Almost but not quite. Close, but no cigar. Surfing is the most popular board sports in the world with over 20 million active enthusiasts, yet, until 2020, we aren’t seeing it in the Olympic Games. It started as an ancient spiritual activity and now is one of the most relevant water sports in the planet […]
This weekend, while most of the surf industry’s collective attention was turned toward the Nike Lowers Pro and Billabong XXL Awards, another group of wave riders quietly gathered. Flying (or sliding, as it were) under the radar, is right where these folks are used to being. Most surfers by now have…
The 9th edition of the International Surfing Day is ready to take over the world, on the 24th June 2012. Every year, since 2004, International Surfing Day has launched the summer season. In 2011, more than 195 surfing events took place in 34 countries, so that people who hadn’t discovered the pleasures of surfing could […]
Surfing decals are a great way of adding your own style and ideas to your favourite surfboards. Vintage logos, pin-ups, mermaids, post-modern sayings, political signs, spiritual badges and Hawaiian natives. There are many inspirational stickers that you can put right in your plank. Some surfers like to add simple decals in the nose; others enjoy […]
The world windsurfing community is not happy with the ISAF decision to get kiteboarding in the 2016 Olympic Games and prepares to fight back, while Sir Richard Branson and Kristin Boese celebrate the kiteboarding victory with champagne. The RS:X Olympic windsurfers are devastated and do not understand the decision which replaced lines for mast. That […]
Gabriel Medina has taken the 2012 Nike Lowers Pro after defeating veteran campaigner Glenn Hall, in two-to-four foot waves at Lower Trestles. The win earns him a $40,000 paycheck, a 14-karat solid-gold spike and major ASP World Ranking points. “This is a very special win and it has been a long week,” Medina said. “I’m […]
Dane Reynolds, John John Florence, Jeremy Flores, Glenn Hall, Adrian Buchan, Tanner and Pat Gudauskas. The quarterfinalists of the Nike Lowers Pro 2012 are ready to discuss the last waves, at Lower Trestles, California. Reynolds took the day’s highest scores with a near-perfect 9.80 single wave score en route to a combined heat-total of 18.63 […]
Nathan Fletcher has conquered the “Ride of the Year” at the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards, in Anaheim, California. The “Oscars” of extreme surfing have been finally delivered in a packed and stoked Grove Theater. The “Biggest Wave” champion was Garrett McNamara, who rode what is considered by many the biggest wave of […]
Welcome to the latest edition of VB and Surfing Australia News. And, the third for 2012!
Surfing Australia has assembled some of Australia’s top sports scientists as part of its Sports Science and Medicine Advisory Panel at Casuarina in northern NSW.