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La Torche PRO France 2014
Kai Lenny secures an impressive 4th Stand Up World Surfing Title in France
Coming into La Torche, Kai Lenny (Naish) was brimming with confidence as he prepared to defend his 2013 World and Event Titles at this climactic final rankings event of the 2014 season. Kai made quick work of his early heats, building momentum until he climaxed in the all important quarterfinals, where he posted a near perfect heat score total (...) -
Triple Crown series
Kelly Slater : "This was some of the best Pipe I’ve ever surfed in my life"
Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater (Florida, USA) has won the Volcom Pipe Pro in epic, triple-overhead barrels with a series of stunning performances that made the win seem inevitable from his first ride. This was Slater’s 66th Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) tour win, his eighth ASP victory at the Banzai Pipeline, and an (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
Team Alvimedica’s challenge for the 2014-15 edition announced in Istanbul
Seven years ago, a couple of young American sailing addicts met on the set of a Disney movie and dreamed of the day that they would launch a campaign in the world’s toughest offshore team test, the Volvo Ocean Race. Today that apparently long-shot ambition became a reality when Team Alvimedica’s challenge for the 2014-15 edition (...) -
ASP World Tour
Mick Fanning : "If you want to win a world title, you have to put it all on the line"
Mick Fanning (AUS), 32, has claimed his third ASP World Title today in epic conditions at the Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons. -
Stand Up World Tour
Kai Lenny takes La Torche Pro win & secures World Title
The La Torche Pro France presented by Naish and Twenty-Nine saw a spectacular finish for the Men’s division, with waves that more resembled Sunset Beach than what you would expect from this North West corner of France. In solid 8ft surf Surf #Surf , Kai Lenny (Naish) put on a clinic of high performance stand up paddle Paddle (...) -
Moth Worlds
Gulari Crowned 2013 Moth World Champion
An early squall drenched the 80 competitors for the 2013 McDougall + McConaghy International Moth World Championship this morning as they prepared their flying carbon-fiber craft for the final day of racing. The rain and clouds brought with them an unfortunate side effect, cooling down Oahu’s Koʻolau Mountains and shutting down the (...) -
ASP World Tour
Joel Parkinson Wins 2012 ASP World Title
Joel Parkinson (AUS), 31, has claimed his maiden ASP World Title today at the final stop of the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) season, by winning the Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons. The Billabong Pipe Masters was also the third and final leg of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing (...) -
SWATCH Girls Pro China
Kelia Moniz Claims ASP Women’s World Longboard Title
Kelia Moniz (HAW) has won the SWATCH Girls Pro China 2012 hosted by Wanning over Chelsea Williams (AUS), claiming her maiden ASP Women’s World Longboard Longboard #Longboard Title. The pair repeated history by meeting in the Final as they did at last year’s SWATCH Girls Pro China, where Williams won, but today it was Moniz who (...) -
Stand Up Paddle
Kai Lenny & Annabel Anderson crowned SUP 2012 Racing World Champions
Kai Lenny (Naish) put on a dominant performance over the weekend to secure his first Racing World Championship Title ahead of a field of international powerhouses. Coming into Pacifico’s Stand Up World Series Finals at Turtle Bay leading the overall rankings for the year, (wearing the yellow jersey as a result), Kai knew that he had to (...) -
Surf
Bethany Hamilton re-signs with Rip Curl International
Rip Curl International announced that the surfing brand has happily re-signed Hawaiian professional surfer and long-time team rider Bethany Hamilton.