The technology behind North America’s first artificial surf pool is fine-tuned to deliver three different waves at three distinct breaks named Reef, Inside and Bay. As a result, NLand will pump waves ranging between 1.5 and 6.3 feet (0.5 and 1.9 meters). Josema Odriozola, the founder of Wavegarden, says that they are able to produce […]
A group of Maldivian surfers was arrested after protesting against the construction of a bridge that will connect the island of Malé to the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, and will destroy the local surf break. Eleven protesters were taken into custody after swimming towards a tugboat anchored off Raalhugandu. The authorities say that one surfer […]
KLM is welcoming surfboards on all intercontinental flights. For free. The Royal Dutch Airlines has announced that it will carry surf equipment on all KLM, and all Air France operated flights. The oldest airline in the planet has even set up a site for their new surfer friends (surf.klm.com). “On intercontinental flights, travelers can now […]
It’s hard to figure that 13 years ago, when Billabong’s Cosmic Creek Challenge first started, that it would be what it is today, or that it would still be even running. Conceived by the maestro of crappy equipment, Donavon Frankenreiter and his longtime friend and co-conspirator Eric Diamond, the initial…
We didn’t score until the last two hours of my most recent trip to Japan. Chris Burkard and I had been in the country for two weeks, and we’d had a blast making friends and surfing, but it wasn’t until the last day, just before a huge storm came through, and just before our flight, […]
NOOSA/QLD (13th March, 2012: THE increasingly popular Logger Pro, sponsored by Laguna Bay Longboards, launched proceedings of day three of the 2012 GSI Noosa Festival Of Surfing, and First Point Noosa again delivered.
NOOSA/QLD (11th March, 2012): THE Noosa Festival Of Surfing sponsored by Global Surf Industries has launched into a flying start for its 21st year, with a slight though highly contestable swell rolling into the natural amphitheatre of Noosa’s First Point.