Local hero Mat Rebeaud won the FMX competition with an awesome flair, a 540° rotation which he carried out for the first time in Estavayer-le-Lac. During the FMX show, the spectators enjoyed watching an unprecedented trick in Switzerland: a crazy double backflip performed by the Australian Josh Sheehan.
Taylor Clark, from Encinitas, took the premier Open Men’s final at the 2013 NSSA National Championships, held in Huntington Beach, California. He had already stolen the Surfing America USA Championships.
The classic event held by the National Scholastic Surfing Association in Surf City USA presented the future of surfing, now.
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Visited the Paddle Round The Pier event in Brighton and spent the morning filming the Animal Action Sports Tour with Robin Kitchen.
The unlikely story behind ZoSea’s ASP World Tours
t’s day one of what’s promising to be a strange old year. The pro surfing tour has just changed hands for the first time in three decades, been signed away for a song, and while the outgoing owners haven’t yet cleaned out their desks, the new owners haven’t moved in either. The whole show’s in limbo, and at this historic juncture everything and nothing is happening simultaneously. It’s been termed a “bridging year,” but a bridge to where exactly, no one is sure.
The press conference for the first event of the season—the Quiksilver Pro—is being held on the beachfront at Snapper Rocks. The humidity is so sharp it’s like breathing fish hooks. A stifling room full of leaky newspaper hacks and TV network girls melting like wax dummies stare at an empty chair with the nameplate “Kelly Slater” in front of it. His no-show is for “personal reasons,” … More