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7.22.10
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Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach Day One
A New Format Begins At Bells Reynolds Goes Down And Unflattering Conditions Prevail by Sean Doherty SURFER Contributor The winners can laugh and the losers, as they say, can please themselves. The Top 16, meanwhile, can quaff java and frolic and freesurf, breathing the rarified air their newfound status affords them. For the first time [...]
7.22.10
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Keaunu Asing Stands Out On Day Four
A powerful 6-8 foot south swell slammed into la FAE beach today making for challenging conditions for surfers at the 2009 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships. Amazing performances were turned in by the world’s best young surfers as they bravely fought through treacherous currents and clean up sets. “We had some high scores today [...]
7.22.10
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Billabong XXL Awards Reveals Wipeout Contenders
With the 2009 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards just 16 days away, organizers have announced additional nominees in the remaining categories, including the Verizon Wireless Wipeout Award, the Surfline Best Overall Performance Award and the Billabong Girls Performance Award. For the first time in the nine-year history of the Billabong XXL Awards, the public [...]
7.22.10
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Australia Leads The Race At ISA Games
The Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship saw one of its most intense days at Playas de la FAE. The swell continued to hold up throughout the day, delivering solid overhead surf. This afternoon the Under 18 Boys returned to the competition after a lay day yesterday. Having a little extra rest and fresh legs, [...]
7.22.10
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Aussies Claim Fifth Gold Medal In Come-From-Behind Victory
In a dramatic come from behind victory, Team Australia was crowned the 2009 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Champions today in Salinas, Ecuador. Australians Dean Bowen and Tyler Wright won individual gold medals for Under 18 Boys and Under 18 Girls. Keanu Asing from Hawaii won the Under 16 gold medal. Team Brazil won the [...]
7.22.10
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Rusty Long and Grant “Twiggy” Baker First To Conquer Monster Chilean Wave
Details are still a bit blurry, but according to eye-witness accounts, big-wave hellions Rusty Long and Grant “Twiggy” Baker have broken the 100-foot barrier, catching and surfing a sky-scraper-size wave off the coast of Chile’s Isla Alejandra Selkirk, several hundred miles off the coast of mainland Chile. SURFER received the breaking news via satellite phone [...]
7.22.10
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Hawaii Leads The Charge On Day Three
The surf picked up today, with the south swell making its first solid appearance at the third day of competition of the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Salinas, Ecuador. The left point at La FAE offered super fun four-to-five foot surf all day and Under 18 Girls and Under 16 Boys finished Round [...]
7.22.10
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San Clemente Local Defeats Geiselman, Perillo, and Goodall At Huntington
Mike Losness (San Clemente, CA), 28, claimed the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 2-Star Vans Pier Classic pres. by Jack’s Surfboards today over fellow finalists Dillon Perillo (Malibu, CA), 18, who won the Ezekiel pro Junior and finished in second in the men’s event, Hank Gaskell (Hana, HI), 22, and Eric [...]
7.22.10
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Recession Named The Reason For Worldwide Slump In Shark Attacks
A recent report from the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida cited the recession as the reason for a decline in shark attacks last year. “Shark attacks worldwide in 2008 dipped to their lowest level in five years, a sign that Americans may be forgoing vacation trips to the beach,” the report [...]
7.22.10
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ISA World Games Goes Big On Day Two
(Salinas, Ecuador) The Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships returned to Playas de la FAE today for the second day of competition. Girls Under 18 made their grand debut, running all 24 heats of round one at the secondary contest site – a right and left beach break on the south end of the beach. [...]
