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The Swamis Surf Club launched a global petition against professional surf contests at Swami's Beach, Encinitas, California, USA.
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Oxbow World Longboard Tour Maldives event today crowned two champions – Harley Ingleby (Australia) as the 2009 ASP World Longboard Champion and Kai Sallas (Hawaii) as the inaugural Oxbow Maldives event champion.
While surfers in the Northern Hemisphere await the arrival of El Niño-fueled big winter waves, there has been no shortage of massive swells around the world in the last six months.
Rob Bain from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, a former Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour surfer, prominent through the 1980s and early 1990s with four ASP world tour wins (IMB/Wollongong, Garden State Pro/New Jersey, Instinct Pro Ericeira Portugal, and Coke Classic Narrabeen Australia) and the highest rating of 5th in 1990, suffered a horrific wipe just under two weeks ago while surfing North Avalon on Sydney’s northern beaches, sustaining serious head, neck and back injuries – He almost died!