The first-ever World Dog Surfing Championships will be held at Linda Mar Beach, in San Francisco, on the 10th September 2016. Some of the world’s best canine wave riders will compete for prizes across six divisions: small dogs, medium dogs, large dogs, very large dogs, tandem dogs, and tandem human/dog. According to the organizers, the first […]
Australian surfers Shane Campbell and Claire Bevilacqua claimed the Boardmasters 2016, in Fistral Beach, England. The British surfing capital delivered fun and sunny three-to-four-foot waves for the finals, but the winners of the European event came from down under. The Men’s final saw Shane Campbell and Angelo Bonomelli catching a lot of waves in the […]
Bernard “Midget” Farrelly, the first world surfing champion, passed away aged 71 after battling cancer for several years. Farrelly was born in Sydney, in 1944, and began surfing when he was only six years old. In the 1960s, “Midget” dominated the competitive scene. He won the 1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships. At 5’8” and 145 […]
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has supported the proposal to add surfing – and four new individual and team sports – to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The sport of surfing will be included in the Games of the XXXII Olympiad. For the first time in its history, surfers will battle […]
The Brazilians love surfing, and the Oi Rio Pro 2016 is back in town. Thousands of enthusiastic surf fans will flock to Grumari between May 10th-21st. The decision has been made. Grumari will serve as the primary contest site for the Oi Rio Pro after a storm destroyed the event’s official structure at Postinho. The spot […]
The capital of New South Wales will have a Wavegarden surf pool by 2018. There are roughly 200,000 surfers in Sydney. The new man-made wave park will be built at Sydney Olympic Park, and the entire structure will occupy an area of 3.2 hectares on an abandoned car park located near ANZ Stadium. Urbnsurf Sydney […]
Matt Wilkinson and Sally Fitzgibbons have been crowned the 2016 Newcastle Surfest champions, at Merewether Beach, in Australia. The finals days of the Maitland and Port Stephens Toyota Pro got underway in clean four-to-six foot waves. World Championship Tour campaigner Matt Wilkinson proved why he is one of the strongest surfers in Australia. The Sydney […]
Pedro Henrique and Maud Le Car have conquered the inaugural Seat Pro Netanya, in three-to-four foot surf at Kontiki Beach, in Israel. The Portuguese-Brazilian surfer enjoyed a flawless stay in Israel by locking in the competition’s combined heat totals and highest single wave scores. Henrique used his air skills and powerful carves to beat Mihimana […]
Billy Stairmand has done it again. The surfer from Raglan claimed his third consecutive national title at the 2016 Billabong National Surfing Championships, held at Clair Beach, Dunedin, in New Zealand. Despite the onshore breeze, the event’s finals got underway, and Stairmand rapidly took control of the decisive clash. Billy rode two waves in the […]
Miki Dora is one the brightest legends in the history of surfing. The sport’s heroic antihero lived 67 years and left a rich legacy of ideas, concepts, expressions, thoughts, and theories. The most famous quotations by Miki Dora tell us what he was, and what he wanted to be. The undisputed “King of Malibu,” the […]