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Perrow Wins Billabong Pipe Masters, Florence Takes Vans Triple Crown Kieren Perrow (AUS), 34, has won his inaugural ASP World Tour event, taking out the Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons over fellow countrymen Joel Parkinson (AUS), 30, in four-to-six foot waves.... -
CARVE sign sponsorship deal with Sunny Garcia The Australian based company has been working hard to launch the brand into an ever growing global market place and building a team to compliment it’s passion for action sports. With U.S business partner... -
Taj Burrow Wins 1st Ever Reef Hawaiian Pro West Australia's Taj Burrow, a virtual veteran of pro surfing at 33 years of age, has claimed his first Reef Hawaiian Pro title in Hawaii to pocket $25,000 and take an early lead on the Vans Triple Crown... -
Reef Hawaiian Pro - Day 1 Australian Jack Freestone, 19, the reigning ASP World Junior Champion, set a high-flying pace at the Reef Hawaiian Pro today. The event finally got underway in head-high surf after nine days ...
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Kelly Slater Wins Laureus Action Sports Award for the Third Time
Spain, the United States and Germany were the big winners at the 2011 Laureus World Sports Awards Ceremony in Abu Dhabi as each country collected two prestigious Laureus Awards.
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Day two of the Sunset Beach Pro was held in 10-12 foot surf (20 foot plus faces). In round two, the quarter finals, the field of 24 was narrowed to 12 athletes advancing to the semi finals. The day brought broken boards, snapped
Maui On the morning of 20th January 2011 at 2:00am local Hawaii time, professional big wave surfer Mark Visser made history by achieving a night ride on waves measuring 30-40 foot faces off the shores of Maui with specially engineered LED lights built into a buoyancy vest and modified into the surfboard.
Hawaii’s John John Florence started surfing the deadly Banzai Pipeline at age eight and barely four feet tall — about the same time the surfing world’s spotlight fell in love with him. Ten years later, at 18 years of age and heaped with expectation, he proved there hasn’t been an ounce of energy wasted on him, winning the $120,000 Volcom Pipe Pro title at his home break today.
The Surf N Sea 41st Annual Haleiwa International Open presented by Hurley proved to be one of its most radical contests since the big wave amateur surfing contest started back in 1969. More Articles...
- Kelly teams with Quik-Foundation to donate $100,000
- ASP Crowns Alizee Women’s World Junior Champion
- John Florence Snags Shootout Win
- Makua Rothman...Making It
- ASP Top 17 Determined for 2011 Women's World Tour Season
- Irons' widow seeks to delay report on the surfer's death
- ISA Tandem Surfing World Title to be decided at Churches
- Jeremy Florès claims Pipe Masters
- Holding Period Continues for Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons
- 2011 ASP Qualification Campaigns Rise and Fall on Day 1 Billabong Pipe Masters
- Time for a Giveaway
- RAONI MONTEIRO CROWNED CHAMPION OF O’NEILL WORLD CUP OF SURFING
- Everyone out to prove at Billabong Pipeline Masters
- WORLD’S TOP MEN & WOMEN SURFERS HEAD TO SUNSET BEACH FOR THE O’NEILL WORLD CUP OF SURFING
- JOEL PARKINSON CLAIMS REEF HAWAIIAN PRO
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- Rainos Hayes
Long Live the Queen
FREESURF: It seemed like you just took off on a roll this year. Granted there was some talk of a rivalry between you and Sally [Fitzgibbons], but it seemed like it was more of a matter of when, not if, you would secure your title this year. Was there a point this year when you felt like, “yeah, I can win a title this year”?
Carissa Moore: I think every woman on tour wants and believes that they can win a world title, otherwise they wouldn’t be competing at this level. Dad and I talked about the title a few times, but never more than using it as motivation. Sally was nipping at my heels the whole year and there was a placement shift halfway through where I was nipping at hers. It was so close that I never really could let my guard down, just had to keep my head focused and take everything one step at a time. When the seconds started counting down in the Steph-Sally semi in France and Steph was ahead, I think that was finally the moment that I let it all go. Read more...
An All-Star Crew Descends On Perfect Cloudbreak
Kohl Christenson, underground in more ways than one.
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Billabong Team Manager/Mentor to Keanu Asing
Freesurf: What was your life like before you became a team manager?
Rainos Hayes: Well, I grew up on the North Shore pretty much in the same place that I live now, kind of by Sunset Beach. I was a pro for a while and rode for Quiksilver from about 15 to 25 years old and had a limited amount of success.
