TravelSIM Team Australia has finished third behind Hawaii and the USA at the Nicaragua ISA World Masters Surfing Championship while Sandra English (Budgewoi, NSW) collected the silver medal in the Women’s Masters Division.
With three days of competition remaining until the finals, the action on day five of the Nicaragua ISA World Masters Surfing Championship continued in contestable 3 foot (1 metre) conditions at Colorado Beach at Hacienda Iguana.
CÔTE DES BASQUES, Biarritz – France (Friday, July 13, 2012) – Beautiful conditions greeted competitors this morning in Biarritz and the Roxy Pro finally started with the opening heat of the day entering the water at 7:30am. Sunny and warm weather along with 3-5Ft clean waves were on offer throughout the day and allowed the […]
In order to chase a swell one has to be willing to sacrifice everything. This last swell at Cloubreak was worth every sacrifice in the world to me. Although not as big as the infamous Volcom Fiji Pro swell, it stacked up equally in other ways. Gallery Kelly Slater, Joel Parkinson and Alex Gray…
We didn’t score until the last two hours of my most recent trip to Japan. Chris Burkard and I had been in the country for two weeks, and we’d had a blast making friends and surfing, but it wasn’t until the last day, just before a huge storm came through, and just before our flight, […]
“Ten years from now I feel like I could still be winning contests.” Kelly Slater said that four years ago in 2008 a day after winning his ninth world title at the Billabong Pro in Mundaka, Spain. He was 36 years old and had just capped off the most dominant season of his career, having […]
Rockaway Beach has got a fun little wave today — three- to four-foot and mostly clean. The Atlantic is a little warmer than it should be in mid June. When the air warms up a bit this afternoon you can probably trunk it. But realistically, high tide is this evening at 5:45, which means it […]
The Billabong Rio Pro returned to the lefthanders of Arpoador to complete Round 2 of women’s competition in challenging one-to-three foot (0.5 metre) waves.
This weekend, while most of the surf industry’s collective attention was turned toward the Nike Lowers Pro and Billabong XXL Awards, another group of wave riders quietly gathered. Flying (or sliding, as it were) under the radar, is right where these folks are used to being. Most surfers by now have…
The best surfing Lowers has historically been the most progressive, but sometimes when pushing the performance level the experimentation with equipment falls by the wayside. But lately that’s changing as more surfers are opening up their minds to the potential of designs like the Mini Simmons and wider,…