The Eddie Aikau Foundation announced the 2019 The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational with an all-star line-up and new format. For the 34th annual event, 32 invitees and 18 alternates will be invited, including nine females. For the first time ever, seven legends will take The Bay in the first heat of the day and […]
The first Surf Ranch outside of the United States will be built in Coolum Beach, a seaside town located on the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland, Australia. The World Surf League (WSL) teamed up with a local development partner to install Kelly Slater’s signature wave pool in a parcel of land located ten minutes away from […]
Have you ever spotted a quadrilateral-shaped wave pattern in the ocean? If so, you’ve witnessed square waves. Most of the waves reach the shore and break horizontally and parallel to the coastline. However, in some regions of the world, you may notice the creation of a chessboard-like pattern on the surface of the water.
Mark Boyd and Iona McLachlan have taken out the 2019 Scottish National Surfing Championships, in Caithness, Scotland. The event got underway at Sinclair’s Bay and Brims Ness, in the Scottish Highlands, and attracted 59 surfers. Athletes competed across eight divisions, in a four-person priority system powered by live and online scoring.
Italo Ferreira and Caroline Marks have taken out the 2019 Quiksilver Pro and 2019 Boost Mobile Pro Gold Coast, at Duranbah Beach, in New South Wales. The first event of the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour season wrapped up in two-to-four foot waves. In the men’s final, Italo Ferreira is at the top of […]
Stu Gibson and Chippa Wilson claimed the 2019 Nikon Surf Photo and Video of the Year Awards. Gibson conquered the 2019 Nikon Surf Photo of the Year Award with his image “Mikey Brennan,” while “Octopus Video No. 4,” shot by Chippa Wilson was the winner of the 2019 Nikon Surf Video of the Year. “I […]
It was the year of the first soft landing on the Moon. In 1966, “Peanuts” went surfing. And skateboarding. Or at least, they tried to ride a few waves through mind surfing. Everybody knows “Peanuts.” The famous comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz is one of the most successful and influential cartoons […]
The 2019 World Surf League (WSL) Men’s Championship Tour (CT) will feature competitors from ten different nations. The top 34 includes 11 Brazilian surfers, eight Australian athletes, four American competitors, four Hawaiian surfers, two French wave riders, and single representatives from South Africa, Tahiti, Japan, Italy, and New Zealand. The men’s 2019 CT is comprised […]
The World Surf League (WSL) has provisionally suspended Tanner Hendrickson from all professional surfing competitions. Yesterday, the Hawaiian attacked Championship Tour (CT) surfer Michael Rodrigues on the North Shore of Oahu. The WSL will now run a full investigation on the incident. The Brazilian had just finished an interview for Canal Off when Hendrickson blocked […]
Japan has taken out the 2018 ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, in Huntington Beach, USA. The Japanese junior surfing team claimed their first-ever gold medal in the event organized by the International Surfing Association (ISA). The Land of the Rising Sun won six medals across all four competitive divisions, including a gold medal in the […]