Category: ASP (WSL) Surfing News 2005-2015

BILLABONG PRO TAHITI – WORLD’S HEAVIEST WAVE NEXT STOP ON ASP TOUR

Billabong Pro Tahiti
Stop No 3. of 10 on the 2007 Foster’s ASP World Tour Teahupoo, Taiarapu, Tahiti May 4-14, 2007


LIVE on www.aspworldtour.com and www.billabongpro.com

FANNING IN EARLY TO KILL TEAHUPOO HOODOO

TEAHUPOO, Tahiti (Monday, April 23rd, 2007) – Australian surfers Taj Burrow (AUS) and Mick Fanning (AUS) will enter the Billabong Pro Tahiti ranked equal 1st in the world when the Foster’s ASP World Tour heads to Tahiti from May 4-14, 2007.

Fanning and Burrow dominated the Australian leg of the tour claiming events at Snapper Rocks and Bells Beach respectively, but neither has earned ultimate honors at Teahupoo, the third of 10 stops on this year’s tour.Fanning, who has claimed elite tour victories in Australia, Brazil and South Africa, has never won an event in the South Pacific, in fact, he finished dead last in the Billabong Pro Tahiti in 2006.… Read the rest

OXBOW PRO TO CROWN 2007 ASP WORLD LONGBOARD CHAMPION IN ANGLET

Oxbo Pro World Longboard Championship
ASP World Longboard Championship
Les Cavalliers, Anglet, France
April 30 – May 6, 2007

ANGLET, France (Friday, Apr. 27, 2007) – With the Oxbow World Longboard Championship scheduled to start this Monday, Apr. 30, at Anglet, France, the Basque Coast is set for a huge influx of surfing legends and the world’s hottest longboarders. One such surfer will be crowned the ASP World Longboard Champion by May 6, the last day of the event waiting period.It is believed that surfing was first brought to Europe way back in 1956 by Hollywood screenwriter Peter Viertel when he was in Biarritz filming ‘The Sun also Rises.’ From that, a local surfing community quickly sprung up, led by Biarritz legends George Hennebutte and Joel de Rosnay. Since then the area has been labeled as the cradle of European surfing and is known as its spiritual home.… Read the rest

WILDCARD MELANIE BARTELS WINS ROXY PRO HAWAII

Roxy Pro Hawaii
Event No. 7 on the ASP Women’s World Tour
Sunset Beach, Oahu, Hawaii
November 24 – December 6, 2006

SUNSET BEACH, Hawaii (Friday, Dec. 1, 2006) – Westside Oahu local and chance wildcard Melanie Bartels (HAW) has won the Roxy Pro Hawaii at Sunset Beach today. Surfing from the trials, Bartels’ caught a wave with just 14 seconds on the clock to steal the lead from co-wildcard Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) and win her first-ever ASP Women’s World Tour event.“I am so stoked, this is a dream come true for me,” Bartels, who surfed on the ASP Women’s World Tour in 2004 and 2005, said. “I was on tour for two years and never made it past the third round – not once, so to make the final and win here in Hawaii in front of my friends and family, well, it just seems like everything is coming together.… Read the rest

NEW FORMAT ADDS EXTRA SPICE TO THE RIP CURL PRO PIPELINE MASTERS

Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters
(December 8-20)


See the event LIVE on www.aspworldtour.com or www.ripcurl.com

PIPELINE, Hawaii (Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006) – With the surfing world now firmly focused on the infamous North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii for the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, the excitement is expected to peak when the first round of the Foster’s ASP World Tour’s penultimate event – the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters – kicks off on December 8.

The event, which is held at the notoriously dangerous yet incredibly perfect wave known as the Banzai Pipeline, is arguably the most watched on the 11-event tour.And despite Kelly Slater (USA) having wrapped up his eighth world crown two events previous in Spain, the “Showdown For The Crown”, as it has been dubbed, is expected as always to serve up a smattering of only the most spectacular surfing action.… Read the rest

ANDY IRONS IN HOT FORM FOR RIP CURL PRO PIPELINE MASTERS

Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters
(December 8-20)


Andy Irons last years winner – can he do it again?
See the event LIVE on www.aspworldtour.com or www.ripcurl.com

PIPELINE, Hawaii (Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2006) – After a sensational finish to the second of the three Vans Triple Crown of Surfing events yesterday where Australian Joel Parkinson stole the show in huge waves at Sunset Beach, anticipation for tomorrow’s potential start of the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters is at an all time high.

The event, the last of 11 on the Foster’s ASP World Tour, is one of surfing’s most prestigious and spectacular as surfers risk life and limb to score some of the biggest tube rides of their lives.And with the world crown having already been in the living room of now eight-time champion Kelly Slater (USA) for some months, his fellow tourers will be fighting like cats and dogs to climb onto the podium and be labelled a Pipe Master – one of biggest honours in the sport.… Read the rest