Tag: Surfing News Archive

Australia Versus Hawaii Semifinal Showdown at Roxy Pro Gold Coast

Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast pres. by Land Rover
Stop No. 1 of 10 on the 2010 ASP World Tour
Roxy Pro Gold Coast
Snapper Rocks, Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia
February 27 – March 10,2010

Australia Versus Hawaii Semifinal Showdown at Roxy Pro Gold Coast


Pictured: Chelsea Hedges (AUS), 26, former ASP Women’s World Champion and current ASP Women’s World No. 7, is into the Semifinals of the Roxy Pro Gold Coast. Credit: © ASP / CESTARI

SNAPPER ROCKS, Queensland/Australia (Friday, March 5, 2010) – Following the completion of the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast (won by Taj Burrow), the Roxy Pro Gold Coast completed the Quarterfinals, setting up a possible finish for this afternoon.

The opening event of the 2010 ASP World Tour season, the Roxy Pro Gold Coast whittled the field down to the final four competitors with Australians and Hawaiians battling it out for supremacy.Chelsea… Read the rest

Team Australia Claims Fifth Consecutive Quiksilver ISA WJSC Gold Medal

Team Australia Claims Fifth Consecutive Quiksilver ISA WJSC Gold Medal


Pictured above: Australia won their 5th consecutive team gold medal in the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship. Picture: ISA/Craig Levers

Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship
January 28, 2010
Piha Beach, New Zealand

Team Australia continued its dominance of the junior surfing scene, winning the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Champions for a fifth consecutive year in New Zealand today.

In dramatic fashion, wins to Lennox Head’s Tyler Wright and Port Macquarie’s Matt Banting lifted Team Australia into the top spot.

Coming into the final day of competition ranked second behind Hawaii, Australia rallied to finish in the lead with 6015-points nearly 1000 clear of Hawaii (5038) in second and the USA (4958) in third.
Australia’s win is also their sixth team’s title victory since the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship was launched eight years ago in 2003.Australian… Read the rest

Thailand joins the 2010 PKRA Word Tour-Kite Surfing

Thailand joins the 2010 PKRA Word Tour, just 4 days after the official tour schedule was posted.

Thailand will open up the season with a Grand Slam event consisting of Freestyle, Course Racing, and Best Trick disciplines. The event to be the first professional kiteboarding event in Asia in the history of the sport, promises to be a new beginning for the sport in the region, as it is expected to attract all the top riders in the world for an exceptional display of kiteboarding in Thailand.

Location : [url=http://travel.ian.com/index.jsp?generic=true&position=11&streetAddress=&location=&locale=en_US&room-0-adult-total=2&mode=2&mode=2&city=Hua+Hin&departureDay=20&destinationID=01BB87B0-C89F-4A80-A03D-F78326E16343&postalCode=&arrivalMonth=1&stateProvince=&requestKey=07A81B213214019644&pageName=hotAvail&currencyCode=USD&showPopUp=true&hotnetrates=true&star=5&numberOfRooms=1&cid=236560&arrivalDay=18&hotelID=334713&country=Th&supplierType=E&showInfo=true&propertyType=H&departureMonth=1&showPopUpMap=false&additionalDataString=vrBookingSource%7Cnull]Intercontinental Hua Hin,thailand[/url]

Registration : Online registration fee for this event is $105.00 and it is due by Mar-10-2010. Late registration or onsite registration will incurr a $25.00 late fee.The event will be held in Hua Hin Thailand, which is 3 hours driving time south of Bangkok International Airport. Registration will be on Sunday March 14th and the event will be from Monday March 15th till Saturday March 20th.… Read the rest

British Bodyboard Club 2010 Tour Announced

British Bodyboard Club 2010 Tour Announced
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 9:09:00 PM

British Bodyboard Club announce mini-tour to decide British Champion.
The British Bodyboard Club are set to launch a tour of 4 events to decide the 2010 Open Champion it was announced today.

Chairman Rich Hall said “the concept of deciding the British Champion via a series of events rather than a single one has been in discussion for some time”.

He continued “the BSA has given us the freedom to explore the options and are quite happy to support us in this; so we’re going to progress the idea this year”.

The 4 proposed events are:
The Sorted Surf Reef competition at Boscombe on March 20-21,
The Tolcarne Wedge Air Jam in July/August
The Greenaway Pro in St Ives in September
The British Nationals at Porthtowan in September/October.Rich said “we’re going to be teaming up with other organisations and/or competitions initially for 2 of the events; but will be providing the judges and backup to ‘sanction’ those competitions.… Read the rest

O’Brien Wins ASP WQS 5-Star Volcom Pipeline Pro

O’Brien Wins ASP WQS 5-Star Volcom Pipeline Pro

PIPELINE, Oahu/Hawaii (Monday, February 1, 2010) – Prayers, plundered surfboards and Pipeline perfection were the order of the final day of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 5-Star Volcom Pipeline Pro, and local boy Jamie O’Brien avoided the drama to walk away with the win.

O’Brien, 26, clinched his third Pipeline Pro title today to take home $16,000 and 2,000 ASP WQS ratings points. Surf for the final day was in the range of 10-15-foot wave face heights.

Australian pair Anthony Walsh and Mark Mathews were second and third respectively in the final, both breaking surfboards and forced to swim to the beach during the 45-minute bout. Fourth place was Hawaii’s Danny Fuller, who posted the day’s only perfect 10 during his semi-final heat but was unable to exit several deep tubes in the final that might have scored the same.… Read the rest