WhiteWater announced the construction of a massive heart-shaped wave pool in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The Canadian company based in Richmond, British Columbia, partnered with Surf the Wave Vietnam to build a 200-meter wide artificial wave pool in a new area dubbed Vietnam’s Silicon Valley. Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon, is […]

The World Surf League (WSL) has released its 2020 Championship Tour (CT) schedule. The world’s best male and female surfers will compete against each other in a very special year for the sport. The year 2020 marks surfing’s debut as an official Olympic discipline. Japan will host the elite of surfing from July 24 to […]

The World Surf League (WSL) aims to operate on a carbon-neutral basis by the end of 2019. The professional surfing circuit announced a series of measures to attain carbon neutrality and a no-single-plastic operation in six months. WSL hopes that its actions in “inspire, educate and empower ocean lovers while addressing critical environmental issues.”

The World Surf League (WSL) announced relevant changes in the Championship Tour (CT) format. The 2019 CT season will continue the updates made last year, which put an end to Round 5 in the men’s event and Round 4 in the women’s event. “We believe that going straight to head-to-head matchups from Round 3 onwards […]

Kelly Slater will return to Manly to compete at the 2019 Vissla Sydney Surf Pro. The 11-time world surfing champion competed several times at Manly Beach and in the northern beaches of Sydney and won the event in 1997. “I lived part-time in Avalon for 15 years, and I miss it. So, I am really […]

Starboard and Royal DSM teamed up to create surfboard components made from discarded fishing nets. The watersports company founded by Svein Rasmussen, and the Dutch nutrition, health, and sustainable living firm will start collecting abandoned fishing nets from the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. Later, the joint-venture will upcycle the nylon-based nets and produce […]

The Wave Project is a British surf therapy charity that helps young people fulfill their potential. In January 2015, a peer-review published in the journal Community Practitioner stated that the surf therapy program developed by the Wave Project resulted in a “significant and sustained increase in well-being.” “One year later parents and referrers noticed an […]

Surfing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will take place in the ocean, not in a wave pool. The waiting period runs from July 24 to August 9. The president of the International Surfing Association (ISA) confirmed that surfers will fight for gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals in a natural environment. Despite supporting the […]

Meet the Thumb Runner, the stand-up paddle that promises safer and up to four times more powerful strokes. Stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) is set to become a lot easier and safer with the design of a new and different paddle that can be used more effectively when weather conditions change for the worse. Created by New […]