Archive for Month: October 2015

Surf News

• Adriano de Souza to retire from pro surfing in 2021
  Adriano de Souza will retire from professional surfing at the end of 2021. The 2015 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) champion has decided to compete for just one more season at the elite surfing level and say goodbye to the friends he has made. De Souza was born in Guarujá, Brazil, and started surfing […]
• The benefits of wave pools to adaptive surfers
  Basque pro surfer Aritz Aranburu is a big believer in the therapeutic effects of surfing. He has been riding waves since he was four years old and that has kept him fit and healthy all his life. Back in 2012, he partnered with Almudena Fernandez and some close friends to create "Kind Surf," a non-profit organization […]
• An introduction to longboard surfing (in the Mediterranean Sea)
  Longboard surfing is a beautiful sport that allows riders to adopt their favorite style. Riding a 9-foot board means performing basic surfing maneuvers - such as the cutback and bottom turn - with a completely different technique from the one commonly used with a shortboard. For example, a longboarder must adapt the take-off to the […]
• Ethan Ewing and Tyler Wright win 2020 Tweed Coast Pro
  Tyler Wright and Ethan Ewing have taken epic victories at the Tweed Coast Pro, event one of the Australian Grand Slam of Surfing. Both Wright and Ewing looked destined for victory, each dominating the final day in fun two-to-three foot waves at the beautiful Cabarita Headland in what has been professional surfing's return to the […]