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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

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

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

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

POW SURFING: BETTER LATE SEASON THAN NEVER

The dudes at Grassroots Powderdersurfing are on a next level program with seemingly simple boards that appear to provide next level snowskate performance in the pow. While most of America was cueing up the barbie over Memorial day Weekend [...]

Posted On : Jun, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Surfing America Prime presented by Got Milk?

Watching the charts leading into the weekend of the final East Coast Surfing America Prime event of the season at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, it was apparent that there would be no shortage of surf. Howling ENE winds were kicking [...]

Posted On : May, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

SURFING: TSB BANK NZ SURF FESTIVAL | SALLY FITZGIBBONS SAILS...

The opening round of the TSB Bank New Zealand Surf Festival featuring the Dow AgroSciences Pro – the third stop on the 2012 ASP Women's World Championship Tour – saw the world's elite women riding two-to-three foot lon [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Friends remember Ben Lomond man who died while surfing the H...

PLEASURE POINT - Scott Woodworth was a dedicated surfer, expert angler and contractor who often taught others his skills, friends said. "He had kind of a gruff exterior, but he was a big teddy bear," said friend Sara Holt. " [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Zen claims first in surfing tour

While the wind dropped compared with the storm of the last two days, the sunny day helped the sea breeze strengthen all day and it again affected surface conditions. Zen won the final scoring 11.83 out of 20 points in the final. His highe [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

Teen wake surfing with dolphins off St. Pete Beach

Imagine the thrill of being able to surf with dolphins! According to some, it happens all the time, just offshore of Pinellas Beaches. Check out this video of 15-year-old Mitchell Overton wake surfing behind the Trade Winds on St. P [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Surfing Heritage Foundation gets new director

Bolton Colburn, former director of the Laguna Art Museum, is the new executive director of the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente. Colburn, a surfer who won a U.S. amateur title in the 1970s, was at the helm of the Laguna Art Mus [...]