Jeff Rowley has paddled into the Mavericks left-hander to become the first Australian to claim the challenge. California’s premier big wave surf spot is traditionally known for its crazy right-hander, but Rowley decided to drive the other way. Rowley has decided to move to the USA during the North Pacific winter surf season and recently […]
COOLANGATTA/QLD (15th March, 2012): Australia’s leading junior surfers have been given a timely boost in their quest to one day qualify for the elite World Tour with the launch of the Surfing Australia High Performance Scholarship Program.
Gabriel Medina has enjoyed a great Hawaiian season. The Brazilian trickster spent many days trying many moves. Medina played his surf show in the line-up and everybody wanted to watch him. Impossible floaters, frontside airs, backside airs, Superman, front and backside air reverses, rodeos and even a 720 attempt. The girls were there to inspire […]
The idyllic surf spot of “Cloudbreak” and “Restaurants” will be the center stage of one of the greatest comebacks in pro surfing. The Volcom Fiji Pro 2012 debuts the surf brand’s entrance in the top levels of professional wave riding. The fourth stop on the 2012 ASP World Tour brings the best surfers on the […]
A more overcast day than we have so far been blessed with, the fourth day of the Global Surfing Industries Noosa Festival Of Surfing started with grey clouds breaking into heavy rain.
Kelly Slater has formally dedicated the Manly-Freshwater World Surfing Reserve, the first of its kind in Australia and the third, right after Malibu (USA) and Ericeira (Portugal). “Australia has the world’s best beaches,” said Slater, the 11-time world surfing champion and World Surfing Reserves global ambassador. “You think of sacred as an empty beach somewhere […]
Bianca Valenti and Alisha Gonzalves have conquered the Open and Junior divisions of the 2012 SeaHawaii Womens Pro, at Pipeline, Hawaii. The female surfing contest got underway in the gnarliest conditions ever, in the history of the event. Stormy conditions delayed the competition until the last day of the holding period and surfer girls had […]
NOOSA/QLD (11th March, 2012): THE Noosa Festival Of Surfing sponsored by Global Surf Industries has launched into a flying start for its 21st year, with a slight though highly contestable swell rolling into the natural amphitheatre of Noosa’s First Point.
Like so many people are learning to do in this compromised economy, Jed Noll knows how to wear multiple hats all at once. It’s just that his extra hats just happen to be a lot cooler than everybody else’s. He hasn’t had to pick up an after-hours waitering job or stoop to ding repair to […]
When mixed up, low pressure systems and Mullaghmore Head mean big waves. The combination of weather patterns and geomorphological characteristics result in epic surf in Ireland’s capital of extreme water sports. Gabe Davies, Andrew Cotton, Tom Butler, Eric Rebiere and Richie Fitzgerald have battled the grey skies, rain and wind to catch the last good […]