The 2020 ISA World Surfing Games will take place in El Salvador from May 9-17. The International Surfing Association (ISA) announced that the historic edition of the event will run at El Sunzal and La Bocana. The 2020 ISA World Surfing Games will determine the final 12 Olympic qualifiers – five men and seven women […]
Kelly Slater’s 2019 Oi Rio Pro jersey is currently orbiting around the Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). The 11-time world champion gifted American astronaut and scientist, Christina H. Koch, the signed singlet Slater competed with in Rio de Janeiro, in June 2019. Koch joined the crew at the ISS as a flight engineer […]
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 […]
Chaminade University of Honolulu’s Summer Institutes 2020 will shine a spotlight on the emerging academic field of Surf Studies with two special events. The four-week Surf Studies in Hawaii Institute will provide the opportunity to participate in the building of a community of experience dedicated to the study of surfing and surf culture. The Institute […]
Awarding winning producers, arrangers, and musicians Gordon Minette and Chris Palmaro are founders of the music group The SurfinTynes. Surrounded by concrete and steel, one day, Minette and Palmaro – both from New York City – starred out the window of Gordon’s recording studio on 14th Street, tired and burnt out from the pressure and […]
Technology is changing the way we surf. Meet Boost Surfing, the attachable electric surfboard fin created to help surfers paddle faster and longer. The idea became a reality thanks to Alex Ostanin, a mechanical engineer from Huntington Beach, California, and Dmitri Kozhevnikov, an entrepreneur from San Francisco. The duo wanted to develop something that would […]
Qiu Zhuo became the first Chinese athlete to advance in a major World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) event. Zhuo secured a second-place finish in his Round 1 heat of the 2020 Corona Open China, held in Riyue Bay, Wanning. The Chinese needed a 4.27 to get past Jackson Butler. In the final minutes, […]
Qiu Zhuo became the first Chinese athlete to advance in a major World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) event. Zhuo secured a second-place finish in his Round 1 heat of the 2020 Corona Open China, held in Riyue Bay, Wanning. The Chinese needed a 4.27 to get past Jackson Butler. In the final minutes, […]
Qiu Zhuo became the first Chinese athlete to advance in a major World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) event. Zhuo secured a second-place finish in his Round 1 heat of the 2020 Corona Open China, held in Riyue Bay, Wanning. The Chinese needed a 4.27 to get past Jackson Butler. In the final minutes, […]
Qiu Zhuo became the first Chinese athlete to advance in a major World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) event. Zhuo secured a second-place finish in his Round 1 heat of the 2020 Corona Open China, held in Riyue Bay, Wanning. The Chinese needed a 4.27 to get past Jackson Butler. In the final minutes, […]