Tag: "Renato Hickel"

Midyear Report with ASP WCT Manager Renato Hickel

Midyear Report with ASP WCT Manager Renato Hickel

[ 0 ] July 9, 2012

QUEENSLAND, Australia (Monday, July 9, 2012) – The 2012 ASP WCT season has been action packed! From the season-opener on the Gold Coast to an epic Fanning-Slater final at Bells to pumping Rio beachbreak to amazing open ocean barrels in Fiji, the 2012 ASP World Championship tour has seen four event winners and four different [...]

Conner Coffin (USA), 18, is one of several ASP World Junior competitors who will potentially benefit from the clearer pathway to ASP Top 34 qualification.

ASP Board of Directors Approves Clearer Pathway to ASP Top 34 Qualification

[ 19 ] January 24, 2012

COOLANGATTA, Queensland/AUS (Tuesday, January 24, 2012) – The ASP Board of Directors has voted to ratify several refinements to the ASP World Tour and ASP World Rankings for the 2012 season. These changes will expand upon the December 2011 decision to suspend the midyear rotation for 2012, due to schedule constraints, and continue to provide [...]

The Northern Pacific power of Steamer Lane will host the world’s best surfers next year as the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Santa Cruz joins the 2012 ASP World Title schedule.

O’Neill Cold Water Classic Santa Cruz Confirmed for 2012 ASP World Title Series

[ 19 ] December 22, 2011

SANTA CRUZ, California/USA (Thursday, December 22, 2011) – The O’Neill Cold Water Classic Santa Cruz has been confirmed as an elite ASP World Title event for 2012. The world’s best surfers will journey to Northern California next November for the 10th of 11 stops on next season’s ASP World Title Series. “We’re very happy to [...]

Brodie Carr and Renato Hickel award Kelly Slater the ASP World Title trophy.

The Moment: Slater Officially Awarded 2011 ASP World Title Trophy

[ 17 ] 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 [...]

Will the Rip Curl Pro Search San Francisco still crown the 2011 ASP World Champion?

ASP Admits Calculation Error Prematurely Crowned 2011 ASP World Champion

[ 67 ] November 4, 2011

OCEAN BEACH, San Francisco/California (Friday, November 4, 2011) – The ASP has admitted that, due to a calculation error within its rankings’ system, the 2011 ASP World Title has yet to be officially decided and that Kelly Slater (USA), 39, was prematurely awarded his 11th ASP World Title on Wednesday. “Our rankings’ system is designed [...]

At the end of the day, it's about putting the best surfing on LIVE for the fans - Kelly Slater accomplishing just that at the Quiksilver Pro New York this season.

The Assessment In Full: A Look at the ASP World Tour’s Transition

[ 13 ] 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 [...]

At the end of the day, all changes aside, it's the surfers and the surfing that make the biggest impact - Jeremy Florec (FRA), 23, changing perceptions in Tahiti.

The Assessment Part IV: Overall ASP World Tour Appeal and Audience Numbers

[ 36 ] 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 [...]

Josh Kerr (AUS), 27, has been around the qualifying block a few times. Now he's locked in, imagine that.

The Assessment Part III: Number of Newcomers Per Rotation

[ 6 ] 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 [...]

John John Florence (HAW), 19, and Gabriel Medina (BRA), 17, are both newcomers to the elite ASP Top 34 following Septembers midyear rotation and have already made a major impact on the world's elite.

The Assessment Part I: Conditions of Access for ASP Top 34 Newcomers

[ 30 ] October 19, 2011

COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Wednesday, October 19, 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 [...]

Al Hunt breaks it down for Adriano de Souza (BRA), 23, at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach this season.

ASP’s Al Hunt Approaches 1000 Events

[ 0 ] November 24, 2010

SUNSET BEACH, Oahu/Hawaii (Tuesday, November 22, 2010) – Al Hunt is an institution within the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP). The big man, from Bateau Bay on New South Wales’ Central Coast, has served in a variety of crucial positions including ASP Head Judge, ASP World Tour Manager, ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) Tour Manager [...]

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