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• Kelly Slater retires from professional competitive surfing
  The most successful competitive surfer of all time, Kelly Slater, rode what may have been the last heat of his 24-year professional career. The 11-time world surfing champion survived the elimination round at Margaret River but lost his Round 32 against Griffin Colapinto. Consequently, Slater, 52, does not make the mid-season cut nor qualified for […]
• Why the surf industry needs an MBA program
  The exponential growth in the number of surfing participants is undeniable, but the industry failed to accompany and capitalize on this opportunity. Here's why the sport lacks undergraduate and postgraduate courses and programs and how to draft a simple surf industry MBA program. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the surf industry enjoyed some of […]
• 20 interesting facts about the Hawaiian language
  Classified as "Critically Endangered" by UNESCO, the native Hawaiian language has approximately 2,000 speakers. Here's what makes it so special. Hawaii is a unique archipelago with an ancient Polynesian culture. It's also home to an exclusive endemic ecosystem, where 90 percent of its fauna exist nowhere else in the world. While the Hawaiian Islands have […]
• Third longest-running surf magazine Zigzag relaunched
  The news that Zigzag's print edition would end in December 2023 was short-lived as this iconic South African surfing magazine will be back on shelves in July 2024. Rebel Media Group, a European media and marketing conglomerate and dedicated youth culture specialist, recently acquired the magazine, which has been in print since 1976. Christian Herles […]