Jeff Hubbard and Dave Hubbard have conquered the 2011 Sandy Beach Pro, in Hawaii. The North American brothers dominated the Open and the Drop-Knee contests, in 2-4ft Half Point waves.
The conditions allowed the contenders to launch into the air, glide through the barrel and carve across the available faces. With record number entrants the amateurs were a charging force to be reckoned with  … More
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Deadly attacks are rare, but watch out for fins on these shorelines.
By the time a lifeguard got to him, it was too late. Stephen Schafer was kitesurfing 500 yards off an unguarded part of Stuart Beach, in Martin County, Fla., last February when he was attacked by a swarm of sharks. “He got bit after he presumably wiped out, a very serious bite,†says George Burgess, director of theInternational Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Schafer was rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his wounds.
While shark attacks are rare, they’ve been on the rise, with 79 attacks in 2010  … More
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Tom Morey, engineer, surfer and musician, invented bodyboarding on the 7th July, 1971. Boogieboarding is now 40 years old and much has been changed since Morey came up with his idea.
Born in Detroit, USA, August 15, 1935, Tom Morey has always been a passionate inventor and beta tester. In that July summer day, he cut a rectangular shape of polyethylene foam and covered it with newspaper. The first bodyboard was … More
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Jared Houston has won the Tand Invitational 2011 in absolutely stunning wave conditions. Crowds gathered, lining the rocks, waiting in anticipation for the start of this momentous contest. Every heat throughout the event was ridden like a final: nobody holding back in anyway, riders pushing their own abilities to the very end and then some …Â More
Highlights of the Tand Invitational 2011
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