Posts in category: Pros
Pros 12/14/2008
2009 ASP TOUR
As Slater’s complete domination of the 2008 season comes to a triumphant close at Pipeline, we now finally know which surfers have made it onto the 2009 tour.
The top 27 surfers from 2008 are joined by the Top 15 from the WQS, and 3 wildcards.
ASP World Nos. 1-10 respectively are:
Kelly Slater (USA),
Bede Durbidge (AUS),
Taj Burrow (AUS),
Joel Parkinson (AUS),
C.J. Hobgood (USA),
Adrian Buchan (AUS),
Adriano de Souza (BRA),
Mick Fanning (AUS),
Bobby Martinez (USA)
Jeremy Flores (FRA).
Surfers finishing ASP World Nos. 11-27 respectively are:
Luke Stedman (AUS),
Fredrick Patacchia (HAW),
Andy Irons (HAW),
Chris Ward (USA),
Kai Otton (AUS),
Tim Reyes (USA),
Tom Whitaker (AUS),
Kieren Perrow (AUS),
Dayyan Neve (AUS),
Bruce Irons (HAW),
Mikael Picon (FRA),
Dane Reynolds (USA),
Taylor Knox (USA),
Damien Hobgood (USA),
Heitor Alves (BRA),
Jordy Smith (ZAF)
Ben Dunn (AUS).
The Top 15 ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) surfers in ranking order are:
Nathaniel Curran (USA),
Chris Davidson (AUS),
Michel Bourez (PYF),
Gabe Kling (USA),
Jihad Khodr (BRA),
David Weare (ZAF),
Josh Kerr (AUS),
Nic Muscroft (AUS),
Kekoa Bacalso (HAW),
Greg Emslie (ZAF),
Tim Boal (FRA),
Dustin Barca (HAW)
Tiago Pires (PRT),
Phillip MacDonald (AUS)
Drew Courtney (AUS).
The three 2009 tour wildcards, as decided by the ASP in conjunction with the surfer’s union, went to injury applicants, Dean Morrison (AUS), Aritz Aranburu (EUK), and ASP WQS No. 16 Marlon Lipke (DEU).
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Pros 11/28/2008
The Wardo Evidence
ernst & young boardroom from Stab on Vimeo.
This wave is supposedly the reason that Wardo had to take a few punches to the head. You sure can read a lot from his body language at the end.
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Pros 11/24/2008
King X
Kelly Slater returning to defend his Snapper Rocks title.
Nine-time World Champion Kelly Slater has confirmed he will return to the Gold Coast next year to defend his Quiksilver Pro title. It is the strongest indication yet he plans to chase a 10th world crown. While 36-year-old Slater has refused to be drawn on his surfing future, organisers of the event have revealed the unstoppable American is already locked in for March 2009.
[ via: Surfers Village ]
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Pros 11/21/2008
Koby Abberton is in jail
Bra Boy surf gang leader Koby Abberton has been jailed in Hawaii for the assault of an off-duty police officer.
Abberton was led to prison in handcuffs after Judge Ray Graulty in Hawaii’s Kaneohe District Court sentenced him on Thursday to three days’ jail.
Abberton, a Sydney-based professional surfer, pled no contest to a third-degree assault charge after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors.
Prosecutors had sought a 10-day jail stint, but the judge sided with Abberton who had sought three days.
Abberton, 30, punched 27-year-old off-duty officer Richard Puu outside Honolulu’s Epic nightclub in the early hours of March 8.
Puu told authorities he was hit while trying to break up a fight involving Abberton.
Abberton and his brothers received worldwide notoriety this year with the global release of their documentary, Bra Boys, which featured Oscar winner Russell Crowe as narrator and focused on their violent upbringing on Sydney’s southern beaches.
[ copy/pasted from: Sydney Morning Herald ]
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Pros 11/13/2008
Kerby Brown Sequence
Kerby Brown Big Wave Awards Entry from Australia's Surfing Life on Vimeo.
Here’s the full sequence of the Kerby Brown photos we posted the other day. I don’t know what happened, I think I could have totally made it.
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Pros 11/09/2008
Laird Hamilton Book Signing in Malibu Today
Title of Event: John O’Brien’s Surf Photography
When: Sunday, November 9, 2008 1:30 PM
Location: DIESEL, A Bookstore MALIBU
Description: Local surf photographer John O’Brien will host an opening reception for his work. Stop by and get a signed copy of the book.
Title of Event: Legendary surfer, and Malibu resident Laird Hamilton discusses & signs Force of Nature
When: Sunday, November 9, 2008 3:00 PM
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Pros 11/08/2008
Dane Dissects His Ankle Injury
With annoyingly slow-loading video. How big was that air he did it on though?
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Pros 11/07/2008
The big one: Kerby Brown
Wow…
[ story via: dailymail.co.uk ]
Kerby Brown took on the monster during a session at a top secret reef, and nearly didn’t live to tell the tale.
Moments after these pictures were taken, he suffered a devastating wipeout which nearly killed him.
He said: ‘Usually the wave never steps out or goes evil like that one, but it just went dry – the hardest wave I’ve ever had to surf.
‘I went straight over the lip and did about 10 backflips and then pulled a muscle in my shoulder.
‘It felt like I ripped my arm out of its socket, my leggie snapped and then I felt like I was the deepest I’d ever been.’
The unbelievable pictures (click for larger versions, worth it.) have been entered into the prestigious Oakley Surfing Life Big Wave Awards, which rewards the riders of the biggest waves in Australasian waters.
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Pros 10/30/2008
Pancho Sullivan is Retiring
He announced it yesterday at the Xcel Pro, the contest he’s at instead of the WCT contest in Brazil he’s supposed to be at.
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