And the 2017 Championship Tour (CT) world surfing champion is John John Florence. The Billabong Pipe Masters is over. The finals day went underway in four-to-six-foot surf, and a packed crowd of surf fans witnessed a tense title race unfold in front of their eyes. Once again, the mother of all waves delivered the goods […]
Gabriel Medina and Julian Wilson will have to surf Round 2 to keep their world title hopes alive. The first day of competition at the 2017 Billabong Pipe Masters saw Kelly Slater returning to the waves after a long injury that kept him out of the game since July. The 11-time world champion won his […]
Bruce Brown, the father of the surf movie genre, has passed away in his sleep at the age of 80. Brown was born on December 1937, in San Francisco, California, and lived his first nine years in Oakland, before moving with his family to Long Beach. His first cinematographic experience was an 8mm short produced […]
Surf Expo is the largest and longest-running water sports trade show on the planet and gathers the world’s leading surf, skate, swim, resort industry and beach lifestyle exhibitors. The first edition of the Surf Expo was held in 1976, and since then it became an influential business gathering. The trade show runs twice a year […]
Brazilian pro surfer Jean da Silva has passed away. The 32-year-old surfer from Joinville was found lifeless in his residence. In 2006, Da Silva finished third at the World Junior Surfing Championship and, four years later, he won the Brazilian Surfing Championships. He was the first surfer from the Santa Catarina state to be crowned […]
I will never forget the surfboard that got me into surfing. It was not a board like the ones I see today in fancy surf shops. It was the most important object I owned in my life. I was born in Porto, the city that gave the name to the oldest country in Europe – […]
The history of surfing is a complicated of facts and assumptions. TED released a five-minute cartoon video featuring a simplified description of the sport of kings. Scott Laderman, author of “Empire in Waves,” and director Silvia Prietov teamed up to create a short animated cartoon that reveals some of the things we know about surfing. The […]
Filipe Toledo has taken out the 2017 Hawaiian Pro, in Haleiwa Ali’i Beach Park, on the North Shore of Oahu. The Brazilian surfer bested a field of tough competitors in the finals and walked away victorious. Toledo beat Griffin Colapinto, Wiggolly Dantas, and Michel Bourez, and secured his first-ever win on the North Shore. The […]
How can you sell your first love? Why do you plan to get rid of the surfboard that got you into surfing? Why should a surfer sell his or her fondest memories? There’s nothing like our first wave. The feeling of walking on water is something will never erase from our waterlogged minds. The stick […]
Danish stand-up paddleboarder Casper Steinfath, 23, has been crowned the 2017 Red Bull Heavy Water champion, in San Francisco, California. Hailed as the most intense stand-up paddleboarding event in the world, the Red Bull Heavy Water put 32 of the world’s best SUP athletes to an extreme paddling and surfing test. Competitors surfed over 15-foot […]