Yadin Nicol Qualifies for 2012 ASP World Tour
Kieren Perrow Wins The 2011 Billabong Pipe Masters
John John Wins The Vans Triple Crown
Owen Wright Focuses On The Positives
9 Lives Of An Aussie Night Rider
The 2011 ASP World Tour is now over, and the ASP have their Top 34 surfers for 2012 who will do battle for the 2012 ASP World Title. The tour kicks off on Australia’s Gold Coast, February 2012.
He came to the North Shore in 1997 and dedicated himself to learning Pipe and Backdoor, he made last year’s finals but lost out to Jeremy Flores. Now blue collar, Aussie workhorse Kieren Perrow has won his first WCT event. Read more
Anyone who knows surf would’ve been hearing the name John John Florence a lot. He’s been winning awards all over the place, in November he made the semifinals of the Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa and most recently nabbed the Vans World Cup of Surfing. Going into Pipe there were plenty of favourites, and though the youngster didn’t nab Pipe itself – the 19-year-old has won his first ever Vans Triple Crown. Read more
Nike is launching a new web portal that’s dedicated to all things surf – and offers a gateway into the sessions, stories and insights of Nike surfing athletes. Young Brazilian surfing superstar Gabriel Medina is part of the Nike family and to kick things off, they’ve released a very cool video of the talented surfer showing off some truly impressive moves. Read more
Hawaii is one of the world’s most famous locations, and for surfers there’s nothing quite like the challenge of Pipe. Owen Wright and the other competitors on the ASP World Tour will face off at surf’s ultimate humbler, as the season draws to a memorable close with the Billabong Pipeline Masters In Memory of Andy Irons. Wright is currently ranked second and will once again be battling it out with surf’s living legend Kelly Slater, who has six Pipe Masters to his credit.
There are many words to describe what you have just witnessed. Could this be the first glimpses of surfing alien worlds, or is it something else. Could it be the new surfer’s disco….. nope. A Madman has escaped from Australia’s High Security Insane Asylum in the form of 28 year old Mark Visser, an Australian Night Rider, hell bent on charging nocturnal insanity at Jaws off the Hawaiian island of Maui.
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We’ve got the latest Weekly Waimea Report with Mark Healey, plus a flashback to early Feb when the boys took a groundbreaking paddle in session at Jaws on Maui. They almost get cleaned up by a “20-footer” which looked a whole lot bigger than a two story house…
Hawaii’s talented young surfer John John Florence has realized his childhood dream by winning the Vans World Cup at Sunset Beach. It was an overwhelming moment on the podium, winning the event which he first entered back when he was just 12. Read more
There were plenty of big wave surf antics going on this year that stand tall in the 12-year history of the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. Among the surfers who are in early contention for possible nominations are Australians Anthony Walsh, Dylan Longbottom, Marti Paradisis and James McKeen. Read more
Western Australia’s Taj Burrow has won his first Reef Hawaiian Pro title in Hawaii – pocketing $25,000 in prize money and putting him in the lead on the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing ratings. Burrow (33) is virtually a veteran of pro surfing having competed in many titles in the Hawaiian waters over the last 15 years. Going into the finals Burrow claimed that this was the year he was going to make his mark, he didn’t disappoint. Read more
Soulful, emotive, evocative, powerful, graceful and a little funky all packaged in a ridiculously cool being that is SEAL. The Multi Grammy Award Winner is coming to Perth in 2012 and will be performing all of his classic hits as well as his new ones at the Sandalford Estate, Swan Valley Sunday 12th February. Read more
This story hails from Australia, the sunburnt country, the land of sweeping plains, ragged mountain ranges, droughts and flooding rains. Read more
Earlier this month legendary Kelly Slater was crowned the 11th ASP world champion, only to realize he hadn’t yet accumulated the necessary points to nab the award. The ASP endured significant embarrassment over the snafu leading to ASP CEO Brodie Carr stepping down and the next ‘Rip Curl Pro Search’ being pushed back to 2013. Read more
