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Drug Aware Margaret River Round 1

by The Editors on April 2, 2014

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The ASP fired up their jets again in Australia for the first day of the Drug Aware Pro Margaret River. Wildcard Yadin Nicol, knocked Kelly Slater into Round 2 in their Round 1 match-up, but the question on everyone’s lips was: what was Mr. Slater wearing? The answer: a contest jersey, a wetsuit with no logos, and a Jake Burton Channel Islands sticker on his surfboard. Yadin, was happy with his performance against the Quik-free Slater.

“It felt great to beat Kelly Slater,” said Yadin Nicol. “I wish I could have done that last year or the year before. I felt comfortable out there. I usually don’t start out that well so I’m happy to have one under my belt. There wasn’t much going on in that Heat so Slater and Durbidge didn’t have much of a chance to fight back, so I was lucky in that sense.”

Hometown hero Taj Burrow (above) blasted through his Round 1 heat ahead of Brett Simpson and Quiksilver’s new number 1 Fred Patacchia. For the official word from the ASP and complete heat results, follow the jump. [click to continue…]

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Kelly Slater Changes His Shorts

by The Editors on April 1, 2014

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Kelly Slater has left Quiksilver and few are surprised. The most surprising thing to us (aside from the April 1, 2014 roll out) is that news went out in a press release from the ASP. Why is Kelly Slater leaving Quiksilver an ASP news item? Oh yeah, that’s because Kelly owns has extremely close ties to the owners of the Association of Surfing Professionals.

Mr. Slater, however, was a true professional with his exit letter:

There is little I can say that would give the credit due or cover the debt of gratitude I feel on a personal and professional level to Quiksilver. As a brand and on a human level, they have been a part of my life, career, and personal relationships for more than 23 years now, well over half my life. They’ve supported me through good times and bad, personal hardships and competitive triumphs, and never wavered in backing my choices and desires in all that time.

Quiksilver founder Bob McKnight was equally professional and warm.

“Kelly has been a part of the Quiksilver family for over 20 years. It’s been an incredible journey watching him grow from a young surfer with great potential, to the 11-time World Champion he is today. We wish Kelly all the best as he enters this next phase of his career.”

Yes, it went on for a long time (23 years) and they created some iconic images together, but it was just a clothing sponsorship, and Kelly was just a model, and Quiksilver is just a giant clothing company dead set on selling swimsuits to the mall moving masses so we’re sure they’ll find cheaper, younger, more handsome men to model their products in the future. And Kelly, well, he’s moving on up to model for a huge French Fashion conglomerate (that owns Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Puma, and Volcom/electric]. Because if you’re going to model, it might as well be for the French. They invented it.

[Side note: we searched Kering’s site for “Kelly Slater” and the site replied: “Did you mean ‘helly later’?” Yes, that’s exactly what we meant.]

[Link: ASP]

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RIP: Surf & Sailing Innovator Hobie Alter

by The Editors on March 30, 2014

Hobie-SEverson-5Hobie Alter, the man most responsible for the modern age of both surfing and sailing, died yesterday (Saturday, March 29, 2014). He was 80 years old. According to a story on SurferMagazine.com:

A true waterman, Alter competed successfully in the Makaha International Surf Contest in 1958 and ’59, won a trio of tandem surfing championships from 1961-’63, and was elected to both the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame (1997) and the National Sailing Hall of Fame (2011). But Alter’s legacy will always be that of a pioneer of surfboard and sailboat production, called “the Henry Ford of the surfboard industry” by Steve Pezman, for his contribution to the large-scale manufacture of surfboards.

We had the honor of interviewing Alter for a surf magazine nearly a decade ago. It was a phone interview and he was sitting on the front porch of his home in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. We hit him with questions he’d been asked thousands of time before. But he didn’t seem to mind. At one point, we heard him say,” Whoa.” And we asked, “What just happened? You okay?” He laughed, “A Bald Eagle just got a big one.” We knew then, that Alter was living right. Our thoughts are with Alter’s family and friends.

[Link: Surfer Magazine]

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Surfing Magazine 2014 Swimsuit Issue

by The Editors on March 28, 2014

Whenever we see the words “swimsuit issue” we always think of that old issue of Transworld Skateboarding Magazine that was teased as a “Special Swimsuit Issue.” Remember? This issue of Surfing Magazine is not that. This is a bunch of bikinis on skinny girls. Hot girls are so hot right now. Especially when they’re lounging around in the sun, glistening with sweat, and nearly naked. Because, you know, they’re just waiting to make all your dreams come true. They’re open, willing, and available right there in the pages. Creep out, kids. . .

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UNIV + Juxtapoz = Surfcraft Art Auction

by The Editors on March 21, 2014

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Sometimes there’s no way to get people to contribute funds to a project without giving them something in return. That’s just what UNIV and Juxtapoz are doing with this special art board action. Buy a board and the money will go to Waves For Water in the Philippines and you’ll get a surfboard with art from some of the most famous artists in action sports including Geoff McFetridge, C.R. Stecyk III, Travis Millard, and many more. For all the details, click the link.

[Link: Juxtapoz]

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Cushe x Hoffman California Fabrics

by The Editors on March 19, 2014

UK based footwear brand Cushe has teamed up with the originators of surf style Hoffman California Fabrics for The Hoffman Collection. The collation features slippers with classic Hawaiian print flavor. And there’s nothing deeper than Hoffman fabrics.

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Dolphin Stabs Aussie Bodyboarder

by The Editors on March 17, 2014

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John Wolfson, a 27-year-old bodyboarder from Manly, Australia, (pictured above) got barred from the lineup at Bawley Point, New South Wales on Monday, March 16, 2014 when a bottle nose dolphin speared him in the left side as Wolfson was paddling out, according to a story in the Daily Telegraph.

Wolfson made it to shore but had to wait almost an hour in ­severe pain to be evacuated due to the spot’s remote location and the fact a 4WD ambulance got bogged in the sand. . . Witness and surf photographer Jason Corroto said the force of the collision shredded his mate’s wet tie. . . “He looked like he was wearing a rag,” he said. “He could not move at all. He thought he had broken his ribs.” . . While his ribs turned out not to be broken, he was expected to remain at St George Hospital overnight.

Must have been an accident, right?

[Link: Daily Telegraph]

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Where’s Sancho? In Some Monster Surf

by The Editors on March 17, 2014

Benjamin Sanchis joins Jeremy Flores, Shane Dorian and Laurent Pujol in surfing some of Europe’s biggest winter swells. Crazy.

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SeaVees Yater Spoon For Cancer

by The Editors on March 13, 2014

SeaVees, the recently resurrected California surf footwear brand, is remembering Colon Cancer Awareness Month and the 50th Anniversary of Renny Yater’s shaping career by offering up the ebay auction of a Yater Spoon surfboard. All proceeds raised will benefit colon cancer research. The auction begins March 16, 2014 and ends March 26, 2014. For more information, click the link.

[Link: SeaVees]

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Another Surfer Girl Selling Sex

by The Editors on March 11, 2014


Ellie-Jean Coffey is 19 and blonde and she’s a professional surfer for Billabong. She also posts lots and lots of bikini photos online because, you know, “‘[Bikinis are] just what I wear. Also being in the sun so much, your hair is really blonde and your skin goes very tanned so that’s definitely a positive as well,” according to the Daily Mail. And because of this she has 234,000 followers on Instagram.

Seems there’s nothing the world loves more than young blondes in bikinis who are constantly taking pictures of themselves. The Australian media needed their own Anastasia Ashley or Alana Blanchard. And now we know. It’s Ellie-Jean Coffey.

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