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Frederico Morais wins 2019 Hawaiian Pro

Frederico Morais has taken out the 2019 Hawaiian Pro in Haleiwa, on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The Portuguese surfer won the first jewel of the Triple Crown of Surfing (TCS) after defeating Leonardo Fioravanti, Matthew McGillivray, and Ethan Ewing in the final. Morais, who has just qualified for the 2020 World Surf League […]

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How much money does an average pro surfer make?

How do professional surfers make money? How much do they earn a year? Can a pro surfer make a living off competition? Pro surfing is a relatively new thing. You can only talk of professional surfing careers when the ASP World Tour began its operations in the early 1980s. Believe it or not, today, there […]

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Top 10 reasons for retiring from professional surfing

Retirement is always a critical moment in any professional surfer’s life. There are three different stages in the process of changing a career – the reflection, the public announcement itself, and the day after. And each one of them is hard to deal with. Life is continually changing, and nothing lasts forever. Compared to executives, […]

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Invitees announced for 2019/2020 Perfect Chapter

The 16 names of the surfers that will take part in the 2019/2020 Perfect Chapter have been announced. The seventh edition of the tube riding specialty event will take place on the best day of the Portuguese winter season at Praia de Carcavelos, in Cascais. The waiting period runs from November 17, 2019, to January […]

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Justine Dupont surfed "the greatest wave of her life" in Nazaré

French big wave surfer Justine Dupont is seen surfing a potentially record-breaking wave in Nazaré, Portugal. On Wednesday, November 13, Dupont, 28, had spent the day in the cold water, surfing for hours on end. Seeing others heading back, she decided to try it one last time. “We’d already been in the water for four […]

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What is the appeal of surfing?

The famous saying “only a surfer knows the feeling” sounds very enigmatic, but perfectly sums up the indescribable emotion of walking on water. Surfing is not only a sport but also a lifestyle. It starts as a hobby, or something you simply wanted to experiment with, but quickly becomes something more. There seems to be a […]

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The 2019/2020 Nazaré winter season is officially open

Here we go again. November 5, 2019, marks the first big swell of the winter season in Nazaré, Portugal. Conditions weren’t perfect, but that’s what defines this place and these waves. Nazaré is a product of Mother Nature’s authenticity and rawness. Portuguese filmmaker Luís Coelho captured the power of Praia do Norte from different yet, […]

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