Surf journalist Michael Scott Moore has been freed in Somalia after being abducted for nearly three years by an armed militia in Somalia. The author of “Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results” is in good health, despite living 33 months in […]
Randy Rarick, Larry Bertlemann, Mike Haley, John Van Hamersveld, Phyliss O’Donnell, and Vince Moorhouse will be inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame, on the 31st July, 2014, at Huntington Beach. The votes have been counted. The 100-year anniversary of surfing in Huntington Beach will write the name of six legendary surfers in the history […]
Jay Occhilupo, son of surfing legend Mark Occhilupo, has signed a contract deal with Billabong. Jay, 11, first began surfing in Coolangatta, as a toddler. The son of the 1999 world champion can also be seen riding the lines of skate parks, when the ocean’s flat. He is already showing signs of greatness at his […]
The nominees for the 2014 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards have been announced. Apparently, we live in an Anglophone world. Grant Baker, Shane Dorian, Billy Kemper, Greg Long, and Shaun Walsh have been nominated for “Ride of the Year”. Surprisingly, there is not a single European wave in the most important category, despite the […]
Bethany Hamilton has conquered the Surf N Sea Pipeline Women’s Pro 2014, at Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii. Bethany Hamilton was on fire and fully deserved victory, in three-to-five foot wave faces on offer at the Hawaiian surfing capital. The 24-year-old surfer claimed the first event title in 10 years. The final heat saw four surfer girls […]
The contest window for the 2014 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards has been concluded. The 2013/2014 winter season showed why big wave surfing has a bright future ahead. In Ireland, Mexico, Tasmania, Tahiti, Portugal, California, Western Australia, Hawaii and France, the number of quality waves ridden meant a record number of entries for the […]
The Oakley Surf Shop Challenge 2014 will kick off on the 28th March, at Seaside Reef, in Cardiff, California. The surf series will cross the USA collecting regional qualifier winners from Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey, Hawaii and Orange County, before concluding on July, at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz. The Oakley Surf Shop Challenge […]
TravelSIM Team Australia has finished third behind Hawaii and the USA at the Nicaragua ISA World Masters Surfing Championship while Sandra English (Budgewoi, NSW) collected the silver medal in the Women’s Masters Division.
With three days of competition remaining until the finals, the action on day five of the Nicaragua ISA World Masters Surfing Championship continued in contestable 3 foot (1 metre) conditions at Colorado Beach at Hacienda Iguana.
Once again, hurricane season 2012 is proving to defy the odds — and the odds makers for that matter. Forecasted to be a kitten of a season, it’s turning out to be a wild black panther. This week, we have Tropical Storm Debby churning up the Gulf of Mexico like butter for cornbread. She became […]