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Rip Curl GromSearch Heads For Seal Point, Cape St Francis
In great news for all of our junior surfers in South Africa, the Rip Curl GromSearch is heading for Seal Point. The second 2022 Rip Curl series event will be held at Seal Point, Cape St Francis, on 23/24 July. The Rip Curl GromSearch contest is presented by Sea...
Plakkie Classic JNR Surf Tournament – All The Images
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Plakkie Classic Junior Surf Competition A Great Success in Victoria Bay.
News Release 21 June 2022 Plakkie Classic Junior Surf Competition A Great Success in Victoria Bay. Vic Bay - the inaugural Plakkie Classic Jnr surf tournament was a fantastic four-day event. The contest and contestants enjoyed good weather and great waves in Victoria...
Photo Of The Day – Cape Town surfer Jordy Maree watches giant wave in South Sumatra
Giant waves bashed contestants around at the Krui Pro South Sumatra World Surf League Qualifying Series 5,000 Event. Cape Town surfer Jordy Maree looks on as a massive wave rolls through © WSL/Liquid Barrel
Surfing Today with Rip Curl – All Eyes On El Salvador
The waiting period for the Surf City El Salvador Pro has begun, and there is some decent swell on the way. The only surprises so far have been the withdrawal of Kelly Slater and Tyler Wright. Slater cites some niggly injury, while Wright has ‘complications’ from her...
South African Surfing Kicks Into Top Gear With Exciting Contest Season
News Release 12 June 2022 South African Surfing Kicks Into Top Gear With Exciting Contest Season Matt McGillivray made the quarter-finals at the Quiksilver Pro G-Land. © WSL/Sloane South African surfers and surf fans are in for a feast of events. In the world of...
Kouga to host Adventure Racing World Championships
The 2023 Adventure Racing World Championships hosted by Expedition Africa will be held in the Kouga region in October next year. The race will be the 18th Adventure Racing World Championships, and the first to be held on the African continent. This announcement, which...
Expedition Africa will Host the World Championship
The Adventure Racing World Championships Goes to Africa for the first time in 2023 The 2023 Adventure Racing World Championships will be hosted by Expedition Africa, and held in the Kouga region of the Eastern Cape of South Africa in October. The race will be the 18th...
Surfing Today with Rip Curl: The Rip Curl GromSearch is heading to Cape St Francis.
Seal Point – the second leg in the new Rip Curl GromSearch surfing series is heading for Seal Point. It will run from 23 -24th July, the weekend after the Corona Open JBay waiting period. The Rip Curl GromSearch presented by Sea Harvest is supported by the Cape St...
Surfing Today with Rip Curl – A Brief History Of Grajagan
Squinting out of the tiny window of a small charter plane, Bob Laverty and Bill Boyum, two American surfers and friends, saw an endless left peeling down the corner of the Plunkung nature reserve in Java. Literally, on the edge of the jungle, the left disappeared from...
Surfing Today with Rip Curl – McGillivray and Smith Heading For G-Land
South African Championship Tour (CT) surfers Matt McGillivray from JBay and Jordy Smith from Durban will be heading for Indonesia for the next CT event. After miraculously making the mid-year cut-off in Western Australia last week, McGillivray joins Smith on the...
South Africans Eliminated at Boost Mobile Gold Coast Pro pres. By Rip Curl
Matthew McGillivray (ZAF) on Day 3 of the Boost Mobile Gold Coast Pro Challenger Series event. Credit:© WSL / Shield COOLANGATTA, QLD / Australia (Monday, May 9, 2022) - The Boost Mobile Gold Coast Pro presented by Rip Curl, stop one of the 2022 World Surf League...
Surfing Today, With Rip Curl – Matt McGillivray, The Giant Killer
JBay surfer Matt McGillivray had, on paper, the slightest chance of making it past the Mid Year Cut on the Championship Tour of surfing. He was on the cusp, but he had to do well and beat several higher placed and more experienced surfers. He was aiming for a...
Corona Open JBay – The Girls Are Coming!
The Corona Open JBay 2022 is set to run from 12 - 22 July, and once again the top girls will be competing. They too will feature a slightly diminished field, after the mid-year cut, but it will consist of the top female surfers in the world. Competitors: Carissa Moore...
Corona Open JBay 2022 – It’s Going To Rock!
The Corona Open JBay is finally returning to Supertubes and there are so many people looking forward to it. It will be a slightly diminished field, after the mid-year cut, but it will be a succinct event. there will be drama, there will be barrels, and 2 x Champ Jordy...
Freeride MTB: Darkfest Video Highlights
DarkFest has released a highlights video to contend with the greatest event edits of all time. Imma let you finish, but first, please strap your head into a full face and conduct the necessary safety checks before dropping into the: One of the largest gatherings of...
Surfing Today with Rip Curl: Medina Returns To Championship Tour
“Gabriel Medina will officially be the men’s WSL Season wildcard for all competitions following the Mid-season Cut, starting with the Quiksilver Pro G-Land,” said Renato Hickel, WSL Director of Tours and Competition
World’s Best Surfers Set To Return To JBay For Corona Open
The Corona Open J-Bay, the ninth stop on the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), is set to return to Jeffreys Bay after a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The world’s best surfers will take on one of the world’s most renowned righthand pointbreaks from 12 to July 21 2022.