SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Friday, September 28, 2012) – Mick Fanning (AUS), 31, has two ASP World Titles under his belt and is currently eying a possibly third this year. If accomplished, it would put him into even more rarefied atmosphere within surfing’s layer cake than he currently resides. However, with four events remaining (one [...]
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Friday, October 7, 2011) – Martin Potter (GBR), 44, is the 1989 ASP World Champion. He has been heralded and berated, loved and hated. He is a statesman – one of the few we have in surfing. He was forged in the fire of the tour’s early cutthroat days and rode [...]
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Thursday, July 21, 2011) – The Irons family produced perhaps the most potent sibling force the surfing world has ever seen. While it was younger brother Bruce that would see competitive success early as an amateur, it was Andy that would fuel his own fire and rampage to unprecedented heights, dethroning [...]
JEFFREYS BAY, South Africa (Monday, July 18, 2011) – It’s been a couple lay days in South Africa as the world’s best surfers wait for Jeffreys Bay to reawaken. Fortunately for them, South Africa has no shortage of activities. Yesterday saw a swath of the ASP Top 34 attend the Sunday feeding at the local [...]
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Thursday, June 30, 2011) -Jordy Smith (ZAF), 23, current ASP World No. 5, has been uncharacteristically quiet thus far this season. The 2010 ASP World Runner-Up cruised to back-to-back Equal 3rd place finishes in the opening two events, before stumbling with a 13th in Rio. Aside from that, it’s been all [...]
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Thursday, March 24, 2011) – Kelly Slater (USA), 39, reigning 10-time ASP World Champion and leader in the hunt for the 2011 ASP World Title, and Taj Burrow (AUS), 32, prodigal son of the progressive surf movement and current ASP World No. 2, may not seem like likely bedfellows. However, reports [...]
SYDNEY, New South Wales/Australia (Friday, September 10, 2010) -The ASP’s midyear field reduction is done and dusted and those who remain have a whole new battle on their hands – the battle for requalification. Rookie sensation Matt Wilkinson (AUS), 21, currently sits at ASP World No. 24 and will need to do some damage throughout [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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