Mick Fanning and Owen Wright have been confirmed on the 2017 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour. The three-time world surfing champion decided to return to competition again, after spending most of 2016 in free surf and decompression mode. Fanning says he is highly motivated and ready to do battle. “2015 was a tough year. […]
Cloudbreak delivered building six-to-eight foot (2 – 2.5 meter) waves, and John John Florence and Taj Burrow surfed the heat of the season. When someone loses a heat with a total score of 18.60 points, it’s easy to guess what happened. Taj Burrow, 38, rode the last wave of his 18-year career on the Championship […]
The World Surf League (WSL) has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in the Kelly Slater Wave Company (KSWC). The pro surfing tour aims to build “a global network of WSL-branded high-performance training centers” with the surf pool concept designed by Kelly Slater. The deal is inked via WSL Holdings, the parent company of […]
Josh Kerr has claimed the 2016 Todos Santos Challenge, held in spectacular 30-to-40-foot surf at Killers, a spot located off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. The World Championship Tour surfer put his big wave surfing trumps into play, and stormed an elite field of specialists, with two high-scored rides – a 7.87 and an […]
David Eggers has passed away at the age of 45, in Salton Sea, California. The goofy-footer was one of the stars of surfing in the 1980s. Eggers was born in Mountain View, California, in 1970. He caught his first wave at the age of seven. By 1984, David had already won two United States Amateur […]
The 2014 North American FLOW Tour will be surfed in 12 stops across the USA. The world’s largest flowboarding tour is held at waterparks, stand-alone venues, and hotels/resorts, where the best riders showcase their skills for titles in their respected divisions, cash, prizes and bragging rights for the year. “The Tour allows friends, families and […]