Matthew "Mafoos" Lombard has stormed the Kumba West Coast Classic 2012, in South African, and pick up the biggest bodyboarding check ever seen in the country. Yo Yo's delivered big 4-foot sets running from the backline and linking up with a section in front.

Joel Parkinson, Taj Burrow, Bruce Irons, Kelly Slater, Josh Kerr, Julian Wilson and Gabriel Medina have fallen in Round 1 of the 2013 Oakley Pro Bali, at Keramas, Indonesia.
The chest-head high waves on offer brought a few surprises on the first elimination round of the 2013 Oakley Pro Bali. John John Florence scored one of the biggest airs ever seen in competitive surfing. Full rotation up in the sky awarded with a 10-point ride. Unbelievable Alley-Oop.

Tom Butler and Sebastian Steudtner had a busy winter chasing huge swells around Europe.
When they're not surfing, Butler and Steudtner never stop training and getting fit for the next big wave surfing session. Road cycling is a big part of their training program as is boxing. In the beginning of the year, two huge swells invaded the Atlantic. On the 13th January, Shane Dorian pushed the both European surfers to paddle into the biggest waves to date in the Old Continent. Praia do Norte, Nazar [ ... ]

Bruno Sroka will try to connect France to Ireland in a 240 nautical mile (444 kilometers) kiteboarding journey that will last 17 hours.
This will be the first of three projects that will get Bruno Sroka kite crossing the Mediterranean Sea (2014) and the Atlantic Ocean (2015). The former kitesurfing world champion is always setting himself new and intense challenges. He kite crossed the English Channel, he sailed along Israel, Egypt and Jordan for the Gulf of Aqaba project and he crossed C [ ... ]

The inaugural Kiteracing Oceanic Championships will be sailed in Leighton Beach, Western Australia, between 10th-15th December.
The new annual Course Racing event is run by the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) and International Sailing Federation (ISAF). There will be kite racers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, America, Great Britain, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Poland, and more, competing at the Kiteracing Oceanic Championships.

Giuseppe Zerillo and Pawel Gardasiewicz have been crowned the 2013 Raceboard Youth and Masters world champions, at Marina Julia, Monfalcone.
The final day of windsurfing races saw one more race being run, for a total of six counting for the overall results. Light wind specialists Giuseppe Zerillo and Pawel Gardasiewicz made it clear right from the start that they were in it to win it, taking bullets in every single race.

Antoine Albeau has conquered the 2013 PWA Catalunya World Cup, in Spain. The final took four hours to be completed, due to the gusty and shifty winds.
Albeau has tasted his inaugural season triumph, on the beautiful shores of Costa Brava, to halt Bjorn Dunkerbeck from claiming the title, for the first time, in three years. The French sailor demonstrated his perfectly timed starts time and time again, along with a phenomenal top speed to blow the competition out of the water.

The Jeff Wilcox Memorial Classic has been revived. One of the longest running independent bodyboarding events in Australia will be run for the 16th year, since 1990.
"You don't have to reach the top to be a champion, just be the best you can be". Jeff Wilcox's quote has never been so updated and real. Inspiring the new generation, that is what the event's all about. Jeff was a brilliant sportsman with amazing potential, excelling in bodyboarding and hockey. He passed away with only 14 years  [ ... ]

The King of the Box 2013 will attract more than 180 of Australia's best wave riders to the Box Beach, in Port Stephens, Australia.
The world's best bodyboarders have been visiting the Box Beach, in New South Wales, but this year the competition will be opened to surfers, too. An innovative contest structure will have a two-week waiting period to ensure the best possible conditions. The two selected windows are September 5th-8th or September 12th-15th.