A group of researchers studied whether claims influence fans and judges in evaluating performance during surf contests. The paper entitled “Claims in Surfing: The Influence of Emotional Postperformance Expressions on Performance Evaluations” was in the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology in December 2019. The analysis led by Philip Furley, a lecturer at German Sport […]

Surfers are often depicted by non-surfers as laid-back, relaxed, tanned, smiling, and free-spirited, outdoor, ocean lovers. But are they always like that? Of course not. Surfing is regularly displayed in mainstream media – newspapers, magazines, cinema, advertising, and television – as the sport of the cool. And that image is used to sell everything from […]