Port Macquarie is again preparing for a two-week surfing extravaganza when it hosts the 2012 Australian Surf Festival supported by Essential Energy from August 11-25.
June 21 was a banner holiday. Even Pearl Jam tweeted “Happy first day of summer and International Surfing Day.” Gallery Scenes from ISD around the world. Gallery Hope you made the most of it. And while a lot of the talk was based around the Surfrider Foundation’s all day Web-A-Thon membership…
The Volcom Fiji Pro, Event No.4 of 10 on the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour, recommenced this afternoon in four-to-six foot (1.5 – 2 metre) waves at Cloudbreak, completing Round 5 and the opening two Quarterfinal match-ups before calling competition off for the day due to unfavourable winds.
The Volcom Fiji Pro completed the remaining two heats of Round 2 this morning in maxing 12-to-15 foot (4– 5 metre) waves at Cloudbreak.
Cloudbreak turned on once again for the world’s best surfers as the opening 10 heats of the elimination Round 2 of the Volcom Fiji Pro were completed in clean four-to-six foot (1 – 1.5 metre) waves at the primary event venue.
Troy Elmore is one of those guys who can ride anything. Now granted, these free-spirited, peripheral surf stars don’t pull down the bucks like the tour studs, but you have to imagine their having a good time. Last year, Elmore joined the Brixton team and started trekking about Australia, riding most…
The ingredients for the Tropical Storm Beryl cocktail were first stirred over Cuba early last week — warm subtropical waters, sugar, convection, mint —until she picked up enough steam to become the second named preseason system of 2012. By Wednesday, still fairly tight to the coast of south Florida,…
Sony has taken a serious stake in the future of Australian surfing by backing the Hurley Surfing Australia High Performance Centre (HPC) at Casuarina Beach in Northern NSW.
It’s funny that modern surfing is considered a “culture” in an anthropological sense. Studying Hawaiian surfing, or any aboriginal peoples as a culture seems to make sense. But the idea of long hairs who owned three pairs of shorts, traveling about, sleeping in cars and chasing waves as a subject of…
Leading surfboard fin manufacturer FCS will maintain a place at the forefront of surf training by becoming the exclusive fin and hardware supplier to the Hurley Surfing Australia High Performance Centre (HPC).