American Wave Machines will debut their compact indoor wave pool at the DreamWorks Water Park, in New Jersey. The company technology will put their PerfectSwell to test in a relatively limited area – 1.5 acres – located inside the American Dream mall. The surfing structure will produce a playful air section and a sandbar-like wedge […]
Ben Thouard’s stunning underwater image of Adrian Buchan surfing Teahupoo was the overall winner of the 2019 Red Bull Illume Image Quest. The greatest adventure and action sports imagery contest on the planet announced the overall and division winners at the Lumen Museum, 2,275 meters (7.464 feet) high up in Alto Adige, Italy. Only 60 […]
In competitive surfing, the winner is the one who shines brighter. As it happens with any other individual sport, surfing puts you in the spotlight. You are watched, judged, and scored for your performance. If you perform well, you are praised. If you are very good at what you do, you quickly become an idol, […]
Frederico Morais has taken out the 2019 Hawaiian Pro in Haleiwa, on the North Shore of Hawaii. The Portuguese surfer won the first jewel of the Triple Crown of Surfing (TCS) after defeating Leonardo Fioravanti, Matthew McGillivray, and Ethan Ewing in the final. Morais, who has just qualified for the 2020 World Surf League (WSL) […]
How do professional surfers make money? How much do they earn a year? Can a pro surfer make a living off competition? Pro surfing is a relatively new thing. You can only talk of professional surfing careers when the ASP World Tour began its operations in the early 1980s. Believe it or not, today, there […]
Retirement is always a critical moment in any professional surfer’s life. There are three different stages in the process of changing a career – the reflection, the public announcement itself, and the day after. And each one of them is hard to deal with. Life is continually changing, and nothing lasts forever. Compared to executives, […]
The 16 names of the surfers that will take part in the 2019/2020 Perfect Chapter have been announced. The seventh edition of the tube riding specialty event will take place on the best day of the Portuguese winter season at Praia de Carcavelos, in Cascais. The waiting period runs from November 17, 2019, to January […]
French big wave surfer Justine Dupont is seen surfing a potentially record-breaking wave in Nazaré, Portugal. On Wednesday, November 13, Dupont, 28, had spent the day in the cold water, surfing for hours on end. Seeing others heading back, she decided to try it one last time. “We’d already been in the water for four […]
Pedro Scooby suffered one of the worst wipeouts of all time at Praia do Norte, in Nazaré, Portugal. The Brazilian big wave surfer dropped into a massive left-hand wave, rode almost until the end, but ended up getting swallowed by the giant tower of whitewater. Immediately after, Scooby got pounded by several waves until losing […]
All surfers know that when the surf’s, you got to go. But if you’re also about to play an important football/soccer match, and your team needs you, what should you do? Scott Jones is one of the three Chichester City FC strikers. He’s a popular and talented footballer.