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November 30, 2011
HONOLULU, Hawaii (Wednesday, November 30, 2011) – Sunset’s reputation looms like a nightmare waiting to happen. Lung-crunching hold-downs; converging west and north peaks that consume you like an avalanche; and a wasteland for those not privy to the code of lineup markers. Year after year, Sunset sifts through the world’s bravest and most willing challengers [...]
November 29, 2011
HONOLULU, Hawaii (Monday, Nov. 28, 2011) – On the heels of yesterday’s surf-to-survive conditions, Sunset Beach served up tamer waves in the double-overhead range, but competition in the Vans World Cup of Surfing was no less intense. A $250,000 ASP Prime event, surfers from 16 nations are vying for critical end-of-year points here, but wild [...]
November 24, 2011
HALEIWA, Hawaii (November 23, 2011) – West Australia’s Taj Burrow, a virtual veteran of pro surfing at 33 years of age, has claimed his first Reef Hawaiian Pro title in Hawaii to pocket $25,000 and take an early lead on the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing ratings. Burrow, who has been competing in Hawaii for [...]
November 18, 2011
LOS ANGELES, California/USA (Friday, November 18, 2011) – John Florence (HAW), 18, has established himself as arguably the best Pipeline surfer in the world well before the end of his teens. After joining the ASP Top 34 at the midyear rotation, the young Hawaiian Prodigy has proven himself in everything high-performance waves at Lowers to [...]
November 10, 2011
HONOLULU, Hawaii (November 10, 2011) – Assigning a coveted wildcard for the most prestigious men’s pro surfing series on Earth to a woman could be viewed as contentious, but not if that woman is reigning ASP world surfing champion Carissa Moore. After all, Carissa has been competing against the world’s best women since she was [...]
November 9, 2011
HONOLULU, Hawaii (November 9, 2011) – This Saturday, November 12, marks the official start of the world’s premier professional surfing series on Oahu’s North Shore: THE VANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING, Presented by Rockstar Energy Drink. The first stop is the Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa Ali’i Beach Park. From November 12 through December 20 [...]
September 14, 2011
HONOLULU, HI – (September 14, 2011) – The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, is pleased to announce its upcoming winter surf season in Hawaii that will be the final stop of the 2011 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour, crowning this year’s men’s world surfing champion. The Series will [...]
December 16, 2010
PIPELINE, Oahu/Hawaii (Thursday, December 16, 2010) – The Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons, the final jewel of the Vans Triple Crown (an ASP Specialty Series) is back on this morning with clean four-to-six (2 metre) surf at Backdoor Pipeline and will crown a champion by day’s end. “Yesterday’s swell is still delivering [...]
December 15, 2010
PIPELINE, Oahu/Hawaii (Wednesday, December 15, 2010) – Maui’s Dusty Payne (HAW), 21, has just requalified for the 2011 ASP World Tour in a memorable comeback over two-time ASP World Champion Mick Fanning (AUS), 29, in their Round 3 bout. Payne’s chances at a position on the 2011 ASP Dream Tour appeared to be dwindling quickly, [...]
December 15, 2010
PIPELINE, Oahu/Hawaii (Wednesday, December 15, 2010) – The Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons, the final jewel of the Vans Triple Crown (an ASP Specialty Series), is back on this morning in building two-to-four foot (1 metre) surf at the Banzai Pipeline after nearly a week of lay days. “There is a new [...]