Category: Surfing News Archive 2005-2014

ISA ANNOUNCES HOST OF 2008 QUIKSILVER ISA WORLD JUNIOR SURFING CHAMPIONSHIP
San Diego, Calif. – September 5, 2007 – The International Surfing Association (ISA), the World Governing Authority for surfing, has chosen France as the location for the 2008 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship. The event will be organized by the ISA’s National Governing Body for surfriding in France, Federation Francaise de Surf (FFS).

France last hosted an ISA event in 1992 with the World Surfing Games in Lacanau. “The ISA is very happy to go back to the great waves of France. By having the event in late May, we will be able to have great waves. I would like to thank Quiksilver Europe President Pierre Agnes for his leadership in bringing this event back to France,” said ISA President Fernando Aguerre.The Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship has become the premier annual junior surfing event.… Read the rest

Rip Curl Girls Festival Spain
Stop No. 4 of 7 on the 2007 ASP Women’s World Tour Santander, Liencres, Spain September 4-9, 2007

LIENCRES, Spain (Friday, Sept. 7, 2007) – 2004 ASP World Champion Sofia Mulanovich (PER) stepped up to the poduim’s highest block at the Rip Curl Girls Festival in Liencres today, when she defeated Silvana Lima (BRA )to win Stop No. 4 of 7 on surfing’s elite ASP Women’s World Tour.

An absolute standout in the left breaking waves of Liencres, Mulanovich positioned herself as the event’s top scorer, posting the only pair of 9-piont rides (out of a possible 10.00 points) in the earlier rounds, as well as a an excellent 8.50 against Lima in the final.“I am so happy, I haven’t won a contest for a while so this feels amazing,” Mulanovich said. “I needed a pretty good score in that heat and I just thought to myself ‘I can do this, these waves are perfect for my surfing and there is no way she is going to get this one off me, this is my wave’!”… Read the rest

Following a study published in Nature magazine, we want you to read the synthesis below, wherever you are living, it is of greatest interest.

The threat described here is not immediate. It’s not the kind of the-house-is-on-fire warning message. Indeed, it is something to be remembered without cancellation date.

The densely-populated Bay of Bengal looks to be at risk from very large tsunami-producing earthquakes, according to a new analysis of modern and historical observations.Phil Cummins, a seismologist at the national Geoscience Australia agency in Canberra, who publishes the analysis in Nature (Cummins first paragraph for free here), is quick to say that his ideas need confirmation before “policymakers start doing anything”. But with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami fresh in everyone’s mind, his conclusions are likely to raise the hairs on the back of a few necks. Furthermore, in Cummins paper, one certainty is that “the risk of another giant earthquake is high off central Sumatra, just east of the 2004 earthquake”.… Read the rest

ISA TO AWARD TWENTY JUNIOR SURF SCHOLARSHIPS

San Diego, Calif. – August 14, 2007 –

The International Surfing Association, the World Governing Authority for surfing, will award twenty scholarships to junior surfers in 2008. Billabong and Quiksilver are partnering with the ISA to offer this incredible opportunity to junior surfers.

The ISA Individual Scholarship Program debuted in 2007, when five scholarships were awarded to junior surfers. The winners, also named ISA Junior Ambassadors, were from South Africa, Peru, Ecuador, Jamaica and Chile, and received $1200.The Individual Scholarship Program’s main objective is to provide financial support in order to facilitate an experience in surfing while encouraging the importance of education. The money must be used to travel to surf contests, and/or buy new equipment and to foster their education. Additionally, the program offers added incentive for national surfing federations to send teams to ISA events furthering the reach of surfing as scholarship recipients can use the experience to become better surfers, potential national champions, even possibly world champions all the while continuing with their education.… Read the rest

Boost Mobile Pro of Surf presented by Hurley Stop No 6. of 10 on the 2007 Foster’s ASP World Tour Lower Trestles, California USA September 9-15, 2007

Jordy Smith
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LOWER TRESTLES, California (Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007) – Nine of the Top 10 surfers on the 2007 Foster’s ASP World Tour have been eliminated from the Boost Mobile Pro presented by Hurley. Only 8X World Champion and current World No. 4 Kelly Slater (USA) remains in contention after today’s Round 3 heats.

Wildcards Dane Reynolds (USA) and Jordy Smith (AUS) eliminated ratings leader Mick Fanning (AUS) and current World No. 3 Andy irons respectively in two of the biggest upsets of the event.“I’m excited – I came into that heat thinking I was going to have to get 9.0s to beat him because that’s what he consistently posts,” Reynolds said.… Read the rest