Rip Curl Pro Search Portugal - Fanning takes another, blah, blah, blah…
The Rip Curl Pro Search Portugal wrapped up on Tuesday at the world famous Supertubes, and we all know how it ended. Mick won the event in steadily degrading conditions (especially considering the epic, mega barrels of the previous day), topping a charging Bede Durbidge, and officially turning the title race into a two-man show [...]
Rip Curl Pro Search Portugal - envious observations from afar
After several lay days, the Rip Curl Search Portugal finally went live, and has now run through all of rounds one and two. Let’s take a look at who’s making waves and who’s already on the flight to Hawaii.
Big winners:
Owen Wright – cut his teeth on Kekoa Bacalso in round one, then killed Slater’s 2009 [...]
2009 ASP World Qualifying Series rankings following the 6 Star Coca Cola Pro
As the 6 Star Hurley U.S. Open of Surfing is up and running this week, we’re now clearly in the back half of the season. Three more WQS events down and we’ve seen more movement amongst the front-runners. This latest update is all about Brazil. Brazilians won the two back to back [...]
Rip Curl Pro Search lands in Peniche, Portugal
After much speculation (and multiple behind the scenes confirmation to DS), the ASP officially went public on Tuesday with their announcement of the location of the latest installment of the increasingly popular Rip Curl Pro Search contest. Following a successful run in Bali last year, a thrilling adventure in Chile in 2007, an other worldly [...]
Another WQS contest gets the axe
It was bound to happen sooner or later, and now a major event has been canceled due to the state of the economy. The 6 Star Buondi Billabong Pro, which was to be held in Ericeira, Portugal from September 15th to 20th, has become the global recession’s latest victim. Sandwiched between a number [...]
Concurrent Quiksilver WQS events wrap up - Brazilians kick ass, take names
The 6 Star Prime Quiksilver Pro Durban and the 6 Star Estoril Quiksilver Pro completed in fine fashion this weekend, propelling two Brazilians up the current ASP World Qualifying Series ratings. Serious campaigner Jadson Andre took down the 2009 Quiksilver Pro Durban, while fellow countryman Alejo Muniz destroyed the local competition at the 2009 [...]
Estoril Quiksilver Pro goes live in Portugal - Euros dominate the early heats
Running concurrently with the 6 Star Prime Quiksilver Pro Durban, the Estoril Quiksilver Pro went live on Tuesday in Portugal.
World Tour surfer and German Portugal local, Marlon Lipke was the standout surfer on Tuesday, showing his elite tour training by posting the highest heat score of the day,16.23 out of 20. Advancing alongside Marlon on [...]
World Qualifying Series power week – 6 Star Prime and 6 Star running through Sunday
Following on the heels of the 4 Star Protest Vendee Pro in France, and the earlier 6 Star Prime Drug Aware Pro in Western Australia and 6 Star O’Neill Coldwater Classic in Tasmania, the World Qualifying Series kicks into overdrive this week with two high ranking events running through Sunday April 26th.
The 6 Star Prime [...]
Catching up with Melvin Lipke
I had the pleasure of meeting Melvin Lipke in the water this past summer, while casually heading out for a surf at my local not-so-secret spot. As luck would have it, my chance meeting with Melvin occurred just a few days after I had interviewed his big bro who was then in strong contention for [...]
Euro Slab Hunting
Nothing like surfing the “Old World”. The once-top-world-power-Portugal has more waves than you know. The sense of wildness along Portugal’s history rich coastline still exists and these locals have their share of spots wired.
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