Mother-of-two Sarah Agar may not look like your typical skateboarder.Â
She admits at school she was the least cool person and would never have considered stepping on to a skateboard, something reserved for the coolest in the class.Â
Strange then that Sarah is responsible for introducing skateboarding to the syllabus of schools throughout Yorkshire and Tyneside.
Rather than hockey and football, children are …Â Details
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Wave-chaser Laird Hamilton discusses the most memorable movies ever made about surfing, including some that he was in.
With a stepfather who was a Hollywood stunt surfer and a mother who was friends with the real Gidget, Laird Hamilton’s career in surf films was practically predestined. He took to the water at age 5 and appeared in his first movie just a year later. Since then, he has watched all of his sport’s notable films—and has been in many of them. This month, his fitness book Force of Nature comes out in paperback, and he’s featured in Susan Casey’s new book, The Wave, as one of a crew of surfers who jet around the world in search of gigantic walls of water. Here, Hamilton takes us through his favorite surf flicks (including a few he had nothing to do with)  … Details
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The global surf community will return to the North Shore of O’ahu, Hawaii, November 12 through December 20, for the 28th annual Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink. The series will crown the 2010 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) world champions, as well as the men’s and women’s Vans Triple Crown champions, and individual event champions. More than 200 of the world’s best surfers will compete for more than $900,000 in prize money, coveted titles, and ultimate prestige.
The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is renowned for pairing surfing’s top talent with Mother Nature’s most spectacular winter waves. The series is staged at three of the most venerated surf spots on the planet: Haleiwa, Sunset Beach, and the Banzai Pipeline … Details
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