The Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover, the opening stop on the 2012 Men’s and Women’s ASP World Championship Tours, ran for the third consecutive day at Snapper Rocks today, and the world’s best surfers collectively lifted the high-performance levels today in two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at Snapper Rocks.
The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover, the opening stop on the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour, was back on today with the elimination Round 2 completed in clean three-to-four foot (1 metre) conditions at Snapper Rocks.
TravelSIM Team Australia has captured the ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship with a triumphant victory lap on the final day in Lima, Peru.
Puerto Rico? Nobody thinks about the Caribbean until those frosty fronts come swinging out of Canada in December.
PARK BEACH, Coffs Harbour/NSW (Thursday 6th October): The unbelievable run of quality waves continued for the final day of the Rip Curl GromSearch, Coffs Harbour giving the best 16 and under surfers in the country ample opportunity to showcase their best.
COOLANGATTA/Qld (Saturday, 8th October): Australian beaches were taken over today by more than a thousand children to launch VEGEMITE SurfGroms.
Coolangatta/QLD (Friday, 7th October): Australia’s World No.2 female surfer Sally Fitzgibbons has joined the country’s sporting leaders in Sydney for the 2011 Captains’ Forum.
We’ve seen the next generation asert themselves on the ASP World Tour as of late, and now it would appear that’s trickling over to standup paddling. Over the weekend 17-year-old Connor Baxter took out a heady field in the Battle of the Paddle, an event that’s become the gold standard for the SUP set.