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Rip Curl Pro underway Friday 28 October 2010 Images slipping out from this secrect location are looking good. Like the kind of waves Jordy can surf very well. Read More

Monday 1 November 2010 Epic surf pops at Cork Bay as the two famed bugs go down to check out the waves, only to find that it's ... cooking! Gerry and Vito prepare to share in the stoke.

Mon 1 Nov 2010 PUERTO RICO: Kelly Slater is heading for his tenth world title after dominating in Round One of the Rip Curl Pro Search, held in punchy 3-5' surf at the primary spot of Middles here on Saturday.

Monday 1 November 2010 Porta Del Sol/Puerto Rico: Newly-minted four-time ASP Women’s World Champion Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 22, has taken out her 16th elite tour event, defeating rookie sensation Carissa Moore (HAW), 18, in two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves in Porta Del Sol to claim the Rip Curl Women’s Search Pro Puerto Rico.

Monday 1 November 2010 Short doccie on the Wavescapes Surf Film Festival in Durban in July. Interesting that they focused on Gum for My Boat, the story about development surfing in Bangladesh. Makes me think we should screen it in Cape Town in December.

Sunday 31 October 2010 Hanli Prinsloo, the 31-year-old free diving sensation, has set her eleventh South African record by diving 63 metres and back up on one breath, propelled by a monofin, reports Spike.

Thursday 28 October, 2010 PUNTA HERMOSA, Peru: Forty five hundred years after first riding waves in reed boats and 45 years after the World Contest was held in Peru, surfers from this proud nation took back a small but precious piece of their gold – as Team Gold Medalists in the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games yesterday.

Thursday 28 October 2010 Spring has brought an abundance of swell. If you had the time handy you would have got barrelled and taken some solid beating many times over the last month. The South Peninsula published a number of epic swells and the winds haven’t been to manic yet. So before the big blow really kicks in, Alan Robb brings us an Oktoberfest, a round of a few sessions that went down this past month down South.