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What The Never-Ending Aussie Leg Taught Us About 2021 And where they’re all gonna have to go from here. Photo: Dunbar/WSL Link copied to clipboard It was amazing, how fast some people moved. The instant they were bumped out of Rottnest, they got on planes and fled — to the Gold Coast or Sydney to wait for the WSL’s charter flight back to the US, or for a coupla days at home before taking off to El Salvador and the ISA Games, then to Kelly’s Ranch for the next CT, ding dong. The speed of the exits told you a couple of things about CT-World right now. One, that a lot of surfers were men...

Community It doesn’t necessarily get any easier to tell the height of a wave from the water. Photo: Brent Storm//Unsplash Editor’s Note:  Welcome to Surf History 101, where we look at innovations in the world of surfing and beyond that changed the pursuit forever. In this edition, Sam George examines the history of measuring waves and how it’s shaped the pursuit. What Is It The decades-long custom of ignoring actual wave height, choosing instead to declaratively assert an estimate – the assigned figure having been reached in a completely arbitrary manner.  Who Developed ...

The World Surfing Games will complete the qualification process for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with the world's best surfers competing in Surf City, El Salvador

What is the competition format? A total of 40 athletes (20 men and 20 women) will compete, broken down into multiple rounds, eventually leading to gold and bronze medal finals. The initial rounds will have four and five-person heats, and the main rounds (round 3 onwards) will have two-person heats, where the winner advances to the next round and the loser is eliminated.  The top two surfers from each heat in round 1 will advance directly to round 3. The bottom two surfers will move onto round 2, which acts as essentially as a 'repechage’ or ‘second chance’ round. The top three surfers...

Voters in Dundee City East have elected the SNP's Shona Robison for a fifth time with just under 60 per cent of the vote in the Scottish election