Who will claim the Vans US Open of Surfing 2016? The event runs from July 23rd-31st, in Huntington Beach, California. The last American to win the iconic contest was Kelly Slater, in 2011, but the US armada will try to recapture the trophy lost to Julian Wilson (2012), Alejo Muniz (2013), Filipe Toledo (2014) and Hiroto […]
The finalists of the Oakley Surf Shop Challenge 2016 are ready for the decisive clash, to be held October 5th-6th in Lower Trestles, California. The competition was born in the early 1980 and pits four-man surf shop teams against each other. The qualifying contests found seven regional champions across the United States. Now, they’re ready […]
Mick Fanning is the Waterman of the Year 2016 by the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA). The three-time world surfing champion from Sydney, Australia, will be honored at the 27th Annual Waterman’s Weekend between August 5th-6th 2016, in Laguna Beach, California. Fanning, who has never had an easy road throughout his career, experienced last season […]
The Surfer’s Journal is celebrating its 25th anniversary. And they’re just warming up. Still indie as ever. The Californian surf publication from San Clemente was founded by Steve Pezman and Debbee Bradley, in 1991. Their goal was to create a high-quality quarterly surf magazine with little advertising. The whole concept was different from everything else […]
Mavericks delivered one of the finest days of big wave surfing of the decade. The swell was powered by El Niño. Waves in the 30-to-40-foot range hit the famous surf break located off the coast of Half Moon Bay, in Northern California, and the opportunity was not unnoticed by dozens of well-known chargers. Kai Lenny, […]
David Eggers has passed away at the age of 45, in Salton Sea, California. The goofy-footer was one of the stars of surfing in the 1980s. Eggers was born in Mountain View, California, in 1970. He caught his first wave at the age of seven. By 1984, David had already won two United States Amateur […]
The Gold Coast has been announced as the 8th World Surfing Reserve (WSR). The official ceremony will take place in 2016. The World Surfing Reserves is a program designed and launched by Save The Waves Coalition, in 2009. Australia’s Gold Coast joins Malibu, Ericeira, Manly Beach, Santa Cruz, Huanchaco, Bahia Todos Santos, Baja California, and […]
Bruno Hansen, Jesse Billauer, Mark “Mono” Stewart and Felipe Lima have been crowned the 2015 ISA World Adaptive Surfing champions, at La Jolla, in California. The inaugural ISA World Adaptive Surfing Championship saw Brazilian surfer Fellipe Lima collecting a heat total of 12.93 and winning the first-ever gold medal in the Upright division. “I couldn’t […]
Mick Fanning has taken out the 2015 Hurley Pro, at Lower Trestles, California. The Australian surfer defeated Adriano de Souza in a tight final held in three-to-five-foot surf. Fanning’s near-perfect 9.77 wave proved to be decisive. “This has been a great event for me. I came in early, and we had amazing waves. I’ve had […]
While the trains pass by, the world’s best surfers paddle out for the 2015 Hurley Pro, at the cobblestone break of Lower Trestles, Southern California. Surfers now call it a surf park. Trestles and its multiple peaks are the stars of San Onofre State Beach, a place that seems to have been designed for riding […]