The 2020 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) roster has been determined. The men’s 2020 CT class will feature the top 22 athletes on the 2019 CT leaderboard, the top 10 finishers on last year’s Qualifying Series (QS), plus two WSL wildcards. Adriano de Souza, who spent most of the 2019 season out due […]
Towards the end of each year, we sit down with a cup of coffee and reflect on how life has been and how we can improve it. Typically, we ponder about our career choices, financial status, and personal issues, and dream about the upcoming year. This year, Henrik Beyer, author of “Health & Fitness for […]
The World Surf League (WSL) announced that Gabriel Medina’s controversial interference on Caio Ibelli at the 2019 Pipe Masters was “intentional” but “not deemed unsportsmanlike.” The history of competitive surfing had never seen anything like that. But let’s take a look at the facts. Medina and Ibelli were battling it out on Round of 16 […]
Italo Ferreira has taken out the 2019 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour title at Banzai Pipeline, on the North Shore of Oahu, in Hawaii. The 2019 CT season is over. But there was a lot at stake for the finals day of the Billabong Pipe Masters In Memory of Andy Irons. The last event of […]
The Pipe Masters is the most prestigious surf contest in the world. The event takes place at Banzai Pipeline, on the North Shore of Oahu, in Hawaii. It is one of the 36 surf spots of the so-called Seven Mile Miracle, a seven-mile (11.2 kilometers) stretch of sandy surf beaches. The first Pipe Masters edition […]
The final day of the 2019 Billabong Pipe Masters has a lot on the line. The event’s results have implications on the World Surf League (WSL) Men’s Championship Tour (CT) title, but also on the qualification for next year’s elite season, the Tokyo 2020, and the Triple Crown of Surfing champion’s decision. There are three […]
The installation of the world’s first inflatable surf reef has been put on hold at Back Beach, in Bunbury, Western Australia. According to Troy Bottegal, the inventor of the Airwave, the device has been torn at the seam while being lodged on the ocean floor, 50 meters from shore. “A very deep swell that we […]
Meet the Surfatom, an inflatable and portable surf paddling board for your swimming pool sessions. It all started one day when Ramon Baux, a 47-year-old Spanish surfer, decided to develop a small paddling board for his swimming training routines. Soon after, his friend Erik Barclay, an industrial designer, tested the prototype and decided to help […]
Billy Kemper and Paige Alms have taken out the 2019 Jaws Big Wave Championships, at Peahi, in Maui, Hawai. The sets kept coming in bigger and bigger on the horizon, delivering 30-to-50-foot waves at the infamous surf break. The yellow helicopter flew below the lip close to the athletes. The stage was set, and the […]
The Paris 2024 Olympic surfing competition will take place at Teahupoo in Tahiti. The Paris 2024 organizing committee proposed that surfing’s second Olympic appearance runs at the world-renowned left-hand reef break. Tahiti is located 9,755 miles (15,700 kilometers) away from the French capital.