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Jordy Blitzes Round 1

Saturday 26 February 2011 - Press Release

GOLD COAST, Queensland/Australia: Jordy Smith showed irrepressible form on the opening day of the 2011 ASP world title season to blast the rippable 3' surf at Snapper Rocks in the first round of the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast.

Local is Lekker

Tues 15 Feb 2011

Billabong South Africa has restructured its event calendar to bolster grassroots and development surfing, according to a press release.

ASP Elevates SA event

Friday 28 January 2011

Press release

BALLITO, KwaDukuza: South African surfing has received a massive boost with the announcement that the Mr Price Pro Ballito will be a Prime rated event on the 2011 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour.

Beach Raid Scores

Monday 17 January 2011

It was a smoking hot day at Long Beach on Saturday as the DVS Wavescape Beach Raid hit the shoreline - in more ways than one.

La Vaca Called for Monday

Friday 14 January 2011

Organisers of the Quiksilver La Vaca Gigante event in Spain have called the event on for Monday, when Jeremy Johnson and Twiggy Baker, the South African invitees, will get a chance to consolidate our rising stature in big wave surfing, and maybe scoop the 10,000 Euros on offer. That's a pile of cash, even with the strong Rand.

Bianca Wins World Juniors

Tuesday11 January 2011

Press Release

NORTH NARRABEEN, Australia: Bianca Buitendag, 17, won the Billabong ASP Women’s World Junior Championships in 2-4' surf here today in a hard-fought final over French talent Justine Dupont, the nineteen-year-old from France.

Wild Win on Canary Isle

Monday 20 December 2010

Gran Canary Island:  The first International bodyboarding event held at El Fronton on Gran Canary Island  saw some serious action go down in the fierce westerly winds that saw Hawaiian Jeff Hubbard (35) take the win over local Canary Island rider Diego Cabrera.

Pipe Barrels Into Quarters

Wednesday 15 December 2010

The Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons, the final stop on the Vans Triple Crown (an ASP Specialty Series), roared back to life today with Pipeline delivering clean four-to-six foot (2 metre) Backdoor barrels for one of the most electrifying days of competition this year.

There will be blood

Wednesday 8 December 2010

The Atlantic is flat and freezing, The False Bay is a bowl of frothy wrath. It’s been like this for weeks now and it’s not going away in a hurry. So in celebration of weeks of on-shore bliss the bodyboarders of the South Peninsula organised a one tide, limited entry contest: The Web-Lingo Barnacles Beatdown.

Chrispy and Twiggy Crack the Nod

Wednesday 24 Mo-vember 2010

WAIMEA BAY, Hawaii: The invitees to the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau have been announced, and at last Chris Bertish has cracked the nod, making it one representative each from main surfing centres Cape Town and Durban, represented by Twiggy Baker.

One down for Parko

Monday 22 November 2010

HALEIWA, Oahu, Hawaii: Australia’s Joel Parkinson (Gold Coast, QLD) made a brilliant return to the pro surfing stage after six months on the sidelines with injury, winning the Reef Hawaiian Pro today to take the lead in the prestigious Vans Triple Crown of Surfing series.

New Mavs Event

Tuesday 9 November 2010

HALF MOON BAY, California: The 24 invitees for the inaugural "The Jay at Maverick's Big Wave Invitational” have been announced, and they include South Africans Chris Bertish and Grant Baker, with Andrew Marr making the alternates list.