Surf News | Headlines and Top Stories
- 21 May 2018 | Surfing
Surfing is a beautiful outdoor activity, and an exciting water sport, but it also hides insincerity, falsity, and duplicity. Discover why we, as surfers, behave like hypocrites.
Surfers are profoundly surrounded by superlatives, catchphrases and utopian marketing slogans that depict them as a tribe in sync with Nature - the lifestyle, the coolness, the healthy food habits, and the tanned skins are synonyms of well-being.
We're constantly being told that "life's better in boardshorts," and the "only a surfer knows the feeling," but the truth is not as vivid and transparent as it is sold through media.
- 21 May 2018 | Surfing
A perfect big wave can change your life. Not only it will put you under the media spotlight, but it will also open new sponsorship opportunities, and invitations to elite contests.
"Vague à l'Âme" follows Shane Dorian and his partners in crime, Benjamin Sanchis, Justin Becret, and Jack Robinson, as they chase some of the most dangerous waves on the planet.
"For me, the real award is to get a wave I can remember forever. That's the real goal," stresses Dorian, the man who is always where the most significant storms are.
- 18 May 2018 | Surfing
Filipe Toledo has taken out the 2018 Oi Rio Pro, at Barrinha Beach, in Saquarema, Brazil.
The Brazilian wonder boy defeated Wade Carmichael in the final held in four-to-six foot (1.2 -1.8 meters) waves. There were no airs, but a lot of barrels. Filipe won the sixth Championship Tour (CT) event of his career.
Toledo put the Australian in a combination situation with a near-perfect 9.93 point wave and then backed it up with a 7.17. He was the most in-form surfer of the entire event.