The 9th edition of the International Surfing Day is ready to take over the world, on the 24th June 2012. Every year, since 2004, International Surfing Day has launched the summer season.
In 2011, more than 195 surfing events took place in 34 countries, so that people who hadn’t discovered the pleasures of surfing could enter its wonderful world of sport and culture.
From California to the Gold Coast, from Portugal to Austria, everyone’s hitting the line-up on the 24th June 2012. Celebrate the 2012 International Surfing Day in a relaxed surf session with your friends or organize a local beach clean a group of locals.
Surfing decals are a great way of adding your own style and ideas to your favourite surfboards. Vintage logos, pin-ups, mermaids, post-modern sayings, political signs, spiritual badges and Hawaiian natives.
There are many inspirational stickers that you can put right in your plank. Some surfers like to add simple decals in the nose; others enjoy the big picture in the central area of the board. And, why not adding a complete tail-to-nose surf sticker to the bottom of your longboard?
Surf decals are usually the best way of marketing surf products. When a surfer signs a sponsorship deal with a brand, he will probably have a new logo glued on the nose or rail of his entire quiver.
The world windsurfing community is not happy with the ISAF decision to get kiteboarding in the 2016 Olympic Games and prepares to fight back, while Sir Richard Branson and Kristin Boese celebrate the kiteboarding victory with champagne.
The RS:X Olympic windsurfers are devastated and do not understand the decision which replaced lines for mast. That is why a petition to keep windsurfing as Olympic discipline is available online.
“So many dreams crushed, jobs destroyed and years of training put to waste. A sport that is growing more than ever whilst being a true Olympic discipline, requiring physical fitness, tactics and dedication, crushed by a seemingly so ill-informed council”, the petition tells.
“Whilst the logic behind competitive kitesurfing is leaving a lot of people confused, there is no reason why we cannot have both Windsurfing and Kitesurfing as Olympic classes. If they want to cut disciplines, at least let it be even and justified throughout the sports”.
Gabriel Medina has taken the 2012 Nike Lowers Pro after defeating veteran campaigner Glenn Hall, in two-to-four foot waves at Lower Trestles. The win earns him a $40,000 paycheck, a 14-karat solid-gold spike and major ASP World Ranking points.
“This is a very special win and it has been a long week,” Medina said. “I’m going to Brazil now with more confidence and this has been great.”
Medina’s run at the Nike Lowers Pro was one of complete dominance, as the young Brazilian earned several of the event’s top scores including the only flawless 10-point ride.
“I love Trestles so much,” Medina said. “It’s just such a good wave and it’s one of my favorites, I just don’t even have words to explain how I’m feeling right now. I’m stoked.”
Garrett McNamara has officially surfed the biggest wave ever. The Guinness World Records have confirmed that McNamara has ridden a 78-foot wave (23,7 metres) in Nazaré, Portugal, to dethrone Mike Parsons and his wave at Cortes Bank.
The announcement was made during the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards and confirms what SurferToday.com has reported in November 2011, right after the incredible stunt in the Nazaré Canyon.
The Portuguese wave was not immediately seen as the biggest ever to be surfed. Several international sources, magazines and personal lobbies were at stake and it was clear that Europe and its waves were under heavy fire. Justice has been done.
Mike Parsons rode a fantastic wave. He is one of the best big wave surfers in the world and will certainly want to improve his record. The thing is: Garrett McNamara was lucky enough to get a bigger wave.
Dane Reynolds, John John Florence, Jeremy Flores, Glenn Hall, Adrian Buchan, Tanner and Pat Gudauskas. The quarterfinalists of the Nike Lowers Pro 2012 are ready to discuss the last waves, at Lower Trestles, California.
Reynolds took the day’s highest scores with a near-perfect 9.80 single wave score en route to a combined heat-total of 18.63 out of 20 at the one-metre right-handers.
“I’ve been feeling really sketchy this event and been having unsuccessful free-surfs,” Reynolds said. “I was feeling better in that one. I had been riding a different board in every heat and I rode this one this morning and just stuck with it.”
Gabriel Medina was in need of an excellent ride with time winding down in the Round of 16 match and launched a gigantic air-reverse to earn a 9.50 out of 10 to solidify a victory over the Huntington Beach surfer in a high-scoring heat of 17.96 to 17.43.
Nathan Fletcher has conquered the “Ride of the Year” at the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards, in Anaheim, California. The “Oscars” of extreme surfing have been finally delivered in a packed and stoked Grove Theater.
The “Biggest Wave” champion was Garrett McNamara, who rode what is considered by many the biggest wave of all time, in the famous Nazaré canyon, in the coast of Portugal.
“Three huge lumps appeared on the horizon, we picked the biggest one and Andrew Cotton towed me in,” recalls McNamara of his monster wave off the town of Nazaré, in Portugal.
“I remember dropping and dropping, then punching it off the bottom and wanting to get up into the tube, but it just exploded and landed right on my shoulder and felt like a ton of bricks”.
All girl surf films. Female surf movie experiences. Women have been riding waves for decades and they’ve developed their own unique style in surfing. Sense and sensibility are main features in the female surfing movies. Rather than a special technique, these films transmit that eextrasensory perception commonly known as sixth sense.
The colours, the shots, the angles, the surf lines drawn on the wave face, the smile and stories behind each film are somehow different from the testosteronic attitude of the male surfing cinema. This doesn’t mean girl movies are slow and boring. It’s quite the opposite.
The best female surf movies have evolved through time and are getting new unexplored approaches. SurferToday.com has selected 22 surf films, in which surfer girls and women are filmmakers and/or stars of the plot.
Enjoy the “Light”. Surf movie director Matt Kleiner has completed the final touches on the life story of Josh Kerr. Australia’s most famous aerialist lands a collection of insane moves in the lens of the talented filmmaker.
“Light: The Natural Agent That Stimulates Sight” is a short signature film in which sepia and sunset tones will warm your salted water heart. In fact, light is a very important variable in the film.
Josh Kerr has always been a surfer who kept the mainstream spotlight away, without actually being too far from it. He competes when he wants to compete and he lives a creative aerialist free surfing life of his own, despite entering the 2012 season with top results.
Gabriel Medina, the talented Brazilian gun, has stormed the fabled California pointbreak of Lower Trestles by posting the day’s top scores with his progressive wizardry on the lefthand ramps on offer at the Nike Lowers Pro 2012.
Medina took the day’s highest single-wave score of 9.87 for a huge air-reverse while surfing a near-perfect heat of 19.53 out of 20 in his Round of 24 bout.
“That was fun and both the lefts and rights are pretty good,” Medina said. “I had a good heat and I think it’s because I woke up really early, at five in the morning, and got down here in the dark. I think it helped me get ready for my heat. The non-elimination round is great because it’s no pressure too because everyone can show how they surf.”
Heitor Alves was another Brazilian goofy-footer to put on a dominant performance at the Nike Lowers Pro. The passionate Brazilian earned one of the day’s highest single-wave scores of 9.50 out of 10 with tenacious forehand gouges on a steep lefthand wall at Lowers.
