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Kelly Slater will not board the World Surf League's chartered flight that will quarantine athletes heading into the Australian leg of the tour.

Billy Kemper: Surfer glimpsed at death after wave slammed him into a rock CNN 3/5/2021 © Koji Hirano/Getty Images Kemper competes during the 2019 Billabong Pipe Masters in Hawaii. It was a tiny error in judgement, but within seconds he realized that the consequences could be potentially life threatening. "That wave sucked me up into the mouth of it and slammed me onto a rock and just absolutely destroyed me," American surfer Billy Kemper tells CNN Sport. "Knocked me out unconscious. Colla...

Over three days, Florence snagged more O’Neill Wave of the Winter entries than most do in an entire season.

Two thousand five hundred miles from Rincon’s shores, pro surfer and Carpinteria resident Conner Coffin feels right at home. The 27-year-old shortboarder regularly trades California’s cold winter months for the

Surfer Of The Year 2020: Cam Richards, Albee Layer, Sierra Kerr, Mike February, and Damien Fahrenfort

Click or Miss Vol. 8 cinema // Jan 11, 2021 Words by Zack Raffin This week’s churning of the content conveyor belt has brought you an all Hawaiian version of Click or Miss. With Sunset cancelled, it’s fair to assume the Google search frequency for ‘flights from Honolulu’ has gone up on Oahu. While some may go, there are many reasons to remain on the North Shore (a shot at $50k following surfing’s worst fiscal year in ...

The league also deciding to postpone the CT Santa Cruz Pro, which had been scheduled for February 2 - 12. The WSL issued a statement saying the decision to postpone the last planned event of the US leg of the tour was based primarily on the surge of COVID-19 cases in California. "The postponement is also heavily influenced by the length of time our athletes have been away from home," the WSL said. "And by the complexities of global travel during this pandemic, which would have caused signif...

Last Year in Surfing Mike Jennings Link copied to clipboard It’s the 52nd This Week In Surfing  column/blog/listicle for the year. So, as is tradition, rather than looking at the last week of things that happened in surfing on the internet, let’s look back at the whole cursed year of 2020 and count down the 10 biggest things that happened in surfing on the internet. Like I said when we did this last year, and the year before that, and the year before that:  this list is the work of one p...

Housing and Development Newsletter Santa Barbaras Lakey Peterson and Ojais Sage Erickson were both a part of history as they surfed in the very first Pipeline women’s contest. Both surfers were knocked out in the quarterfinals — Peterson by a mere 3.07 points in a battle with Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia, and Erickson by Brazils Tatiana Weston-Webb (Brazil). Beyond the 805-area surfers, many of the pros in both the mens and womens contests were riding locally made Channel Islands s...

Staff If you’ve ever been to the North Shore of Oahu in December, you know it pretty amazing. The best surfers in the world are all out there, shoulder to shoulder with the Average Joes, surfing waves in between contests. It’s like playing a pickup game of basketball on the court at your local park and having Lebron James and James Harden show up. Kelly Slater and John John Florence have been friends for a long time — since John was just a little kid paddling out at Sunset, in f...