Has Kelly Slater’s Wave company infringed Webber’s wave pool design?

The race has been on for a number of years to create the ideal artificial wave pool with a view to installing them all over the planet to bring surfing to the inland masses. Whoever achieves this vision and corners the market, could become a very rich individual! Kelly Slater has a business called Wave...

ASP World Longboard Tour (WLT) 2011 Italy on hold

The inaugural ASP World Longboard Tour (WLT) Bear Pro presented by Jeep has called a lay day due to small conditions on Day one of the official waiting period. Event officials and surfers met before dawn in an attempt to take advantage of the recent swell which has been pounding the Levanto coastline and...

California surfer almost swallowed by a whale!

This incredible footage was shot near Santa Cruz California recently of a woman paddling out on a surfboard and talking with some Kayakers just a two humpback whales decide to breach open mouthed chasing a schoal of anchovies. Being swallowed by a whale might just spoil your...

Billabong Tow In session Mullaghmore Ireland 2011-12 is ready and waiting

The second Tow-in Surf Session presented by Billabong and Monster is to be held this European winter at the famous big wave spot of Mullaghmore Head on Ireland’s west coast. The invitational only contest’s waiting period has officially started and runs until March 1st 2012, with the organisers from the...

Kelly Slater wins 11th World title at Rip Curl Pro 2011 San Francisco

Kelly Slater (USA), 39, claimed a historic 11th ASP World Title yesterday, clinching the year-long pursuit with his advancement out of Round 3 at the Rip Curl Pro Search San Francisco. Ke11y Slater In pristine three-to-five foot (1 – 1.5 metre) peaks at Ocean Beach, Slater fought back to an inspired...

Ben Skinner surfs the Cribbar big wave reef, Newquay

The Cribbar reef one of the UKs few bone fide big wave spots got some size to it during a decent swell on Oct 30th 2011. From the footage it looks like a solid 12ft (triple overhead) and Ben Skinner was at Fistral beach Newquay to tow into...