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- Olympic Surfing: Everything You Need To KnowThe 2024 Olympic Games are underway in Paris, ‘the city of love’. However, surfers will be competing 15 700km west in Teahupo’o, ‘the place of skulls’. This sharp distinction between the names is indicative of the contrast between the two places. Teahupo’o, as beautiful as it may look, is very… Read more »
- Sarah Baum Is Ready For The OlympicsSarah Baum has been on a tear! After some early-season successes in 2024, she won in J-Bay all the way from the trials. Now it’s on to the ‘Paris’ 2024 Olympic Games, which, in surfing terms, is the Teahupo’o Olympics’ in Tahiti. Aside from Pipe, there is perhaps no more… Read more »
- CONTEST NEWS | Rip Curl Grom Search Series Winners Off To Indo In SepWe’re stoked to have partnered with Rip Curl South Africa to send the series winners in the premier Boys U16 and Girls U16 divisions of the 2024 Rip Curl GromSearch Series to the GromSearch International Finals. Sea Harvest and the Royal St Andrews Hotel in Port Alfred are co-sponsors. This… Read more »
- CONTEST NEWS: Bella Kenworthy and Ian Gouveia won the Ballito Pro Presented by O’NeillAn epic 14-day Ballito contest season drew to a close in small surf on Monday 8 July, with Bella Kenworthy (USA) and Ian Gouveia (BRA) winning the Ballito Pro Presented by O’Neill, Stop No. 3 of the 2024 World Surf League (WSL) Challenger Series. Two to three-foot shifting peaks, a… Read more »
- Ballito Pro presented by O’Neill | Behind The Scenes: GO TO THE AIRAs we’ve seen before sirs are the highest point scorers in small beach break surf, and if you’re aggressive and stick decent-sized air moves with variation, you are the winningest. We lost all South Africans in the Ballito Pro on Friday except for Sarah Baum, and those who continued to… Read more »
- Ballito Pro presented by O’Neill | Behind The Scenes: Day 3 debriefThird Heat Of The Day It has been nine days or so already in Ballito. The contest schedule has been intense, with so many competitions running back to back to totally satiate the appetite of every competitive surfer in the country and the surfing spectators and fans out there. Events:… Read more »
- Ballito Pro | Behind The Scenes: The Overview Up To NowO’Neill SMTH Shapes Rookie Rippers (SAST U12, U14, U16 & U18 Boys & Girls) Setting The waves in Ballito are called Sunrise, Surfers, Bathers and Bog. It is not the most original of names, but it is descriptive enough when you look into it a little. The sun rises there,… Read more »
- Sally Fitzgibbons and Luke Thompson Wins Ballito Open presented by FlojosSally Fitzgibbons (AUS) and Luke Thompson (RSA) won the World Surf League (WSL) Ballito Open presented by Flojos Qualifying Series (QS) 1,000 on Sunday 30 June in challenging one-to-two foot surf in Ballito. The swell might have dropped, but today’s finalists showed their mettle to advance through the competition to… Read more »
- Ballito Pro | Behind The Scenes – Three Pieces Of Advice from Challenger Series surfer Reef HaezlewoodThere were some tense moments on the final day of the 2024 O’Neill SMTH Shapes Ballito Pro Junior, which is bound to happen in any junior surf contest in South Africa and worldwide. The waves were inconsistent, there were some incredibly close calls with some low-scoring heats making for tiny… Read more »
- Ballito Pro | Behind The Scenes – Pre-Heat Rituals Of The GromsWhat does it take to be a champ? When it comes to winning, a lot happens on the beach before the surfers even hit the water. Read on to find out what some of the top groms do before their heats: Whether it is a specific type of music blasted… Read more »
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