Michel Bourez has taken out the 2016 Billabong Pipe Masters, at Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii. The Tahitian surfer defeated Kanoa Igarashi in the final and secured the third Championship Tour (CT) event win of his career. With this result, Bourez finishes sixth in the season’s rankings. “I still don’t believe it. Last year I got injured, […]
Phil Rajzman claimed his second World Surf League (WSL) Men’s Longboard Tour title, in Riyue Bay, Hainan Island, China. The Brazilian rider won the last event of the season and raised the most coveted trophy in longboarding. Rajzman, who had won his first title nine years ago, defeated Steven Sawyer in the Jeep World Longboard […]
The 2016 Billabong Pipeline Masters in Memory of Andy Irons is ready to ignite the North Shore of Oahu, in Hawaii, from December 8th-20. It’s easy to understand why a long surfing season always ends in Pipeline. The last gem of the Triple Crown of Surfing truly is a gift of nature. Although pretty much […]
Australia has taken out the gold medal at the 2016 Fiji ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship. Shakira Westdorp (SUP Surfing Women), Michael Booth (SUP Distance Racing Men), Harriet Brown (Harriet Brown), and Matt Poole (Paddleboard Racing Technical Men) won five gold medals with the Australian flag. “Our goal was to take the gold back […]
The winner of the 2016 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) title will compete in all three events of the Triple Crown of Surfing. John John Florence wants to end the best year of his professional career so far with a punctuation mark. The youngest surfer to ever win a Triple Crown of Surfing […]
The 2016 Fiji ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship will get underway in Cloudbreak, Namotu, Musket Cove, and Viti Levu from November 12th-18th. The fifth edition of the event organized by the International Surfing Association (ISA) will crown champions across six divisions: SUP Surfing, SUP Technical Race, SUP Distance Race, Paddleboard Technical Race, Paddleboard Distance […]
The World Surf League (WSL) will allow its athletes to compete in the 2017 ISA World Surfing Games. The International Surfing Association (ISA) and the pro surfing circuit will work together to find a date for the World Surfing Games that fits in the WSL calendar. The ISA is the world governing body for the […]
John John Florence has won the 2016 World Surf League Championship Tour (CT). The Hawaiian won his maiden world surfing title. Florence qualified for the final of the Meo Rip Curl Pro Portugal, and saw Jordy Smith failing to win his semifinal heat. He is the surfers’ surfer. John John has been dreaming of becoming […]
The top 3 surfers on the Championship Tour (CT) rankings will have to surf Round 2 at the Meo Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2016, in Supertubos. John John Florence, Gabriel Medina, and Matt Wilkinson were not comfortable in the shifty beach break located in Peniche and will have to win their repechage heat to keep […]
John John Florence is the only surfer who can claim the 2016 World Surf League Championship Tour title at Supertubos, in Peniche. Nevertheless, the world title race still includes no less than nine pro surfers – Florence, Gabriel Medina, Matt Wilkinson, Jordy Smith, Kolohe Andino, Julian Wilson, Filipe Toledo, Kelly Slater, and Adriano de Souza. […]