Video Surfing – Life After Competitive Surfing is a bit greener – No electricity, well-pumped water, gardening, hand washing dishes and clothes, cooking on an open fire, hollow waves right out front. A lot of people ask me why I stopped competing. This is how i’d…
The Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboard Championships (WWLC) will start tomorrow Saturday, July 11, at the famous surf location of La Côte des Basques in Biarritz, the world’s best female longboarders getting their 2009 ASP Women’s World Longboard title quest underdway. The event, which is running its fourth consecutive edition in the Basque town, will get straight into business implementing a new competition format with direct elimination from Round 1.
“Thank you to Roxy and the city of Biarritz for their support of professional women’s longboarding,†ASP International CEO Brodie Carr said. “The new format has been reduced from forty-eight to thirty-two entries, bringing sudden-death straight from Round 1 which will make the show more exciting, and with a new swell supposed to hit from Monday, the four-day waiting period will allow for a great event in Biarritz.â€Â  … Details
Kelly Slater is debuting a new Channel Islands surfboard at the 2009 Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay.
It is called “The Manta Ray” and has a total different nose and shape.
The new Kelly Slater’s testing surfboard is inspired by hydrodynamics of the manta ray, as well as a mix between the Tangent and Wizard Sleeve models.
If it works, “The Manta Ray” will be one of the oddest surf shapes of the last years.
Kelly Slater has been testing a wide variety of surf quiver for a long time…Â Details & Pictures
Yes, England. In the winter, thousands of surfers flock to Cornwall to ride the waves. However, swells, breaks and boards aren’t the only surprises the region offers the discerning traveler.
I tell people I’ve surfed 7-foot waves in England, and they say, “You’re lying.” Â
What’s funny is that some of the people I’ve told are surfers. Actually, most of them are far more experienced and committed surfers than I’ll ever be. Men and women who drop phrases like “rhino chasers” and refer to Tofino, Bondi and Teahupoo as if they are exes they sometimes spend holidays with. That’s the kind of people I’m talking about and still, the same clockwork reaction.Â
But I’m not lying.
Sitting amid the fashionably bundled up on the patio of the popular Blue Bar and looking out over the pristine dunes and cliffs of the village of Porthtowan in Cornwall, you have to remind yourself that you’re in Britain…Â Details