The 2015 Vans US Open of Surfing is officially on. There were big scores and a few upsets in the first day of competition, held in three-to-four foot (1 metre) surf at Huntington Beach. Patrick Gudauskas scored the day’s highest heat total of 16.36 and won his heat. He managed to outcome a dangerous Championship […]
Ready to catch waves at midnight? Suffering from insomnia? No problem. The world’s first artificial wave pool turned the flood lights on. The night surfing era has just begun. Wavegarden has teamed up with a range of leading technical suppliers to light up their headquarters in Northern Spain. The surf pool masters invited three surfers […]
Kelly Slater, Gabriel Medina and Mick Fanning will compete against each other in Round 4 of the J-Bay Open 2015, at Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. Three world champions in a heat. One of them will secure a ticket to the quarterfinals when competition resumes at the iconic pointbreak. And Adriano de Souza is the only […]
Max Wetteland, one of the most influential surfers in South Africa, has passed away at age 76. Wetteland was born in Durban, in 1938. He began surfing at 12, and when he was 15 he already rode his own wooden boards. In the late 1050s, Max won three national paddleboard championships. For many, he was […]
The Canary Islands Surf Film Award will deliver 50,000 euros to the best surfing movie made on the archipelago’s beaches. The largest prize purse ever in a surf movie competition wants filmmakers to shoot locally and with surfing, bodyboarding, windsurfing and kiteboarding as the main theme. “The Canary Islands are an international reference location for […]
Kingii is the world’s smallest personal inflatable device. It can save lives, and it is rechargeable. The Kingii (ken-gee) is named after the Chlamydosaurus kingii, also known as the frilled-neck lizard. This animal found mainly in northern Australia and southern New Guinea. The idea behind the Kingii is quite simple. Annually, around 372.000 people drown […]
Wavegarden has announced a strategic partnership with Leitner, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of ropeway systems. You need heavy engineering to produce the longest man-made waves in the planet. And that is why Wavegarden will use Leitner’s DirectDrive – a low-speed synchronous, electric motor – to pump perfect surfing rides. “To develop the technology […]
Sixty-six surfers have set a new Guinness World Record for the most people riding a surfboard at once, in Huntington Beach, California. The 1,300 pound, 42-foot surfboard performed brilliantly, as 66 surfing enthusiasts climbed on the giant custom-made platform to set, at least, a new Guinness World Record. “You guys were officially amazing. Welcome to […]
The 2015 Quiksilver Pro Casablanca will be the first ever pro surfing contest held in Morocco. The Royal Moroccan Surfing Federation (RMSF) and World Surf League (WSL) have teamed up to deliver a Men’s QS1,500 event in the Northern-Africa region. The competition is scheduled to run from September 8th-12th, at Anfaplace. “We are very excited […]
Isa Sebastião has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest non-stop river journey on a stand up paddleboard (SUP), in Portugal. The Portuguese athlete initially planned to paddle 130 kilometers (80.7 miles) in the Sado River, but she eventually ended up make 170 kilometers (105.6 miles) in 24 hours. “When I was two hours […]