James Salmon 
The Billabong Pro Pipeline kicked off the Championship Tour for the third time this year, but while anticipation for the event was high, the waves failed to deliver to near the standard of which we know they are capable. The pumping, heavy Pipe which is, in the eyes of many, the best wave in the …
Just a couple of short years ago, the women’s Championship Tour had never been to Pipeline, but that all changed when their 2021 Maui Pro was moved there from Pipeline partway through the contest. After the success of that event – or the end of it – the 2022 season started with the first ever …
The first event of the season is upon us, and for the third successive year it will kick off at one of the finest waves on the planet. The Billabong Pipeline Masters is one of the most highly anticipated events of every season wherever it is on the calendar, and this year is no different. …
The 2022 Men’s Championship Tour saw Filipe Toledo finally earn his maiden world title, but he did so in the absence of Gabriel Medina and John John Florence. This year, he won’t have that luxury, though he will nonetheless be a major contender. Those three round out the favourites, but the current quality at the …
The 2023 World Surf League is almost upon us, with the Championship Tour set to begin with the Billabong Pro Pipeline on the 29th of January. The women’s side of the tour will likely see the usual suspects competing at the pointy end of the season, but there isn’t a great deal separating them. With …
After a pulsating WSL Finals Day to determine the 2022 world champions – a day which culminated in Stephanie Gilmore winning a record eight title in incredible fashion, and Filipe Toledo breaking through first his first – the professional surfing world’s head has turned to the next season. Set to kick off in late January, …
With just a solitary world title between the five men competing at the 2022 WSL Finals – fourth seed Italo Ferreira the only competitor to win one in the past – it was overwhelmingly likely that a new champion would be crowned by day’s end. With inexperience as prevalent as it was, performance under pressure …
Wow. The 2022 WSL Finals were just the second using this format in CT history and the first following a season not disrupted by Covid, and wasn’t it one to remember. The waves can certainly get better at Trestles than what was on offer in the early hours of Friday morning, but they were rippable …
This year saw the Championship Tour return to a ten-contest format for the first time in three years after just seven took place in 2021 and none the year before that, a result of our old friend the pandemic. And while plenty has stayed the same over those three years, a lot has changed, too. …
It’s been an historic year for women’s surfing. For the first time, the Championship Tour schedule exactly mirrored that of the men, something which resulted in a number of firsts – not least the first ever full women’s contest at Pipeline, and a return to Teahupo’o after 16 years. And after ten events, the result …
Nine months after the season kicked off in incredible fashion with a Kelly Slater win at Pipeline, the five men who will compete at the WSL Finals at Trestles have been locked in. Slater won’t be there, but a couple of other regulars in Filipe Toledo and Italo Ferreira will, alongside two vastly improved young …
Nine months and ten events after the season kicked off in a historic contest at Pipeline, the five women who will compete for the 2022 world title have been decided. Carissa Moore, Johanne Defay, Tatiana Weston-Webb, Brisa Hennessy and Steph Gilmore will head to Trestles in September for the WSL Finals, so let’s take an …
As the final contest of the season prior to the WSL Finals, it was all on the line in the first women’s Tahiti Pro since 2006. And while the scores certainly weren’t anything to write home about, the importance of so many heats in the context of the season ensured this contest remained enthralling throughout. …
Taking place at one of the best waves in the world, the Tahiti Pro is typically one of the most compelling events on the Championship Tour calendar, but this year it took on added importance as the last contest of the year before the WSL Finals. Filipe Toledo and Jack Robinson had already locked in …
Eight months and nine events after the 2022 CT season got underway at Pipeline, we’re finally at The End of the Road – in more ways than one. The Outerknown Tahiti Pro at Teahupo’o, a wave ominously referred to by that aforementioned title, marks the tenth and final contest of the Championship Tour season, and …
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