Joel Parkinson wins the 2009 O’Neill World Cup of Surfing
Joel Parkinson took home the win on Sunday at Sunset Beach on the final day of the 2009 O’Neill World Cup of Surfing, the second event in the 2009 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. Though, the win doesn’t put him any closer to winning his much deserved World Title, it does put him in a [...]
Billabong Pro Maui - Finals recap
The Billabong Pro Maui finally drew to a close on Thursday on this 11th day of competition, opting for the newly designated backup location of Ho’okipa Beach on Maui’s north shore, over the main event site, Honolua Bay. Ho’okipa provided rippable 3 foot waves for the final seven heats of the event. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) [...]
Billabong Pro Maui - Wednesday update
10 days of the event window gone and the 2008 Billabong Pro Maui only has until Saturday to finish up the event at Honolua Bay. The contest got off to a strong start, running through the first three rounds in one day, just a few days into the event window. The contest only requires a [...]
Billabong Pro Maui - a few more lay days
The weekend has come and gone. We’ve seen the crowning of the Billabong Pipeline Masters champion (Kelly Slater) and the men’s Van’s Triple Crown of Surfing champion (Joel Parkinson), but the ladies are still laying in wait for the swell to pick up at Honolua Bay. Other points around Maui lit up on the swell that [...]
Joel Parkinson wins the 2008 Triple Crown title
After a nailbiter of a final between the nine time World Champ, Kelly Slater (USA) and the 2008 rebooted Chris Ward (USA), Joel Parkinson was declared the winner of this year’s Van’s Triple Crown of Surfing title. Joel put in an admirable performance throughout the entirety of the Triple Crown.
Joel made it to the Semifinals of the Reef Hawaiian Pro [...]
Billabong Pipeline Masters - final day recap
The Billabong Pipeline Masters wrapped up on Friday in big, clean Pipe, with big barrels and dirty water. With the usually clear blue water tainted a sooty greyish brown, the lineup looked more like Puerto Escondido.
The biggest news of the day: Kelly Slater, our beloved nine time World Champ, just topped off an amazing World [...]
Kelly Slater takes the win at Pipeline!!!
Winning five out of the first nine events this season crowned Kelly the 2008 World Champion. But after skipping out of Brazil, Kelly wasn’t about to rest on his laurels and let his better than 50% first place streak go away. In typical Kelly style, he arrived for the event at the last minute, after chasing [...]
Billabong Pipeline Masters - Friday live!day
The Billabong Pipeline Masters is on live right now in big, clean surf. It looks like we’ll see the event finish this afternoon. Beginning with heat 1 of Round 4, we’ll be seeing the finals in no time, thanks to the dual heat format the contest has opted to utilize. Many of the rankings leaders [...]
Billabong Pipeline Masters - Wednesday recap
The Billabong Pipeline Masters jumped right into a second day of action in this third day in the event waiting period. Wednesday saw the end of Round 2 and the completion of Round 3, with all of the top seeds having their way in the day’s heats.
Joel Parkinson took top honors of the day, with [...]
Billabong Pro Maui - Wednesday recap
After two lay days, the Billabong Pro Maui finally kicked off on Wednesday on this third day in the event waiting period. The ladies dug in to the perfect overhead waves on tap for the first official day of competition, pushing through all of Rounds 1, 2 and 3.
Round 1 kicked off with 6 three [...]
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