Cloudbreak turned on once again for the world’s best surfers as the opening 10 heats of the elimination Round 2 of the Volcom Fiji Pro were completed in clean four-to-six foot (1 – 1.5 metre) waves at the primary event venue.
Located 525 nautical miles off the coast of Ecuador sits the Galapagos Islands. Like Hawaii, it’s volcanic in origin. And like Hawaii, there’s some pretty good surf there. But unlike Hawaii, there aren’t many surfers. Boasting a population of just 25,000 people — whereas Waikiki’s population is about…
Russell Molony (Central Coast NSW/North Entrance) is the Australian Indigenous Surfing Champion for 2012 after defeating Joe Haddon (Foster/Tuncurry NSW) in excellent two-metre surf at Bells Beach today.
Sony has taken a serious stake in the future of Australian surfing by backing the Hurley Surfing Australia High Performance Centre (HPC) at Casuarina Beach in Northern NSW.
With the completion of the Billabong Pro Rio and Joel Parkinson taking second place to John John Florence, Parkinson is now in the No. 1 spot on ASP World Tour. At 31, he has four runner-up finishes (2002, 2004, 2009, and 2011) but has yet to collect a World Title for himself. Does all this […]
It’s funny that modern surfing is considered a “culture” in an anthropological sense. Studying Hawaiian surfing, or any aboriginal peoples as a culture seems to make sense. But the idea of long hairs who owned three pairs of shorts, traveling about, sleeping in cars and chasing waves as a subject of…
Many of Australia’s best Indigenous surfers are heading for Bells Beach in Victoria for the annual Australian Indigenous Surfing Titles with the event running from Sunday May 27th through to Friday June 1st.
This weekend, while most of the surf industry’s collective attention was turned toward the Nike Lowers Pro and Billabong XXL Awards, another group of wave riders quietly gathered. Flying (or sliding, as it were) under the radar, is right where these folks are used to being. Most surfers by now have…
Valla Beach’s (NSW) Heath Joske has lead TravelSIM Team Australia to the inaugural ISA China Cup on Hainan Island.
Adam Lynch (Highton) and Molly Powell (Anglesea) have both taken out their inaugural Victorian Longboard Titles in solid conditions at Point Impossible this weekend.