Category: Surfing News Archive 2005-2014

Girls Go Big at The Rockstar Games Pipeline Pro

12th January 2007, 12 noon, Pipeline Hawaii

By Lilly Pollard

Screams of excitement explode from delighted spectators mouths as a tiny Brazilian lady on a bodyboard paddles late into a maxing 10ft Pipeline beast. She falls top to bottom, dropping head first into the barrel, and gets annihilated by the wave. Everyone fears for her life. Water patrol race in to pick her up and the crowd cheers as she is dropped on the beach. She is safe. Leila Alli smiles, thanks the patrol, hobbles down the beach a bit, and paddles back out for more.History was made for women’s bodyboarding on this day, as the biggest waves ever seen for a women’s contest were ridden. On a rising WNW swell, the controversial decision was made to send the women out first.… Read the rest

Rockstar Games Pipeline Pro

Kaua’i’s Hubbard rides Pipeline to world title

By Dayton Morinaga Advertiser Staff Writer

Kaua’i has another wave-riding world champion.

In the ultimate performance for bodyboarding, Jeff Hubbard of Lihu’e won the Rockstar Games Pipeline Pro and clinched the International Bodyboarding Association world championship in the process yesterday.

“It’s up there with getting married and being born,” said Hubbard, 31.

The final day of the contest was completed in spectacular barreling waves of 6 to 10 feet yesterday at the Banzai Pipeline. The Pipeline Pro is the final event of the 2006-07 world tour, and considered the most prestigious contest in the sport.”I knew if I could win this, there would be no question that I would be the world champ, and I deserved it,” Hubbard said.

Hubbard is the fourth Hawai’i competitor ever to win the bodyboarding world championship, and the first since Mike Stewart of Kailua, Kona, won the last of his record nine championships in 1995.… Read the rest

Masters World Champions will be defined this weekend

ISA World Master Surfing Championships
January 26th, 2007
Rincón, Puerto Rico
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Between tomorrow and Sunday we will know who the Masters World Champions are, the Porta del Sol ISA World Masters Surfing Championships, that is taking place since last Sunday at Rincón, Puerto Rico, will come to an end.

After four full days of competition, two teams have shown a great performance and they are now fighting for first place in team positioning. Up to now Puerto Rico is in first place because its still have all their its athletes on the run. On the other hand, even though South Africa has lost a competitor, it is also one of the favorite’s teams since it has ensured itself four athletes in the big finals of the three divisions – Masters, Grand Masters and Kahunas- through the main event.Three… Read the rest

ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS (ASP) INTERNATIONAL

The world’s best surfers in the world’s best waves LIVE on www.aspworldtour.com

COOLANGATTA, Australia (Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2006) – The men and women of the Foster’s ASP World Tour and ASP Women’s World Tour approach their surfing like a science. Thanks to a recent deal brokered between the ASP and Surfline, the world’s Top 45 men and 17 women now have state-of-the-art surf forecasting at their fingertips.”Surfline has worked with many of the world’s best surfers for over 20 years and is stoked to formalize our relationship with the ASP by providing the surfers with premium Surfline memberships,” Sean Collins, President/Founder of Surfline said.

“Our primary goal will always be to score the best waves in the world, because we know that success will surely follow for the ASP World Tour and the entire surfing community when surfers everywhere can logon to the webcast to witness the best surfing on the planet,” Collins said.… Read the rest

IBA, 13/10/06

Stephanie Pettersen wins Miyazaki contest scoring 10 in the finals.

With 70 girls between professional and amateur women’s riders today ended the IBA Regional and the second last JBA event for 2006 at Miyazaki Japan.

There were two days of competition with women’s, men’s and dk division. With Huge Typhoon passing through just a day before the contest, it delivered some big surf up to 5 to 6 feet for the morning of the first day of competition, making many people surprised as it dropped fast through out the day.The sand banks didn’t really handle the swell making it difficult to find good waves but at least the wind held back giving some clean conditions for the morning with light onshore winds for the afternoon. There were some good waves surfed by the professional riders and the amateur riders with even some of the worlds best finding it hard paddling out to the peak for the early morning heats.… Read the rest