A pumping southwest and northwest swell combo delivered great surfing conditions with shoulder to overhead peaks for the grand finale of the NSSA Southwest Conference, at the southside of the Huntington Beach Pier. Taylor Clark took his fifth victory of the season with a powerful, progressive surfing performance on southside. Clark’s consistent and dominant surfing […]
Russia is the new land of waves and surfing. Serious. American Wave Machines has announced the construction of a 35,000 square foot surf pool for the Sheksna Resort, in Russia. Expect 6-footers and 10 waves per minute. The new PerfectSwell model 1672 wave pool will be installed at the Russia’s Leading Spa Resort, according to the […]
The Rip Curl GromSearch presented by Telstra is back for another year to expose Australia’s top junior surfing talent.
Kelly Slater will not be surfing the Billabong Rio Pro 2012 following a heel injury sustained in Java, Indonesia. “I injured the inside of my left heel in Java and then re-opened it again the following week at Cloudbreak,” Slater said. “It became infected and I flew to Australia to get it treated and stitched […]
After 23 years of intense battles, the famous Maalaea surf break, in Hawaii, has been saved. The break, also known as “Freight Trains”, is widely lauded as the world’s fastest wave. The victory came last week, when the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources and the United States Army Corps of Engineers announced that […]
Almost but not quite. Close, but no cigar. Surfing is the most popular board sports in the world with over 20 million active enthusiasts, yet, until 2020, we aren’t seeing it in the Olympic Games. It started as an ancient spiritual activity and now is one of the most relevant water sports in the planet […]
This weekend, while most of the surf industry’s collective attention was turned toward the Nike Lowers Pro and Billabong XXL Awards, another group of wave riders quietly gathered. Flying (or sliding, as it were) under the radar, is right where these folks are used to being. Most surfers by now have…
The 9th edition of the International Surfing Day is ready to take over the world, on the 24th June 2012. Every year, since 2004, International Surfing Day has launched the summer season. In 2011, more than 195 surfing events took place in 34 countries, so that people who hadn’t discovered the pleasures of surfing could […]
Surfing decals are a great way of adding your own style and ideas to your favourite surfboards. Vintage logos, pin-ups, mermaids, post-modern sayings, political signs, spiritual badges and Hawaiian natives. There are many inspirational stickers that you can put right in your plank. Some surfers like to add simple decals in the nose; others enjoy […]
The world windsurfing community is not happy with the ISAF decision to get kiteboarding in the 2016 Olympic Games and prepares to fight back, while Sir Richard Branson and Kristin Boese celebrate the kiteboarding victory with champagne. The RS:X Olympic windsurfers are devastated and do not understand the decision which replaced lines for mast. That […]