A quick-paced look at all the nominees in the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards including rides at Teahupoo in Tahiti, Cloudbreak in Fiji, Jaws, Maverick’s in California, Todos Santos and Puerto Escondido in Mexico, Cow Bombie in Australia, Mullaghmore Head in Ireland and Nazaré in Portugal.
A letter discovered deep in the archives of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu describes how two Hawaiian princes – and their English guardian – went surfing in Britain in September 1890.
But this earliest record of UK surfing didn’t happen in sport’s meccas of Newquay or Croyde, it took place in the east Yorkshire resort of Bridlington – in the chilly, murky North Sea.
This new research of Victorian surfers has … More
From April 17th to April 22nd 2012, the Protest Vendee Pro is the first European event of the ASP Pro Tour. This step takes place from April 19th to 22nd on the wave of Sauzaie Brétignolles-sur-Mer (85 – Vendée) and comes with $ 55,000 in prizemoney. The title of the 2011 Protest Vendee Pro is held by the l’Angloys Tim Boal (28 years) who rereleased his 2007 feat.
At the opening curtain, April 17th and 18th April, the third edition of Bréti-Girls Pro Junior sees the best young female surfers with  … More
Held every year since 2000 the Bora Bora Liquid Festival (better known to the locals as the IronMana) has taken over the crystal clear waters of Bora Bora, Polynesia’s most beautiful island atoll. The week long festival is an all-out celebration of multiple ocean-based disciplines including a 6km swim, a 55km surfski division, a waterman triathlon, SUP and Va’a sprint races, and of coarse the festival’s traditional endurance race. On the final day of the festival the best of the best watermen compete in either a 40 km SUP and Lay Down Paddle Race, a 50 km Surf Ski Race, or the 60 km Solo Outrigger Canoe Race.