BARRA DA TIJUCA , Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (Friday, May 11, 2012) – For many touring professional surfers, a contest lay day presents the welcome opportunity to do some sightseeing or discover a new wave down the coast, but for two-time ASP World Champion Mick Fanning (AUS), 30, it’s the ideal opportunity to hang out with [...]
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (Thursday, May 10, 2012) – The Billabong Rio Pro returned to the lefthanders of Arpoador to complete Round 2 of women’s competition in challenging one-to-three foot (0.5 metre) waves. Event No. 5 of 7 on the 2012 ASP Women’s World Championship Tour, the Billabong Rio Pro made the most of the [...]
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (Thursday, May 10, 2012) – After a brief holding period this morning, the women’s Billabong Rio Pro is on at Arpoador for the second consecutive day in one-to-three foot (.5 metre) surf. Following women’s Round 2 competition, event organizers will reassess conditions to potentially move through to the latter rounds. Stop [...]
ARPOADOR, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (Wednesday, May 9, 2012) – The 2012 Billabong Rio Pro, Stop No. 3 of 10 on the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour, kicked off competition at the secondary venue of Arpoador this morning and the event’s top seeds dominated the clean two-to-four foot (1.5 metre) lefthanders on offer for Round 1. [...]
BARRA DA TIJUCA, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (Tuesday, May 8, 2012) – Kelly Slater (USA), 40, reigning 11-time ASP World Champion and current ASP World No. 1, has withdrawn from the Billabong Rio Pro following a heel injury sustained in Java. “I injured the inside of my left heel in Java and then re-opened it again [...]
BARRA DA TIJUCA, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (Monday, May 7, 2012) – The draw has been finalized for the next stop on the ASP World Championship Tour, the Billabong Rio Pro, cementing the Round 1 match-ups for the world’s best surfers to go down at Rio de Janeiro’s Barra da Tijuca this week. Event No. 3 [...]
BARRA DA TIJUCA, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil (Saturday, May 5, 2012) – The world’s best surfers are descending on Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro for the next stop on the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour season, the Billabong Rio Pro, to be held from May 9 – 20, 2012. Event No. 3 of 10 on the 2012 [...]
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California/USA (Monday, April 23, 2012) – Dusty Payne (HAW), 23, has been notably absent from the battlefield this season. The high-powered Hawaiian, capable of mixing it up in maxing Pipeline as well as above the lip, injured his ankle in the ASP Prime O’Neill Coldwater Classic at Santa Cruz last year before exacerbating [...]
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Wednesday, April 18, 2012) – Kolohe Andino, Taj Burrow, Julian Wilson, Travis Logie, Mick Fanning, Dusty Payne, Brett Simpson – it’s an esteemed list of wave-riders and all have played a crucial part in the reigniting of Matt ‘Mayhem’ Biolos as a premiere shaper to the world’s best surfers. Biolos, whose [...]
JEJU ISLAND, Republic of Korea (Monday, April 16, 2012) – ASP International is pleased to announce the sanctioning of the first-ever event in the Republic of Korea, the ASP 2-Star men’s Murasaki Quiksilver Open of Surfing to take place at Jeju Island’s Mun Beach from June 14 – 18, 2012. “The announcement of ASP Japan’s [...]
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