Tag Archives: australia

Early days in Oz

It’s been hot, but there have been moments of relief. Australia’s kind of like that. The talent showed up around Coolengatta early, before the Breaka Burrleigh Pro, and there were a few sessions over the hill at D-Bah and even Kirra had a couple waves. Gallery In two weeks time the surf world’s…

Taj Burrow Leads Pack Into Quarters At Quiksilver Pro France

LA GRAVIERE, Hossegor/France (Tuesday, October 11, 2011) – After surviving this morning’s five-hour fog delay, the Quiksilver Pro France resumed in clean three-to-five foot (1 – 1.5 metre) conditions at La Graviere, completing Rounds 4 and 5 of competition.

Undaunted: The Nathan Fletcher Interview

Text here Nathan Fletcher is the guy that stays in the water after dark. He paddles out when it’s windy and there are three-foot waves at State Park in San Clemente, Calif., or when it’s 25-foot and freezing in Half Moon Bay.

"The morning of the final"

In the immortal words of Kelly Slater, “It is the morning of the final.” Told in a scene from his 1991 film “Black and White,” a bright eyed and bushy tailed teen Slater wakes up and mumbles the sentence that would launch the greatest career in pro surfing history. I wonder if he’s saying that […]

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