Christian Cook, Wayne Morrison, Paul Wayland and Andrew Johnson have been crowned the 2014 New South Wales Master Surfing champions, at South Boomerang Beach, Australia. Despite the fragile one-to-two foot swell, finalists in the four divisions – Over 35, 40, 45 and 50 – showed they’re still too young to let go. In the Over […]
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 […]
Greg Long has won the 2014 Billabong XXL “Ride of the Year”, with the wave ridden at Puerto Escondido, Mexico, on the 7th June, 2013. After being acquired by the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP), the brand known for awarding big wave stunts crowned an almost all-anglophone group of daredevils. The only exception was Gautier […]
The Harlem Globetrotters have gone surfing at Puaena Point Beach, on the Oahu’s North Shore. What are famous basketball players doing in boardshorts? Enjoying summer holidays? Taking a break after a strenuous game? Working on a tan? Bull Bullard and Flight Time Lang, dunker and dribbler for the Harlem Globetrotters, have rapidly learned how to […]
The new University of Surfing will open in La Jolla, California, in September 2014. It’s one of the most kept secrets in the history of American higher education. The future University of Surfing will be presented as the most complete and comprehensive studies in the sport of wave riding. There are nearly 2.5 million surfers […]
The third Annual Conference in Surfing Medicine will be held at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, between 9th-13th September, 2014. The European Association of Surfing Doctors (EASD) will be taking surfing medicine to extremes. The unprecedented North Atlantic swells of our recent winter boosted big wave surfing in the Old Continent. Waves of immense ferocity and […]
Europe has shown its potential for big wave surfing. A world record for the largest wave ever surfed can easily be broken in the Old Continent. So, where are located the highest peaks? Surfing was not born in Europe. Not even big wave surfing. But the Old Continent has a long Atlantic tradition, when it […]
This is LOLA with the forecast for Thursday at 05:00 AM. Surf: Flat. Trace short period wind waves from the north. Light and variable south winds with smooth seas.
With El Nino priming the pump everywhere around the world, this could be a big-wave season to remember.
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