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Marquee grom event ditches heat format

6 May, 2013 : - GROMS: This year, Quiksilver’s King of the Groms contest is going to be 100% digital. Open to all under 16 surfers, groms have until 30th June to upload a 1minute 30second video of themselves showing off their best tricks. From 1st – 31st July, the videos will be published on the Quik…
Day 1 of Reef ISA World Surfing Games fires

5 May, 2013 : - ISA: The 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games kicked off with excellent waves in the head-high to overhead range at the world-class reef break in Santa Catalina, Panama. The surf conditions were spectacular with offshore winds and clean, overhead waves that brought all the teams to the edge of the cliff …
XXL Awards sees new paddle world record

4 May, 2013 : - BIG-WAVE: Shane Dorian has won the XXL Ride of the Year while Shawn Dollar has won the XXL Biggest Wave Award as well as the Pacifico Paddle Award for a Cortes Bank behemoth. Dollar's history-making wave was estimated by experts to be 61 feet in height, a new paddle world record. Cortes Bank…
Reef ISA World Surfing Games kicks off!

4 May, 2013 : - ISA: The 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games officially opened Saturday, May 4, 2013. In attendance were the 24 countries with over 150 athletes and team officials, who traveled to Panama from every corner of the world. Local authorities, officials and thousands of enthusiastic Panamanians were witnesse…
Reef ISA World Surfing Games kick off Saturday

3 May, 2013 : - ISA: The 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games in Panama begins Saturday with the Opening Ceremony, featuring the traditional Parade of Nations and Sands of the World Ceremony, followed by the official Press Conference. All 24 National Teams and over 150 participating athletes and team officials will gath…
Adriano on high coming into Rio Pro

4 May, 2013 : - ASP: With the 2013 Billabong Rio Pro just around the corner, hometown hero Adriano de Souza is currently prepping for the event following his historic win at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach last month. Following the immaculate showing at Bells, De Souza now sits at No. 4 on the ASP WCT and is lookin…
Corporate sponsors upped for Molokai race

3 May, 2013 : - PADDLE: Organizers of the 17th annual Molokai-2-Oahu Paddleboard World Championships (M2O), presented by Kona Longboard Island Lager, today announce that the 2013 race sold out in record time - three months in advance of its July 28th race date. This is the sixth consecutive year M2O has sold ou…
Teams named for Reef ISA World Games

2 May, 2013 : - ISA: A total of 24 countries and over 150 athletes and coaches are confirmed to compete in the 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games, in the tropical surf town of Santa Catalina, located 6 hours from Panama City by car. Each National Team consists of up to 4 Open Men and 2 Open Women surfers plus Team Off…
Pipe from a bodyboarder's perspective

2 May, 2013 : - VIDEO: Bodyboarding Pro Andre Both captures his exciting 9 point finisher at the IBA Pipeline competition. Check out this long left barrel and explosive exit as Botha launches out of the barrel.…
Full-length Kai Neville/Reef project goes live

1 May, 2013 : - VIDEO: Everything around us blinks, rings, sings, shouts, distracts, vibrates, reminds, likes, comments and downloads. The chaos and beauty of the world is overshadowed by technological distractions and tweets that possess no lasting significance outside the screen they’re displayed. Anything Si…
Billabong Rio Pro readies without John John

30 April, 2013 : - ASP:The Billabong Rio Pro, the upcoming third stop on the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour, will commence without defending champion John John Florence (HAW), 20, who has officially withdrawn. The defending event champion was sidelined during the opening stop of the year with an ankle injury sustai…
Shane Dorian tops list of XXL finalists

30 April, 2013 : - BIG-WAVE: Hawaii's Shane Dorian leads the list of finalists in the 2013 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Pacifico taking place this Friday, May 3rd in Southern California. Thanks to several extraordinary rides on an epic swell at Jaws on Maui, Dorian, 40, accrued an unprecedented f…
Why yes, Kauai's Stephen Koehne likes to fish

26 April, 2013 : - VIDEO: Kauai's Stephen Koehne just dropped a video of him hunting huge fish and bigger barrels. The Kauai hunter trips through Tahiti, Pipeline and other environs searching out throaty barrels. Between pits Stephen gaffs huge fish and passes on the surfing tradition to his toddler…