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Scotland and Finland join the International Surfing Association

Scotland and Finland are the 95th and 96th member nations of the International Surfing Association (ISA). Surfing is growing fast thanks to Fernando Aguerre’s ambitious plan to take the sport into the ultimate stage: the Olympic Games. And the 100th mark is right around the shoulder of the wave. Scotland offers world-class waves and breaks […]

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Travis Logie retires from professional surfing

Travis Logie has announced his retirement from professional surfing. The 35-year-old surfer ends his career at the 2014 Billabong Pipeline Masters. The South African charger is ready to hang up his leash. After ten years riding the ASP World Tour, Logie feels it’s time for a change. “As much as I love doing it, I’m […]

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The most important dates in the history of surfing

Surfing is one of the world’s oldest sports. Although the act of riding a wave started as a religious/cultural tradition, the truth is that surfing rapidly transformed into a global water sport. The popularity of surfing is the result of a sum of events, innovations, influential people, and technological developments. The early surfers had to […]

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The most influential people in wave sports in 2014

The most influential people in wave sports change lives and build dreams. The dictionary tells us that influence is “the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself.” Sometimes it is a synonym of age and experience, and sometimes it isn’t. Wave sports, board […]

Five minutes with Dane

Dane Reynolds and surf contests don’t always mix. Back in the days when he was competing full-time on the ASP world tour, you could expect one-word mumbling answers at press conferences, late nights out before early morning match-ups, self-deprecating post-heat interviews with early round flame outs….

Free surfing France

Going for a surf in France is a complicated business. The tide, winds, swell and weather change by the hour. The ASP Top 32 arrived in Hossegor from hot and glassy California to chilly, rainy skies and ten-foot storm surf in the southwest of France. When the weather improved a bit and the surf dropped…

Keeping it Cosmic

It’s hard to figure that 13 years ago, when Billabong’s Cosmic Creek Challenge first started, that it would be what it is today, or that it would still be even running. Conceived by the maestro of crappy equipment, Donavon Frankenreiter and his longtime friend and co-conspirator Eric Diamond, the initial…

Keeping it glassy

San Clemente’s Perry Faanes is a master ding repair man. He’ll fix your busted up board like no other, but he’s also an artist with a unique talent. ESPN Surfing spent a little time with the man to get a feel for not only his daily grind, but to find out what inspires him and […]

Kelp Flip

Remember in winter of 2011 when Zoltan Torkos claimed to have landed the first kickflip on a surfboard as part of the Volcom KickFlip-Off? Chaos and controversy ensued. Was it above the lip? Was it a legitimate air? Would it be the future of surfing? Should it be the future of surfing? Should this guy…

In place of the ASP mid-year rotation

Remember that whole cut-off the ASP implemented in 2010? Yeah, that didn’t really take. The only surfers that seem to like cut-offs are the ones who wear Ray Bans and boat shoes. And that’s an entirely different kind of cut-offs. But while we still have to look at the occasional upper thigh of a guy…

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