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2022 Surfing End of Year Wrap Up

Dec 15, 2022

2022 Surfing End of Year Wrap Up

End of Year Wrap Up   The Haleiwa Pro was contested last week, ending the challenger series and the professional competitive year as a whole. Hawaii’s favorite son John John Florence was in peak form, winning the event once again and ending the year on a high note after suffering an injury mid-season that caused him to miss a number of events and his chance at fighting for the world title at Trestles. It was great to see Florence back in form and healed up from his knee injury. Hopefully he can stay healthy this coming season! On the women’s...

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Steph Gilmore Sets Record with Eighth World Title, Felipe Toledo Wins His First

Sep 8, 2022

Steph Gilmore Sets Record with Eighth World Title, Felipe Toledo Wins His First

It was a nonstop day of action at Lower Trestles today as the WSL sought to finish the Rip Curl World Surf League Finals before bad weather from Hurricane Kay impacts Southern California.   In a pair of marathon displays of athleticism, both Steph Gilmore and Italo Ferreira surfed their way from match one all the way to the final, contesting three heats each to earn the right to face off against top-seeded Carissa Moore and Felipe Toledo in a best-of-three showdown for the world championship. Gilmore beat Brisa Hennessey, Tatiana Weston-Webb and Johanne Defay on her way to the...

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2022 Rip Curl WSL World Championships

Sep 7, 2022

2022 Rip Curl WSL World Championships

Photo Credit to WSL After nine months of waiting, the WSL World Championship event is finally here. The waiting period for the 10-person event (top five women and men) at Lower Trestles runs from September 8-16, and the event is already on yellow alert to run tomorrow, September 8 (the first day of the waiting period). With Hurricane Kay bearing down on California and likely to bring adverse wind, it is likely that the WSL will want to get the event done as soon as possible, so we expect it to run tomorrow. We have discussed the format for the...

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Three New Lost Tapes Episodes As We Wait For Teahupoo To Start

Aug 26, 2022

Three New Lost Tapes Episodes As We Wait For Teahupoo To Start

The world tour is finally in Tahiti, and the final event of the season is ready to kick off at Teahupoo. Unfortunately, a lack of swell and weird local winds have resulted in a week of lay days, and it’s still uncertain when the event might start. There is swell today and tomorrow, but the wind looks weird, so we are currently on hold and awaiting the call. In the meantime, there are three new Kelly Slater Lost Tapes films to help satisfy our hunger for world tour action. In episode 8, Golden Opportunity, Slater travels with team USA to...

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World Title Race Tightens Up After a Bumpy Event in El Salvador

Jun 21, 2022

World Title Race Tightens Up After a Bumpy Event in El Salvador

When the government of El Salvador decided to invest tens of millions of dollars in their “Surf City” rebranding—including millions for the right to host a world tour event at the country’s crown jewel of Punta Roca—we are guessing their plan wasn’t to broadcast a bunch of small, onshore days to the world. Unfortunately, you can plan a pretty event, but you can’t predict the weather, and the perfect right-hand point break in La Libertad had a pretty horrible forecast during the entire event waiting period. After half a dozen flat days, the event finally ran in bumpy, mixed-up swell...

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Understanding the World Surf League’s Mid-Year Cutoff and What It Means for Our Favorite World Tour Competitors

Apr 19, 2022

Understanding the World Surf League’s Mid-Year Cutoff and What It Means for Our Favorite World Tour Competitors

Understanding the World Surf League’s Mid-Year Cutoff and What It Means for Our Favorite World Tour Competitors If you’re as big a fan of professional surfing as we are, then you may have found yourself wondering what the commentary team at the Bells Beach Pro were talking about when they kept referencing the mid-year cutoff. For those of you who still don’t fully understand the World Surf League’s new format—and we don’t blame you, because it’s painfully complicated—here’s a comprehensive explanation of how it works and how it affects your favorite competitors. First of all, as in year’s past, the...

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WSL World Tour Starts at Pipeline on January 29

Jan 28, 2022

WSL World Tour Starts at Pipeline on January 29

WSL World Tour Starts at Pipeline on January 29 Photo By @adventures_ofjess   After an abbreviated 2021 season and a three-month hiatus, the world’s best surfers are dusting off their jerseys this month and getting ready to battle it out for the 2022 world title. While the world tour historically ended in Hawaii, the WSL adopted a new schedule last year that sees the tour start here on Oahu instead. The first event of the season kicks off at Pipeline with a waiting period from January 29 through February 10, and the world’s best are already in town warming up....

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Surf Blog: Rain Swell and Last Contest of the Year

Dec 7, 2021

Surf Blog: Rain Swell and Last Contest of the Year

Surf Blog: Rain Swell and Last Contest of the Year PHOTO CREDIT TO WSL It has been a rainy, unruly week here in Hawaii, with a huge, super northerly swell intersecting with raging Kona winds and lots of rain. The entire state has been put on a state of emergency, Big Island had a blizzard conditions at high elevations with upwards of a foot of snow, and a handful of surf spots fired under the rare conditions, while everywhere else was pretty bad. But amongst all the chaos, the World Surf League got down to business, completing the last Challenger...

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Oct 15, 2018

The Men’s and Women’s World Titles Will Be Decided in Hawaii

The Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Pro France ended this week, and with them came some major developments for the world title race. First, on the ladies’ side, Steph Gilmore had a chance to make history. She has won six world titles already—just one shy of Layne Beachley’s record of seven—and is widely considered to be the greatest female competitive surfer in history. The opportunity was there for her to clinch her seventh title in France—all she had to do was finish one round ahead of Lakey Peterson, who trails Steph but is still mathematically in contention for the title. But...

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Apr 4, 2017

Drug Aware Margaret River Pro - Going Small to Go Bi

Drug Aware Margaret River Pro Going Small to Go Big The Drug Aware Margaret River Pro is on this week over in West Australia, the second stop on the WSL world tour. And to be honest, the main venue at Margaret River Main Break is not the most exciting wave in the world to surf or watch. The backup venues of North Point and The Box are exciting—North Point is the ultimate barrel to boost setup, and The Box is one of the original slabs—but we usually don’t get more than a day of competition at the backups, which is...

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