Tony Abbott forgiven for breaking surfing's Ten Commandments
Seventeen-year-old Ivy Thomas comes off second best in a whitewash battle with former prime minister Tony Abbott, who broke the surfing code by dropping in on her wave on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
View ArticleTaj Burrow announces retirement from surfing after 19-year career
West Australian surfer Taj Burrow announces his retirement after 19 years on the world tour saying there was no better time to better time to "give my spot to someone more hungrier".
View ArticleFemale pro surfers want industry to get on board regarding sexism concerns
Australia's leading female surfers are calling for pay equality and for the industry to fix up its culture of sexism.
View ArticleMargaret River Pro: Sebastian Zietz beats Australian Julian Wilson in tight...
Hawaiian Sebastian Zietz defeats Australian surfer Julian Wilson in the men's final of the Margaret River Pro after pulling ahead in the closing minutes.
View ArticleStephanie Gilmore among world's first to surf Kelly Slater's wave pool
Kelly Slater has thrown open the doors to his Californian wave pool to a select group of professional surfers and Australia's Stephanie Gilmore was one of them.
View ArticleGabriel Medina lights up Brazil WSL leg as Matt Wilkinson bows out
The aerial dynamics of former world champion Gabriel Medina light up an otherwise drab Brazilian leg of the World Surf League tour.
View ArticleTyler Wright wins women's Rio Pro, beating Sally Fitzgibbons to take World...
Australian surfer Tyler Wright beats fellow Aussie Sally Fitzgibbons in the final of the women's Rio Pro to take the world title lead.
View ArticleIndigenous surfers head to culturally significant site of Bells Beach to compete
Victoria's Bells Beach is famous amongst the global surfing community, but not much is known of its importance to First Australians.
View ArticleMick Fanning returning to Jeffreys Bay to compete at location of 2015 shark...
Three-time world surfing champion Mick Fanning will return to compete at Jeffreys Bay in July — the South African beach where he was attacked by a shark 12 months earlier.
View ArticleBethany Hamilton eliminates top seed Tyler Wright on her way to Fiji Pro...
Hawaiian surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack, eliminates world number one Tyler Wright on her way to the Fiji Pro quarter-finals.
View ArticleBethany Hamilton's Fiji Open charge ends at the hands of Johanne Defay in...
One-armed surfer Bethany Hamilton falls just short of an incredible win against the world's best surfers in the Fiji Pro.
View ArticleOlympic flame surfs towards Rio Games as big wave rider Carlos Burle joins relay
It's as traditional as the Games themselves, so when organisers of the Brazilian Olympic flame relay went looking for an alternate route, they looked out to sea.
View ArticleSport climbing, skateboarding to join surfing at 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Australia's most successful speed climbers welcome moves to introduce the sport into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with skateboarding and surfing also approved by the International Olympic Committee.
View ArticleTaj Burrow finishes ride of his life with Fiji Pro loss to John John Florence...
The curtain comes down on the 19-year competitive surfing career of Taj Burrow after losing an epic heat to John John Florence in Fiji.
View ArticleKelly Slater and Mick Fanning set the pace ahead of Fiji Pro quarter-finals...
Inspired by the loss of a mate, veteran surfer Kelly Slater produces a near perfect display to charge into the quarter-finals of the Fiji Pro
View ArticleGabriel Medina beats Matt Wilkinson to win Fiji Pro and challenge for World...
Brazilian Gabriel Medina stakes his claim for another world surfing title after beating Matt Wilkinson to win a second Fiji Pro.
View Article'The ocean beckoned': Adaptive champion surfer chases dreams despite losing leg
It wasn't until Mark 'Mono' Stewart lost his leg to an aggressive cancer that he was able to fulfil his dreams and become a world champion in adaptive surfing.
View ArticleDisabled surfers find healing riding the waves
The first ever Australian Adaptive Surfing Championships we held at Cabarita Beach on the north coast of New South Wales.
View ArticleSouth African surfer Grant Baker aces scoreboard to win World Surf League big...
South Africa's Grant Baker claims a ratings lead with a win and perfect 10 at the World Surf League's big wave event at Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
View ArticleMick Fanning says Jeffreys Bay return one year after shark attack could be...
Australian surfer Mick Fanning concedes his first surf at Jeffreys Bay could be "tricky" one year on from his close call with a shark at the South African surf event.
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