Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch became a unique part of the World Surf League’s Championship Tour just a couple of years ago, and while it polarises opinion, watching the best in the world strut their stuff in a pool which churns out perfect wave after perfect wave can make for some intriguing viewing. On the men’s …
In the two preceding editions of the Surf Ranch Pro, it’s safe to say that the women’s side has been a little less predictable. Four different surfers occupied the top two positions across those years, in contrast to the men’s, where Medina beat Toledo both times. This year shapes up as being equally unpredictable – …
France has never been a powerhouse of world surfing in the same way that Australia, the United States and now Brazil are, but with a vast west coast and some of the best beach breaks in the world at their disposal, it’s no surprise that they still produce plenty of high-quality surfers. They’ve filled their …
Japan is not exactly globally recognised as a surf destination, but despite that, the country has been bestowed with the prestigious honour of being the first ever to host an Olympics surfing event. This, of course, comes with certain perks for Japanese surfers, namely that one man and one woman are automatically given a spot …
The USA have long been a powerhouse in world surfing, with some of the greatest names in the sport’s history – and indeed THE greatest name in Kelly Slater – coming out of the States. That’s despite the fact that, at the international level, Hawaii competes separately, meaning names like John John Florence and Carissa …
The Australian leg of the 2021 Championship Tour is over as quickly as it begun, with four events having been crammed into less than two months of action. Margaret River was the only CT regular to make an appearance and served up quality waves as usual, while Newcastle, Narrabeen and Rottnest Island made their debuts …
Brazil has taken the surfing world by storm in recent years, with names like Gabriel Medina, Italo Ferreira, Filipe Toledo and Tatiana Weston-Webb becoming consistent presences in the upper echelons of the world rankings. In many ways they have revolutionised professional surfing, particularly on the men’s side of things, with aerial manoeuvres which were barely …
Tokyo 2020 Surfing Preview – Team Australia The 2020 Games will soon get underway, roughly a year after they were initially scheduled, and for the first time the best surfers in the world will get the chance to earn a Gold Medal for their country. With a few spots still to be filled there are …
The 2020 Tokyo Games are set to be an historic edition of the oldest active sporting tournament on the planet. For starters, they will be held in 2021, but more importantly it will also be the first Olympics in history in which surfing will be included as an event. It only took about 2,800 years …
The Margaret River Pro dished up some of the best waves of the season yet, with huge swells throughout the waiting period ensuring the only traditional event of the Australian leg of the Championship Tour more than delivered on expectations. There was an injury to John John Florence, an early exit for Gabriel Medina and …
Carissa Moore put in yet another solid performance at Margaret River while Tatiana Weston-Webb’s win catapulted her into a clear second in the standings, but something of a bottleneck has developed thereafter. Of course, with only the top five surfers earning a spot to the season-ending event at Trestles in a few months’ time, competition …
The Boost Mobile Margaret River Pro saw the best waves of the Australian leg of the 2021 WSL Tour to date and it was two Brazilians who came out victorious, shaking up their respective CT standings in the process. Let’s take a look at exactly what went down on both sides of the draw. Boost …
Margaret River dishes up some of the best waves on the Championship Tour, and has been the scene of many of the greatest rides in recent memory over the past few years. Who could forget Sebastian Zietz’s 10-pointer back in 2017, when he set up shop deeper than what appeared humanly possible inside a perfect …
Carissa Moore started the season like a house on fire, but at Narrabeen, she was knocked off her proverbial perch by arguably the most prodigiously talented young surfer in the world in Caroline Marks. Marks’ win propelled her into second-place in the Championship Tour standings, and she’ll be looking to close the gap on Moore even further at Margaret River – as will about ten or fifteen others. However, goofy-footers like Marks have typically struggled at this event, and the powerful styles of regular-footers like Moore and Tyler Wright will hold them in good stead over the next week or so.
With the two replacement events at Newcastle and Narrabeen now done and dusted, the Championship Tour returns to the familiar Margaret River for the fourth leg of the season. One of the most picturesque righthand point breaks on the planet, Margaret River has been a happy hunting ground for regular-footers in recent years, with the last five winners on both the men’s and women’s side of the tour surfing the wave frontside. This year, however, two of the favourites to take out the event will be surfing their backhand – can they buck the trend and get one back for the goofy-footers?
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