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Surfing Australia TV is a new monthly, half-hour program showcasing the organisation’s many different programs from junior development, through to elite athlete coaching, event management and industry education. It can be seen on free-to-air channel Television 4 Me.
“The Surfer” is the newest PC surfing game released by Bungarra Software. Almost 10 years after the launch of “Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer” for PlayStation2, an Australian softwarehouse decides to develop “The Surfer”, a challenge with three separate sections: single player, Pro Tour and multiplayer mode. The surfing game developers promise “high-speed momentum based surfing […]
What to expect from a surf coach? How good is your surf? Where can you improve your surfing skills? Which body movements are incorrect in your surfing? Getting a surf coach is the next step in amateur surfing. If you’ve really decided to go pro, then it might be a good idea to improve all […]
Ramzi Boukhiam has been crowned the 2012 European Surfing champion, at La Grande Plage of Lacanau, in France. The surfer from Morocco secured the title after qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Airwalk Lacanau Pro Junior and watching Vasco Ribeiro finishing third of his heat in the Round of 32. “It was another tough day […]
Talent stacked the heats on day four of the Australian Surf Festival supported by Essential Energy, as North Haven beach turned on for the Semi-Finals. Open Men and Women graced the waves with high scores dropping across the divisions.
Intense conditions brought 8 foot swell to the local beaches and competitors were back to Diamond Head for Day 2 of the Australian Surf Festival presented by Essential Energy.
Opening day of the Australian Surf Festival supported by Essential Energy was wild and windy. A solid swell from the south hit Port Macquarie on the east coast as the country’s best Longboarders took on the waves at Diamond Head.
Chris Ward has taken the 2012 Rip Curl Cup Invitational at Padang Padang, after scoring a perfect 10 backside barrel in the dying seconds of the final heat. The Californian surfer defeated Bali’s Mega Semadhi, Java’s Dede Suryana, and Australia’s Ry Craike, in pumping six-foot tubes at Padang Padang. “I knew I had it,” Ward […]
The Virtual Highway Surfing Association keeps alive the dream of riding waves in a computer screen. “Second Life”, the online virtual world founded in 2003, has opened new creative ways of chasing waves when the real life ocean was flat. Although the overall quality of the graphics was very low-fi, there were thousands of fans […]
Volcano surfing or ashboarding is the newest form of defying gravity in western Nicaragua. Add surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding and lava and you’ll discover the pleasures of volcano surfing. The spectacular feeling of getting away from the still-warm ashes of Cerro Negro is what is literally considered an extreme sport. The strange outdoor activity has been […]