Port Macquarie is again preparing for a two-week surfing extravaganza when it hosts the 2012 Australian Surf Festival supported by Essential Energy from August 11-25.
Once again, hurricane season 2012 is proving to defy the odds — and the odds makers for that matter. Forecasted to be a kitten of a season, it’s turning out to be a wild black panther. This week, we have Tropical Storm Debby churning up the Gulf of Mexico like butter for cornbread. She became […]
Respect, respect and respect. Test your ability to catch waves in foreign waters, where waves aren’t yours, even if you hold priority. “Haole, go home”, they say. You’ve already felt the power of surfing in your own surf spot. You know the beach, you know the peak and the local crew. Surfing is easy when […]
Daniel Glenn is the new 2012 Quiksilver US King of the Groms. Sixty four of the best surf groms in the country, aged 8-16, have met in Huntington Beach to fight for a trip to the Quiksilver King of the Groms World Championships, in France. “Growing up in Florida, I had always dreamed of winning […]
Stephanie Louise Gilmore is preparing to enter the history of surfing for the best reasons. The Australian natural footer was born on the 29th January, 1988, and has already collected four world surfing titles. Layne Beachley has concluded her professional career with seven world trophies under the belt. Gilmore is too young to be stopped […]
Kanoa Igarashi and Tatiana Weston-Webb have stormed the Surfing America USA Championships 2012, at Lower Trestles, California. The competition set a new level in junior surfing and prepared the future stars of the waves. One year after the victory of Kolohe Andino, the 14-year-old Kanoa Igarashi took the Under 18 division in great style. What […]
The life of Chris O’Rourke could’ve been in a movie. The talented surfer from San Diego, California, has always dreamed he could be a world surfing champion. “Child of the Storm” is a new surf book featuring the incredible life story of Chris O’Rourke, the iconic and prodigy surfer from La Jolla, who impressed his […]
June 21 was a banner holiday. Even Pearl Jam tweeted “Happy first day of summer and International Surfing Day.” Gallery Scenes from ISD around the world. Gallery Hope you made the most of it. And while a lot of the talk was based around the Surfrider Foundation’s all day Web-A-Thon membership…
Welcome to Fiji’s Filthy Friday. As the Volcom Fiji Pro called off the 8th June, a group of fearless big wave lovers returned to Cloudbreak’s line up to paddle into massive walls of water. “It was the best day of paddle surfing ever seen at Cloudbreak, with the swell in the 12′-15′ range from the […]
We didn’t score until the last two hours of my most recent trip to Japan. Chris Burkard and I had been in the country for two weeks, and we’d had a blast making friends and surfing, but it wasn’t until the last day, just before a huge storm came through, and just before our flight, […]