Tolcarne Beach welcomed the 2020 English National U18 & Open Shortboard Championships. It’s been a weekend for the history books for English surfing. Peony Knight successfully took the women’s champion title for a consecutive year, and Luke Dillon returned to the English competition scene to claim the men’s trophy.
Jayce Robinson and Peony Knight have taken out the men’s and women’s open titles at the 2019 English National Surfing Championships. England’s finest surfing talents have once again come together and descended on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall. With over 180 entries in 19 divisions, the battle for the prestigious English Titles was on.
Joey Buran will lead the United States surfing team into the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in Japan. USA Surfing, the national governing body for the sport of surfing in the United States of America, announced that Buran will be the head coach of the US Olympic surfing team. Joey Buran won the 1984 Pipeline […]
Andrew Stark has been appointed the general manager of World Surf League (WSL) Australia and Oceania. The Australian surfer served Surfing Australia for nine-and-a-half years, as its chief executive officer (CEO). Today, Australia’s governing body for the sport of surfing is an active organization with 28 employees, and an annual turnover of $AUD 7 million.
Sharks attacks events are extremely rare, but when they occur, they always make the news and generate a serious social alarm. Despite the flashy headlines, the truth is that humans are not part of the shark’s diet and, in most cases, it privileges the less dangerous hit-and-run attacks. And, in many cases, the injuries and […]
The Canadian prime minister has gone surfing in Long Beach, British Columbia. The moment was captured by Paul Freimuth. Despite the low air and water temperatures, Justin Trudeau decided to adventure himself into the waves of Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. The good-looking statesman from Ottawa got the most out of the pumping swell […]
To be a surfer you have to love the feeling of surfing. It takes a lot of hard work to catch waves. The learning curve for surfing can be quite steep. If you take lessons and pick the right board shape and size, for the right wave height and speed, you are steps closer to […]
Surfing England has been recognized as the national governing body (NGB) for the sport of surfing. The official announcement was made by Sport England, the country’s sports authority, and it opens a new chapter in the development of surfing in Britain. The governmental decision puts an end to a difficult seven-year ordeal that halted the […]
Ocean buoys measure a whole range of weather variables such as wave height, swell period and direction, wind speed and direction, air and water temperature, and barometric pressure. These heavy and colored weather stations are usually placed by national meteorological centers in open ocean. In the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) […]
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 […]