Jake Sylvester has taken out the 2013 Rangi Pro Junior, after defeating Mitch Parkinson, in solid 6 foot (2 meter) stand up barrels, in the Tuamotu atolls in French Polynesia. Sylvester’s second win on the ASP Australasian Pro Junior Series is a combination of big scores with deep tubes and explosive turns. “It was a […]
Ramzi Boukhiam has suffered a tympanic membrane perforation while surfing Teahupoo, in Tahiti. The 19-year pro surfer from Agadir, Morocco, was riding a medium-sized wave in Teahupoo, when the accident happened. “It was not a big day, but there were good two-meter perfect wave. I felt good and I was waiting for a bomb. I […]
An air freight and logistics company has launched a surfboard shipping and handling division. Surfers are travelers and need to move fast and quickly to the pumping surf spots. When there’s no time to lose and surfboards must arrive with no scratches and cracks, you can’t trust airline companies. Alliance Air Freight & Logistics, a […]
Millions of surf fans and hundreds of surf judges have seen and worked with it. Beach Byte is the official scoring system of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP). When you mix a passion for surfing, a mathematical algorithm, technology and entrepreneurial impetus, you’ve got Beach Byte, a leading computer system especially designed for surfing […]
The 2013 Big Wave World Tour season will kick-off with the Quiksilver Ceremonial Chile, at Punta de Lobos. The waiting period runs between April 15th and June 15h. The world’s best big wave surfers return to the infamous Chilean surf spot for the 15th year. Punta de Lobos is located six kilometers south of Pichilemu, […]
Adriano de Souza has taken out the 2013 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, after beating Nat Young, in the clean three-to-five foot (1 – 1.5 metre) Australian waves. Adriano de Souza is the first South American to win the event, held for the first time 52 year ago. “This is the most important event on […]
Carissa Moore has conquered the the 2013 Rip Curl Women’s Pro Bells Beach, after defeating Tyler Wright, in clean three-to-five foot (1 – 1.5 metre) waves. The Hawaiian surfer girl is back in the lead of the ASP Women’s World Championship Tour (WCT) ratings, for the first time in over a year. “To win Bells […]
“Peaking – A Big Wave Surfer’s Perspective” is a new, six-part original series featuring six different athletes at six different waves and document the intense 72-hour window around major swell events. The first episode features former Big Wave World Champion, Jamie Sterling, at the 2013 Mavericks Invitational. The word “challenge” doesn’t quite cover what it […]
Surf Images, one of the largest online stocks of surfing photography, will be providing surfing murals, prints and posters for all surf fans and photo enthusiasts. With 50,000 surf-inspired photos, SurfImages.com has been collecting high-quality images from surfing and surfers from around the world, for the last eight years. The online photo project is licensing […]
Four Australians, three Brazilians and one South Africa are heading for the Quarterfinals of the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach 2013, in Australia. Perfect, clean three-to-five foot (1 – 1.5 metre) waves rolled through the aquatic amphitheater of Bells Beach to showcase incredible upsets and astonishing surfing action. Kelly Slater suffered a shock elimination this […]