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Bright and mischievous surf journalist, originally from Perth, Western Australia; co-founder of 

) magazine from 1995 to 1999; co-founder of the BeachGrit website in 2014. 

Rielly was born (1967) in Perth and raised in the nearby suburb of Willetton, the son of a pro wrestler father and a diplomat mother, and began surfing at age 12. After working as a blackjack dealer and a barman, Rielly moved in 1989 to Burleigh Heads, Queensland; two years later he published his first article in 

; later that year he was hired as the magazine's associate editor. Rielly soon became 

's leading voice, and helped turn what had been a glossy but fairly staid monthly into surfing's funniest and naughtiest publication.

Acknowledging that his two greatest literary influences were 

, Rielly often put his cheerful and profanity-laced writing style to use in short bursts of schoolboy comedy. In "The 48-Hour Surf Movie Marathon," he subjected himself to two sleepless days of nonstop video viewing: "6:17 a.m. 

 finished. Think I might take a dump and watch the '89 Billabong Pro . . . might even risk a wank once my flatmate leaves for the beach." But Rielly also wrote longer well-crafted articles on subjects like the elitism of surf resorts and how surf competitions force local wave-riders out of the water.

Rielly moved in 1999 to Hossegor, France, and worked for two years as the editor for a start-up magazine called 

. In 2001 he moved to the Sydney beachside suburb of Bondi, and became a staff writer for 

magazine, a Sydney-based surf and fashion magazine heavy on irony, tongue-in-cheek humor, cutting edge surf action, and exquisitely photographed mostly-nude women. Sales-wise, 

 has never kept pace with the leading surf magazines, but its influence has been huge, and it's long been a favorite among surf-world tastemakers, in part because Rielly never seemed to take the sport too seriously. Asked in 2010 what he liked about surfing, Rielly answered "The feeling of power and arrogance and sexy." And what did he not like? "That everybody feels the need to talk about it so much."

 to launch BeachGrit.com, a surfing website that treated the sport as "light, loose and libertine."

 magazines; he also contributed an essay to 

 (2000), a book on surf-related violence, and edited 

 (2003), a chronicle of Australia's obsession with surfwear.

Rielly, Derek

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