Would you prefer Slaters Right? Or maybe Andys Left? We checkout two of the best surfers in the world, doing what they do best…. freesurfing. We also check-in at the Billabong Pro in Tahiti for
San Francisco’s lust for design innovation stops with its surfers.
That’s unfortunate since Thomas Meyerhoffer, a San Francisco-area surfer and inventor, has designed a surfboard that has so radically reshaped longboarding, a month after it hit the market in March it’s already changed at least one man’s life.
“Nothing has changed the game like my 8-foot Meyer,” 35-year surf veteran Tom Hansen of Florida wrote in an email to the inventor. When Meyerhoffer wondered if the surfer wasn’t teasing his pear-shaped invention, which had already drawn heckles during tests at his home breaks — Hansen sent a follow-up email with two photos of his 30 boards made by top shapers, which he says are all “going bye bye”.
Now, Hansen wrote, “I rip like a kid.” … Details
Heritage surf brand Ocean and Earth is proud to announce a new alliance with Southern California based Boarding for Breast Cancer Foundation and the surf industry’s leading online website, Beckersurf.com.
Through sales of its women’s apparel and accessory brand ‘Honey’ Ocean & Earth, the association is specifically designed to strengthen breast cancer awareness while lending financial support vital to this most important cause.
The arrangement provides for minimum base donation from Ocean & Earth to B4BC and a meaningful percentage of all “Honey†brand sales… Details
Reunion’s Canelle Bulard (15) today stamped her authority on the long right hand waves of Ponta d’Ouro in Mozambique as she took out the win in the third annual Roxy Invitational and walked away with R10,000 in prize money.
Fresh off a sixth place finish in the recent Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships in Ecuador, Bulard has been a stand-out throughout the week long waiting period in Mozambique, impressing her South African counterparts with her stylish backhand attack.
In the forty minute final Bulard found herself up against …Â Details
