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2009 ASP World Tour
2009 ASP Women’s World Tour

2010 ASP World Tour and ASP Women’s World Tour Schedules Released

Pictured: 2010 promises more surfing perfection from the ASP.

Credit: © ASP/ CI/ SCHOLTZ via GETTY IMAGES

COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Tuesday, December 22, 2009) – With a historic 2009 coming to a close, the 2010 ASP schedule has been released and will mark some major shifts in venues and dates in order to ensure that the world’s best surfers battle one another in the world’s best waves.“2010 will mark some major changes for professional surfing and the schedule reflects this,” Brodie Carr, ASP International CEO, said. “We’re moving dates of certain venues to ensure that we get the best possible surf as well as adding landmark new events. Across all disciplines, the 2010 ASP schedule will see nearly $12,000,000 paid out in prize money.… Read the rest

Billabong Pipeline Masters
Stop No. 10 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour
Pipeline, Oahu/Hawaii
December 8 – 20, 2009

Massive Unruly Swells Force Lay Day for Billabong Pipeline Masters

Pictured: Plenty of swell on the North Shore and the Billabong Pipeline Masters will be looking to commence in the coming days.

Credit: © ASP/ CI/ SCHOLTZ via GETTY IMAGES

PIPELINE, Oahu/Hawaii (Monday, December 8, 2009) – The Billabong Pipeline Masters, Event No. 10 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, has called a lay day today, with unruly 20-foot (7 metre) seas closing out the famed break at the Banzai Pipeline.

Surfline, official forecasters for the Billabong Pipeline Masters, are calling for today’s fetch of swell to slowly decline over the next several days meaning there will be plenty of surf on offer to kickstart the final event of the 2009 ASP World Tour season.… Read the rest

Billabong ASP World Junior Championships
Von Zipper Trials
North Narrabeen, Sydney, New South Wales Australia
January 9 – 17, 2010

World’s Best Juniors Descend on Sydney for Billabong ASP World Junior Championships

Pictured: Owen Wright (AUS), 19, 2010 ASP World Tour rookie, is an odds-on favorite at the upcoming Billabong ASP World Junior Championships.
Credit: © ASP/ CI/ ROBERTSON via GETTY IMAGES

COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Tuesday, January 5, 2010) – The world’s best junior surfers are descending upon the Sydney suburb of North Narrabeen to hunt down the most prestigious crown in junior surfing, the ASP World Junior Title, as the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships prepare to run at the famed beachbreak from January 9 – 17, 2010.

Contesting in their respective regional ASP Pro Junior Series throughout the 2009 season, qualifiers for the prestigious Billabong ASP World Junior Championships include 48 men and 18 women from the seven ASP regions: Africa, Australasia, Europe, Japan, North America and South America.While… Read the rest

Billabong Pro Maui is ON in Pumping Honolua Bay

HONOLUA BAY, Maui/Hawaii (Tuesday, December 8, 2009) – The final stop on the 2009 ASP Women’s World Tour, the Billabong Pro Maui, is on this morning in pumping eight-foot (2.5 metre) surf at Maui’s famed pointbreak of Honolua Bay.

The Billabong Pro Maui is not only critical to surfers’ campaigns on the bubble for requalification for the 2010 ASP Women’s World Tour, but is also the final stop on the prestigious Vans Triple Crown.The Billabong Pro Maui Trials will kick off this morning’s action and will see top up-and-comer Carissa Moore (HAW), 17, who claimed the last event on the ASP Women’s World Tour at Sunset Beach, battle for a spot in the main event against fellow trialists Felicity Palmateer, Paige Alms, Monyca Byrne-Wickey, Lani Doherty and Kati Minami. Competition will then launch directly into Round 1 of the main event and will continue through to Round 3 to conclude the day’s proceedings.… Read the rest