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Kustom Air Strike!

Kustom Shoes if offering up $50,000 dollars to the dude that punts the biggest air. That’s a pretty fat pay check for one maneuver! There’s basically no rules or guidelines, just whoever pulls the biggest, most innovated air, gets the dough dough.
Do you like to blow through sections, and punt high hopes? You can enter here.
Dane Reynolds [...]

Kelly Slater and the 2008 ASP World Tour - a feature interview

DailyStoke.com recently caught up with Kelly Slater to talk about surfing, but also about the ASP World Tour. The first part of our interview with Kelly Slater is here.
The State of the WQS
With a significant number of this year’s top WQS surfers being former ASP World Tour surfers, it begs the question as to why [...]

Ten Years Gone - who has been on tour since 1998?

When looking at the faces on tour today and the top guy, Kelly Slater in particular, it got me thinking, how many of the guys that are on the World Tour today were on the World Tour back in 1998?  Of course a few guys have dropped off and requalified during that period.  Kelly even retired [...]

ASP World Tour - Top 10 - by the numbers

Heading into Pipe Masters, let’s take a look at the top 10, by the numbers, to see who might move up and who’s likely to finish up as runner-up to the already crowned 9 time World Champ, Kelly Slater.  The point total is based on the best 8 of 11 results from this year’s World [...]

ASP World Tour - Top 3 history

While I anxiously anticipate the final showdown of this year’s ASP World Tour at the Pipe Masters, I’ve been trying to do a bit of number crunching and work out exactly who is likely to go where in the rankings, depending on where they finish at Pipe.  As I mentioned before, the only real remaining [...]

ASP World Tour rankings - after Brazil

Following the Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro in Brazil, the big winner, Bede Durbidge (AUS), also posted a strong result in what has become the race for number 2, moving into runner-up position behind the already crowned 2008 World champion, Kelly Slater (USA).  Taj Burrow (AUS) dropped from runner-up to 3rd, given his relatively early [...]

Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro, final recap

The race for number 2 took an interesting turn today as an on-fire Bede Durbidge (AUS) fought through to handily win the Final of the 2008 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro.  Bede destroyed young Fronchie star, Jeremy Flores in the finals, who put up a valient fight in the windy, sideshore, head high to overhead conditions.  Event favorite, [...]

Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro - Saturday recap

Saturday’s day of competition at the 2008 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro in Brazil saw some big names go down to wildcards and back of packers, and saw other front-runners advance to Round 4.
Saturday ran through all of Round 3, with Taj Burrow (AUS) shining in what was the highest point total heat of the [...]

ASP World Tour - Mundaka to Brazil - the race for number 2

We all know how Mundaka wound up, with Kelly Slater finally closing the deal on his 9th World Title win, and CJ Hobgood taking home his first contest win in ages.  Now that number 1 has been decided, the big question going into Brazil is, who will be number 2?  Let’s examine the top 10 [...]

Quiksilver Pro France 2008

Well, the contest is finished, but Slater hasn’t been crowned K-9 yet. In a close final, Kelly was topped by Aussie, Adrian Ace Buchan in what was his first ever World Tour victory.
Stepping back a bit, Round 4 had Adriano de Souza (BRA) narrowly defeating Dayyan Neve (AUS); Bobby Martinez (USA) topping Ben Dunn [...]

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