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July 24, 2010
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Friday, July 23, 2010) – For students of history, you may recall the worldwide hype machine that started grinding in 2008, when rookies Dane Reynolds and Jordy Smith ascended to the elite ASP World Tour. For Jordy, the young South African went from the frying pan to the fryer awfully quick: [...]
July 23, 2010
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Wednesday, July 21, 2010) – Adam Melling (AUS), 25, 2010 ASP World Tour rookie, just finished off the event of his life, navigating past a minefield of talent to come up just short of Jordy Smith (ZAF), 22, in the Final. His Runner-Up finish rockets him from 41st to 19th on [...]
July 21, 2010
BURLEIGH HEADS, Queensland/Australia (Tuesday, July 20, 2010) – It’s been quite the couple of weeks for South Africa. First, they host an incredible FIFA World Cup, then they’re blessed with sunshine and epic waves for a four-day blitz at Stop No. 4 of 10 on the 2010 ASP World Tour, the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay, [...]
July 20, 2010
GOLD COAST, Queensland/Australia (Saturday, July 17, 2010) – It’s so good to be in J-Bay with a nice clean new swell coming through. It’s one of the great feelings in surfing! It feels like forever since Brazil and the last contest, but it has also been great to have a 10-week break to recharge the [...]
July 20, 2010
JEFFREYS BAY, South Africa (Wednesday, July 14, 2010) – The surfing world may be just hours away from the greatest assemblage of surfing talent assaulting Event No. 4 of 10 on the 2010 ASP World Tour, the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay, and if you haven’t registered your new ASP Fantasy Team yet, get on it [...]
July 13, 2010
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Tuesday, July 13, 2010) – Jeremy Flores (FRA), 22, is already into his fourth season amongst the world’s elite and Europe’s greatest chance at the ASP World Title has struggled to replicate the dominant form seen in his junior career and the (former) ASP World Qualifying Series. Currently Ranked No. 20 [...]
July 13, 2010
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California/USA (Monday, July 12, 2010) – The Gudauskas brothers, twins Patrick and Dane, 24, and younger brother Tanner, 22, are three of the happiest professional surfers you’ll ever meet. Come across one of the Gudangs in the lineup and you’ll be greeted with a contagious smile, but don’t let their big grins and [...]
July 9, 2010
COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Friday, July 9, 2010) – Joel Parkinson (29, Coolangatta) has officially pulled out of next week’s Billabong Pro at Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, after badly slicing his foot while surfing at his home break of Snapper Rocks this morning. “I just pulled into a barrel and have been taken out by the foamball, [...]
July 9, 2010
BURLEIGH HEADS, Queensland/Australia (Thursday, July 8, 2010) – Adrian “Ace” Buchan (AUS), 27, current ASP World No. 13, is one of the most consummate professionals the surfing world has ever seen. Adept in any and all conditions, the versatile goofy-footer stopped by with Australia’s Surfing Life (ASL) magazine recently to discuss his youth camp, the [...]
July 9, 2010
COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Wednesday, July 7, 2010) – Dean Morrison (AUS), 29, current ASP World No. 37, was assaulted in a senseless act of violence early Sunday morning at home on the Gold Coast. As reported by GoldCoast.com “ASP World Tour surfer Dean Morrison is ‘lucky to be alive’ after being king-hit and knocked unconscious in [...]