Walk For Waves
For many years in Australia there has been surfers that have had to overcome some sort of disability to be able to get back into the ocean and surf. These surfers have proven themselves to be resilient and creative by adapting their own techniques and equipment to achieve this with help from their friends in […]
Matt Wilkinson Has No Idea What’s Going On
Saturday, April 2, 2016 Bells Beach, Victoria Australia Take a quick glance at the history of Bells Beach champions and you’ll find the venerable list could easily be surfing’s one and only Hall of Fame. In the past 33 years alone, 75 percent of Rip Curl Pro winners at Bells have held world titles, or […]
Conlogue Grabs Bell and Yellow Jersey at Rip Curl Pro
Thursday, March 31, 2016 – Bells Beach, Victoria Australia Californian Courtney Conlogue won her first Bells title Friday, edging two-time event winner Sally Fitzgibbons by a tenth-of-a-point in an incredible final showdown that went to the wire, and capped one of the most incredible days of women’s performance surfing ever. The massive victory is sweet […]
He’s the Same Old Wilko, Playing a Brand New Game
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 After his recent victory at the QS 6,000 at Merewether Beach in February, Matt Wilkinson arrived at the Gold Coast hoping to carry his momentum into the first event of the 2016 Championship Tour. And carry it he did, winning every heat all the way through to the first CT win […]
Wright One-Ups World Champs
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 On her way to the top of the podium of the Roxy Pro Gold Coast, Tyler Wright faced two World Champs — Stephanie Gilmore and reigning World Champion Carissa Moore — and confronted last year’s runner-up to the Title, Courtney Conlogue, in the Final. Through it all, a new Tyler emerged, […]
Aussie Duo Rule at the Australian Open of Surfing and Aussie Bodies Women’s Pro
MANLY BEACH, SYDNEY (Sunday, 6 March 2015): Dion Atkinson (Seaford, SA) and Nikki Van Dijk (Phillip Island, VIC) have taken out the Australian Open of Surfing and the Aussie Bodies Women’s Pro respectively at Manly Beach. After a couple of days with gruelling conditions, mother nature turned it on for a thrilling finals day with […]
Wilkinson and Fitzgibbons Reign Supreme at Surfest 2016
Newcastle NSW, Australia (Sunday, February 28, 2016): The Champions of the 2016 Newcastle Surfest have been crowned in front of record crowds with World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) competitors Matt Wilkinson taking out the Maitland and Port Stephens Toyota Pro and Sally Fitzgibbons winning the Taggart Women’s Pro. The Final day was held […]
Evolution SurfAid Cup sets fundraising record at Surfest
In a howling southerly and sizable swell compliments of Cyclone Winston belting in to Newcastle’s Dixon Park surfbreak, a whopping field of 18 corporate teams raised more than $81,000 for humanitarian organisation SurfAid and set a new fundraising record for the event. Held at Dixon Park Beach, Newcastle, as part of the Surfest Newcastle Australia […]
Finalists Decided at the Maitland and Port Stephens Toyota Pro and Taggart Women’s Pro 2016 Surfest
Newcastle NSW, Australia (Saturday, February 27, 2016): As yesterday’s blustery southerly change began to subside, the forecasted large swell finally arrived at Merewether Beach for the second to last day of the Maitland and Port Stephens Pro and Taggart Women’s Pro as part of Newcastle Surfest. The hangover from yesterday’s cold front was most prominent […]
TLSC Tumbi Umbi and Narrabeen Sports High win Maitland and Port Stephens Toyota High School Teams Challenge
More more than 250 students, supported by their teachers and big numbers of parents, tackled challenging surf at both Dixon Park and Nobbys beach in the Maitland and Port Stephens Toyota High School Teams Challenge held as part Surfest Newcastle Australia. This unique surfing competition is designed to ensure an emphasis on working as a […]
