Blogs Posts in Surfing category; 189 blog posts

Surfing event boosts local exposure

THE State Government said the Margaret River Pro delivered a significant tourism lift for the South West. This year’s event, won by Hawaiians Dusty Payne and Carissa Moore, attracted thousands of visitors and had a record number of [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

Surfing - Another lay day called in Hawaii

Competition has been postponed on the North Shore, with waves only reaching heights of between one and three feet. Swell is forecast to be up again on Monday, when organisers hope to resume action. The heats are very slowly progressing th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Rio Breaks: Surfing And Surviving In The Favela

Whether celebrating the steely nerves of those who tackle the big waves in Riding Giants, or the less ambitious charms of the so-bad-its-good Cornish equivalent Blue Juice, surf movies offer audiences a sense of a different life, one that [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Surf life-saving: Surf, high tide result in carnage

Huge surf and high tide combined to cause carnage in the annual White Island boat race off St Clair beach on Saturday. With a record field of 65 lifeguards lining up on all manner of vessels, it was quite a sight as they went off the sand [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Surfing and Body Boarding Contest this weekend

Guam - The 2012 Monster Energy Surf the Basin Surfing and Body Boarding Contest takes place this Saturday at Boat Basin. This year's event will have a gender-neutral open surfing for short board, gender-neutral open long board surfing [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

U.S. Open of Surfing loses sponsors

The most attended surf event in the country lost its title sponsors this week. While still packing up after last week's Hurley Pro surf contest, Hurley and Converse and their parent company Nike have announced that they are pulling ou [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Surfer Kelly Slater wins his 50th world tour event

Slater outdueled Australian Joel Parkinson in the two man final in three to five foot surf at the Lower Trestles beach in California. For the 40-year-old Slater the Hurley Pro was an appropiate place to win his 50th as his first professio [...]

Posted On : Sep, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Stanford’s new surfing robot opens ocean to exploration

Stanford marine biologists have launched the ”Wave Glider” robot, which probing the Pacific Ocean off the California coast to provide researchers with near real-time data of sharks and other animals. The Blue Serengeti Init [...]

Posted On : Aug, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Could a water theme revitalise the east?

Some believe projects with a water theme could help keep eastern Christchurch an important part of the city's future. JOHN McCRONE investigates. So what is the plan for east Christchurch? The west is working. The central city has its [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Small Surf and Big Maneuvers on Day 1 of Airwalk Pro Junior

Small conditions greeted competitors on Day 1 of the ASP 1-Star Men’s and Women’s Airwalk Lacanau Pro Junior with offshore waves in the 1-2Ft range on offer. With a complicated forecast ahead, event officials have decided to r [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Storm Surfers (3D)

I'm not sure I understand why people want to hang off the edge of mountains, jump off bridges attached only to an elastic band, soar off cliffs with only a bit of thin material between them and oblivion. One can only assume that mo [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Nike US Open of Surfing Women’s Rounds 2 and 3 On Today

The Women’s Nike US Open of Surfing, the final stop on the ASP Women’s WCT, is back on today in clean one-to-two foot (.5 metre) waves and today’s proceedings are set to see the completion of Round 2 and the no-losers Ro [...]

Posted On : Aug, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Welcome to Nicaragua

Pork spines, hoofs and snouts dangle from the window of the carniceria. Flies buzz. The smell of fatty meat spoiling in the sun wafts by on the tropical airwaves. The people of Rivas, Nicaragua, shop for dinner. A block up is the farmers [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Aussie's death in Bali: police suspect murder

Indonesian police have opened a murder investigation into the death of an Australian man found on the side of a road in Bali last week. It was initially thought Mark Ovenden, from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, may have died after fall [...]