Surf News
The list of official 2014/15 Invitees and Alternates for the 30th annual Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, at Waimea Bay, have been announced. The famous big wave surfing event will be run if waves meet a 20-foot minimum height (Hawaiian Scale), during the holding period of December 1st, 2014, through February 28, 2015. “The […]
Nathan Yeomans won the 2014 O’Neill Coldwater Classic Invitational, at Steamer Lane, Santa Cruz, California. The surfer from San Clement has earned himself a yearlong sponsorship contract worth $50,000, after defeating Shaun Burns in the final. Yeomans tasted the second O’Neill Coldwater Classic victory of his career. “It’s awesome; I can’t even believe it. I […]
Garrett McNamara will be facing the Nazaré winter giants with a new surfboard made entirely out of Portuguese cork. The Hawaiian daredevil is back in Europe with groundbreaking innovations. A joint venture between Mercedes-Benz, Corticeira Amorim and Polen Surfboards gave birth to a cork missile. One year after announcing the spectacular “MBoard 1.0”, McNamara gets […]
Kai Lenny is the 2014 Stand Up World Tour champion. The Hawaiian waterman secured a back-to-back title in a dramatic season finish, at La Torche, France. Drama, tension, tears and joy. Lenny watched from the beach as Zane Schweitzer put an end to Caio Vaz’s world title hopes in the quarterfinals of the La Torche […]
Vasco Ribeiro and Mahina Maeda have conquered the ASP World Junior Championships 2014, in Ribeira D’Ilhas, Ericeira, in Portugal. It could’ve been an all-Portuguese or all-Brazilian final, but the last minutes of the semifinals were critical for both flags. Local hero Tomas Fernandes missed the final by a very narrow margin, but fellow countryman Vasco Ribeiro […]
The Surfing Chefs have raised more than $55,000 for SurfAid’s mother and child health programs in Indonesia. Tom Carroll, two-time world surfing champion, joined a group of elite celebrity Surfing Chefs to serve up an exquisite multi-course canapé menu sourced from local Perth produce. The chefs were Russell and Sam Blaikie, Ben O’Donoghue, Aaron Carr, […]
We call it surfer’s eye and red eye, but the scientific jargon is pterygium. So, what are the causes, symptoms and treatments for a fairly common problem in surfing? Blame it on the elements. Sun, sand, wind and salt are responsible for the surfer’s eye. Although the exact cause is still unknown, scientists believe the […]
The perfect surf at Scorpion Bay, in Mexico, is being threatened by a deep ocean phosphate mining project. Scorpion Bay is one of the best surf spots in Mexican waters, but the perfect peeling right-handers may have their days numbered because of “Don Diego,” a mining adventure led by Exploraciones Oceánicas. “The mining permits allow […]
Three surfers have lost their lives in a rip current off Mawgan Porth Beach, near Newquay, Cornwall, in England. Two men and a woman, with ages between 42 and 52, were surfing in challenging conditions, with powerful three-to-six foot waves hitting the Cornish shores. “The waves were bigger, they were quite big. And it wasn’t […]
Fernando Aguerre has been re-elected as president of the International Surfing Association (ISA), at the ISA 50th Anniversary World Surfing Games in Punta Rocas, Peru. The iconic Argentinean enters his eighth term as president of the world governing body for the sport of surfing, with two new vice-presidents: Barbara Kendall, New Zealand Olympic Windsurfing gold […]