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November 10, 2011
HONOLULU, Hawaii (November 10, 2011) – Assigning a coveted wildcard for the most prestigious men’s pro surfing series on Earth to a woman could be viewed as contentious, but not if that woman is reigning ASP world surfing champion Carissa Moore. After all, Carissa has been competing against the world’s best women since she was [...]
November 9, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, California/USA (Wednesday, November 9, 2011) – The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) announced today that it has accepted the resignation of CEO Brodie Carr, effective December 31 of this year. Mr. Carr has tendered his resignation as CEO on the heels of the premature crowning of Kelly Slater as the 2011 ASP World [...]
November 9, 2011
HONOLULU, Hawaii (November 9, 2011) – This Saturday, November 12, marks the official start of the world’s premier professional surfing series on Oahu’s North Shore: THE VANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING, Presented by Rockstar Energy Drink. The first stop is the Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa Ali’i Beach Park. From November 12 through December 20 [...]
November 7, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, California/USA (Sunday, November 6, 2011) – After a week that will not soon be forgotten by the surfing world, Kelly Slater (USA), 39, officially clinched the 2011 ASP World Title today, besting South American young guns Gabriel Medina (BRA), 17, and Miguel Pupo (BRA), 19, in Round 4 of the Rip Curl Pro [...]
November 2, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, California/USA (Wednesday, November 2, 2011) – A year ago today, we lost a champion, hero, brother, husband, son and legend. Andy Irons, three-time ASP World Champion, passed away en route from Puerto Rico to Kauai on November 2, 2010, and the world is still reeling from this loss. This morning, the world’s best [...]
October 25, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, California/USA (Tuesday, October 25, 2011) – After spending nearly every waking minute for 6 months Searching the Indonesia Archipelago last year for Rip Curl’s thoroughly documented Tip-to-Tip Search project, Dillon Perillo and Dean Brady find themselves paired up again…this time to take on the World’s best surfers as wildcards in the 2011 Rip [...]
October 24, 2011
COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Monday, October 24, 2011) – The past 24 months have bore witness to a radical transition within the ASP. Spawned in the ASP Board Meetings of October 2009, these transitions dealt specifically with the system for determining the world’s best surfers who would ultimately decide the undisputed ASP World Champion. In August of [...]
October 22, 2011
COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Saturday, October 22, 2011) – ASP World Tour Manager and multi-decade veteran of the the ASP Renato Hickel has offered the the first three portions of his insights into the radical transitions that the sport has undergone in the past 24 months, and now we’re prepared for the fourth and final. Spawned in [...]
October 21, 2011
COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Friday, October 21, 2011) – ASP World Tour Manager and multi-decade veteran of the the ASP Renato Hickel has offered the the first two portions of his insights into the radical transitions that the sport has undergone in the past 24 months, and now we’re prepared for number three. Spawned in the ASP [...]
October 20, 2011
LISBON, Portugal (Thursday, October 20, 2011) – ASP World Tour athlete and 1% For The Planet Ambassador Dan Ross (AUS), 28, has launched an environmental, humanitarian and health campaign which will complete on the 11th of November, 2011. “Now is a great time to buy a water filtration system as we’re running an initiative called [...]