Chances are if you’re from the States you haven’t heard much about Romain Cloitre, let alone seen his surf talents in action, but to be sure, dude rips. Part of a hard-charging, full-on crew from the south Indian Ocean that’s quickly catching up to more global powerhouses like the United States and…
Skateboarding is a baby compared to surfing. While we’re celebrating the Z-Boys of the 70s and the Bones Brigade of the 80s as our pioneers, surfing was already huge in America for three or four decades by that point (I’m not even going to get into how it dates all the way back to the […]
The best surfing Lowers has historically been the most progressive, but sometimes when pushing the performance level the experimentation with equipment falls by the wayside. But lately that’s changing as more surfers are opening up their minds to the potential of designs like the Mini Simmons and wider,…
As we recently said in our Bells Beach preview, Taj Burrow is probably the most consistent surfer of the last decade besides Kelly Slater. Unfortunately for Burrow, his career happened to coincide with the age of Slater and Andy Irons. Otherwise, he would have won a world title by now. His rookie year,…
Like so many people are learning to do in this compromised economy, Jed Noll knows how to wear multiple hats all at once. It’s just that his extra hats just happen to be a lot cooler than everybody else’s. He hasn’t had to pick up an after-hours waitering job or stoop to ding repair to […]
Ezekiel Lau is a warrior: Literally. The 18-year-old, who is affectionately called “Zeke,” is a senior at Kamehameha Schools and its mascot is the Warriors. In addition, his middle name — bestowed by his great-grandfather — is “Kekoamaikalanimai,” which translates to “warrior from the heavens.” He…
The solid 8-foot Christmas swell that hit Australia’s Gold Coast was a welcome relief for wave-starved surfers suffering from tiny Southern Hemisphere summer conditions. Snapper Rocks, Kirra, and Burleigh pumped for the first time in months. But while surfers reveled in the conditions, organizers…
Puerto Rico? Nobody thinks about the Caribbean until those frosty fronts come swinging out of Canada in December.
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.
In the immortal words of Kelly Slater, “It is the morning of the final.” Told in a scene from his 1991 film “Black and White,” a bright eyed and bushy tailed teen Slater wakes up and mumbles the sentence that would launch the greatest career in pro surfing history. I wonder if he’s saying that […]