Category: ASP (WSL) Surfing News 2005-2015

Thursday 6 April, 2006

Tavarua/Namotu, Fiji
ROXY PRO FIJI (23 April to 28 April)

News, results and images on www.aspworldtour.com and www.roxy.com

The world’s best female surfers will take to the pristine South Pacific waters off Fiji’s Tavarua and Namotu islands for the second ASP Women’s World Tour event of the year – the US$78,300 Roxy Pro, which starts Sunday 23 April. The complete holding period for the event is 23-28 April and the competition will be held on the best days of surf.Along with world-class surfing action from the Top 17-ranked women in the world, the Roxy Pro will also feature an international five-woman trials event, offering the winner a berth in the main event. Thirteen-year-old Carissa Moore (HAW), will be the newest and youngest face among this year’s trialists. The other surfers will be Rosy Hodge (ZAF), Caroline Sarran (FRA), Carly Smith (AUS), and a local Fijian surfer who will be selected from the Fiji Games being run by the Fiji Surfing Association at Easter.… Read the rest

Friday 7 March, 2006
Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia

RIP CURL PRO SURF AND MUSIC FESTIVAL (11 April to 21 April)

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

• The Rip Curl Pro is the second of 12 events on the 2006 Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour – a.k.a. “The Dream Tour”. The circuit determines professional surfing’s world champion every year.• The waiting period for the Rip Curl Pro main event officially begins next Tuesday, 11 April and runs to Friday, 21 April, 2006.
• The contest requires 33 hours of competition (four full days) and will be staged in the best available conditions during the waiting period.
• The event is held at the famed right hand wave of Bells Beach but can go on the road to locations up to three hours away if conditions at Bells Beach are unfavourable.
• The event features the Top 45 surfers from the 2006 Foster’s ASP Men’s World Tour plus three wildcards.… 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

[i]26 January 2006

photo courtesy of www.aspworldtour.com

Australia Day was celebrated in true sporting fashion in the Roxy Womens Surf Festival, Phillip Island, with the three newly crowned Queens of womens surfing Chelsea Georgeson (Coolangatta, Qld), Steph Gilmore (Kingscliff, NSW) and Jessi Miley-Dyer (Bronte, NSW) all advancing to round four of the blue ribbon 5-star World Qualifying Series division held in excellent five foot (1.5-2m) surf at Woolamai Beach.[/i]Twenty two year old Georgeson flew the flag high for the green n’ gold in her first competitive outing since claiming the ASP Womens World Title in Hawaii last December, easily outpointing Nicola Atherton (Bronte, NSW), Kim Wooldridge (Wollongong, NSW) and Amandine Sanchez (France) with the highest combined two-wave heat score of the event thus far, 17.40 out of 20.

Georgeson looked completely at ease in the picture perfect conditions, stringing together move after move with effortless style following a seven week competitive hiatus, to dominate at the location she has won at twice previously (2003 & 2004).… Read the rest

[i]Tue Feb 7 2006:

Day 12 of the Monster Energy Pipeline Pro. http://www.billabongpro.com/monster06/

photo courtesy www.aspworldtour.com

Pipeline Master Rob Machado has won the event by comboing his 3 opponents with two incredible tube rides in a day filled with unbelieveable barrels. Four 10 point rides were scored by the judges, two from waves ridden at Backdoor, two at Pipe.

Incredible waves continued to pour through at Pipeline all day. Peruvian Gabriel Villaran was the upset surfer of the event, an unknown who has progressed to the finals of one of the toughest contests on the WQS circuit. Defending champion Pancho Sullivan unfortunately did not retain his title, having lost in the semis to fellow WCT campaigner Fred Patacchia and XXL surfer Ian Walsh.[/i]Retired professional surfer Rob Machado (Cardiff, CA) revisited his Pipe dreams today, taming towering 8- to 10-foot surf at the Banzai Pipeline to win the Monster Energy Pro, presented by Billabong.… Read the rest