The solid 8-foot Christmas swell that hit Australia’s Gold Coast was a welcome relief for wave-starved surfers suffering from tiny Southern Hemisphere summer conditions. Snapper Rocks, Kirra, and Burleigh pumped for the first time in months. But while surfers reveled in the conditions, organizers…
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…
Puerto Rico? Nobody thinks about the Caribbean until those frosty fronts come swinging out of Canada in December.
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.
La Jolla’s Windansea beach is hallowed ground in the surf realm. The sport took root here in the forties, with surfers like Peter Parkin, Bob Simmons, and Woody Ekstrom. The next generation made their presence known at Waimea, Sunset, and Pipeline.
We’ve seen the next generation asert themselves on the ASP World Tour as of late, and now it would appear that’s trickling over to standup paddling. Over the weekend 17-year-old Connor Baxter took out a heady field in the Battle of the Paddle, an event that’s become the gold standard for the SUP set.
Does fear not exist in surfing anymore? Are there any boundaries left to be pushed? Doesn’t seem like it
With El Nino priming the pump everywhere around the world, this could be a big-wave season to remember.
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