Neither South Africa nor New Zealand will fill their quota of four surfers at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, meaning they’ll have to share a single preview among each other. Let’s get to it, starting with the Kiwis. New Zealand With just a tick over 5 million people living on the two islands of New Zealand, …
In 2016, I had the good fortune of riding a Sharp Eye on a Tracks magazine board test trip. I was given the terrible assignment of riding a Toledo model in ripable North Sumatran peaks. Evidently, I’m no board prophet, because the board clearly went better than my conventional boards I was riding at the …
Peru isn’t a nation typically associated with producing a plethora of elite surfers at the top level. In fact, throughout the course of the six events which have already taken place this season on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour, they haven’t had a single representative. Despite that, they have managed to fill their quota …
As expected, the latest edition of the Jeep Surf Ranch Pro was the subject of plenty of criticism, a little bit of praise and a whole lot of incredible surfing. Opinions surrounding the event’s longevity on the tour were rife, with many questioning whether watching the world’s best surf the same wave on repeat is …
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 …
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