Daniel Emslie News Today

Chantel is frying onions, Greg is flipping burgers, Lovayne is cutting tomatoes and rolls and Bonnie and Craig are circulating, hovering and helping. There are 150 burgers to go. The East London Surf Lifesaving Club is humming with young and old as the rain clears and a calm, washed, sparkling clean Friday evening sunset settles in.

Hurley has signed a deal to be the official apparel sponsor of the Wallex US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California.

/PRNewswire/ -- Iconic action sports brand, Hurley is thrilled to be back in Huntington Beach, CA — the aptly named Surf City USA and where the brand was...

I had the express pleasure of watching the Border Buffalo City grom team get handed their kit for the Sea Harvest Grommet Games (for boys and girls U10-U16) in Gqeberha which was held last weekend - 25 & 26 March. Groms, by the way, is the name given to entry level, beginner surfers. Even at age 60 plus, cool team kit is a thrill but at age 8 to 10, heaven has just opened up and been put on sale and the kit is for free.

Welcome to Buffalo City. It does not get a lot prettier than this.

Surfing per say is not hard. If you ask Josh Malherbe, the Under 14 boys champion from last weekend’s Border Buffalo City Closed Championships, he will likely tell you it is easy.

Daniel Emslie has the bit between his teeth. At the time of going to press he was down to the top eight in the main event. This is a cut from about 150 of the best junior surfers in the world.

It is a unique experience to surfing that we get to meet our shapers, that is our sculptor artisans who hand-make our surfboards.

Point in JBay is a fantastic venue. A long gentle right hand wall peels down the rock fringed coastline in a format that offers surfers full opportunity to show their game to the judges. Surfers the world over dream of surfing JBay and recent Olympic competitors from Japan might cry if they saw our waves.