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August 16, 2011
TEAHUPOO, Taiarapu/French Polynesia (Monday, August 15, 2011) – With the completion of the Air Tahiti VonZipper Trials yesterday, the final two wildcard positions for the Billabong Pro Tahiti presented by Air Tahiti Nui were decided with Brazilian Ricardo Dos Santos (Guarda Do Embau, BRA) and local Heiarri Williams (PYF) finishing first and second in clean [...]
August 15, 2011
COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Monday, August 15, 2010) – Tyler Wright (AUS), 17, has claimed the 2011 ASP Women’s World Tour Rookie of the Year Award, finishing a season-end 4th amongst the most talented crop of female surfers ever to grace the ASP Top 17. No stranger to the elite level of competition, having already scalped two [...]
August 11, 2011
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Thursday, August 11, 2011) – Owen Wright (AUS), 21, goes hard. There’s no two ways about it. He rampaged through the ASP Australasia Pro Junior Series, terrified the Star and Prime events and vaulted into the Rookie of the Year spot in 2010. With that in mind, Wright opted out of [...]
August 2, 2011
BURLEIGH HEADS, Queensland/Australia (Tuesday, August 2, 2011) – As CEO of ASP International, Brodie Carr’s dance card is understandably full. Between juggling the interests of the surfers, the events, his staff and the widely-varied expectations of the sport’s ever-growing audience, it is a role that offers new challenges with every day. Australia’s Surfing Life (ASL) [...]
August 1, 2011
COOLANGATTA, QLD/Australia (Tuesday, August 2, 2011) – Jack Freestone, 19, is the Gold Coast kid taking on the world’s best in the ASP World Tour’s Prime rated events. After claiming the ASP World Junior Crown in January, he was awarded a seed into all the ASP Prime events. However, Freestone is yet to find form [...]
July 31, 2011
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro/Brasil (Sunday, July 31, 2011) – Iain Buchanan (NZL) and Nathan Webster (AUS) emerged victorious today, taking out the ASP Grand Masters and ASP Masters titles respectively in clean-but-small surf at Arpoador, Rio de Janeiro. Buchanan bested defending ASP Grand Masters Champion and former World Champion Wayne Bartholomew (AUS) in a closely-fought [...]
July 31, 2011
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro / Brasil (Sunday, July 31, 2011) – The SuperSurf ASP World Masters Championships has been called ON this morning with the potential of crowning champions in both the ASP Masters and ASP Grand Masters divisions by day’s end. “We have clean conditions on offer today and we’ll look to capitalize on [...]
July 30, 2011
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro / Brasil (Saturday, July 30, 2011) – With time winding down in the waiting period, the sport’s most legendary surfers battled through a marathon day at the SuperSurf ASP World Masters Championships at the lefthand piontbreak of Arpoador to decide the Quarterfinalists for the Masters (Under 50) and has narrowed the [...]
July 30, 2011
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro / Brasil (Saturday, July 30, 2011) – The SuperSurf ASP World Masters Championships is on once again this morning in slowly-building swell at Rio de Janeiro’s lefthand pointbreak of Arpoador. Today’s proceedings are expected to see the biggest day of competition so far to decide the Semifinalists in both the Masters [...]
July 29, 2011
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro / Brasil (Friday, July 29, 2011) – The SuperSurf ASP World Masters Championships is back ON this morning in one-to-two foot (.5 metre) waves at the lefthand pointbreak of Arpoador after uncontestable conditions forced competition off yesterday. Today’s events are scheduled to see Round 2 of Grand Masters competition kick things [...]