Only four heats ran at Margaret River yesterday. The most important matchup was Miguel Pupo versus Sammy Pupo. Winner keeps their spot on tour, loser gets relegated to the Challenger Series. While it's not quite Squid Games, watching the heat felt heavy and heartbreaking.
Anyone can take a pretty picture in Hawaii. Just point your camera at the sea, the palms, the impossibly green mountains, the bright orange lava and click away.
A novelty wave, for some surfers, is like a mythical creature. They hunt for them, just like those eccentric cryptid enthusiasts on late-night National Geographic shows, searching for bigfoot, aliens, and the chupacabra.
For the second year in a row the WSL is getting unlucky with swell for its event windows. Pumping waves just before and after the comps have been commonplace, and at Margaret River, it's the same story, different event.
Come late July, and into early August, surfing will return to the Olympic stage. After its debut appearance at Tokyo 2020, the sport got a sequel: Paris 2024.
Kelly Slater, surfing’s proverbial GOAT, has had a long, storied career – spanning decades, different eras of the sport, the good, bad, and everything in between.
Despite the modern explosion of soft top surfboards, just look at any lineup worldwide and you’re bound to see more than a few foam crafts floating around – the squishy, beginner-friendly boards have been around for half a century.
Fresh to strong northerly winds will diminish into the night and will become moderate on Thursday. After a few days of favorable conditions, a cold frontal passage will bring the return of a strong northerly breeze on Saturday.