On January 8, 2018, California state legislators, Al Muratsuchi and Ian Calderon introduced a bill that aims to establish surfing as California’s official sport. If recognized and approved, it will be the second time surfing is adopted as official state sport, after being designated in Hawaii in 1998. Interestingly, Hawaii opted for having two formal […]
Style, grace, camaraderie, and good vibes. The Noosa Festival of Surfing 2017 concluded at First Point, Queensland, with a feeling of wanting more. Longboarders have always stepped aside from the idea of high-performance surfing. When you’re hanging five and ten, you learn to appreciate the moment, and the focus is less on execution. And that’s […]
Australian surf photographer and filmmaker Tim Bonython is the man behind “The Big Wave Project,” an exhilarating surf movie experience. The film documents the evolution of big wave surfing in the past decades, and it became an obsession for its actors and actresses. To make “The Big Wave Project” a reality, Bonython traveled the world, […]
Kanoa Igarashi has done it. The US surfer will take part on the 2016 World Surf League Championship Tour. The 18-year-old surfer from Huntington Beach won the 2015 Mahalo Surf Eco Festival, in Brazil. Igarashi defeated Connor O’Leary in the final held at Praia da Tiririca, in Itacaré, and confirmed a golden spot among the […]
London has one of the most active surfing communities in the world. It might sound odd, but there are tens of thousands of Londoners who take surfing very seriously. Let’s unveil the most popular surf breaks located approximately less than two hours away from English capital. They (still) don’t have a river surfing wave, but […]
The Canary Islands Surf Film Award will deliver 50,000 euros to the best surfing movie made on the archipelago’s beaches. The largest prize purse ever in a surf movie competition wants filmmakers to shoot locally and with surfing, bodyboarding, windsurfing and kiteboarding as the main theme. “The Canary Islands are an international reference location for […]
Nichols Wins Vahine Pro JuniorSunday, 12 April 2015 Tahiti continued to turn on great waves for the final day of the 2015 Papara Surf Festival. Big scores and exciting battles were the order of the day that saw three champions crowned on the tiny tropical island in the Pacific.Taumata Puhetini (PYF) took out the blue […]
Shaun Howe is the 2014 Western Australia surfing champion, as the HIF Pro Am Series come to a close at Rottnest Island. After claiming the Margaret River and Geraldton stages, Howe had already taken the Western Australia State title. However, Harry McPherson had other plans for the last round of competition. Large surf and strong […]
A top class field competed at Middle Rock, Port Macquarie today for day two of the Australian Surfmasters Titles.
PORT HAVEN, Port Macquarie: (Saturday 18th August 2012): Indigenous children from throughout the Hastings had the opportunity to learn to surf today, at the Essential Energy Indigenous Surf Program in Port Macquarie.