Retirement is always a critical moment in any professional surfer’s life. There are three different stages in the process of changing a career – the reflection, the public announcement itself, and the day after. And each one of them is hard to deal with. Life is continually changing, and nothing lasts forever. Compared to executives, […]
Jadson Andre has taken out the 2019 Oi Hang Loose Pro Contest, in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. The Brazilian Championship Tour (CT) surfer won the first Qualifying Series (QS) 6,000 event of the season after beating his fellow countryman, Yago Dora, in the final. The decisive heat got underway in challenging, three-foot surf at Cacimba […]
The World Surf League (WSL) announced that the full transition of its live online broadcast to Facebook will take place on July 2. In January, the organization led by Sophie Goldschmidt sealed an agreement with the social network run by Mark Zuckerberg, in which the pro surfing circuit transferred the exclusive live rights to Facebook. […]
Josh Moniz has taken out the 2018 Volcom Pipe Pro, at Banzai Pipeline, on the North Shore of Oahu. The first Qualifying Series (QS) 3,000 contest of the 2018 season got underway in perfect 10-foot Pipeline. The Hawaiian defeated Jamie O’Brien, Weslley Dantas, and Cam Richards, and raised the warrior helmet in glorious and perfect […]
Conner Coffin has taken out the 2017 Vans World Cup of Surfing, at Sunset Beach, Hawaii. The Championship Tour (CT) surfer beat Kolohe Andino, Wade Carmichael, and Griffin Colapinto in the final held in wind-affected, four-to-six foot surf. Coffin only needed four waves to steal the show and claim the second jewel of the 2017 […]
Brazilian pro surfer Jean da Silva has passed away. The 32-year-old surfer from Joinville was found lifeless in his residence. In 2006, Da Silva finished third at the World Junior Surfing Championship and, four years later, he won the Brazilian Surfing Championships. He was the first surfer from the Santa Catarina state to be crowned […]
Ezekiel Lau claimed the 2017 EDP Billabong Pro Cascais title, after defeating Italo Ferreira in clean three-to-four foot surf at Praia do Guincho, the back-up venue in Cascais. In the final, both surfers got off to a slow start with medium scores, Ferreira leading the first exchange with a couple of forehand gauges on a […]
Ramzi Boukhiam and Coco Ho have claimed the 2017 Pro Anglet titles today in two-foot waves. Their victories punctuated an exciting finals day that started with the semifinals in better conditions earlier this morning. Ho and Volcom teammate Maud Le Car, 25, battled in a shifting lineup for their final, as waves become rarer on […]
The Kelly Slater Wave Company (KSWC) filed an application to transform the Leemore surf pool installed. The artificial wave park owned by the World Surf League (WSL) plans to run a year-round operation open to the general public from 6 am to 11 pm, in Northern California. The Surf Ranch developed by Kelly Slater and […]
Historians believe they have found the oldest surf photo ever. It was taken in the early 1890s, in Hawaii. Herbert Smith, an amateur photographer born in Manchester, shot two Polynesian natives carrying surfboards on a sandy beach at Hilo Bay, on the Big Island of Hawaii. According to the specialists, the snap is more than […]