First Sally Fitzgibbons, now Erica Hosseini. I’m not sure how STAB Magazine is getting these women to take it all off and pose for their magazine but good for them. In STAB’s new hard cover book, they have a handful of pictures of 24 year-old Erica Hosseini. Although Erica hasn’t been as successful as Sally Fitz on the women’s world tour, she does surf really well and currently sits at 22 on the one world rankings. At fourteen, Erica was the youngest women to ever make a final at an ASP event and she is working her way up the rankings on WQS. More
Now that the 2011 tour is done it’s time to start looking forward to next year’s events. Thirty-two top ranked surfers along with two wildcards will compete for the chance to win a world title starting on February 25th, 2012 at the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast in Australia. More
It only took the first three days of the twelve day waiting period to complete the 2011 Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons. This event was easily the most exciting event of the entire year. The waves pumped for three straight days and the world’s best surfed their asses off. Australian Kieren Perrow, who made it all the way to the finals at last year’s Pipe Masters finally got a win at a world tour event after being on tour for 9 years by defeating fellow Aussie Joel Parkinson in the finals. More
Day two of the Billabong Pipe Masters was just as good if not better than day one. Rounds three, four, and five were all completed and the quarterfinal matchups are set. If you missed any of it we’ve got the results, highlights and photos from yesterday’s action. More
This edition of Instagram Stoke features more sunsets, more waves, photos from Hawaii, artwork and other rad randomness. More
Rounds one and two of the Billabong Pipe Masters are completed and round 3 hits the water today. If the conditions are anything like yesterday’s double to triple overhead waves we’ll probably see most guys riding boards well over 6 feet long again. Not Kelly Slater though. Yesterday during the webcast, Slates mentioned that he’d probably be out there riding a 5’11″. The guy is a nut. More so, the 11 time world champ only has one board over 6 foot in his quiver for Pipe. Take a look at the boards he’ll be choosing from before his round 3 heat starts today. More
What a day! You couldn’t have asked for better conditions for the first day of the Billabong Pipe Masters. 10-15 feet waves showed up at Pipeline yesterday and there were some very exciting round 1 and round 2 heats. This post has everything you need to get caught up on all of yesterday’s action including video highlights, 24 photos, results from rounds 1 & 2 and the matchups for round 3. More
The first real big swell has made its way to the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii and it’s just in time for the first day of the Billabong Pipeline Masters in Memory of Andy Irons. The swell is so big that some were saying that it might not run until it gets smaller but the official word just came in from Billabong that it is ON! As most of the North Shore wakes up, they are taking to twitter and expressing their thoughts on the swell. More
Today is kicks off the first day of the 12 day waiting period for the Billabong Pipeline Masters in Memory of Andy Irons. The Pipe Masters, which is the last stop on the 2011 ASP World Tour is also the last event of the Van’s Triple Crown of Surfing. With a huge swell on tap for today and the next couple days the event will surely be just as exciting as we’re all expecting it to be. More
