The second day of competition at the 2015 Vans World Cup of Surfing got underway in spectacular Hawaiian conditions, with waves hitting 20 feet plus. In one of the most exciting heats of Round 2, Ezekiel Lau, Jamie O’Brien, Patrick Gudauskas and Leonardo Fioravanti used all their knowledge to tackle the big surf and move […]
The calendar for the 2016 World Surf League (WSL) has been announced. The 2016 Samsung Galaxy Men’s Championship Tour (CT) remains unchanged. It will kick off in the Gold Coast, Australia, on March 20th, and it will wrap up on December 20th, in Pipeline Hawaii. The world’s best male surfers will compete in 11 events. […]
Kanoa Igarashi has done it. The US surfer will take part on the 2016 World Surf League Championship Tour. The 18-year-old surfer from Huntington Beach won the 2015 Mahalo Surf Eco Festival, in Brazil. Igarashi defeated Connor O’Leary in the final held at Praia da Tiririca, in Itacaré, and confirmed a golden spot among the […]
The Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2015 is a decisive stop on the World Surf League (WSL) Men’s Championship Tour (CT). Mick Fanning is in the driving seat, but Adriano de Souza is ready to take control of the rankings. Only 450 points separate the Brazilian from the Australian. Peniche and its Supertubos will likely […]
The Azores Islands will host the 2016 Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, between September 17th-24h. The Portuguese archipelago located in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean has been chosen by the International Surfing Association (ISA) to host a competition that, in the past, crowned champions such as Matt Wilkinson, Stephanie Gilmore, Julian Wilson, Owen […]
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 […]
Classic four-to-six-foot waves greeted the planet’s best surfers, as the 2015 Hurley Pro kicks off at Lower Trestles, California. Kelly Slater has done his job. In a peak he certainly knows well (he won six times at Lowers), the 11-time world champion kept his composure and navigated through to Round 3. “I think I’ve found […]
Jeremy Flores defeated Gabriel Medina to claim the 2015 Billabong Pro Tahiti, at Teahupoo. The “Helmet Man” played a tactical game to secure the second victory on the Championship Tour (CT). Flores opened the final with an excellent 9.87-point ride, a wave that would be critical to success. “Gabriel is one tactical guy, so I […]
Maxime Huscenot defeated Nomme Mignot to conquer the 2015 Soöruz Lacanau Pro, held in bumpy three-to-five foot surf, at Lacanau, in France. The competition was completely dominated by French surfers, who made the most of local knowledge to dominate the shifty beach break of Grande Plage. Huscenot used his powerful backhand snaps to take an […]
The world’s best young guns will ride for glory at the 2015 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Junior Surfing Championship, to be run in Oceanside, California, between October 11th-18th. Tom Curren, Gabriel Medina, Julian Wilson, Jordy Smith, Alejo Muniz, Filipe Toledo, Owen Wright, Stephanie Gilmore, Sally Fitzgibbons, Laura Enever and Tyler Wright have won gold […]