The first round of the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach 2014 has been completed, in tricky wave conditions.
Kelly Slater snatched a last-minute victory against Kolohe Andino and wildcard Jacob Willcox. Despite Kolohe’s early dominance first with a series of clean forehand carves, Slater managed to answer back with experience.
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Improving your swim strokes means catching more and better waves. Paddle power is not a technique, rather it is the result of a quality fitness workout.
Have you ever felt out of breath in the early minutes of a normal surf session? Are your arms in pain? Don’t worry, you’re definitely not alone in the line-up.
Whether you’re escaping from a freak set or paddling for a small, mushy, summer wave, you’ll need well-trained arms and lungs. And don’t forget to maintain a correct body positioning on a surfboard.
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Last week, we saw the Drug Aware Pro at Margaret River — an event meant to educate Western Australia’s youth about the perils of drug abuse. Michel Bourez won and the kids all learned a valuable life lesson: steal your father’s carve, not your grandfather’s prescriptions. Awareness was spread. The folks at the ASP, however, were already very aware of drugs. In fact, they’ve been drug testing their athletes lately. There’s a policy in effect that ensures your favorite surfers dare to resist drugs. A policy that’ll protect us from having some bastard pick up Lance’s syringe and delegitimize an entire sport. A policy that will … More
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Britain’s first competitive woman surfer is still catching waves – six decades after taking to the sea.
Gwyn Haslock, 68, first headed into the swell in 1950s as a seven-year-old girl, using a solid wooden bellyboard and a woolly jumper for a wetsuit.
In the 1960s, she was the first British woman to use a proper fibre-glass board to surf standing up – and the only female to enter the country’s earliest surfing competitions … More
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