FRA), Aritz Aranburu (SPA) 11/14/18. Christie advanced to finish 3rd in final. Photography © Kevin W. Smith http://www.skystudiohawaii.com/skystudiohawaii/home%20page.html Music © Purple Planet Music: http://www.purple-planet.com

Under The Weather is a new surf film by Damon Meade.. The film has been shot entirely in New Zealand, taking a journey from the far North to the deep South and many places in between. Along for the ride are top Kiwi surfers Maz Quinn, Ricardo Christie, Bobby Hansen, Johnny Hicks, Luke Cederman, Billy Stairmand and friends.

A journey to the most remote coast in South Island, New Zealand. On this hidden coastline lie perfect points, beachbreaks, and rocky, A-frame peaks. A scenic flight or a five-day hike will get you there, but you won't be able to unlock the secrets of the coastline unless you have someone to guide you.

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