Category: ASP (WSL) Surfing News 2005-2015

Friday 23 June, 2006
Huatulco, Mexico

RIP CURL PRO SEARCH WCT
(20 June to 1 July)

Live on www.aspworldtour.com and www.ripcurl.com/searchwct

Former Three-Time World Champ Now In Box Seat To Challenge Slater For World Crown

In a fantastic finish to a simply amazing event Andy Irons (HAW) has won the Rip Curl Pro Search WCT held “somewhere in Mexico” in incredible one to two metre (three to six feet) waves. Held at the long and hollow wave known only as La Jolla, Irons was the form surfer of the day and was a well-deserved winner.With the wind coming up slightly for the final of the fifth event on the Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour, the focus shifted to big turns rather than big barrels and Irons stepped up to the task.

After a slow start for waves the two competitors were sitting for a while before a set pushed through.… Read the rest

Tuesday June 27, 2006
Boca Barranca, Costa Rica

ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS (ASP) MEN’S WORLD LONGBOARDING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Josh Constable (AUS) has won the 2006 ASP Men’s World Longboard Title today, defeating Ned Snow from Hawaii in a very closely contested man-on-man final at the 13th Annual Rabbit Kekai International Longboard Classic held in Costa Rica.Constable, who contested every heat from the first round of the hotly contested event, notched up some of highest total wave scores of the event and was elated with his victory.

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” said Constable. “When I get home with family and friends it will probably kick in. Right now it just doesn’t seem real. It was a perfect day!”

Speaking about the event itself he was full of praise for the venue and the organizers.
“It was such a great atmosphere with everyone staying together and surfing perfect lefts early in the event at the Boca,” said Constable.… Read the rest

Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship (WWLC) presented by Evian
Côte des Basques, Biarritz, France
July 3-9, 2006

BIARRITZ, France (Monday, July 3, 2006) – The first two rounds of the Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship (WWLC) presented by Evian ran in half to one meter (two to three foot) waves at Côte des Basques, Biarritz, on France’s southwest coast today.Preliminary rounds of the inaugural event whittled the field of 60-plus surfers to 48, with today’s winners joining the seeded surfers in round three.

Contest director Marc Sarran will assess the swell, tide and wind daily to capitalize on the best conditions available during the remaining six-day competition window, with three days needed to complete the event due to radical tidal differences.

American Schuyler McFerran, 19, claimed the day’s highest wave score, a 9.00 (out of 10), in winning her round one heat against Margaret Yao (USA) and Grace Davies (GBR).… Read the rest

WEDNESDAY JULY 5, 2006

BILLABONG PRO
JEFFREYS BAY, SOUTH AFRICA
JULY 12 – 22, 2006

Live on www.aspworldtour.com and www.billabongpro.com

THE world’s top 45 full time professional surfers will descend on another of the globe’s top high-performance waves next week for the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay beginning on July 12.

For over 40 years “J-Bay” has lured surfers from around the world to the legendary break of “Supertubes” and its ruler straight hollow cylinders.

The multiple sections of the lengthy wave, and its proximity to the swell generating “Roaring Forties”, grant Supers its deserved reputation as one of the world’s best right hand point breaks.The members of the 11-event Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour will also exchange board shorts for full length rubber following three stops in the warm water locations of Tahiti, Fiji and Mexico.

The Billabong Pro, Jeffreys Bay is the sixth of 11 events on what has been dubbed “The Dream Tour”.… Read the rest

Friday 31 March, 2006

Association of Surfing Professionals International Ltd (ASP)
Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia

[size=x-small]Longboard sensation and Roxy model Kassia Meador (USA)[/size]

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) is pleased to announce that the Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship (WWLC), the world’s premiere ASP-sanctioned women’s longboard event, will make its debut in the playful beachbreaks of Biarritz, France, from July 3 to 9, 2006.”We are very pleased to announce the creation of the first ever stand-alone women’s ASP world longboard championship to be held in the famous town of Biarritz, the birthplace of surfing in Europe,” Roxy Europe Marketing Director, Maritxu Darrigrand, said.

Held as part of the Roxy Jam Biarritz, a festival designed to celebrate women’s surfing in and out of the water, the inaugural Roxy ASP WWLC will award the first-ever ASP Women’s Longboarding World Title, an internationally recognized honor.… Read the rest