Surf News
The winner of the 2016 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) title will compete in all three events of the Triple Crown of Surfing. John John Florence wants to end the best year of his professional career so far with a punctuation mark. The youngest surfer to ever win a Triple Crown of Surfing […]
The 2016 Fiji ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship will get underway in Cloudbreak, Namotu, Musket Cove, and Viti Levu from November 12th-18th. The fifth edition of the event organized by the International Surfing Association (ISA) will crown champions across six divisions: SUP Surfing, SUP Technical Race, SUP Distance Race, Paddleboard Technical Race, Paddleboard Distance […]
The Peahi Challenge 2016 has been given the green light. The competition will get underway on the 11th November, at Jaws, Maui. The second stop on the 2016 Big Wave Tour (BWT) is expecting 30-foot-plus swell. Twenty-four uber-athletes are warming up for one of the greatest wave riding contests in the planet. “We have been […]
Mavericks is not sleeping anymore. The infamous surf break located off the coast of Half Moon Bay, in Northern California, is already pumping its first big waves of the season. The first weekend of November 2016 saw a double-to-triple overhead WNW swell hit the shore, and along came the storm surfers. Grant “Twiggy” Baker, Angelo […]
Kanoa Igarashi has secured his spot on the 2017 Championship Tour (CT) after winning the Hang Loose Pro 2016, in Praia Joaquina, in Brazil. The American surfer defeated local star and fellow Dream Tour campaigner Jadson Andre and jumped to first on the Qualifying Series (QS) rankings. In the 35-minute final, a series of mistakes […]
Mason Ho has claimed the HIC Pro 2016, at Sunset Beach, in Hawaii. The surfer from the North Shore of Oahu won his second HIC Pro title in firing 12-foot waves. Ho defeated Jack Robinson, Makuakai Rothman, and Finn McGill in the final. But the talented Hawaiian was only able to lock in two winning […]
The winner of the 2016 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) has finally returned home. The island of Oahu has a new hero. John John Florence, the fourth ever Hawaiian surfer to win a world title, has arrived home on North Shore of Oahu. The 24-year-old surfer from Haleiwa was welcomed by hundreds of […]
The health and spiritual benefits of surfing have already been widely disseminated. Surfing is a medicine against death. But are there any downsides to surfing? There might be. Don’t worry, surfing’s deep dark secrets aren’t so bad. Don’t be discouraged, for surfing is for life. But we need to know what to expect in the […]
Body Glove has been acquired by Marquee Brands. The surfing and diving company was founded in Redondo Beach, in 1953, by Bob and Bill Meistrell. They were pioneers in the development and marketing of the first neoprene wetsuits. Today, Body Glove is still making wetsuits, but it is also selling swimwear, personal flotation devices, apparel, […]
Bobby Hasbrook has gone surfing with a 58-inch flat screen TV. We’ve already seen Kelly Slater catching waves with tables and doors, and Floridian daredevils hitting the surf with a trampoline, but we had never witnessed anything like this. It’s heavy but, apparently, it floats. And it worked out pretty well in the busy lineup. […]