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Billabong have a competition running called the Freewave Challenge. Essentially, if you ride a sick wave, get a great barrel and it's recorded on film while you are surfing in Hawaii in the months of October, November or December you are eligible to win the competition. You could be a local shredder or a slick pro. Jordy Smith probably has the best barrel so far - at ...

The waves at Teahupo'o never cease to leave me in awe...

This story is pretty amazing. During the Tommy Zahn Memorial Paddleboard Race two of the competitors were stalked by a whopping big shark. I paddled up and over the shark with my board and started swinging. I was screaming at the shark and bumping it with my board and hitting it on the nose but I had no idea if that was scaring the shark or making it ...

After much criticism of Rip Curls approach to the locals at the famed competition in Mexico Surfline decided to run their own "Goodwill Tour to Mexico" The aim of the tour is to: The goal of our Surfline Goodwill Tour event will be to raise $20,000 from the VIP event participants for the local community. The local citizens are very resourceful and have been working to build a ...

This is just wrong!!

In case you missed it, Rip Curl have announced their location for the 2007 competition which was held "somewhere in Mexico" last year with great waves. The new location is Arica in Chile at a wave called El Gringo. Arica is used to holding surfing competitions which the Arica Chilean Challenge (Bodyboarding comp) being held there for the last 3 years, and you can see from ...

No it's not what you think, "The Soft On is a competition for foam riders, soft sliders & freestyle surfside pirates. It’s a community minded initiative inspired by sliding, art & music. In this first movement the project encompasses a koolie compeition, foammie art exhibition and free Soft On Sound System cd release. But more than anything it’s just plain fun..." When: Saturday the 26th of May, 8.30am Where: Bondi ...

Don't forget, today is the last day of Bells. Currently Mick Fanning and Andy Irons are having it out. Irons is just in front. To see all the action - http://www.aspworldtour.com/2007/ripcurlpro/

Incase you haven't realised - it starts today, in fact it started 5 minutes ago with Dean Morrison, Pancho Sullivan and Bernardo Pigmeu in the first heat. No ones gotten any waves yet. You can watch it live on the ASP World Tour website. There's potentially a cyclone swell on the way, hopefully it works out as I'm going to be there next week for a few ...

It's seems as though I was a little prescient in my post back in December on the Billabong XXL awards where I showed a clip of Damon Eastough surfing some large waves in Western Australia. Except it was for the wrong awards! Damon as just won the Oakley / ASL Big Wave Awards for his humungous wave ridden at xBox. The winning wave was judged to be ...